Ask the Studio · A free live hour · Every other Thursday
Every session opens with three questions business owners ask us, answered live. Then we take yours.
Sixty minutes with Sarah and Anthony Scarano, live from Montana. Say yes and we look at your real website or Google profile on screen. You leave with one thing to do this week, your own presence audit, the Starter Office and seven free tools, whether you ever hire us or not.
Live from Kalispell, online from anywhere. Sixty minutes, then questions.
Save this seatThe toolkit
Each one runs inside Claude and answers a question owners usually pay a consultant for. No sign in, no card, nothing to cancel. In the hour we set one up with you, usually Site Check or Funding Finder, and run it on your own business.
CH 01Small Business Funding Finder
Set up live
Searches live federal grants, matches SBA-backed loans to what the money is for, and checks whether your county has an open disaster declaration.
Asked
“I run a three-year-old landscaping business in Montana and need working capital for the season. What fits?”
It answered
In review for Anthropic’s Claude directory
What it can doCH 02Market Map
Counts the businesses in your trade in your county, the people and homes they serve and the income there, and shows what to pay the people you hire.
Asked
“How crowded is roofing around Kalispell, Montana?”
It answered
Live now, add it by URL
What it can doCH 03Contract Finder
Shows which government agencies paid for your kind of work in your state, which businesses won it, whether you count as small, and how to get in line.
Asked
“Who buys roofing work in Montana, and who wins it?”
It answered
Live now, add it by URL
What it can doSite Check
Speed, security, search basics and every way a customer can reach you, with the fix for each miss.
What it can doAI Search Kit
Checks what answer engines can read about you and writes the markup that fixes it.
What it can doPackage Pricing Lab
Turns your costs and capacity into three fixed packages with the margin math shown.
What it can doDry Run
Runs your year ten thousand times and names the week the money most likely gets tight, and why.
What it can doFour steps, two minutes.
Every address is in your room. On Claude’s Free plan you can add one; paid plans take them all.
Claude is a product of Anthropic. Modern Mustard Seed is an independent studio and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.
What you leave with
No price on screen, no countdown, no "only ten spots." If you want help after the hour, there is a thirty-minute call. If you do not, you keep everything.
Peek inside the Starter Office Before you come: see who is asking for you this week, freeThe same audit we run for clients: your website, your reviews and your Google listing, graded out of 100, with the fix for every miss and who shows up above you.
Leave your website when you register. It lands in your inbox before the session.
Three working skills lifted from our own office (the morning brief, the front desk and the presence check), a house rules file you fill in, and the ten-minute install for Claude.
Download it the moment you register. It is in your room too.
The toolkit we run our own office on: find the grants, loans and disaster help you qualify for, size your market and what to pay your people, see which agencies buy what you do, check your website and price your work. No sign in, no card.
We set one up with you live. Every address is in your room.
A one-page worksheet: the seven seats every owner sits in alone, scored, with the first two to hand to a crew and the brief for the first one.
Print it any time. It takes ninety seconds.
The whole hour, every question and answer included, so you can watch the part you missed or send it to your partner.
In your room the evening of the session, for everyone registered.
The hour, minute by minute
Plain answers, shown on screen: we open the real search results, the real tools and, when you say yes, your real website. Every answer ends with one thing to do this week.
Who we are, how the hour runs, and where your question goes. Drop it in the chat now; we get to as many as we can.
Three questions we hear all the time, answered live in about seven minutes each, shown on screen, and each one ends with one thing to do this week.
Anthony reads your questions from the chat and Sarah answers. Say yes and we look at your real website or Google profile on screen and give you the one fix.
We pick one tool from the toolkit, like Site Check or a Funding Finder search, and set it up with you on your own business.
Do it yourself with what you got today, do it with us, or have us run it. If you want a hand, book a short call. No pressure at all.
The last questions from the chat, the date of the next one, and a thank you. Send your question for next time when you sign up.
Sarah Scarano
Agentic Developer and Creative Director
Answers the questions.
Anthony Scarano
Sales and Marketing
Reads the chat and runs the close.
Ninety seconds, before you register
Every owner sits in seven seats alone. The job is not to work harder in all seven. It is to decide which seats a crew takes first, write down how you want them run, and say yes.
01The front desk
Calls go to voicemail while you are on a job, and the customer calls the next name on the list.
02The follow-up
Quotes nobody chased, invoices nobody nudged, reviews nobody asked for.
03The storefront
A website, a Google listing and reviews nobody has looked at since they went up.
04The marketing desk
Posts when there is time, which is never, and emails that never get written.
05The books
You find out what came in and who owes you when you finally open the laptop on Sunday.
06The chief of staff
Everything lives in your head, so nothing moves when you are not there.
07The idea seat
The next product, the next offer, the next line of business, always next quarter.
Reserve your seat
Every other Thursday, sixty minutes, then questions. 1:00 PM Eastern · 12:00 PM Central · 11:00 AM Mountain · 10:00 AM Pacific.
The second you register
The Starter Office downloads, and your private room link lands in your inbox. Send your question with the form, or reply to that letter with it.
Before the session
Your presence audit, if you leave your website.
The day before, and at the doors
One reminder each. The room opens fifteen minutes early.
That evening
The replay in your room, every answer included. Two short notes after, then nothing unless you ask.
Built for owners who already run something that works and are still the person every job waits on: trades and home services, clinics, agencies, realtors and small teams.
Ask the Studio
Free registration
After the hour
The last ten minutes of the hour. Pick one, or pick none and keep everything you were given.
You have the time and you want to know how it works from the inside.
The Starter Office
Free. Three skills, your house rules, and the install. Start Monday.
Three live sessions. Build two working agents for your own business with the room.
You want it done right the first time and you want to run it yourself after.
We set Claude up for you or your team: your skills, your rules, your tools connected, and you trained to run it.
Eight weeks in a cohort. Your whole office built, one seat a week, with us beside you.
You want the seats filled and your time back, and you want to own what we build.
Built to be found on Google and named when people ask ChatGPT, with booking and calls built in.
Agents that find the people asking for what you do in local groups and comments, and answer them in your voice.
Your own office of agents with one screen for clients, marketing and money, set up for you.
A crew that runs on a schedule inside your business, managed by us.
The whole company moved onto a crew, and your team trained to run it.
The dashboard or the tool nobody sells, built for how you work and handed to you.
If you want our help
Thirty minutes with us after the session. We look at your Office Map and your audit, name the first two seats, and tell you the fastest way to fill them, whether you hire us or not.
Before you register
Anything else, write to sarah@modernmustardseed.com. Sarah answers.
Ask the Studio is a free live hour every other Thursday at 11 AM Mountain, hosted online by Sarah and Anthony Scarano of Modern Mustard Seed in Kalispell, Montana. We open with three questions business owners ask us and answer them live, each with one thing to do this week. Then we take your questions, look at your real website or Google profile on screen when you say yes, set up one free tool with you, and close with three ways forward and no prices.
Add it to the form when you register, reply to any of our letters, or type it in the box under the stream during the hour. The three we open with come from the questions sent ahead, and every question in the box gets an answer before the room closes.
Yes. The hour, the audit, the Starter Office, the tools and the replay are free, with no card. If you want our help afterward, there is a thirty-minute call, and you can skip it.
No price is shown or said in the hour. The last ten minutes cover three ways forward, one of which is doing it all yourself with what we give you. If you want help, we talk first and send one set price in writing after.
No. Every answer is in plain words, and if you can paste an address into a settings screen you can set up the free tool with us, step by step.
You need a Claude account. Claude allows one custom connector on the Free plan, so you can set up the tool with us either way; paid plans can add them all. You do not need Claude for the questions.
Register anyway. The replay goes to your room the evening of the session, and your audit and the Starter Office do not depend on showing up.
Only if you say yes. During the live questions, anyone who says yes gets their real website or Google profile opened on screen and one fix to make. If you would rather keep it private, ask anyway and we answer in general.
Owners who already run something that works and are still the person every job waits on: trades and home services, clinics, agencies, realtors and small teams.
