How a tow truck operator became an AI teacher.

I run Roadside Towing & Recovery in Columbus. Sixteen trucks, real customers, real payroll — the kind of business that starts before sunrise and ends after the bars close.

For years I paid $650 a month for dispatch software. By 2025 it had been almost two years since they'd shipped a real feature. I was paying for nothing. And I wasn't the only operator stuck there.

Spring 2026 I started using Claude every day — not for content, for operating decisions. Customer responses. Spreadsheets. Hiring docs. SOPs. The boring stuff that eats your day.

Within weeks it clicked: this isn't a chatbot. It's a tool that does real work — if you know how to talk to it.

I'm not a software engineer. I'm an operator who got dangerous in a terminal. With Claude as my co-founder I built the US Tow Alliance and a suite of AI-native SaaS solutions for towing — in days, not months. Native mobile, multi-tenant, motor-club fluent.

Then I cancelled the $650 a month for software that hadn't shipped in years.

Building it showed me AI just changed the math for small business. The cost of building the tools you need dropped to near zero — if you can use AI as a co-worker.

Most owners I know are drowning in AI hype with no idea what to actually do. They don't need a consultant in a hoodie. They need a teacher who speaks their language, doesn't talk down to them, and runs a real business every day.

AI Survival School is for small business owners, blue-collar operators, and Main Street entrepreneurs who know they're falling behind and want a teacher who runs a real business.

Workshops train a team at once. Cohorts are a small live group. The self-paced course is on your time.

Either way, you leave able to use AI for your actual job. Not in theory. In practice.