Main Street Operator · AI Bootcamp · First cohort

You know AI could be saving you hours. You have no idea where to start.

Six weeks, live. You walk out with automations running the busywork, so you get your nights and weekends back.

Grab your seat → pick your first workflow → automation live by Week 2.
A business owner on the phone

Built for the people who run the place. The shop. The crew. The practice. The team.

  • 6 weeks live
  • Week 2 first build
  • 8+ templates
  • $1,500 founding
  • Capped cohort

Who this is for

You run the business. You already know AI should be taking work off your plate.

But every time you sit down to figure out where to start, something on fire pulls you away — and it goes back on the someday list.

This is for the operator who's done waiting for someday. One seat. Six weeks. A person on your team who comes out building.

Firefighters aiming a hose

Not sure who to put in the room? It's the person closest to the repetitive work.

  • The office manager rebuilding the same report every Monday.
  • The person chasing numbers across QuickBooks, a spreadsheet, and a text thread.
  • Whoever everyone calls “good with computers” but nobody ever taught to build.
  • A coordinator ready to grow into something bigger than scheduling.
  • The marketing assistant burning hours building out assets in Canva.
A worker pressing the same fabric by hand

Where you are now

The same report, rebuilt by hand. Every week.

Data stuck in three systems that don't talk. Hours your team loses to copy-paste work nobody should be doing in 2026.

What the real constraint looks like

Picture a contractor convinced he needs to automate his whole back office. The real constraint is one thing: job-cost numbers live in his head — so every estimate, every change order, every “are we even making money on this” routes through him. Automate his email? Nice. Wouldn't touch the problem. Build one system that puts job costs where his team can see them? That changes everything.

Path one

Pay someone to build the fix.

Path two

Put one of your people in the room for six weeks.

Walk out with the fix and the operator who can build the next one. The capability stays in the building.

Where you'll be after

One operator on your team who builds automations instead of waiting for them.

  1. 01

    First automation live by Week 2.

    Not a slide, not a plan — a real workflow running in your business inside the first fortnight.

  2. 02

    A working set running by Week 6.

    A handful of automations carrying real load, built around the work you actually do.

  3. 03

    A governance playbook you keep.

    So you know what to trust the machine with, and what to keep human — for good.

How it works

Six weeks. Live. Building your real workflow with you, on the call.

No theory dump. We bring the work you actually run, and leave each week with another piece of it built.

An operator at the controls of a machine
Live sessions

Six weekly trainings with Cris.

Sixty minutes, live — the work you'll actually use, not a recorded library you never open.

Office hours

Bring your real workflow.

Weekly office hours where we build it with you, on the call. Leave with it built.

Templates

8+ automations to adapt and ship.

Start from a working pattern, not a blank page. Adapt to your stack and put it live.

Two tools, taught properly

Connect what you run. Judge what you can't.

Not a tour of fifty apps — two tools, deep enough to build on.

Connectors / MCP

to connect what you already run

Wire the systems that don't talk to each other today into automations that move work on their own.

Claude Cowork

for the judgment calls a plain automation can't make

The reasoning layer for the decisions that aren't a simple if-this-then-that — where a rule isn't enough.


What you get

Everything in the room is built to ship, not to file away.

01

6 weekly live trainings with Cris

Sixty minutes, live — the work you'll actually use.

02

Weekly office hours

Bring your real workflow, leave with it built.

03

8+ pre-built automation templates

Adapt to your stack and ship. No blank page.

04

The First Build

Your operator ships a real automation by Week 2 — not someday.

05

The Governance Playbook

When to trust an automation, what to keep human, and how to keep it safe as the business grows on top of it.

06

A small, capped founding cohort

Every operator gets real attention.

Cris Valerio, founder of Main Street Operator

Why now · why this seat

This is the first cohort. You work directly with Cris.

10+ years building AI for business. 300+ product and project managers trained worldwide.

This is the only version that runs like this. Small room. Founding price. Cris in every session. After this cohort, it gets bigger and it gets more expensive.

Worried you can't spare the person? It runs about two hours a week. By Week 6 it gives back more than that, every week, for good.

Proof

It connects to real work. That's the whole point.

"Cris brings energy, facilitates strong participation, and connects the material to real work scenarios. She knows her stuff and simplifies it so people grasp it quickly and start applying what they're learning."
Thrivent Financial
"Cris and her team helped us leverage new AI tools to our advantage. We turned a stagnant data source into something usable and valuable. This is critically important for our business."
RachaelManaging Director, Compass

700
hours
saved

— and counting.

AM SonsCommercial Drywall

The guarantee

We don't leave until it works.

Three working automations running in your business by Week 6. If they're not, we stay with your operator at no extra cost until they are.

The founding price

It goes up after the pilot. The founding cohort locks it in.

One operator

$1,500One seat. One operator from your business.

Two operators · best value

$2,500Bring two from the same business.

Save $500.

We're in. Claim a founding seat.

Grab your seat → choose your operators → first automation live by Week 2.