Artificial Intelligence possesses the remarkable potential to revolutionize business operations, thereby enhancing profitability and operational efficiency. In our discourse today, we delve into the multifaceted ways through which AI can be harnessed to streamline processes, automate mundane tasks, and ultimately augment revenue streams. Eric G and John Dudley elucidate the transformative impact of AI, dispelling prevalent misconceptions that shroud its capabilities in apprehension. Through insightful examples, we illustrate how AI can facilitate more efficient communication with clients, optimize project management, and enhance decision-making processes. Our discussion ultimately underscores the imperative for businesses to embrace these technological advancements, ensuring they remain competitive in an evolving marketplace.

The discourse undertaken by Eric G and John Dudley delves into the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the business landscape. Their conversation elucidates how AI is not merely a harbinger of disruption but rather a catalyst for enhanced operational efficiency and profitability. In a world where apprehensions surrounding AI abound, they advocate for a paradigm shift in perspective, urging business professionals to embrace the capabilities of AI as tools for augmentation rather than replacement. The hosts provide illustrative examples of AI applications, ranging from customer interactions through sophisticated chatbots to automating mundane administrative tasks, thereby liberating human resources for more strategic endeavors. The essence of their message is clear: AI can empower businesses to increase revenues and streamline operations, ultimately contributing to a more prosperous future for those willing to adapt and innovate.

Moreover, Eric and John emphasize the necessity of human oversight in the deployment of AI technologies. They contend that while AI can significantly reduce the time spent on routine tasks, the human element remains indispensable in navigating the complexities of decision-making. This nuanced understanding of AI's role positions it not as a replacement for the workforce but as a means to enhance human capabilities. They encourage listeners to engage with AI proactively, suggesting that early adopters will reap the benefits of increased efficiency and competitive advantage.

In conclusion, the podcast serves as an insightful exploration into how AI can be harnessed to revolutionize business practices. By fostering a culture of innovation and adaptability, businesses can not only survive but thrive in the face of technological advancements. Eric and John invite their audience to consider the myriad opportunities presented by AI and to embrace the future with confidence and optimism.

Takeaways:

• Artificial Intelligence possesses the potential to significantly enhance operational efficiency within various business sectors.
• By leveraging AI technologies, businesses can expedite workflows, leading to substantial time and cost savings.
• The integration of AI can facilitate improved customer interactions, creating experiences that closely resemble human engagement.
• Automation of mundane tasks through AI allows business owners to focus on strategic growth and innovation, thereby increasing profitability.

Links referenced in this episode:

• aroundthehouseonline

Companies mentioned in this episode:

• GROK
• AT&T

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Welcome to the around the House Pro Insider.

This is the podcast for trades pros, carpenters, contractors, interior designers, and innovators building homes, renovating spaces, or creating the next big thing.

Let's dive in with your host, Eric G. Hey, guys.

Welcome to the around the House Pro Insider.

This is where we talk and help you guys navigate your businesses out there.

Whether you're a designer, a contractor, remodeler, or even you're in that inventor coming up with a new home improvement project or product that you're trying to do.

We've got you covered.

John Dudley and I, Eric G. Are here to help you out.

Brother John, good to see you again, man.

Brother E, what's happening, man?

I love this subject.

Today we're going to talk about.

AI has turned out into this, like, Big Snow, Abominable Snowman cartoon character that everybody's scared about, but nobody really realizes how it can make your life easier and how it can make you money.

Yes, sir, it is crazy.

Great example.

I was sitting there watching my Seattle Mariners last week.

We won't get into that, but we were sitting there and watching tv.

And she goes, okay, so what's this thing with AI she's not a techie.

She doesn't own a laptop.

If it's not on her phone, she doesn't deal with it.

She uses a computer all day at work, and it's.

She still calls and pays her bills over the phone.

So that's just how she rolls.

She goes, what's with this?

So I grabbed my phone and I had GROK on it.

And my dad I've talked about on the show, he was nuclear counterintelligence, CIA, Department of Energy, doing all that crazy stuff.

Most of the stuff he did in his work life I have no idea about.

So I went, let's dive down the rabbit hole and see what's out there.

Because of freedom of information requests, I usually get more information about what my dad, when he was live, did on that stuff.

I went down using the speaking feature on Grok and did a half hour conversation and learned more about what my dad did when I was a little kid than I have in 15 years.

And it was fascinating.

And her eyes were so big that I was having an intelligent and sometimes argumentative discussion with a chatbot AI And I learned so much because it was real.

Yep.

Yeah, there's a lot of crazy narrative out there right now that's.

That's either one side or the other.

Right.

We're typically divided somehow as human beings, and some are scared and Some are thrilled and.

And there's probably reasons for both, but the fact of the matter is that my opinion only, it's going to do nothing but make our lives easier, better and more efficient.

And look just what the Internet's done in time in 10x that like, this is crazy.

This is beyond inventing the airplane, in my opinion.

This is world Earth changing insanity.

And it's gonna be brilliant.

And yeah, there's gonna be bad stuff that happens with it, but there is airplanes too, and gas and everything we do for humans.

Radio to television.

Right?

It's that kind of next.

Oh my gosh, here we go.

And now we're going from television to YouTube and we're in these big transitions and great example.

And you and I were talking about this before the show, and you jump onto somebody's website, they got the old school chatbot on there that just basically ends up trying to send you rudimentary into a Contact Us page.

Oh, how do I get a hold of you?

And it's got 10 canned answers and it tries to steer the right way and make you feel like you talk to somebody.

With AI, that's a whole different deal.

It gives you now a personal experience that you would swear you're talking to a human on the other side.

Yeah, yeah.

And it's real.

It's very real.

I'm embarrassed to tell you how many tabs I have open.

Learning this stuff currently and creating bots and generative AI and all just.

I'm deep in the rabbit hole.

And legit, you could have, it's feasible, a sales agent where somebody calls and says, hey, I need a roof.

Hey, how, you know, what style of house is it that.

Look, the AI can ask all the valid questions, qualify the lead on as far as budget goes and timeframe.

When do you want to get this done?

And that all go to your phone within one minute of that conversation.

Wow.

So you're out in the field and you're like, ding, I got a hot one.

And it's a roof in Maple Valley and it's this style of house.

And they're looking to go next week.

And it's.

They're fully qualified square footage.

Beyond that, there's guys smarter than me that are creating the full sales process, obviously depending on what you're selling.

But legit can get you to a signed contract at the end of the deal.

And you don't touch a thing.

Like, that's one use case.

Yeah.

Who doesn't want that?

Automating.

Automating half of your daily Grind tasks, whether it's going through timesheets or going through change orders or going through billing or running your accounting and looking at your profit and loss sheets and all that stuff can be automated and literally done for you like in minutes, not six hours.

I used to sit at my desk and do it, set up a AI machine that just crunches all that together for you, draws from anywhere you're inputting.

It could be your phone, could be a spreadsheet, could be talk in India, your phone.

At the end of the month you've got a report or 10.

Dude.

I was creating, I'm working on creating a new corporation for some projects and I was curious to see what was the best way to open it up, what type of corporation?

S Corp, C Corp, llc.

Sure.

And I asked the right questions.

And it's not about asking the questions, it's how you prompt those questions.

Right.

We're not going to get into all that here because that's more of a personal thing that you're trying to do.

But you want to, in rough terms, create the expert that you want AI to be and then they can be that expert.

And so I wanted to know with my state, with the federal, what was the best formation of the company under my specific circumstances.

And in four minutes I have 14 pages and he's.

The AI is testing them.

If you have this much income, this much, some basic stuff off your P and L sheet, how would that look tax wise?

And how would it limit your liabilities and your risk and going through all of it?

And it gives you a full all it shows you the math and you're like, holy smokes.

Careful with you, careful what you ask for.

You will get 14 basis.

Exactly.

But the cool part is I got 14 pages and I sent it over to the person that I was going to have a meeting with to ask the same questions.

And they came back and said, wow, who did you work with on this?

This is beautiful.

Well played out.

And I'm like, yeah, that was grok.

Yeah.

And right.

To speak, to get back, to get back to the narrative is you.

You say things like that.

It freaks out a lot of people about losing jobs and who's going to be replaced.

And what you find when you start diving into AI is it can't function without the human touch.

It just can't.

It needs to be navigated, it needs to be managed.

And what do they call the guys on the forum?

Somebody's got to watch it because it will get dirty.

There's got to be a jockey on that horse, shall we say?

Yeah, for sure, for sure.

So the big Bell companies, right?

You know yet at&t and the big Bell companies and all that stuff, and they blew them up in the 70s, 70s and 80s, right.

Oh, look at all those telephone repair men for landlines or loser jobs.

Yeah.

They just turned out into.

They just moved over and slid into cable TV and fiber optic techs.

They just learned a little more and moved over to it.

So I don't think it's as many.

And that's all that's going to happen.

Yeah, honestly, I think that's all that's going to happen.

And even a guy like you're talking about that, hey, take a look at my accounting, take a look at my corp setup.

How's this all going to function?

He learns how to use that correctly.

He can now take on 100 clients instead of 10 and not do all that math himself.

And he's already got the talent, which is the human talent needed to be able to make sure that that shit's right in there.

Sorry.

That stuff's right on the radio, man.

This is a podcast.

You can say that.

Oh, cool.

Now you opened up a camera.

I know I did.

I know you, Dudley.

That's the thing.

And you still need that person to go, hey, how would you handle this?

There's some.

You want somebody to go, hey, you could do it this way.

Just like any accountant.

That's a little risky.

You're on the edge of versus a black and white answer.

Sometimes I want to know if I'm stepping off indo.

You could look at it that way, but really the safe way is to do this.

Sometimes you want the Safeway, not the black and white.

I'm going to give you a or B answer.

Yeah, Yeah.

I just.

I recommend anybody that's afraid of it to dig into it a little bit and you will enjoy it.

If nothing else, it'll write a book about your life story.

If you want to talk to it long enough, which is fun, I've started.

But don't be afraid.

You just got to adjust and learn how to use it, man.

It's going to serve all of us on a huge scale in ways that we don't even understand yet.

But it's all going to be to the better.

It's all going to be to the good.

And it's going to create new opportunities and new inventions and new technologies and new things that we use it on that are going to create different jobs.

So, Johnny, think about this.

If you're a remodeling contractor.

Right.

You're a remodeling contractor and you're the owner and you're the one out opening and closing deals.

And you maybe have two crews you have out there running.

If you can now go see twice as many people in the day because you're using this correctly, maybe you can hire two more crews of contractors and be running four crews and making so much more money, but doing the same amount of work that you did before.

And now you're creating jobs, not eliminating them.

And that's what I, that's exactly what I was playing to, talking about your corporations guy.

It's the same thing.

It's going to help us.

It's.

I just had a thought on the tip of my face and it's gone.

It's going to help with visibility.

You can get stuff indexed and SEO'd in 8 days now instead of 90.

Oh my gosh.

You can get your business more visible.

You can get your marketing more effective.

You can talk specifically to specific audiences.

AI is going to dial that right in for you.

Instead of you tearing your hair out for six hours trying to write copy, it's going to give you four options in four minutes and you edit that down a little bit and you just saved yourself four hours out of the day writing a proposal or writing a scope of work.

All that stuff, man.

A takeoff list for materials.

Yeah.

Think about websites just as an example.

And we'll have to run out here in a minute because I don't want to make this too long into an hour show, but here's the thing.

If you've got a website and let's say Your website is 5 to 10 years old since you've really redone it so it's archaic and you go, oh my gosh.

And that's very common in our community of building and remodeling.

That's that website that I've changed it, but it's still a 10 year old platform.

I designed it around and I've been just matching band aids on it.

All of a sudden you start getting lower and lower on the SEO.

Now you're not showing up on page instead of page one.

Now when you rebuild that website and do it so now it looks like you're current and you're not a dead company.

Like you said, you can get that turned around on that in a couple weeks instead of a couple months if you did it right.

It's a huge difference now.

Huge difference.

You get an instant payoff in the world of business because I call A very quick payoff if you do it right.

Yeah.

The RRI happens much quicker.

The capacity and the job completion time, everything is faster and better.

And now you're in my realm of websites and stuff like that.

So I don't want to get too carried away.

But the differences are immeasurable and the amount of it's just more money.

I don't know any business owner that doesn't like more money and more time with less effort.

That's what AI does for it.

Yeah, absolutely.

And Johnny, get ahead of it.

Get ahead of it before every other contractor does.

That's what I would say.

Yeah, jump on, dude.

That way you're the new guy, not the guy that's finally catching up to the game, which is what it feels like now with your website being backwards.

Yeah.

Because page seven will quickly go to 17 once, you know, especially locally.

Right.

You get five guys to catch on locally.

It's going to be a tough beat if you're six months or a year behind them.

Absolutely.

That's just fact.

And that's what I think is going to be fun.

You and I working with some businesses out there.

And if you guys are interested in learning more about this, we're going to have it up on the around the house online website where you can get a hold of us and start working with us on this stuff.

But that's a page coming soon.

But here's the cool thing.

If you want to reach out to us, we can have a chat about it and see if there's a way to make that work for you.

Because I think there's a lot of wins here for people.

It's going to free up time for you and your family that you can actually go out and get more business or just be able to make it to your kids soccer game.

Yeah, there's.

And there's a lot of quick wins too.

It's not, it's not the $20,000 AI overhaul for your whole business and website.

Like you can spend a grand and make some huge leaps and bounds in efficiency, like just some quick tricks and there's a quick return and it's not costing you an arm and a leg.

And again, you don't want to fall behind on this.

You're foolish if you do like question.

It's just losing money and you're charging.

On that job site today.

So you got money coming in.

That's a.

You got a grand in your guys out there today on that project.

So why don't you spend a days with your labor on it and save yourself some money and make more.

There you go, brother.

Thanks for coming on today, man.

I love talking about this stuff.

This is just something that you and I could sit here and talk about this for two hours, which is cool, but we.

I don't want to lose too many people and you got projects and I got projects to get on here.

I wanted to get this out the door this week and tune in every week for us here on the around the house Pro Insider so we can help you with your business and everything else.

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So send me a message.

We'd love to chat more about it.

Johnny.

Thanks for taking the time, my friend.

Good to see you as always.

Yeah, brother.

Make sure you guys radio show this weekend.

We got a great one coming up as well on the podcast.

Catch that one as well.

We're going off on some great subjects as well.

I'm Eric G. Exciting stuff, right?

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