AreYouAttendingtheClaudeSMBWorkshopinTulsa?

Today, Anthropic’s Claude SMB Workshop kicks off in downtown Tulsa. The workshop runs from 1:00 to 5:30 this afternoon, free, capped at around 100 local business leaders. This workshop offers a real chance to hear what AI looks like to SMB owners who are not in the daily news cycle about it.

What Is Actually On The Agenda

The format is structured but practical. First 75 minutes are AI fluency training: what AI is genuinely good at, what it is not, and how to think about deploying it inside a business with real workflows. The second 120 minutes are hands-on exercises with attendees using Claude against their own work, which is the part I am most curious about. The final 30 minutes are a happy hour where the conversations get honest.

Worth noting from the registration page: this is explicitly framed as an education and research initiative, not a sales pitch. Anthropic also says the skills taught work with any AI tool, not just theirs. Whether that holds up in the room is one of the things I will be watching for.

Attendees walk out with a month of Claude Max (the top-tier consumer plan) included, which is a generous extra. The real value, though, is the workflow you build alongside other operators in the room. Anthropic says the bar they are holding themselves to is: you walk out with at least one workflow you can run the next morning. 

What I Am Curious About

Five things specifically.

• The Unanswered Questions. I wrote last week about the open questions around BAAs, pricing, and audit logging. I’m curious to hear how Anthropic handles those in person.

• The SMB Divide. SMB is a broad category. A 12-person dental practice and a 200-person logistics company have almost nothing in common operationally. The questions and concerns will split predictably.

• The Agentic Revelation. Most SMB leaders I talk to have used chat-window AI. Hearing one of them watch an agent reconcile a month-end close for the first time will be telling.

• The Next-Morning Workflows. If everyone walks out using AI for the same five tasks, that tells us something about where the real value is. If it scatters across 40 different uses, that tells us something different.

• The Tulsa Pulse. The Tulsa SMB community has its own character: energy services, agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, etc. I am curious whether the room skews toward those sectors and what they bring to the conversation.

Tulsa Operators: What’s Your Take?

If you are reading this and you are based around Tulsa, I would love to hear your thoughts if you’re attending this event. Did anything surprise you? Did you walk away feeling positive or negative about the future of AI? Drop me a line and share your thoughts. I promise to read every response.

What Is Coming Next

I am writing two vertical-specific blogs for financial services SMBs (RIAs, CPAs, and insurance agencies) and healthcare SMBs (dental, behavioral health, ambulatory care, medspas), both of which have real regulatory wrinkles that the launch announcement did not address.

If you are running an SMB in either of those verticals, you will want those posts. I am writing them the way I wish someone had written them for me when I was working through these questions for our own operations. 

Disclosure: Techvera is an MSP serving small and medium businesses across North Texas (Denton headquarters), Oklahoma (Tulsa), and New York. Our internal operations are powered in part by Anthropic’s Claude. Nothing in this post is a recommendation of any specific product or vendor.