## One Free Day to Work ON Your Business: Get Clear, Scale Faster, Connect Better & Know Your Next Move
### What could change in your business if you gave yourself one focused day to work ON it instead of IN it?
During Colorado Startup Week, we’re bringing together founders, entrepreneurs, business owners, consultants, experts, and leaders for a FREE full-day business-building experience at Vīb Denver RiNo.
This is not another event filled with AI hype, technical jargon, or presentations you forget the next morning.
### This is a day to work on the business you’re actually building.
You’ll explore how to get clearer about your priorities, remove growth bottlenecks, sharpen your message, generate more opportunities, prepare for important conversations, use AI intelligently, and make meaningful connections with other business leaders.
And you’ll hear from people who have actually done the work.
### Featured Speaker: Scott Sullivan
Scott Sullivan founded and scaled a company beyond nine figures and brings insights from 3,400+ stages and presentations.
Scott will share hard-earned lessons about what really changes as a company grows, where founders become bottlenecks, what technology cannot solve, and which human capabilities become even more important as AI expands.
He’ll be joined throughout the day by Mamie-Jean Lamley and Dr. Eric Goodman for practical, interactive sessions focused on business growth, strategy, communication, visibility, AI leverage, and execution.
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## What You’ll Experience
### 8:00–8:50 AM — AI Clarity Lab
How Founders Can Turn AI Overwhelm Into a 90-Day Execution Plan
AI is creating more possibilities than most business owners can realistically pursue.
Instead of chasing the newest tool, you’ll identify where AI could have the greatest impact in your business and begin developing a focused 90-day action plan.
Come away with greater clarity about what to do first—and what not to do yet.
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### 9:00–10:30 AM — Featured Session
## Lessons From Scaling a $100M+ Business: The 5 Founder Bottlenecks AI Won’t Fix
What works when a business is small often becomes the very thing that prevents it from scaling.
Scott Sullivan will unpack lessons from building and scaling beyond nine figures and explore the founder bottlenecks that technology alone cannot solve.
Expect insights around:
Decision-making • Leadership • Revenue • Knowledge • Execution • Systems • Scale
If you’re building something you want to grow beyond yourself, this is one session you won’t want to miss.
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### 10:30–11:00 AM — Networking + Coffee Break
Meet other founders and business leaders, continue the conversation, and make a few new connections before the next sessions begin.
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### 11:00–11:50 AM — From Expertise to Leads
Plan a Lead-Generation Book With AI
Your expertise may be one of the most valuable assets in your business—but is it generating opportunities for you?
Explore how to turn what you know into an authority-building book strategy designed to support:
Visibility • Credibility • Leads • Speaking • Partnerships • Business Development
You don’t need to arrive with a book idea.
You may leave with one.
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### 12:00–12:50 PM — The Founder Message Gap
Why Great Businesses Struggle to Explain Their Value
Have you ever explained your business and watched someone’s eyes glaze over?
Often the problem isn’t the business.
It’s the message.
This interactive session will help you clarify what you do, who it matters to, why it matters now, and how to communicate your value so prospects and partners quickly understand why they should care.
### Clarify your message. Strengthen your positioning. Make it easier for people to say yes.
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## 1:00–2:00 PM — Lunch + Connections
Grab lunch, continue conversations, reconnect with people you met during the morning, or meet someone new.
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### 2:00–2:50 PM — High-Stakes Meeting Intelligence
Prepare for Investors, Partners, and Prospects With AI
Colorado Startup Week creates opportunities to meet people who could potentially change the trajectory of your business.
The question is:
### Are you prepared when that conversation happens?
Learn how to use AI to prepare more strategically for high-value conversations with:
Prospects • Partners • Investors • Referral Sources • Clients • Strategic Relationships
Walk into important meetings knowing more, asking better questions, and having a clearer strategy for the conversation.
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### 3:00–3:50 PM — Featured Session
## 3,400 Stages Later: What AI Can Never Replace — and What Every Speaker Should Automate Now
After more than 3,400 presentations, Scott Sullivan has learned something particularly relevant in the AI era:
### Technology can amplify communication. It cannot replace human connection.
This session isn’t just for professional speakers.
It’s for anyone who has to:
Pitch an investor. Sell a customer. Lead a team. Present an idea. Build trust. Influence a decision.
Explore what should remain unmistakably human—and what AI can take off your plate so your humanity can reach more people.
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### 4:00–4:50 PM — Grand Finale
## AI Execution Jam: Bring Your Business Challenge
We’re ending the structured day differently.
Instead of another presentation, bring us an actual business problem.
Throughout the day, attendees can submit challenges around things like:
Sales • Marketing • Messaging • Operations • Customer Experience • Productivity • Strategy • AI • Growth
We’ll select several and work through them live using human judgment + AI-powered problem solving.
### Bring the challenge that has been keeping you stuck.
You might leave with the breakthrough.
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# And Then We Head Upstairs…
## 5:00–6:30 PM — Human × AI Rooftop Social & Networking
The formal sessions end at 5:00 PM.
But some of the most valuable conversations of the day may happen afterward.
Join us on the rooftop for a relaxed social experience with other:
Founders • Entrepreneurs • Business Owners • Consultants • Leaders • Creators • Innovators
Continue conversations from the day, meet potential collaborators, develop referral relationships, discover new resources, or simply connect with interesting people building interesting things.
Because sometimes the breakthrough comes from what you learn.
And sometimes it comes from who you meet because you showed up.
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## Who Should Attend?
This day is designed for people who are:
- Building or growing a business
- Trying to determine where AI actually fits
- Feeling stuck at a growth ceiling
- Looking for smarter ways to scale
- Building authority around their expertise
- Preparing for important sales or partnership opportunities
- Wanting stronger messaging and positioning
- Looking for meaningful business connections
- Ready to stop collecting ideas and start executing
You do not need to be technical.
You do not need to be an AI expert.
### Bring your business. We’ll start there.
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## What Could You Leave With?
By the end of the day, you could have:
A clearer 90-day direction
A growth bottleneck identified
A stronger business message
A smarter AI use case
A better approach to an important meeting
A new authority-building strategy
A real business challenge unstuck
New relationships, referral partners, or collaborators
Greater clarity about exactly what to do next
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## Event Details
Wednesday, September 16
8:00 AM–5:00 PM
Business-building sessions + interactive experiences
5:00–6:30 PM
Human × AI Rooftop Social & Networking
Vīb Denver RiNo
3560 Brighton Blvd.
Denver, CO 80216
### Admission: FREE
Come for the sessions that matter most to you—or give yourself the full day.
## One day. Better clarity. Bigger thinking. Stronger connections. A clearer next move.
RSVP and give your business one day to see what could change.
