Lunch & Learn: How AI Supercharged a Classic Car Club Project

RhiB
Sun, 08 Jun 2025 06:12:20 +0000
General

A practical walkthrough of AI, strategy, and no-code in small-scale digital transformation

Proposed Time
Lunchtime session (45 mins – 1 hour)
Date & time: 12:15–1:00 pm on Tuesday 24th June
Link: Lunch & Learn: How AI Supercharged a Classic Car Club Project Calendar Invite

Hosted by
Rhiannon Bond (RhiB)
Business Analyst | Consultant-in-Development

Session Overview

A huge thanks to @Hannah for suggesting we catch up and for the brilliant idea to open this up as a wider kōrero! I suspect many of us are quietly experimenting with AI tools and wondering what’s working for others. This felt like the perfect chance to share, reflect, and invite others to do the same.

I thought the best way to facilitate this type of info exchange would be to run through a project where I have used AI tools quite extensively.

This project began when I noticed a recurring pain point in the AGM notes of the Ford Capri Car Club of New Zealand a volunteer-run incorporated society with deep roots in my whānau. My dad and step-mum are passionate members, so this rebuild quickly became a personal project with professional purpose.

The existing website was costing too much for the value it delivered. It was difficult to maintain, hard to update, and barely usable on mobile. It had one static page of text, some links to PDF downloads (including the membership form), and a basic photo gallery.

I used AI to help develop a business case, pitched it to the committee, and they agreed to the update in exchange for me being able to use the project as a consulting case study.

The new site is being built using lovable.dev (an AI driven full stack development tool) and will:

Cost less to host

Be mobile-responsive and accessible

Be easy for volunteers to update

Support online membership sign-ups

Better reflect the community

It’s a genuine win–win: they get a more sustainable and dynamic website, and I get to test and grow my consulting skillset in a meaningful, real-world way.

What I’ll Cover

Spotting the opportunity:
From AGM minutes to AI-assisted business case

Project framing:
Why I’m treating this as a transformation case study, not “just a website”

AI in action:
How I’ve used ChatGPT to:

Write and scope a compelling business case

Rewrite and reorganise outdated content

Draft project comms and documentation

Generate and tweak prompts for the React build

Reflect and iterate on design decisions

No-code development with lovable.dev:
How I’m using lovable.dev to build the site

Why I chose it

How I’m integrating AI outputs

Lessons learned along the way

Using Notion to hold it all together:

Project hub, comms log, and content archive

Feedback tracking and decision history

A living case study & documentation supported by AI.

Who It’s For

Analysts, advisors, strategists, and side project lovers

People exploring AI tools and wondering how others use them

Anyone interested in using tech to support real mahi and scale their thinking

BYO kai and curiosity

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