Build Night: From a Teacher's Idea to an AI-Powered Printable Business

**Build Night: From a Teacher's Idea to an AI-Powered Printable Business**

This month we're building something real, live, for a real person.

**The brief.** A local bilingual early-childhood teacher wants to turn years of classroom experience into printable Spanish/English curricula for children ages 1–5: weekly and monthly plans, plus ready-to-print activities for math, language, art, sensory play and motor skills. Teachers, childcare centers and families buy a download, print it and use it the same day. The plan: sell on Teachers Pay Teachers and Etsy, promote on Pinterest, and let AI help with ideas, organization and promotion **without losing the teacher's own voice**.

**Tonight we build it together with Claude Code**, starting from the teacher's written brief:

- **A draft generator:** pick an age, theme, skill and language, and get a weekly plan with learning objectives and matching activities, in both Spanish and English
- **The teacher's voice, not the model's:** a style guide and real examples so drafts sound like the teacher, with the teacher reviewing and approving every piece
- **Print-ready output:** a cover, instructions for teachers and families, the weekly plan and activity pages as letter-size PDFs
- **Quality checks:** age-appropriateness, bilingual accuracy, originality, and images that are safe to sell
- **Selling without sending files:** how the marketplaces handle automatic delivery, plus draft listings, preview images and Pinterest pins

Along the way we'll answer the six questions in the brief, from "how do I keep my style?" to "can a system generate drafts by age, theme, skill and language?"

**Why come if you're not a teacher?** The pattern is the same one behind most useful AI products: **AI drafts, a human approves, and the system packages and delivers.** You'll see how to scope it, where AI helps, where it needs a human, and what it takes to make the output good enough to sell.

Bring your laptop if you want to build along, or just bring questions. Beginners and veterans welcome. *¡Hablantes de español bienvenidos!*

⭐ Speaker Details
Matt Duffield is President & CTO of Summit Software with 30+ years building enterprise software. A published author of six technical books and U.S. Navy veteran, he now focuses on AI-assisted development, local LLMs, and cloud-native architecture — and mentors the next generation of coders in his spare time.

🎪 Event Details
Food, drinks, and conversation beginning at 7:00. The talk begins around 7:30.
Parking is free at the Gladstone Park SDA church.