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12/05/2026

New clip from The AI Guy Podcast

Today, we're talking about the boring side of AI, the side nobody posts about on LinkedIn: operations. Boring is where the money is, Val.

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12/05/2026

AI for Small Nonprofits in 2026: Grant Writing, Donor Engagement, and Retention Automation

Practical 2026 playbook for small nonprofits: AI grant writing, donor segmentation, and retention. Real vendor pricing, ROI math, three documented case studies, and a 90-day rollout plan.

Practical 2026 playbook for small nonprofits: AI grant writing, donor segmentation, and retention. Real vendor pricing, ROI math, three documented case studies, and a 90-day rollout plan.

11/05/2026

AI Content, Email, Social, and SEO Tools for Small Business Marketing | The AI Guy EP07

New podcast episode: AI for SMB marketing is the most crowded and most overhyped of all the SMB AI categories. Mac and Quinn walk through the four buckets that actually matter for small business owners — content and copywriting, email and CRM automation, social media scheduling and design, and SEO and analytics — with current 2026 pricing for Jasper, Copy.ai, HubSpot, ActiveCampaign, Mailchimp, Brevo, Klaviyo, Buffer, Hootsuite, Canva Magic Studio, and Surfer SEO. Then a documented Pacific Northwest plumbing case study where a $77/month stack pulled 42 hours a month out of marketing and recovered $5,600 in abandoned quotes in the first 90 days. Listen at https://ai.advalorem.io/podcast/ep07-the-ai-guy-podcast.mp3 or watch at https://ai.advalorem.io/podcast/ep07-the-ai-guy-podcast.mp4

Practical AI strategies for small business owners. Real tools, real pricing, real results. New episodes every Monday.

11/05/2026

AI for Construction Project Controls: Estimating, RFIs, Change Orders, and Job Costing for SMB Contractors in 2026

A practical 2026 playbook for small GCs and specialty contractors: AI-assisted takeoffs, RFI triage, change order automation, and job-costing. Pricing signals, ROI benchmarks, and a 90-day rollout plan.

Practical 2026 playbook for small RIAs: AI-powered client onboarding, portfolio reporting, and compliance. Vendor pricing, ROI math, and a 90-day rollout plan.

10/05/2026

New clip from The AI Guy Podcast

Yes, don't automate the whole finance department. Automate the part that catches the weird stuff early. That's ROI with low drama.

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10/05/2026

AI for SMB Litigation and Discovery (2026): Document Review, E-Discovery, and Deposition Prep for Solo and 2-to-10 Attorney Firms

A 2026 playbook for solo and small-firm litigators: document review, e-discovery, and deposition prep with AI. Vendor pricing, ROI math, three case studies, and a 90-day rollout plan.

A 2026 playbook for solo and small-firm litigators: how to use AI for document review, e-discovery, and deposition prep. Real vendor pricing, ROI math, three case studies, and a 90-day rollout plan.

10/05/2026

AI Bookkeeping, Cash Flow, and AP Automation for Small Business Finance | The AI Guy EP06

New podcast episode: AI for SMB finance is where the ROI gets impossible to argue with in 2026. Mac and Quinn walk through the four buckets of finance AI for small business — bookkeeping and reconciliation, accounts payable and expense automation, cash flow forecasting, and tax prep — with current pricing for Digits, Docyt, QuickBooks AI, Ramp, Bill.com, Cash Flow Frog, Float, and more. Then a documented Phoenix HVAC case study where a $224/month AI stack pulled 41 hours a month out of finance and prevented a cash shortfall worth more than the tooling cost for a year. Listen at https://ai.advalorem.io/podcast/ep06-the-ai-guy-podcast.mp3 or watch at https://ai.advalorem.io/podcast/ep06-the-ai-guy-podcast.mp4

Practical AI strategies for small business owners. Real tools, real pricing, real results. New episodes every Monday.

10/05/2026

EP05: How a Cincinnati Manufacturer Cut 47 Hours a Week with a $300 AI Ops Stack

New podcast episode: Operations is where AI quietly delivers the biggest ROI for SMBs. Val Kleyman and AI co-host Alex break down the four buckets of operations AI: workflow automation (Zapier vs Make vs n8n), document processing (Rossum, Klippa, Nanonets), scheduling and inventory (Deputy, Odoo), and AI agents (Lindy). Then we walk through a real Cincinnati manufacturing case study where a $300/month stack pulled 47 hours a week out of operations and unlocked $180K in new business in six months. Listen at https://ai.advalorem.io/podcast/ep05-the-ai-guy-podcast.mp3 or watch at https://ai.advalorem.io/podcast/ep05-the-ai-guy-podcast.mp4

Practical AI strategies for small business owners. Real tools, real pricing, real results. New episodes every Monday.

10/05/2026

EP04: The 4-Tool AI Sales Stack That Saved a Cleaning Company 13 Hours a Week

New podcast episode: Most SMBs spend 25-75 hours a month manually qualifying leads. In this episode, Val and Alex break down the 4 categories of AI sales tools that change that math: lead qualification (Lindy, Clay), AI SDRs (Smartlead, Apollo), call coaching (Fathom, Fireflies, Gong), and pricing/proposal automation (P

Practical AI strategies for small business owners. Real tools, real pricing, real results. New episodes every Monday.

09/05/2026

AI for SMB Clinics (2026): Patient Intake, Clinical Notes, Scheduling, and Prior Authorization Automation

A 2026 operator playbook for small and mid-size clinics: automate intake, ambient scribing, scheduling/no-shows, and prior auth with AI. Pricing benchmarks, ROI math, and a 90-day rollout plan.

A 2026 operator playbook for small and mid-size clinics: automate intake, ambient scribing, scheduling/no-shows, and prior auth with AI. Pricing benchmarks, ROI math, and a 90-day rollout plan.

08/05/2026

New clip from The AI Guy Podcast

Decide what Drive is allowed to be. If Drive is your knowledge base, you need naming conventions, owner fields, and a quarterly cleanup.

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