Stop AI Overkill! Here’s All You Need

Do you have AI FOMO or maybe you have AI overload or maybe you have just AI regret? Who knows, but on today's episode of Underestimated I'm gonna share with you the top five tools, just five, that I think you need most. And you can pick and choose from them. You don't need all five, but I'm gonna share with you the five most important ones for small business. And at the end, I'm gonna give you a link to all of these resources for free so you can just do all of these without having to get a master's degree in computer programming or anything like that. So let's dive in.

I'm gonna start with the number one tool that has changed my business. I learned about this about a year ago. I was an early adopter of this and I want to share it with you. It is my AI board of directors.

If you have heard of this and you haven't done it yet, oh my god, you have to do this. If you do nothing else for your business, do this one thing and as I said, there's a done for you version. All you have to do is fill in a couple of boxes and then follow the instructions and you will have this in, I'm not kidding, five minutes, and it will change your business.

So the AI board of directors, it's kind of like what it sounds. You get to pick as many famous people, thought leaders, industry experts, anybody in the world who has a body of knowledge that lives anywhere out on the internet, whether it's a blog or they've written a book or they have podcasts that they've been on or maybe they host a podcast, anything that AI can access.

So what this does is you pick. For my AI board of directors, I probably have a dozen different experts from different fields depending on what I'm working on. So if I'm working on a new speech, for example, I would have an expert speaker, an expert in writing, an expert in whatever it is, an expert in that topic that I can bounce ideas off of.

And so I can bring anything to my board of directors and say, hey I wanna have a meeting, and I can say I only want it with this person or these three people, or hey, I need the whole board's input on this. And I just present whatever it is I'm struggling with and the AI board of directors responds back, and they are not a bunch of yes men and yes women. I have embedded instructions to challenge me and to challenge each other.

And what they do is they search the internet, so if let's say you have Simon Sinek on your board and you're asking for advice, it will search his entire body of work and respond as if it is Simon in his voice, in his style. And it will do that for anybody that you can imagine that you want on your board, including for me some industry experts in my industry that have a body of work that's accessible.

So think about what industry experts that are well known, and if you just wish that you could have them on your board accessible at any time to answer your questions, well now you can.

So this is the number one thing that has changed my business. I have a finance expert who is like my CFO whenever I need to talk numbers, and I have an internet marketing expert who can check me and my marketing reasoning and give me feedback. I have an ADHD coach that helps me to stay on task with things if I am struggling.

So you can populate this with whoever you want. And once it knows you, your goals, your business and your challenges and your marketplace and your ideal customer and all those things, you're gonna get what corporations pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for to have people sit on their board of directors. You're gonna get that for 20 bucks a month.

The next tool in your AI stack for your small business is kind of an operations manager. It's somebody that's gonna help you to handle all of the tasks that you hate most throughout your day. For me, that is responding to emails, doing proposals. So it'll help you to draft contracts, it can help you generate estimates, anything writing related, any employee policies, anything that you can think of that you need for your business and you hate writing it, creating it, this is your ops director, your AI director of operations who is going to have your back in all of these things. And what used to take you hours is gonna take you three minutes.

The better the input, the better the output. A few minutes setting it up on the front end, that's gonna pay huge dividends on the back end and save you so much time. You're gonna get back at least an hour a day. What could you do with an extra hour in your day?

Tool number three is built for people like me that hate finances, and it's the last thing that you'd rather chew glass than look at a P&L. This is your AI CFO. It's a specific custom GPT. Your AI financial analyst can connect to your QuickBooks, it can be your bookkeeper if you want. You can upload P&Ls or it can connect to QuickBooks and grab your P&Ls for you. It can spot cash flow risks, flag unusual expenses, you can prepare for bank meetings or money meetings.

Tool number four is the brand definer, and it is going to help you so much. You answer a series of questions to get this set up about your business, who you serve, what problems you solve, what do you do differently, what do clients typically say after working with you. And it will then help you with your elevator pitches, your list of words that fit your brand voice.

And then tool number five is the AI content multiplier. You upload one blog or you can even ask it to create a blog. It will multiply that into content that you will actually use. You define what platform you're on and what types of content you want, and it will help you build the quotes that you can take from that blog and put up on social media. You could even ask it to create 30 days of social posts from that one blog.

There you have it, the five AI tools that every small business needs to save time. You don't need all five of these, but I bet you need at least one. My goal is to save you time. So pick one to start out with, the one that saves you the most time or mental anguish, and you can move your business forward and focus on the things that you love to do for your business or actually have free time for your personal life. Imagine that.

I hope this is helpful. Go ahead and check out all of these resources at thebuyerinsider.com, click on vault, and you will find these and a ton of other freebies. I want your business to thrive. Thanks for listening to Underestimated, hosted by Shawna Suckow. To connect with Shawna, go to thebuyerinsider.com.