Your first week in SMBOS is about orientation, not information overload. Follow these steps in order and you’ll have real AI skills running in your business before the week is out.

Step 1 — Complete Your Profile

Add your name, a photo, and one sentence about what kind of business or role you’re in. This isn’t fluff — members give better, more specific answers when they know who they’re talking to. Takes two minutes.

Step 2 — Join the News Feed

The News Feed is where Carlos posts daily AI skills, quick wins, and real-world examples from his own deployments. Open it on your phone or bookmark it on your desktop. You don’t have to consume everything — just scroll for five minutes and notice what catches your eye for your situation.

Step 3 — Introduce Yourself

Post a one-paragraph introduction in the main group. Tell people what you run or manage, what you’ve already tried with AI (even if the answer is “nothing yet”), and one thing you’re hoping to fix or speed up. Introductions get responses. This is how you find the three or four members whose problems look exactly like yours.

Step 4 — Pick Your First Daily AI Skill

Scroll the feed and find a skill that maps directly to something you do this week — a recurring email, a report you write, a meeting you prep for. Don’t pick the most impressive post. Pick the most applicable one. Narrow focus gets faster results.

Step 5 — Follow One Walkthrough All the Way Through

Each walkthrough includes screenshots, a screen recording, and a copy-paste template. Open the walkthrough, pause on each step, and run it against a real task from your own work — not a practice example. The goal is one measurable result before Day 7: time saved, draft produced, process documented.

Step 6 — Ask Your First Question

The only wrong question is the one you don’t ask. Post it in the relevant group or the main feed. Be specific: share what you tried, what happened, and what you were expecting. Specific questions get specific answers. Carlos reads the feed regularly and jumps in when he has something useful to add.

That’s one week. After that, the habit is built — check the feed, run one skill, share one result. Everything compounds from there.