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Why AI Isn't Working for You (And What Actually Fixes Each One)
Episode 7718th June 2026 • Growing a Deeply Rooted Business: Launches, Funnels & Email Marketing with Intention • Jessica Walther, Launch Strategist & Rachel Lopez, Email Marketing Strategist
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Have you spent hours setting up ChatGPT or Claude only to feel like the output is still generic, off-brand, or takes more work to fix than it saves? You're not alone.

In this episode, Jessica and Rachel break down the six most common frustrations business owners have with AI—and why the problem usually isn't the tool itself. From forgotten context and bland writing to endless prompting and AI that agrees with everything you say, they're sharing practical fixes that help AI become a true business assistant instead of another task on your to-do list.

You'll learn why building a "business brain" matters, how to train AI to sound more like you, and the systems that make AI actually save time instead of creating more work.

In This Episode, We Cover:

  • Why AI isn't giving you the results you want
  • How to improve outputs with better systems and context
  • Training AI to match your voice
  • Common mistakes that waste time
  • The framework we use to make AI actually work in business

The biggest issue isn't usually the AI tool—it's the architecture behind it. When your business knowledge, voice, systems, and processes are documented and organized, AI becomes dramatically more useful. The better your business foundation, the better your AI outputs will be.

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Jessica Walther is the founder and CEO of The Launch Collaborative and Sustainable Success Systems. As a launch strategist and systems consultant, Jess is dedicated to helping solo business owners and small-but-mighty teams build businesses that deliver both peace and profit. She specializes in creating sustainable growth strategies that align with her clients' values and lifestyles.

Rachel Lopez is the founder and CEO of Gal Marketing Agency, a boutique email marketing and strategy firm. With over a decade of experience, Rachel helps heart-driven entrepreneurs craft intentional marketing strategies that attract, nurture, and convert leads sustainably. Her human-first approach ensures that marketing efforts feel authentic and effective .

Together, Jess and Rachel blend systems, storytelling, and soulful strategy to help you grow a business that's deeply aligned with your life—not just your revenue goals.

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Jessica:

All right, I wanna read to you something that is a real thing that we

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recently had a conversation with a peer

business owner about, and it was that

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basically Claude, ChatGPT, everything

that they've built, they built the brain,

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they fed it their contacts, and they

still feel like it's producing stuff

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that isn't 100% there or doesn't sound

like them, or they're just having to

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spend way too much time tweaking it.

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And this person wasn't a beginner.

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She's very business savvy.

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I'm sure she's tech savvy.

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She's someone that I was like,

oh, once you get this AI tool set

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up, you'll be able to run with it.

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But she was still pretty

frustrated with it.

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And I think that is the conversation

that we need to have because right now,

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I feel people are kind of getting AI

fatigue where it was like something that

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everybody was really excited about, and

this is going to change the way that I

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work in my business, and I think we're

getting to a point where that honeymoon

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glow has started to wear off on AI when

you're starting to see that some of the

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capabilities that we thought it was gonna

do, maybe it's not producing as much.

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But as Claude's BFF I'm here to protect

him, and I think setting true expectations

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around AI and what it is and what it

isn't, and then also just really knowing

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some tips and tricks on how to get

it to perform better so you're not as

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frustrating can be really, really helpful.

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So that is what we're

gonna get into today.

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We're gonna be breaking down six

specific complaints that we hear people

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making about AI and we're going to

be giving you some information or

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some tips on kind of how to fix this.

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Rachel: Yeah.

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So I wanna do a quick energy

check before we fully dive in.

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I think this topic brings up a lot

of feelings, whether it is because,

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you know, you're super excited about

it but can't quite figure it out.

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Maybe you've tried it, you're exhausted

by it, or maybe it's because the impact on

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the environment and all of those things.

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There's so many elements of the

impact of AI, whether it's from your

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own usage or just globally of what

we all see happening everywhere.

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So all of that is so valid.

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So I wanna make sure that when we're

going into it, you're really thinking

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about it in that intention of what you

want it to do, how you want it to help

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you, how you need it to exist in order

for you to feel good about using it.

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Certain areas of it that just kinda

feel like, essentially, it's not all

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or nothing is what I'm trying to say.

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So why don't you just take

a deep breath, take this.

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Like you know, if you're, on TikTok

and you get those tarot readings, take

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what resonates, leave what doesn't,

don't try to force it, and then let's

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just kind of absorb the information

that we wanna work with today.

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Jessica: All right, so the number one

complaint I hear about our friends,

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our robot friends, is that it forgets

everything the moment that you start a

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new chat and that you're having to waste

time re-explaining your business, your

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voice, your offers before every section.

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And you're, unsure about how to

really connect the context from one

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chat to another one, and you kind

of spend more time prepping AI than

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actually using it to complete the task.

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Rachel: This is the part where

people say the output just sucks, and

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it's because one, you're either too

exhausted to give it the context that

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it needs or it's just you haven't

built that process out together.

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So I think this is where so many people

are either starting from whether that's a

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blank slate or they're just assuming that

it's gonna put all of the pieces together,

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and that's not necessarily the problem,

but it's more so the source that, the

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architecture is where it's pulling from

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Jessica: Yeah.

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So let's talk about some steps

that you can take to mitigate this.

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Number one, if you do not have

it already, you need to build

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your business brain docs.

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Even if you don't plan on using

AI and you wanna have employees,

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these are so important, and it's

crazy the amount of business owners

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that kind of operate without this.

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So basically, these are your brand guides,

your voice, your ICP, the frameworks

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that you use and talk about all the time,

your offers, who they're for, how much

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they cost, what's included, the content

pillars or niches that you talk about.

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If you do not have these docs built

for your business and you're just kind

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of going into AI saying, "Write me a

caption," and it has none of the context

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on all of that, this is where you're

gonna get the very generic outputs.

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When we start working with any new

client that we work with, we first build

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what we like to call, their copy Bible,

which essentially, includes all of this.

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And before AI, this is what we

used to make sure that we were

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writing in the right context,

delivering in the right context.

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But now with AI, now that we have

these docs we can give them to AI and

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stop getting, that generic garbage.

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Rachel: Yeah, and I think this is

where when people don't, or they're

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not operating from this copy bible, the

business brain, or whatever the case may

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be, all of these new evolutions of AI

where they say, "Quietly," all those words

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that we all hate so much this is where you

set those guidelines and those barriers.

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We went into this in the roots episode

where we broke down, how to build a proper

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prompt, but essentially, the business

brain is there to reiterate what you

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like, what you don't like, what you think

works, the voice of the customer, and

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all of those things so that ultimately

you stop having to re-brief times.

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And when you are re-briefing it

100 times, you're bound to get lazy

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in the process and just be like,

"Okay, just remember it already."

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This is how you kind of stop the laziness

and then the poor prompting from the get.

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Jessica: Yeah, yeah.

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So then my second tip around this too

would be so you don't have to keep giving

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it these things is to have a dedicated

Claude project set up for your business.

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So the way that I have it set up for, in

my Claude is I have one for my business,

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I have one for Deeply Rooted business,

and then I have one for each client.

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I think sometimes when I see people's

Claudes, they've got one for almost every

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single task that they're doing in their

business, which that's not the right way.

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The task or skills projects are contexts.

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So if you think of it that way.

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And then another crazy little tweak, which

hopefully they will fix this, I don't

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even know why it's separated, but when

you go from Claude Chat to Claude Cowork,

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the projects aren't the same projects.

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That's very confusing.

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So you, when you start to use Cowork,

you have to migrate your projects over

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to Cowork, or you can go into your

universal instructions, and this is

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kind of how I have mine set up, and

say, "Before responding to each chat,

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reference my business brain", and I have

all the links to these ICP documents in

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my Notion so that any new chat kind of

references these things if it's for my

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business first before it goes to that.

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And that kind of keeps you

from having to type a zillion

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things, re-upload documents.

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But, the more and more I'm using AI,

the more I'm finding, it's really

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important to be really organized, which

is not something that I'm, used to.

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But the more organized you are,

the easier it is going to be.

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And if your business and your systems

are, a hot mess behind the scenes,

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and you've got things stored in your

Notes app and some in Google Drive

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and some in Notion, that's where your

frustration is, just finding those things.

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And once I, set up a very neat,

folder hierarchy and all of that on my

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computer it definitely started to get

a lot easier as far as context goes.

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Rachel: Yeah, and I'm gonna be bold and

say, AI has made me a better business

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owner because, one, not to selfishly

plug our Life First Business Lab,

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but when going through the onboarding

with Onboarding Ola, and she created

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my external business brain inside

of my notion where it broke down,

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everything that she pulled out of my

brain where it was the voice of the

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customer, my competition analysis,

all of those various components that

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purely did exist just inside my brain.

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And when we are talking about these

hypothetical business owners that

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are reprompting from scratch every

single time, we're talking about me.

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Period.

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Jessica: I mean, I had all

of these frustrations before.

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Rachel: We both have been in this spot

where we have tried to systemize things,

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but ADHD gets the best of me constantly.

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I have gone back to my little paper

notepad because I, for the life

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of me, have not gotten into the

habit of having my tasks in Notion.

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Thank you, Jess.

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But sometimes when I'm feeling

that resistance, whatever brain

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chemical is that like, "Don't do it.

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You don't have the urgency

for this," I go, "Okay, fine.

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I'm just gonna write it here, and I'm

gonna just do it one way or another."

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But I will say that AI has helped

me in a way to externalize and have

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to stop doing the invisible labor of

pulling it out of my brain every single

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time, 'cause it was never the same.

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And this has helped me also with my

human AI, my human virtual assistant,

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because she's not starting from

scratch designing, she's not starting

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from scratch with client work.

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She's not starting from scratch anywhere,

which is what I was doing in my previous

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hiring process, which was chaotic and what

kind of crowned me to think, "Oh, I suck

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at hiring," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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It's all connected in how we are

becoming better versions of ourselves.

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Jessica: That's what I mean.

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My whole view on AI is like it's an

employee, so if you're bad at managing

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employees, you're gonna be mad at…

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bad at managing your AI assistants.

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But it's a skill that you can learn.

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And my goal with building all of

our lab employees was kinda to

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make them AI for dummies whatever,

where they are asking you what they

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need so you're not forgetting that.

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They're trained on that because

I know that that is a obstacle.

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All right, so then moving into

frustration number two, it's the

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output doesn't even sound like me

or you're getting generic stuff.

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And one of the things that I've done

with our podcast, Claude has all of our

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transcripts, for every single podcast

episode, our speaking transcripts.

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And it's so funny because Rachel and I,

we both have a tick where we say like a

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lot, and Claude picked up on that and it

was like, oh, say like in the scripts,

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but don't say it when writing 'cause we

edit it all out when we're writing it all.

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But it even picked up on that.

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And now I have a little automation where

it goes and pulls our transcripts and

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kind of reads it so it can stay up to date

and pull out any new frameworks that we

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share on the podcast or quotable quotes.

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So voice training is super important

and it's really important that you

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kind of keep building on it 'cause

as you keep using it, you're gonna

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learn, oh, I don't like this, or I

do like this, that sort of thing.

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Rachel: Yeah.

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And I think this experience that people

are, going through where they're like,

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"It's just not working for me," or,

they don't really have the right word.

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Sure, what you gave me is great.

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Technically this is fine, but,

emotionally I would probably never

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say this, or, it just doesn't hit

the way that, I normally would.

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And, I think that that's one of those

things that I think is really important.

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When I was working with copywriters for

websites and for SEO and all of that, the

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amount of depth and research that they

put into it before any project is ever

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started is how we should consider using AI

for writing in our business, which is…

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it has to have depth.

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It has to pull from a

source that is human, right?

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It has to be able to say, " Okay,

this is the source of this person,"

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and, really make sure that it,

validates on it, or else it's gonna

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still sound okay but not great.

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Jessica: Yeah, and I think for both

of these two that we just covered, one

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of the other things that I think keeps

people stuck, and it was keeping me

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stuck for a while, is tool jumping.

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So I would go to Chat for this,

or Claude for this, Perplexity

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for this, use Notion AI for this.

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And I realized that even though some

of the tools perform a little better

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in certain context, it wasn't worth the

additional effort of having to bring

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that tool up to speed on the context.

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So if you find one that you like and

you vibe with, you know, for me and

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us it's Claude, not just because we

think that their outputs are a little

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bit better, but they're kind of the

most ethical AI company, I feel like.

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They really do talk about

their responsibility with this.

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They even have a model that they didn't

release because it was too smart and

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it basically was hacking into banks

and stuff like that, and they gave it

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to the banks and they're like, "Here.

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Here's everything that we like found.

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You guys need to fix this before

somebody else's AI figures

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out how to get into here too."

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So I mean, they're my tool of choice,

but if you like Chat, that's fine.

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But the, the thing is building a

system around it to where it's not

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a very sporadic, I'm gonna jump

over here, I'm gonna jump over here,

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because then of course you're gonna

get frustrated because of that.

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And one of my favorite things with

Claude, if you have the desktop version,

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is you can hit the space bar, there's

a space bar, and just speak into it.

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It'll turn on your recorder and

you can just start talking to him

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and it'll pull you up everywhere.

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So once you go deep into a tool, you

start to learn how to use it better.

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Yeah.

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And I feel because we've had so much

AI shiny object everywhere, everyone's

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jumping here and here and here,

they haven't really had the chance

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to go deep and really see all those

features that really will unlock

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more time and better outputs for you.

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Rachel: All right, so frustration

number three, which is kind of like…

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well, I did see a TikTok on

this, where it tells you kind of

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just what you want it to hear.

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And, you know, I think this is something

that I they ran in the TikTok, it

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was the various, you know, AI tools

and the likelihood percentage-wise

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for it to just agree with you.

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And I think that that is hilarious

one, but two, it's real, right?

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Because maybe you're just like, "Okay,

well I asked it to audit my sales page

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and it told me that it looks great.

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I asked it to poke this type

of holes, and it really didn't

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give me much of anything."

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It doesn't really give you that second

brain to kind of of feed off of.

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I don't know.

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Jess, what is your experience with this?

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Jessica: When I teach people AI, maybe

I just do this naturally, but one of the

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things that I do with AI is before I send,

a new proposal to a client or instructions

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to my team or a brief to my team, I'll

be like, "Act like you're my client.

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Act like you're a member of my team.

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What questions do you have?

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What hesitations?

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What's unclear?"

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So that's one way that

I'll go out and look at it.

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And then also for sales page launch

strategy, email strategies, and all

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that, I like to, act like they're

a bunch of different people so that

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it'll give them a different response.

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So I'll be like, "Act like you're, like,

Alex Hormozi, Jenna Kutcher, Wandering

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Aimfully", 'cause, all these people's

frameworks are on here, and give me your

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view of, what their sales page is doing.

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And then you're, you're gonna see them,

start to rip it apart from different

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angles, and then that's where you can take

your business brain, because you know your

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clients the best and what they respond to,

and pick and choose what advice you wanna

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take and what advice you wanna leave.

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That way you're not letting AI just build

this from scratch with no input, I guess.

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Rachel: Yeah.

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So at the end of the day, maybe it's not

necessarily just agreeing with you, but

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it's just kind of doing what it's designed

to do, which is be helpful and supportive.

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And so I think there are certain settings,

and Jess correct me on this, but there

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are settings in the top where you can

give it instructions of level of the

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criteria that it's supposed to do.

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So you can tell it like, "Don't

agree with me the first time."

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Find us a happy medium kind of thing.

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So you can definitely have it the way

that Jess is saying where it's like pose

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it as a, tell it to argue the other side.

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Tell it to, you know, look at it in

the lens of these three different

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people, and then find that end result.

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But you can also build it into the

instructions where you're saying.

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Jessica: You can build it into

your universal instructions.

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I had mine turned on like that for a

minute, but then when I have quick things

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that I just needed to get done, I didn't

want it disagreeing with me every time.

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So I'm like, "Come on, we

just need to get this out.

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Stop fighting with me about it."

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Just fucking, just do it."

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What I think the better way to go instead

is to create a skill that's maybe a

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sales page critic, and that is trained

on this, or a proposal critic, or just

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when you're in the chat to prompt it.

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I saw somebody post about it on TikTok.

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I'm like, "Oh yeah,

let me try to do that."

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And then it was like 20 minutes later

I'm finally getting the output because

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I've been arguing back and forth with a

really opinionated employee for a while.

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So I turned that right off.

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Rachel: That's smart.

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Okay, frustration number four.

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Take us, take us through it.

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Jessica: Okay.

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So a lot of times this is one of the

things too, it works for a while and

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the output, is getting worse, and I

find this happens a lot when people are

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having these very long conversations.

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And I think it's counterintuitive

to where, if you got a good vibe

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going with AI to when that little

alert says, "Shorten your…

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You know, your conversation's

long, so we're gonna compact

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it to start a brand-new one."

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I just did Anthropic's official training,

'cause I've just kind of been outside,

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out here, guerrilla-style learning.

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But they do say that they

recommend once your chat gets long,

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just starting a brand-new chat

because it starts degradating.

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It starts not being able to reference

everything better, and the better

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thing is to be like, "Okay, give me

a summary of the key points," and

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then move it to a new conversation.

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Because if you're ADHD like me, I will

start building, a lab employee, and

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then go to, writing 15 blogs, and now

we're writing emails, and now we're

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doing this all in one conversation.

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And then not only does that make it

really hard for the AI to know what

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you're doing, but, when you need to

go back and find stuff, it's like,

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"Where did I write this email?"

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And it's labeled, Building

Blog Builder Bruce.

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Because after I had it build Bruce, I

was like, "Let's write some blogs, and

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then let's turn these blogs into emails."

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So, start a new conversation every single

task, and really rely on the skills and

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your brains to bring this context over.

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Rachel: Definitely.

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Jessica: I think this next frustration

is one that the person we were

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talking to was really strong.

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It was just basically it's

just taking too much time.

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Everyone is saying that it's saving me

time, and I feel like I am spending so

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much time going back and forth with it and

really never getting there with the output

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Rachel: Yeah.

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I think if you go into it with that

mindset of like, "Oh, I just need it

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to save me time, I needed to do this,"

without acknowledging that there is a

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learning curve, that there is foundations

that need to be built, that there's all

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of these things that need to be done

I think that's where you get into that

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problem where you are kind of working

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need this to save me time because

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I'm very busy," blah, blah, blah.

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But you're skipping so much

of the things that are gonna

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actually help you save time.

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So it's anything in business, right?

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Everything like that, how you do anything

is how you do everything and, or how you

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do one thing is how you do everything.

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And so you're kind of just trying to

skip to the last part with an employee,

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it's gonna, you know, fail you.

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With branding, it's gonna fail you.

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With copywriting, it's gonna fail you.

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All of these things is really

important, so you have to really sit

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down and actually build your brain.

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You have to do your onboarding with Ola.

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Regardless of how much you wanna

skip through it, it's super important

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Well, and I think then this is where

the lab and our pre-trained employees

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come in so clutch because you're not

having to spend the time training

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them, because I have fought with them,

Rachel's gonna fight with them too

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when she starts building some guys.

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But we've kind of used our credits,

our usage, all of that, to go back

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and forth to get to the output

that we expect for our clients.

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One of the, exact quotes was like, "Oh,

like, I trained this blog guy, blog writer

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to make sure that I rank on Google."

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And the person was like, "Oh, well,

are they really gonna rank on Google?"

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And I'm like, "Yeah, because the

output I'm doing is the exact output

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that I'm doing for my other clients

who I've gotten to rank on Google."

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I'm not just like, "Hey, AI, work

your magic and make me rank."

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These are proven strategies that

we're building into the tool, where

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we're not letting the tool dictate

what the output is, but we're telling

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it, "This is what we know works.

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Do this, do that."

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But that, again, takes time, and if you

don't have the SOPs, if you don't have

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the system set up to where those things

are already really well documented,

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then it is going to take a lot of time.

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And now we're getting to the point where

Claude and Descript, what I use to edit

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the podcast, is has AI built into it.

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And one of the ways that the outputs

have become so good for us so quickly

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is because I'm giving it templates.

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I'm not having it like, "Hey,

create a carousel post for this."

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I'm like, "Here's our our

branded carousel post.

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Now you just go in here and

update the text or whatever."

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Or "Here's our brand guide for videos.

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Here's the sounds we like to use.

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Here's the graphics and how we

like to change up the captions and

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do that, and now you just do it."

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time saving comes, is once

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you've figured out the system.

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But if you haven't figured out your system

first, and you're just trying to go into

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AI and get it to do it, yeah, it's gonna

take you all freaking day to do it.

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Rachel: Okay.

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So then last one, right?

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Is this the last one?

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Jessica: Yeah, so let's talk about

frustration number six, and this is

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kind of what we kind of already covered,

but basically I hear a lot about it's

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not acceptable or it's not up to my

standards or doesn't sound like me.

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And I think that's where really

important, where it goes back to

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the contacts training where you

know where you're sharing more

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about you have to be so specific.

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So for example, when we were writing all

the blog posts for the AI blog articles.

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Instead of like the first output that

I got from Bruce, I was like, "Write

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me these 14 articles about this."

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And they were good, but they were

super generic, kind of boring.

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Anyone can write them.

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The bones of this are good, but we need

to infuse a little more of us and into it.

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So can you mine out some stories that

we can integrate in here or frameworks

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that we can integrate in here?

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So what Bruce did is he asked me a bunch

of questions and I just voice dictated.

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I'm really a fan of voice dictation

because it's hearing you and you're

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kind of just flowing, it's not

refined, so it gets even more of you.

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But I've kind of just voice

dictated our stories or how we

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felt about certain things or how

we look about some certain things.

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And the outputs of the

blogs were much better.

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So basically it's give it you

and then templates and it will

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color in inside the lines.

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Rachel: Yeah.

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And I think, this applies

AI or not AI, right?

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The things that we have said that work

really well in conversion strategies

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through your email list or during

launches or during whatever the

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case may be outside of AI, right?

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Your whole marketing strategy works well

when it's fed from your perspective and

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when you're sharing your client wins.

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I remember, gosh, when I was

helping somebody with a client

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launch maybe a year or so ago, and

her social strategy was just like,

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"Share this podcast, share this."

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And I was like, "But you

have so many testimonials.

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You can just start cranking out case

studies and people would probably

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appreciate that and get results from it.

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And then maybe you record

case studies on your podcast."

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And the thought of just being like, "Oh,

no, I'm not really gonna share too many

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of this," because they didn't know how

to build that storytelling element to it.

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That works in AI, and

it works outside of AI.

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All of these strategies, what we've

said from the beginning, it's important

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whether you're hiring, it's important

whether you're being a solopreneur,

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trying to manage life and manage

business without drowning in work.

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All of these different layers

to everything super foundational

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just to be running an

intentional, successful business.

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Jessica: And make sure you include

your stories in your comments, like

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real stories, real case studies.

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I think that was feedback we got

when we first started podcasting

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is "Y'all's episodes are great.

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Y'all have great frameworks, but I wanna

hear about actual clients you work with."

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intentional about that.

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But let's bring it all home,

'cause this one is a long one.

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So let's just do the six

reasons AI keeps failing you.

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So number one, it forgets everything.

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The fix is the architecture,

not big- better prompts.

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So make sure your systems are set up to

where your brain lives in one project,

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in one space and not something you have

to go find and track down every place.

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Number two, if it doesn't sound like

you make sure that you're giving it

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real samples of your writing, your

speaking, a list of banned words,

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signature phrases, sentence patterns.

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Love giving it transcripts, love

speaking to AI, because something

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about my ADH- brain, some days

I can't type, but I can talk.

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Number three, it's too agreeable.

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The fix is explicitly

prompting it for pushback.

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Either give it a specific persona

or specific person or a bias so

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that it kind of gives you a alter

ego to kind of look at things for.

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Number four, if it drifts over

time, make sure you're starting

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a fresh chat with your guy.

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You can bring context over from

longer conversations or threads.

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Number five, if you are burned out

from it just taking too much time just

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know that the setup is everything.

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The better your systems, your

strategies, your SOPs are documented

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the more lines AI has to color in,

the less you're going to have to tweak

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it to get it to where you need it.

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And then number six, if your output feels

generic or just not up to your standards

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the fix is to give it, your real numbers,

your client language your real stories.

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That's really gonna

make it sound like you.

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Rachel: Yeah.

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And so all of these six have

the same root cause, right?

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The architecture isn't built to

kind of hold all of your business

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context, and this is honestly what

we have spent the last several months

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solving for because it wasn't…

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It was something that we both needed.

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So the Life First Business Lab is

built around this exact problem.

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Before you ever even get into your first,

weekly AI assistant you build, what we

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keep referencing is the business brain.

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You get your four core documents

that help you from the start,

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which is your voice, your ICPs,

your offers, your content pillars.

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You build it once, and then every

single tool draws from this.

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Every AI assistant references it.

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And then ultimately, every single

assistant that we have put into this

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lab has been pre-built and pre-tested

and loaded with our own strategies

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so that you're not just hoping and

trusting that whatever AI pulled from the

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internet is the best and the greatest.

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You don't have to set it up.

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You just install it.

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Takes you 10 minutes,

and it works that day.

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You can load Bruce up and get four

blog posts that have been vetted

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and everything almost immediately.

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It's amazing.

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thing that I love most about this, because

I am somebody that buys a course and

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then abandons it after an hour, is that

it's no curriculum, there's no homework,

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there's no courses that you have to

sit down and try to understand it all.

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It's just tools that actually know

your business and do the work for you.

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So if you are interested in this,

we'll put the link in the show

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notes for you to take a look

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Jessica: All right, so if this episode

hit home, make sure you share it

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with the business bestie, the one

that is talking shit about my friend

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Claude right now and decided that

he is not useful for his business.

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Share it with her.

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Hopefully this can change her mind.

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Make sure you drop us a DM on Instagram

at deeplyrootedbusiness and tell us which

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of these six resonated the most with.

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And let us know what other

questions you have about integrating

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AI into your small business.

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And until next week,

we're rooting for you.

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