ATLANTA Own Your Creative™: Create Commercials With AI & Reach TV Audiences

A Different Kind of AI Workshop

Most AI classes focus on social-media content. And honestly, you may already be pretty good at using AI for your brand. You post consistently, you have built a real business, and social media is working for you.

But it is only part of the picture.

Your customers are not all on social media.

Own Your Creative™ is a hands-on, full-day commercial advertising workshop for established product brands and selected professional-service businesses ready to expand how they show up in the market.

This is commercial creation—not generic AI content. You will learn how to use generative AI tools to develop purposeful advertising that markets what you sell, strengthens brand awareness, and helps you understand the path to television and connected-TV distribution.

Major national brands are already using AI in the commercials you see on television and streaming services. The question is not whether the technology is being used. The question is: why should access to strong commercial creative be limited to the biggest brands?

We believe this is a new era of advertising equality. AI has lowered the barrier to creating. Connected TV has opened new paths to reach audiences. But access to the tools is not the same as knowing how to use them with strategy, taste, and intention.

Limited to 20 attendees. Join the waitlist if this workshop sells out.

What You Will Learn

You will learn how to:

• Turn what you sell into a clear commercial concept.
• Clarify the audience, message, and purpose behind a campaign.
• Develop memorable commercial concepts for a product, brand, service, launch, or promotion.
• Guide AI-generated video with creative direction—not wishful prompting.
• Develop your AI Eye: know what to ask for, which 2–3 seconds of a generation are worth keeping, and what to revise.
• Recognize what looks generic, inconsistent, or visibly AI-generated—and improve it.
• Think through visuals, sound, pacing, framing, and editing with intention.
• Plan and budget before rendering, so your time and AI-generation credits are used deliberately.
• Understand connected TV, campaign readiness, and the decisions behind reaching viewers beyond your social feed.

You will learn how to make your business look like a national brand—even if you are not there yet.

Who It Is For

This workshop is designed for:

• Established product brands, including beauty, cosmetics, skincare, fragrance, candles, personal care, fashion, accessories, jewelry, home, gift, lifestyle, and other consumer products.
• Ecommerce-first brands, retail brands, and brands selling through retailers or physical locations.
• Selected professional-service businesses, including wellness practices and real-estate professionals.

This workshop is not designed for:

• Restaurants or food-service businesses, where authentic photography and video of the actual food and guest experience are usually essential.
• Advertising agencies, marketing consultants, production companies, or people seeking to resell commercial-creation services.
• Home-service businesses and other businesses better served through done-for-you commercial services.

The Workshop Experience

Your registration includes:

• 7.5 hours of live, engaging, hands-on instruction and guided practice.
• A maximum of 20 attendees, allowing for meaningful feedback and interaction.
• Live creative feedback and interactive critique.
• A premium printed workbook and digital workshop resources.
• Continental breakfast with coffee, water, and juice.
• Catered lunch.
• An introduction to the creative and strategic path to connected-TV advertising and distribution.

Create With Intention

This workshop is not about chasing tools, generating endless content, or burning through rendering credits with no plan.

It is about creating intentionally, using your budget wisely, and producing commercial advertising that represents the business you have built.

You will learn to create work that looks polished, credible, and professionally directed—work that can stand beside the kind of advertising people expect from a major brand, while still being created in-house by you and your team.

That is a flex.

Founding Atlanta Rate

Founding Atlanta Rate: $399 per ticket
Regular price: $599

The first Atlanta workshops are offered at a special founding rate of $399—a $200 savings off the regular $599 registration price.

Bring a Creative Partner

Bring a Creative Partner: $699 for two tickets
Regular price: $1,198

Bring a co-owner, business partner, or key team member. Two founding seats are available for $699—a $499 savings off the regular two-ticket price, or a $99 savings compared with purchasing two founding-rate tickets separately.

Ticket prices are shown before Eventbrite checkout fees. Current checkout totals are designed to remain under $400 for one seat and under $700 for two seats.

Ticket prices do not include applicable sales tax or Eventbrite processing fees, which are added at checkout.

Important: This workshop teaches commercial creation using AI video generators and connected-TV fundamentals. It does not include paid media placement, a guaranteed finished commercial, or guaranteed advertising results.

Own Your Creative™ is built for businesses that want to create more intentionally: plan before rendering, use AI-generation budgets wisely, develop stronger commercial creative, and understand the path to connected-TV audiences.

About Tammy, the instructor

Tammy James brings more than 25 years of real-world experience across operations, accounting, SaaS, CRM, administration, and leadership, including Director of Operations roles. In every role, she was often the person who learned new systems first, figured out the limits of what they could actually do, and helped teams get the most value from them.

She brings that same practical, business-based, budget-conscious mindset to creative AI. Tammy is the founder of The AI Griot Studio, an advertising agency that uses AI as a creative production tool—not as a substitute for strategy, taste, or professional judgment. That last part is all human.

What if your small business could advertise like a much bigger company?

Today, small businesses have access to creative tools and advertising opportunities that were once largely reserved for companies with enormous production and media budgets.

This is a hands-on, in-person workshop designed to show you how to use those tools to market your business, build brand awareness, and reach more potential customers with commercial creative that looks television-ready.

You’ll learn how to develop stronger advertising ideas, use AI tools to bring those ideas to life, and understand the television and connected-TV advertising opportunities available to small businesses.

Most AI classes focus on content for social media.

Own Your Creative Workshops focuses on commercial creation: purposeful advertising designed to market your business, build brand awareness, and help you understand a path to television and connected-TV distribution.

This isn’t an AI class for the sake of learning AI. It’s a marketing workshop built around what these tools can now make possible for your business.

You don’t need a three-person marketing department or a production crew anymore. If you’re the founder handling marketing yourself—or you have someone on your team who has become “the marketing person”—this workshop was designed with you in mind.

Bring your laptop, your ideas, and be ready to create.Bring your laptop, your ideas, and be ready to create.

The Own Your Creative Workshop is run by the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of The AI Griot Studio.

NOTE: The regular price for Own Your Creative Workshops is $599.

To mark the launch of the workshop series, the first Atlanta sessions are offered at a founding rate of $399—$200 off the regular registration price.

This introductory rate is limited to the first workshops in the series and honors Metro Atlanta, where the Founder lives. As the program expands to future cities and dates are scheduled further in advance, the regular ticket price will be $599.

See What AI-Assisted Commercial Creation Can Look Like

This 27-second commercial aired on connected TV in Middle Georgia over a long holiday weekend. It was designed to raise awareness of my client’s body-care brand and the opening of her first physical store. The business is called ChemScentsations.

After building a successful online-only business for eight years, she opened her first brick-and-mortar retail location. That change called for a local-awareness marketing approach.

The AI Griot Studio created the commercial and placed it through a connected-TV campaign targeting eight Middle Georgia ZIP codes. Over four days, the campaign delivered 15,931 TV impressions across 6,662 households, with a 99.12% completion rate.

In the four days following the campaign, five new customers visited the store and made purchases. The client reported that these were new customers.

This case study reports campaign-delivery data and a client-reported business observation. It is provided as an example only and does not guarantee future reach, sales, customer visits, or other business outcomes.

https://vimeo.com/1224431734/82ac7db3ec?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

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View the ChemScentsations Connected-TV Campaign Case Study

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What You'll Learn

During this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to:

• Develop commercial concepts around your actual business, customers, and marketing goals.

• Learn to develop your “AI Eye”: identify the strongest usable moments in a generation, recognize what needs refinement, and make creative choices that strengthen the final commercial.

• Think strategically about who should see your commercial, where they are, what you want them to do, and where your advertising dollars can work hardest.

• Learn the basics of how businesses can explore commercial placement on connected TV and streaming platforms without relying on traditional, large-scale TV campaigns.

• Understand how connected television (CTV) has changed access to television advertising for small businesses.

• Think about commercial advertising as a way to build brand recognition and customer awareness—not simply create content for social media.

• Refine and assemble your creative into a polished commercial designed to market your business.

• Make better creative decisions so your advertising doesn't look like the same generic AI content your customers are already seeing everywhere.

• Use today’s AI creative tools to develop the visuals, video, voice, music, messaging, and other elements needed to build a commercial.

• Turn an advertising idea into a structured commercial concept you can actually produce.