Straight answers on running a business with AI.
Answers, articles, videos and interviews on putting AI to work.
Answers and articles
- What is an AI workflow build for a small business?Learn how an AI workflow build connects business tools, handles repetitive steps, supports judgment, and keeps human approval where it belongs.
- What should a small business automate first?Use frequency, delay, labor, error risk, and business value to identify the best first workflow for automation.
- CRM versus sales automation: what is the difference?Understand the difference between a CRM that stores customer context and sales automation that moves the next approved action.
- Why does lead follow-up break in founder-led businesses?Learn why lead follow-up becomes inconsistent when context, ownership, timing, and next actions are spread across disconnected tools.
- Do you need one workflow or a complete revenue system?Decide whether your business needs one automated workflow or a connected website, CRM, follow-up, booking, and reporting system.
- What does an AI Officer do?Learn how an AI Officer prioritizes AI opportunities, directs implementation, establishes governance, and reports business value.
- How should a business measure the return from AI automation?Measure AI automation using baseline labor, cycle time, errors, throughput, cost, capacity, adoption, and revenue connected to the workflow.
- ArticleIs AI worth it? What the AI ROI research actually showsThe widely shared claim that 95 percent of AI pilots fail comes from a narrow sample. Here is what the research measured and what successful implementations do differently.
Videos
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Can an AI sales rep actually sell? What I learned building one in a day2:01 -
Does AI cold calling work? 129 calls, zero meetings, and what it taught me0:56 -
How much work can one person do with AI? I did nine jobs in five days0:43 -
Can AI do LinkedIn prospecting? One sentence, 20 decision makers, nothing sent0:46
Podcasts and live
- Overwhelmed by Hiring? Use This AI Strategy for Smarter ScalingCatalytic Leadership with Dr. William Attaway, 2025. AI-powered hiring frameworks for agency owners, and why AI is an amplifier, not a replacement.Watch
- Post-Hustle Conversations: Demystifying AI, From Hype to ImplementationLinkedIn Live with Zach Hammer, December 23, 2025. A down-to-earth conversation on getting past AI analysis paralysis and actually implementing.Watch replay