Expert 121: AI Business Tools With Alex Oxborough - Worthing

Book a free 30-minute, in-person consultation with Alex Oxborough, founder of Bright Brief, to explore practical ways AI could help your business save time, work more efficiently and achieve more with the resources you already have.

Whether you're completely new to AI, have started experimenting with tools such as ChatGPT, or are looking for ways to use AI more effectively across your business, Alex can help you identify opportunities, explore possible solutions and work out where to focus next.

The conversation starts with your business, not the technology. You don't need any previous AI knowledge or a particular problem in mind. It's an opportunity to discuss your goals, challenges and everyday ways of working, and get practical, independent guidance on where AI could make a genuine difference.

Choose from the available appointment times and book your free consultation at the library.

Alex can support you with:

• Identifying where AI could save time, reduce repetitive work or ease everyday business bottlenecks
• Exploring opportunities to improve business processes and ways of working with AI
• Working out which AI opportunities are worth pursuing and where to start
• Understanding how tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot could support your business
• Using AI more effectively through better prompts, business context and repeatable workflows
• Exploring practical ways to improve marketing, content creation and customer communications
• Understanding how AI and simple automation could make everyday tasks easier
• Considering the risks, limitations and responsible use of AI in your business
• Planning practical next steps to introduce or expand your use of AI

Expert Biography

Alex Oxborough is the founder of Bright Brief, an AI consultancy helping small businesses and sole traders identify, plan and implement practical ways to use AI.

A Chartered Marketer with over 15 years' experience in technology, growth and digital marketing, Alex also runs her own small ecommerce business. She combines commercial and marketing expertise with first-hand experience of the challenges facing small-business owners, where time, budgets and resources are often stretched.

Her approach starts by understanding how a business works, where the challenges lie and what it wants to achieve. From there, she helps identify where AI could add value, prioritise the most useful opportunities and develop practical ways to put it to work.

Alex focuses on making AI accessible, manageable and genuinely useful, helping businesses build their capabilities while retaining the human judgement, relationships and personal touch that make them distinctive.

About Bright Brief

Bright Brief is a practical AI consultancy supporting small businesses and sole traders across Sussex and the wider South East.

We help businesses move beyond experimenting with AI to using it in ways that make a meaningful difference to how they work.

Our services include AI opportunity reviews, practical adoption planning, hands-on set-up and implementation support, and training. We work with businesses to understand their challenges, identify where AI could deliver value and develop straightforward solutions suited to their needs, resources and capabilities.

That might mean reducing time spent on repetitive tasks, improving marketing and customer communications, streamlining processes or introducing AI-supported workflows that help people work more effectively.

Our approach is business-first, practical and proportionate. We believe AI should help small businesses make better use of their time, knowledge and resources, without introducing unnecessary complexity or losing the personal qualities that make them successful.

Note

The adviser is an independent professional and is not an agent or employee of the Council, nor the Library. They will be regulated by their own professional body and they will be able to provide you with details of that organisation. We will not be aware of any advice that is given to you by the adviser when you consult them in the 121 session and we do not verify or approve their advice. We therefore take no responsibility and make no representations regarding the relevance, accuracy, timeliness, completeness or otherwise of any such advice or information. Any views expressed by the adviser are their own views and not those of the Council.

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This in-person 121 session will take place at Worthing Library.

If you would prefer your 121 to be online, please email enquiriesteam@westsussex.gov.uk directly after booking to request a zoom link.

Following the session, the expert will send you a feedback form which we would be grateful if you could complete to allow us to monitor the success of our offered expert 121s.

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Important

All our expert one-to-one meetings on offer are free, but places are limited as our business expert partners are giving their valuable time to the BIPC and to you for free while fitting these sessions into their busy schedule. Therefore, if you need to cancel the session, to give a chance for others to still book it, please give at least two working days’ notice when possible via:

• email to enquiriesteam@westsussex.gov.uk, or
• cancelling your booking on Eventbrite, or
• email/call to the business expert.

Please note down the experts' contact details when they get in touch with you prior to the session.

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