Hosted by Val Kleyman · EN-US · 22 episodes
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The AI Guy Podcast — a fully AI-produced show delivering practical AI strategies for small business owners. Real tools, real pricing, real results. AI-generated voices, AI-written scripts, AI-researched content. Hosted by Val Kleyman and AI co-host Alex. Every episode proves AI works by being made with AI.
Val Kleyman hosts The AI Guy Podcast, a business show with 22 episodes published.
On July 8, Clockwork.ai launched Mira — the first agentic FP&A analyst that plugs into QuickBooks and Xero. The same week, Xero shipped JAX into Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Forbes reported that 87% of CFOs now say AI is c
On June 25, 2026 at Cannes Lions, OpenAI moved ChatGPT Ads from behind-the-curtain brand pitches to a public self-serve platform. No agency, no thousand-dollar minimum, three to five dollars per click. Nine hundred milli
On June 23, 2026, Zapier turned MCP access on for every paid plan. If you already pay Zapier $19.99 a month, you now have an AI orchestration layer that can drive 9,000 apps through one connection. Booking, invoicing, fo
Meta just made Advantage+ the default in Ads Manager. Campaigns Meta moves to Advantage+ are running 22% higher ROAS and 10% lower cost per qualified lead than the same business running manual. Every SMB with Facebook or
Three regulatory and platform deadlines are converging on small businesses this summer. California SB 942 plus the EU AI Act hit August 2 with a $2,500 penalty per undisclosed chatbot conversation. Microsoft 365 Copilot
On June 25, 2026, Intuit turns on AI expense categorization across every US Small Business plan of QuickBooks Online. Twelve months of your transactions get re-categorized automatically by a model trained on twelve milli
On April 14, 2026, HubSpot did something no major CRM has ever done. They flipped their AI sales agent to pay-per-result pricing — fifty cents per resolved conversation, one dollar per qualified lead. In this episode, Ma
The Federal Open Market Committee meets June 17-18 with 50 percent odds of an October rate hike. QuickBooks just raised prices 15-25 percent across the board. If you own a business, your subscription stack is leaking mon
Last month, Meta quietly turned its entire advertising platform into a chat window. In open beta. No enterprise contract. No agency required. And ninety-seven percent of small business owners still haven't logged in. On
Two weeks ago at Google I/O, Sundar Pichai declared the chatbot era over and announced the Agentic Gemini Era — an era where AI does not wait for your prompt, it does the work. Days later, Business Insider ran a story ab
A five-person sales team in Austin closed 31 percent more deals last quarter than the quarter before. Same five people, same product, same market. The only change: a 400-dollar-a-month software stack (less than what most
In early May 2026, OpenAI shipped GPT-Realtime-2 — the first voice model with GPT-5-class reasoning, 232-millisecond first-audio latency, and mid-call tool use. Zillow tested it on their hardest call benchmark and watche
Airbnb is taking 15.5 percent of every booking on your portfolio. And if Vrbo finds you responsible for a cancellation, they can claw back 100 percent of the booking value. For a 5-property operator at 70 percent occupan
Airbnb now takes 15.5 percent of every booking on your portfolio. Vrbo will charge you 100 percent of a booking value as a penalty if you deny a guest entry. For a 5-door operator at 60 percent occupancy and a 280-dollar
Eighty-two percent of CPA firms with revenue under five million dollars lost at least one partner or senior to retirement or burnout between 2022 and 2024. Marcus and Jules walk through the four-step AI workpaper stack a
A bonus Phoenix HVAC episode. Mac and Quinn walk operators through where AI actually moves the needle in 2026: revenue forecasting tied to NOAA cooling degree days, predictive maintenance from smart thermostat data, and
AI for SMB marketing is the most crowded and most overhyped of all the SMB AI categories. Mac and Quinn walk through the four buckets that actually matter for small business owners — content and copywriting, email and CR
AI for SMB finance is where the ROI gets impossible to argue with in 2026. Mac and Quinn walk through the four buckets of finance AI for small business — bookkeeping and reconciliation, accounts payable and expense autom
Operations is where AI quietly delivers the biggest ROI for SMBs. Val Kleyman and AI co-host Alex break down the four buckets of operations AI: workflow automation (Zapier vs Make vs n8n), document processing (Rossum, Kl
Most SMBs spend 25-75 hours a month manually qualifying leads. In this episode, Val and Alex break down the 4 categories of AI sales tools that change that math: lead qualification (Lindy, Clay), AI SDRs (Smartlead, Apol
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