{"podcast":{"title":"21 Hats Podcast","slug":"21-hats-podcast-502638","podcast_index_feed_id":502638,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4439758/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/21-hats-podcast","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/27e8ec21209a6c9a99a0f0963132b13e.jpg","author":"21 Hats","episode_count":568,"summary":"The 21 Hats Podcast presents an authentic weekly conversation with small business owners who are remarkably willing to share what’s working for them and what isn’t. Unlike many business podcasts, which tend to talk to highly successful entrepreneurs whose struggles are in the past, the 21 Hats Podcast features a rotating cast of business owners who are still very much in the trenches fighting the good fight. Every week, our regulars gather to talk about the kinds of important issues many owners won’t even discuss behind closed doors: whether their businesses are as profitable as they should be, whether they are willing to give up some control to an investor in order to grow faster, why they had to lay off employees, how they wound up with way too much inventory, why they don’t have a succession plan, and even why they are concerned about their own mental health. Visit 21hats.com to hear all of our podcast episodes, read episode transcripts, and learn more. The show is produced by Jess Thoubboron, founder of Blank Word.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-18T20:17:08.095147+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21-hats-podcast-502638"},"episode":{"title":"Dashboard: You're Probably Not Spending Enough on AI","slug":"dashboard-you-re-probably-not-spending-enough-on-ai","published_at":"2026-07-10T09:00:20+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21-hats-podcast-502638/dashboard-you-re-probably-not-spending-enough-on-ai","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21-hats-podcast-502638","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/dashboard-you-re-probably-not-spending-enough-on-ai--72889782","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72889782/e999ed90_d824_45ef_841d_cefb75452e5a.mp3","summary":"There have been a lot of stories lately about companies getting hit with surprisingly large AI bills. They start using platforms like ChatGPT or Claude, usage grows faster than expected, and suddenly they're spending far more than they ever imagined. Should small businesses be worried? I invited AI consultant and longtime business owner Alan Pentz back on the podcast to find out. His answer may surprise you: for most small businesses, he says, runaway AI costs aren't the problem. If anything, he thinks they're spending too little.That led us into a wide-ranging conversation about why Alan has changed his thinking on how owners should approach AI, why today's pricing is effectively subsidized for smaller businesses, when it does—and doesn't—matter which model you're using, why mastering prompt writing is becoming less valuable than many people assume, and what happens when the companies behind the large language models finally have to start making real money.","meta_description":"There have been a lot of stories lately about companies getting hit with surprisingly large AI bills. They start using platforms like ChatGPT or Claude, u…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1877,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/21-hats-podcast-502638/episodes/dashboard-you-re-probably-not-spending-enough-on-ai/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21-hats-podcast-502638/dashboard-you-re-probably-not-spending-enough-on-ai.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}