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How Small Businesses Actually Start an AI Journey
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- Mar 16, 2026
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Weekly Blitz | March 16, 2026 | Special Audible Edition Guests: Brian Beck + Colin Stauffer wo central Indiana consultants walk Jason through what AI adoption really looks like on the ground for SMBs. No theory. No pitch decks. Just what's working, what's blowing up, and what most businesses still refuse to deal with. ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ง๐ผ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฐ๐:Colin's BLOP framework: start with boring, low-risk, accessible tasks before touching anything customer-facingThe dirty data problem: pointing AI at 15 years of unorganized SharePoint files and accidentally exposing employee SSNsThe productivity paradox: AI is causing go-getters to take on more work, not less, and burnout risk is realClaude vs. ChatGPT vs. Copilot: which tool wins for SMBs, and why ChatGPT's sycophancy is a business problemAI orchestration as a hidden skill: why you can't run Opus 4.6 on everything without burning your budget ๐ก ๐๐ผ๐๐๐ผ๐บ ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ:Most SMBs are skipping the basics and pointing AI at messy data they don't understand, and the consultants cleaning up that mess have more work than they can handle. ๐๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ธSenior Consultant at Proxurve Solutions | Cybersecurity and AI consulting for SMBs in central Indiana | 30+ years in IT๐ https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianbeck73/ ๐ https://proxurve.com/ ๐๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ป ๐ฆ๐๐ฎ๐๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟManaging Partner, BiG Impact Group | Fractional CAIO | Public Sector Practice | AI fluency for mid-market organizations๐ https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-stauffer-77411345/ ๐ https://bigintel.ai/ ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐ฎ๐๐ผ๐ปI build AI-native organizations for companies that can't afford enterprise consulting timelines. Real implementation: LLM workflows, semantic data architecture, agentic automation, and the change management to make it stick.๐ง [email protected] ๐๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐ผ๐น'๐ ๐ข๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐: Preparing students forโฆ