The AI Office Hour
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Friday, September 18, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am (America/Los_Angeles)
Hosted by: Frances Mendez
Virtual Event
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Cost:
$29.00
Date :
18
September
2026
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What’s changing, what matters, and what you can safely ignore.
Here’s the thing nobody says out loud: none of us are keeping up with AI. I’m in this every single day, for clients and for my own business, and I still spend half of every week going wait, when did that change?
So that’s what the hour is for. Once a month I’ll tell you what actually moved, what’s worth your attention, and honestly, what you can ignore. That last one might be the most useful. Most of what gets announced this year will never touch your business.
How the hour goes..
First twenty minutes
We’ll go through what’s actually changed in AI since we last talked. Some months I’ll pick one thing and go deeper on it — building your second brain, say — and work it through on screen rather than just describing it.
The rest of it
Yours. Bring the thing you keep meaning to sort out and haven’t. Specific beats polite, and it helps everyone else on the call more than a general question ever does.
When I don’t know
I’ll say so, go find out, and bring it back next month. That happens most months. Anyone telling you they have all of this figured out is selling you something.
What you leave with
A little more informed than you came in, and enough of a handle on what’s moving that the next headline doesn’t rattle you. Enough to hold you until the next one. It’s a small promise on purpose.
About Frances Mendez
Twenty years running digital launches. Lady Gaga’s Fame fragrance, launch teams for Green Day and Tom Petty, enterprise rollouts across CPG and publishing — behind the scenes of global brands, turning bold ideas into cross-functional plans a team can actually execute.
I cofounded Camino5, where we do that for Fortune 500 teams and for founders with nothing but an idea. Same job either way: make the ambitious thing practical, human, and ready for the real world.
Which is why AI has my attention now. The digital ground moved again — how people and brands get found is being rewritten — and I’m learning it the way I learned the last shift, by building it. Usually badly the first time. Tools change and people don’t, so I teach the part that lasts.
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What’s changing, what matters, and what you can safely ignore.
Here’s the thing nobody says out loud: none of us are keeping up with AI. I’m in this every single day, for clients and for my own business, and I still spend half of every week going wait, when did that change?
So that’s what the hour is for. Once a month I’ll tell you what actually moved, what’s worth your attention, and honestly, what you can ignore. That last one might be the most useful. Most of what gets announced this year will never touch your business.
How the hour goes..
First twenty minutes
We’ll go through what’s actually changed in AI since we last talked. Some months I’ll pick one thing and go deeper on it — building your second brain, say — and work it through on screen rather than just describing it.
The rest of it
Yours. Bring the thing you keep meaning to sort out and haven’t. Specific beats polite, and it helps everyone else on the call more than a general question ever does.
When I don’t know
I’ll say so, go find out, and bring it back next month. That happens most months. Anyone telling you they have all of this figured out is selling you something.
What you leave with
A little more informed than you came in, and enough of a handle on what’s moving that the next headline doesn’t rattle you. Enough to hold you until the next one. It’s a small promise on purpose.
About Frances Mendez
Twenty years running digital launches. Lady Gaga’s Fame fragrance, launch teams for Green Day and Tom Petty, enterprise rollouts across CPG and publishing — behind the scenes of global brands, turning bold ideas into cross-functional plans a team can actually execute.
I cofounded Camino5, where we do that for Fortune 500 teams and for founders with nothing but an idea. Same job either way: make the ambitious thing practical, human, and ready for the real world.
Which is why AI has my attention now. The digital ground moved again — how people and brands get found is being rewritten — and I’m learning it the way I learned the last shift, by building it. Usually badly the first time. Tools change and people don’t, so I teach the part that lasts.