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Cris Valerio
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Aug 7, 2026
635 - AI for Small Business: What to Play With and What You Should Never Deploy
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Holly HaynesHOST
We both love AI, but also like what is something you can do to make the workflow feel like you, not random? Like what are some best practices that you're seeing?

Cris ValerioGUEST
I think I'm going to answer from a framework perspective, and then we get down to a specific example.

Cris ValerioGUEST
However, it doesn't change fundamentals to business practices and stuff that has been studied forever.

Cris ValerioGUEST
And one of the things that OR has consistently shown is when you just bring a tool into one part of a full workflow, it actually makes that workflow more onerous.

Cris ValerioGUEST
It creates more problems, et cetera, right? Whereas if you come and you apply the tool to the entire workflow, you actually get more benefit.

Holly HaynesHOST
I'm curious for our listeners, we talked a lot about like do's and don'ts and like best practices, but if they want to just like play around with AI this week, sort of as you describe, what's something fun that you've been doing or like an experiment that would be fun for them to do? I mean, I have so