The SURJ AI Accelerator · 3 founding spots open

Hands-on AI coachingfor business owners.

Five live sessions with JD. You leave running your own AI operating system, built on your real business.

Your AI OS

Built with JD · session 4 of 5

Sample
  1. Business brainSession 1 ✓Offers & rate card · Clients · Your voice · Templates
  2. Connected toolsSession 2 ✓Gmail · Calendar · HubSpot · Drive
  3. SkillsSession 3 ✓/research · /draft-doc · /daily-brief · /triage-inbox
  4. Your custom workflowBuilding now/post-call
  5. RoutinesSession 5Weekdays 6:30 · brief · Fridays · weekly review

Next session with JD

Thursday, 2:00 pm

Build your /post-call workflow

Every owner is told to use AI. Almost nobody shows them how.

Everything runs through you.

Inbox, calendar, follow-ups, proposals, reports. The admin eats the hours you should spend with clients and on growth.

A chatbot isn't a system.

Plugging Gmail into ChatGPT answers one question at a time. It doesn't know your pricing, your clients, or how you work.

Tutorials assume you're a developer.

You don't need another course. You need someone beside you, building it on your real business until it's a habit.

One request. Your whole business behind it.

Sample run · a custom workflow built in session 4

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Great call with Dana. They want the full Carmel build-out, about 4,200 sq ft, starting in January.

  1. Read your call notes and Dana's LOI threadGmail · Calendar
  2. Pulled the deal history and last three touchpointsHubSpot · Clients
  3. Priced it from your rate card: 4,200 sq ft × $38 = $159,600Offers & rate card
  4. Checked Whitfield's recent news for talking points/research
  5. Wrote the proposal in your template and your voiceTemplates · Your voice · /draft-doc · Drive
  • ProposalCarmel build-out, $159,600
  • EmailFollow-up to Dana Whitfield
  • CRMMove deal to Proposal sent
  • CalendarThu 10:00 review with Dana

The Accelerator

What you walk away with

Your own AI operating system on Claude Code: a business brain that knows how you work, your tools connected, and skills that do real work. Every account and every file stays yours.

Daily Brief
Every morning: today's meetings with prep notes, the emails that actually need you, CRM follow-ups due, and your top 3 priorities.
Inbox Triage
Sorts what needs you from what doesn't, and drafts replies in your voice, ready for you to approve.
Research on Demand
Prospects, companies, competitors, and markets, summarized for a business owner, with sources and talking points.
Document Generation
Proposals, follow-ups, meeting summaries, SOPs, and reports drafted from your notes, in your templates and your voice.

Guaranteed working by session 5. Plus one custom workflow you choose (proposals, onboarding, weekly reports, lead follow-up), built live with JD.

Five sessions. One layer at a time.

Weekly live sessions on Zoom: 60 minutes 1:1 or 90 in a small group. Between sessions, one to two hours of practice on your real work, with Slack support the whole way.

  1. 00

    Pre-Work

    Accounts, installs, and your intake done on your own time, so live sessions are for building.

  2. 01

    Your Business Brain

    Claude Code running, with a brain that knows your offers, clients, priorities, and voice.

  3. 02

    Connect Your Tools

    Email, calendar, and CRM connected, plus your first real inbox triage.

  4. 03

    Your Core Skills

    Daily brief, inbox triage, research, and doc generation, each a single command.

  5. 04

    Your Custom Build

    The workflow you choose (proposals, onboarding, reporting…), built live together.

  6. 05

    Run It & Scale It

    Daily rhythm, automatic routines, safety guardrails, a team plan, and your 90-day roadmap.

Two ways in. Same guarantee.

Private sessions built entirely around your business, or a small group of owners building side by side. 3 of 3 founding spots left.

1:1 Accelerator

Recommended

Five private sessions built entirely around your business, your tools, and your pace.

$2,500$5,000one-time

Founding rate for the first 3 clients, in exchange for a testimonial and case study

  • 5 × 60-min private Zoom sessions
  • Your AI OS, core skills guaranteed working
  • One custom workflow of your choice
  • Private Slack, with replies within 24 hours
  • Starter kit, course modules, and templates
  • 90-day AI roadmap
Book a fit call

Group Accelerator

The same curriculum in a small group of up to 6 owners who build side by side.

$750$1,000per seat

Founding rate for the first cohort

  • 5 × 90-min live group sessions
  • Max 6 business owners per group
  • Your AI OS, core skills guaranteed working
  • One custom workflow of your choice
  • Group Slack, with replies within 24 hours
  • Starter kit, course modules, and templates
Book a fit call

After graduationMembership · $200 per month

Weekly AI newsletter: what changed and what to try · Monthly group office hours · New modules and example projects · Members-only community

Paid in full at enrollment. You'll also need a Claude plan (Pro is enough to start) plus the tools you already use. Every account stays in your name.

50% back after session 1

If it's not a fit after the first session, you get half your investment back. No hard feelings.

It works, or we keep going

If your core skills aren't running by the end of session 5, JD keeps meeting with you at no cost until it is.

  1. Step 1

    A free fit call

    Thirty minutes on your business, your tools, and what you'd hand off first. If it's not the right fit, I'll tell you.

  2. Step 2

    Enroll and prep

    Choose 1:1 or group. You get your Slack channel, the starter kit, and an hour of setup so session one is for building.

  3. Step 3

    Build over five sessions

    Weekly, on your real inbox, calendar, and CRM. By session five your system runs, or we keep going until it does.

Rather have it built for you?

Some workflows are worth handing off entirely. SURJ AI designs and builds custom automations for your business, scoped and quoted per project. Accelerator graduates get first priority.

Speed-to-lead responders · Follow-up sequences · Document processing · Database reactivation · Reporting and alerts · Custom AI agents · CRM automation · Websites

Start with the free AI audit

Hi, I'm JD Rienow.

I started SURJ AI because I kept watching talented business owners leave enormous value on the table. Not because they didn't believe in AI, but because no one had sat down and shown them how to use it in their business.

I build with AI every day: custom automations, internal agents for clients, and the AI second brain I use to run SURJ AI. The owners who win with AI aren't the most technical. They're the ones who get a working system in place and make it a habit.

That's what the Accelerator is. I coach you through building your own AI operating system on your real business, and make sure it sticks.

“My goal is simple: you learn to use AI in a way that actually matters, and you never go back.”

JD Rienow, founder of SURJ AI

Straight answers

Something not covered here? Email me.

The Weekly AI Brief

Stay current on AI in five minutes a week

AI moves every week. You don't have time to follow it. I do. Each issue is the few things that matter for your business, and one thing to try.

  1. What changed

    The AI news that matters this week, minus the hype.

  2. Why it matters

    One line on what it means for an owner-run business.

  3. Try this

    One prompt or workflow you can put to work this week.

Five sessions from now, your business runs differently.

3 founding spots are open at half price. A free 30-minute call tells us both if it's a fit.