A San Diego business owner, showing other owners what works.
Every AI group in San Diego is either engineers talking to engineers, or somebody selling a course. Neither one helps the person who runs a real business here and needs the thing to work on Monday morning. So we made the room we wanted to be in. Local. Free. Vendor neutral. Honest about prices, honest about what doesn't work.
Eddie Flores
San Diego wedding photographer · AI builderI run Love Life Photography, a wedding and portrait studio in San Diego. AI started as a way to stop drowning in the back office. It turned into a second business: I build AI systems for small business owners, and I still run the studio.
That's the whole pitch of this Guild. If one photographer can run two businesses with these tools, your business can get its evenings back too.
What AI took off my plate 🧱
2 to 3 days → 20 minutes
Draft, edit, publish. Same voice, same quality bar.
1 week → same day
Written, designed and live before dinner.
3 weeks → one afternoon
Emails, posts and ads, built together so they match.
81 days to build
Nights and weekends, one person, starting from not knowing how. We open it up at Guild Nights.
What we believe 🧭
Own your systems
If a vendor doubles their price tomorrow, you should be able to leave in a week, not a year.
Prices, out loud
Every tool we mention comes with a real number. The industry is oddly quiet about what things cost.
Show the work
Name the tool, name the prompt, say what it cost. "AI changed my business" helps nobody.
Local, on purpose
A national group can't meet you for coffee in Kearny Mesa. That's the whole advantage.
How it works 🧾
The group is free and always will be. Guild Nights cost $25, which covers the room. That's not a business model, it's a filter: paid seats show up.
Some members will eventually want somebody to just build the thing for them. Eddie builds most of that himself, and says so plainly. When a job needs a specialty he doesn't do, he introduces a vetted local builder from the Bench. Everything we teach, you can do yourself with the free group and a $20 subscription.