A working system. Not a slide deck.
Two or three SDSU students embed with you for one semester. They map the business, propose one build scoped to your budget, build it, take a technical and business review, and hand it off. You decide whether to run it.
Most shops cannot name an AI use case, let alone ship one.
Goldman Sachs found that 77 percent of small businesses struggle to identify applicable AI use cases.
Goldman Sachs small business survey, 2026.
Most shops have no one in-house to choose a tool, let alone put it into operations. This program sits a supervised student team next to you, maps what you actually do, and builds the smallest thing that works.
The Fall 2026 pilot is five to seven businesses. In person. Time, not a check.
Show up. Map the work. Decide at the end.
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Map the business
The team sits with you and maps what the shop actually does. Opportunities are ranked by value. Nothing is built in this phase.
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One build, scoped to your budget
One proposal. Tools you can afford to keep running. Not a stack you would have to hire someone to maintain.
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Build, review, hand off
They build it. Technical review, then you review. You deploy, start small, or decline. Declining is an acceptable outcome.
No cash outlay.
A donation is requested only if the work lands. The ask of you is time: meet the team, give feedback, and decide whether to run what was built.
Nothing reaches your production environment without a technical and business review. You keep the decision.
First look at the people who built it.
Host a team.
Write Ralph Morales III at Fowler College of Business. Forms will replace this mailto when they exist.