Come to a workshop.
Short, practical sessions where you fix one real thing and leave with it working. Online, or in person for chambers, networks and groups.
New ones go up through the year, so there's always a next one.
See the workshopsFor women in small business. Everyone's welcome at the table.
It doesn't have to be this hard.
I help women in small business build the strategy, structure and systems big businesses use, resized for yours, with AI doing the heavy lifting.
Workshops, speaking and a membership. All of it teaching you to do it yourself, in plain English, with company. Not here to milk ducks.
A word on AI
Not sold on AI? Fair.
A lot of us are sitting it out, for good reasons. The hype, the privacy questions, the environmental impact, the feeling it was built for someone else. But the table is being set right now, and I want us at it. You don't get a say in how this gets used by staying out of the room.
Having a seat means doing it on our terms. Getting curious. Building confidence. Using our knowledge of our own businesses to decide where AI can actually help. Business improvement to find what needs to change. Systems thinking to see how it all connects. And AI to help us make it happen.
How your business gets better
Your business gets better when three things work together.
Most businesses only ever have one or two. The order matters too: AI on a messy business just makes the mess faster.
- Business improvement
- Find what isn't working. Fix it properly. Root causes, not symptoms. Big-business habits, resized for yours.
- Systems thinking
- See how it all connects. So a fix in one place doesn't break something somewhere else.
- Tech & AI
- Let it do the heavy lifting. More done with what you've already got, once the business works.
Where they overlap
- Business improvement + systems thinking Fix the right things Find the root causes and improve what really matters, not what's loudest.
- Business improvement + tech & AI Improve faster Use AI to analyse, solve and put changes in place in days, not months.
- Systems thinking + tech & AI Build smarter systems Connect your processes, information and tools so the work doesn't all land on you.
All three together: less chaos, more time, better results.
The receipts, starting with our farm
Software that almost fits is still your problem.
Most small businesses run on software built for someone else's business, plus a spreadsheet and a lot of remembering. So we fixed how the farm's orders actually flowed first, then I built our orders app in a morning. Calendar, orders and shop in one place, and it works exactly the way our farm does.
What I built for our farm, you can build for your business, and you don't need to be technical to do it. This website was built the same way.
2 minTo invoice an order. It used to take 20.
Under 1 hrA week of social posts, made and scheduled
1 morningTo build the orders app: calendar, orders and shop
Set up right, it saves you hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars a year. Business shouldn't feel like milking a duck.
About Nikki
The award-winning founder with a truffle farm and a habit of building her own tech.
I'm Nikki Davey. I built Grown Not Flown, an award-winning global platform that reached growers in 37 countries, and I'm now building Agside. Before that I spent 20+ years fixing how businesses run. I also co-run Duck Duck Pig, our cut flower and truffle farm. Everything I teach, I've done for real.
AI educator. Business strategist. Systems thinker. Data nerd. Professional problem solver.
The receipts
A few numbers I'm quietly proud of.
2023AgriFutures National Rural Women's Award winner
37Countries reached by Grown Not Flown, the first of two tech platforms I founded
20+Years improving how businesses work
0Developers needed to build our farm's orders app and this website
50+Keynotes, panels and MC gigs, including Parliament
AuthorThe Pie Gets Bigger
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Your first step
Where to start.
Get your hours back.
Bring the thing that's eating your week. We'll fix it properly, then build the AI that runs it, together. No developer needed.
Monthly Build Together sessions, fortnightly co-work and a growing library.
Fix my first thing →
Not sure where you're at with AI?
Twelve questions to find out where you really are, what to do next, and whether you even want my help. "No thanks" is an allowed answer.
Your result straight away, plus what to do next.
Take the AI quizThe method
Two frameworks I created. One way to build.
AI will build almost anything you ask for. The hard part is knowing what's worth building, and fixing the mess before you automate it. So I created two frameworks from 20+ years of improving how businesses work: one decides what to fix, the other fixes it properly.
- The business loop
- Find it. Choose it. SPARK it. Check it. Zoom out, find the opportunity or the blocker, choose what to build first, then check it moved the business before you go again.
- The process loop
- Scope, Plan, Action, Review, Keep improving. Zoom in and build or fix that one thing properly, so it holds as you grow.
The book
The pie gets bigger. Win together, not against each other.
Complementors over competitors. It's a strategy, not a nicety: the businesses around you are how you grow, and the ones you'd call competitors are often your best partners. Short, practical, and written for small business, not boardrooms.
Businesses don't improve by accident. You have to build it in.
Bring the thing that's costing you the most time, and build the fix alongside other women in business.
Built for women in business. Everyone's welcome at the table.