#9: Real Strategies for AI for Businesses – with Travis Adney
Dustin and Andy talk with Travis Adney about real AI strategies for businesses, from decentralizing AI to building team skills, workflows, and future-ready processes.
#8: What is Context Engineering
Dustin and Andy explain context engineering — how AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude use real data, skills, and MCPs to deliver smarter business results.
Five Simple Ways to Start Using AI in your Business
Like with many new technologies, there’s a lot of confusion about how to use AI in your business and especially where to get started. Here are our 5 tips for practical things you can implement today to introduce AI into your business. Encourage your team to play. AI tools can be fun to interact with. For many years, using computers for your job has been mostly spreadsheets and boring data entry. With AI it can instead feel like you're talking to a coworker who is happy to help you out. Give your team permission to spend 15-30 minutes of their day just using ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini to see if it can do something for them. For example, if you're writing marketing content, see if it can give you a starting outline, write a headline, or help you brainstorm a list like this one. Choose an AI champion. Find someone on your team who is excited about AI and encourage them to really dig deep. Give them time to experiment, to try to solve their own problems, [...]
AI Word of the Day: Agentic
You may have heard the word “agent” or “agentic” when talking about AI, especially with the new ChatGPT agentic model that was released in June 2025. But what does “agentic” actually mean? Merriam-Webster defines agentic this way: someone or something capable of achieving outcomes independently (“functioning like an agent”) or possessing such ability, means, or power. When you are talking about an “agentic AI”, that means it's not just chatting with you, but is empowered as an agent to take action in the real world. An agent can do things like navigate websites, filter results, prompt you to log in securely when needed, conduct analysis, and even deliver editable slideshows and spreadsheets that summarize its findings. When demonstrating the new ChatGPT agent model, Sam Altman and his crew at OpenAI showed how it could do a complex task like making travel bookings. Another great example was ordering cupcakes for an office party by giving the AI agent the dietary requirements and budget for it to research and order the cupcakes. We think a key thing to note, however, [...]
