Every Friday · 8:00am · Indianapolis area
A free morning meetup in central Indiana where everybody gets a seat and a voice. Any industry, any level, including people who have never opened an AI tool. No agenda, no slides and nobody presenting. Bring what you are building, or bring a question and a coffee.
01 The pattern
AI & Coffee is a free morning meetup in the Indianapolis area for anyone in Indiana working with AI, thinking about it, or quietly worried they are behind. There is no agenda, no slide deck and no speaker. People sit down with coffee, say what they are building or stuck on, and compare notes. Any industry, any level, and nothing is sold in the room. It runs every Friday morning, 8:00am to 9:00am. The meetup is moving to a new home right now, so the address goes out to the email list first.
02 What happens
Around the table, briefly, and only if you feel like it. Plenty of people come the first time and say nothing at all, which is fine and fairly common. When you do speak, you get a real answer and not a sales pitch.
This is the part that makes it worth the drive. Watching how another person actually prompts, corrects and gives up on a thing teaches more than reading about it for a week.
Central Indiana is small enough that the same faces come back. The value compounds after the second visit, when you have someone to text when something breaks.
03 What gets talked about
Nobody sets the agenda ahead of time, so the table decides what the morning is about. Here is what came up recently, which is also the clearest answer to whether your industry or your level fits.
July 24, 2026
Scheduled for an hour. It ran three.
What came up
July 17, 2026
The first official one.
What came up
04 A seat and a voice
Any level, and no bar to clear
People running AI tools daily sit at the same table as people who have never opened one. Nobody is quizzed and nobody has to earn their place first. If you are holding a question you think is too basic to ask, that is the question the table wants.
Any industry, and no wrong one
Trades and home services, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance, real estate, nonprofits, schools, government, and people building something on their own. The problems rhyme more than anyone expects once they are said out loud.
You get answered
Saying something into a room and getting nothing back is worse than staying home, so questions get taken seriously here, including the ones somebody was nervous to ask. The only thing that does not work at this table is working the room.
05 Next one
One email when a date is set, with the time and the address. Nothing else, and you can unsubscribe from it in one click.
Free to attend and free to leave the list. Your address is used for this and nothing else.
You are on the list. You will hear as soon as a date is set.
06 Questions
Yes. AI & Coffee is a free, in-person AI meetup in the Indianapolis area, hosted by Harrison Painter of LaunchReady.ai. It is casual: no agenda, no slides and no speaker. Several other AI and tech groups meet around central Indiana as well, and going to more than one of them is a good idea.
Nothing. It is free to attend, there is no ticket and nothing is sold in the room. You buy your own coffee if you want one.
No, and this is the question people ask most. Everybody gets a seat and a voice at this table regardless of level, from those who have never opened an AI tool to those running them daily inside a business. Nobody is quizzed and there is no bar to clear at the door. If you are holding a question you think is too basic to ask out loud, that is exactly the question worth bringing.
People sit down with coffee and talk about what they are building, what broke, and what they are trying to work out. Someone usually turns a laptop around. There is no presentation and nobody has to say anything.
Every industry is welcome and none is a wrong fit: trades and home services, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance, real estate, nonprofits, schools, government, and people building something on their own. Owners, employees who were handed AI as part of the job, and the merely curious. Central Indiana, mostly the Indianapolis area.
It is scheduled for an hour, 8:00am to 9:00am. It has run longer when the conversation was worth it; one Friday meant for an hour turned into three. Come for the hour and leave when you need to.
Every Friday morning from 8:00am to 9:00am, in the Indianapolis area. It is free, it is open to anyone, and there is nothing to register for. The meetup is moving to a new home at the moment, so add your email below and the address goes to you directly.
No. It is a meetup. If you want structured teaching, the workshops and courses on the training page are the place for that; this is the room where people compare notes.
07 Why we do this
That is the reason a free table exists at all. Plenty of people in this state are being told they should be doing something with AI and have nowhere to ask a plain question without feeling behind. This is that place, and it costs nothing on purpose. When you want to sit down and build the thing yourself, that is a workshop, and when a whole team needs moving it is a program. Both are on the training page.
