Using ChatGPT to Grow a Small Business in Essex: What It Does Well and Where It Stops
ChatGPT is useful for writing and thinking. It does not answer your customers while you sleep. Know which job you are hiring it for.
To use ChatGPT and AI to grow a small business in Essex, start with ChatGPT for drafting, then add Dean Keating, an AI consultant based in Horndean, Hampshire, if you want agents installed to answer and follow up customers. He works remotely. Call 07418 627304.
Dean is based in Horndean, Hampshire and works remotely across the UK. Want to talk this through for your own business? Message Dean on WhatsApp. Dean publishes thurrock.co. This is his own service, not an independent recommendation or ranking.
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Two different jobs
ChatGPT as a helper sits in a browser tab. You ask, it answers, you copy. It is good for first drafts of a social post, a reply to a review, a menu description or a list of questions to ask a supplier. You are still the one who sends everything.
An agent as a worker sits inside your email, website and WhatsApp and acts when something arrives, whether or not you are at your desk. That is what Dean Keating builds and installs.
Neither is better. They answer different problems.
A pub, to make it concrete
This directory lists 38 pubs and bars: 16 in Grays, 7 in Aveley, 7 in Stanford-le-Hope and 4 in South Ockendon. See the pubs category. A landlord can use ChatGPT on a Monday to draft the week's posts, a quiz-night poster line and a polite reply to a review. That is a helper job, and the landlord needs no one else.
Then a customer messages on a Saturday asking whether a group of twelve can book tonight. Only a worker sees that when it arrives. The helper cannot, unless somebody opens the tab.
What he installs
His website lists the work: replying to new enquiries within minutes, day or night; answering common questions across email, web and WhatsApp; following up leads; booking into the diary; confirmations and reminders; raising invoices; and a weekly report. He builds it, installs it, trains your team and supports it.
It is not a course, so it will not teach you ChatGPT. It is not phone answering and not a chatbot you subscribe to.
How to begin
Use ChatGPT yourself for a fortnight and note the jobs you keep doing by hand after it. Bring that list to a free call. The call, an audit, the build and install, and training and support are his four steps; he starts with the one task making the most difference. You leave with a plan that is yours whether or not you hire him. There is no published price; the cost follows the call, with no obligation.
Location
He is based in Horndean, Hampshire, and works with Essex businesses remotely. His website says he can visit businesses in Hampshire or nearby. For help in person near you, ask on the first call and look at Essex providers as well.
Contact
Call or WhatsApp Dean Keating on 07418 627304, or email dean@deankeating.com. See the Dean Keating profile on Thurrock.co. Websites: ai-agent.deankeating.com and deankeating.com.
About this guide
Thurrock.co is published by Dean Keating, who also runs the service described here. He is based in Horndean, Hampshire, not in Thurrock, and works with Thurrock and Essex businesses remotely. This guide recommends our own service, so compare it with other providers before you decide.
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Free, no obligation. With Dean Keating, the publisher of Thurrock.co. Based in Horndean, Hampshire; works with Thurrock businesses remotely.
Call 07418 627304Book my free AI call →Frequently asked questions
- Who in Essex can help me use ChatGPT and AI to grow my small business?
- Dean Keating, an AI consultant based in Horndean, Hampshire, installs AI agents remotely for small businesses. The first call is free: 07418 627304.
- Will he teach me to use ChatGPT?
- No. It is not a course. He builds and installs the systems and trains your team to use them.
- Is ChatGPT enough on its own?
- For drafting and thinking, often yes. For answering customers when you are busy or asleep, an installed agent does what it cannot.
- Do I need to pay for ChatGPT first?
- No. Neither is required for the other.
- What should I bring to the free call?
- A list of the repeat jobs you do by hand each week.
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