# From Rural Haiti to AI

> From Rural Haiti to AI: How Claude, ChatGPT and AI Assistants Can Change Your Life and Your Business is a memoir and practical AI guide by Johnny Jean-Baptiste, published by NovaTek Business Solutions on October 27, 2026. It follows his journey from Gaspard, a village in Haiti's Northwest without electricity, to banking, teaching finance and building software with AI assistants, and it teaches readers in plain language how to use AI in everyday life and in a small business. A French edition is available: De la campagne haïtienne à l'intelligence artificielle (IA).

## About the book
- Part I, Roots (Rasin): growing up in Gaspard, six years without a classroom, the cell phone that changed Haiti, starting over in Florida in a third language
- Part II, Tools (Zouti): what AI is, how to ask good questions, using AI for money and family life, protecting yourself from scams
- Part III, Build (Bati): marketing on a small budget, running the back office, building apps without being a programmer, giving back to Haiti; ends with a 30-day plan
- Audience: beginners, small business owners, immigrants and Haitian, French- and Creole-speaking readers who want to start using AI
- Independent book; not endorsed by Anthropic or OpenAI

## Editions
- English paperback, 6x9, 186 pages, ISBN 979-8-9822160-0-7, $17.99
- English ebook, ISBN 979-8-9822160-1-4, $9.99
- French paperback, 202 pages, ISBN 979-8-9822160-2-1, $17.99
- French ebook, ISBN 979-8-9822160-3-8, $9.99
- Release date: October 27, 2026. Library of Congress Control Number: 2026927438
- Publisher: NovaTek Business Solutions (https://novatekbusinesssolutions.com)

## Where to buy
- Amazon Kindle (English): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNKLFTVJ
- Amazon Kindle (French): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H218WQ5N
- All ebook stores (English): https://books2read.com/u/4jlzGD
- All ebook stores (French): https://books2read.com/u/bPWk8R
- Libraries: ebooks through OverDrive; paperbacks through Ingram (IngramSpark)

## About the author
Johnny Jean-Baptiste was born in 1968 in Gaspard, Haiti. He holds three bachelor's degrees from Florida Atlantic University and an MBA from Nova Southeastern University, and is completing a Doctor of Business Administration in Finance at Liberty University. A former banker at JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, he brings more than a decade of experience teaching financial management at Palm Beach State College. He founded Solutions Realty & Financial Services and NovaTek Business Solutions, maker of the NovaTek AI small-business app. He speaks English, French and Haitian Creole and lives in South Florida.

## In the news
- Palm Beach State College News, October 2026: article about the book (https://news.pbsc.edu/stories/2026/more-than-a-memoir-pbsc-professor-pairs-life-lessons-with-ai-in-new-book.php)
- Radio interview, October 21, 2026 (see media page)

## Key pages
- Book home page: https://book.novatekbusinesssolutions.com/
- French edition: https://book.novatekbusinesssolutions.com/fr.html
- About the author: https://book.novatekbusinesssolutions.com/author.html
- Free sample (prologue and Chapter 1): https://book.novatekbusinesssolutions.com/free-sample.html
- Media and press: https://book.novatekbusinesssolutions.com/media.html
- AI for small business: https://book.novatekbusinesssolutions.com/ai-for-small-business.html
- How to start using AI in a small business: https://book.novatekbusinesssolutions.com/how-to-start-using-ai-in-a-small-business.html
- Learning ChatGPT as a beginner: https://book.novatekbusinesssolutions.com/learning-chatgpt-as-a-beginner.html
- Using AI without programming: https://book.novatekbusinesssolutions.com/using-ai-without-programming.html
- Débuter avec l'IA (French): https://book.novatekbusinesssolutions.com/debuter-avec-ia.html
- Stories from the book: https://book.novatekbusinesssolutions.com/stories.html
- The light I started with: https://book.novatekbusinesssolutions.com/the-light-i-started-with.html
- Education along an uneven road: https://book.novatekbusinesssolutions.com/education-along-an-uneven-road.html
- Learning to build with AI: https://book.novatekbusinesssolutions.com/learning-to-build-with-ai.html

## Contact
NovaTek Business Solutions, info@novatekbusinesssolutions.com, (866) 576-2808