If one person can do this, your business can too.
A Des Moines AI consultant who is starting a weekly show about real people using AI asked me a simple question: what do you actually use it for? My honest answer was: this week, everything.
What one week looked like
- A 7-hour event on Sunday: a yoga class, DJ sets, a cacao happy hour, somatic socializers, live performers and a costume contest, coordinated across about 10 people.
- Onboarding a new client: a proposal, a short-form agreement, three invoices, a calendar invite and a 90-day launch plan.
- Bringing a collaborator's code into Lovable so the client could click through a first working version the same day.
I run Exponential Enlightenment LLC by myself. Our mission is to advance human consciousness with intelligent technology. None of that week would fit in one person's calendar without AI.
The loop: conversation in, finished work out
Almost everything starts with a conversation. I record the call, and the transcript becomes the raw material:
- Documents: meeting notes, next steps, proposals and agreement drafts.
- Website updates: a new page, an article or a booking option, often the same day.
- Client proposals with a payment button, so a good conversation can become a signed project.
- Prototypes: a small working tool the client can actually try, instead of a slide deck.
This article itself started as a call transcript. So did the guest booking page it links to.
The tools, and what each is good at
- ChatGPT for thinking out loud and drafting documents.
- Lovable for building websites and apps, including this one.
- Suno for music. I've made more than 9,000 songs with it.
- Claude for designing client products and working through careful detail.
You don't need all four. Pick the one that matches your biggest pile of work.
If you own a small business, start here this week
- Record your next client or team call (with permission) and ask an AI to turn the transcript into a summary and a to-do list.
- Take one email you write over and over, and have AI draft a reusable template in your own voice.
- Describe one page your website is missing, and build a first draft with a site builder like Lovable.
- Write down the one task you dread every week. That's your first automation.
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