Stop wrestling with tech hell and generic AI prompts. Join Joe (AI Business Flywheel) and Duncan (SixFive) every week as they break down how to build clean tech foundations and practical AI workflows that actually move the needle.
ChatGPT, Agents, Automation platforms.
The tools are powerful. But the results are inconsistent.
One day AI saves time. The next day it creates more work.
That’s not a tool problem. It’s a system problem.
Most small business owners are caught in one of two traps.
The AI Business Flywheel Podcast was built to fix this. No theoretical hype, no technical rabbit holes. We focus on the exact sequence small businesses need: solid tech foundations, AI aligned to the business owner, and systems that keep working after the excitement wears off.
Scattered Google Drive files, domain and DNS chaos, insecure accounts, and CRM platforms nobody actually knows how to run.
Playing with random ChatGPT prompts that produce generic outputs, with zero impact on revenue, operational speed, or founder freedom.
Founder of SixFive
Small Business Owner, Entrepreneur, and Emergency First Responder
Duncan helps small businesses get out of tech hell so they can focus on why they started their business in the first place: delivering a great product in their genius zone. He handles everything infrastructure, from Google Workspace setups and domain governance to lead-gen stacks and CRM architecture.
Founder of AI Business Flywheel
Making AI Actually Deliver for Business Owners
Joe builds AI that thinks in your frame, writes in your voice, and executes against a strategy it understands. He is both educator and builder: teaching owners to create the permanent files that carry what they value, how they decide, what they measure and how they sound, so every output is unmistakably theirs, and building bespoke knowledge systems and character-driven agents for those who would rather have it done.
01
Why Most Small Businesses Are Using AI Wrong
Random prompts create random results. Why AI still feels hit or miss.
02
Before You Automate Anything, Fix This First
Automation doesn’t fix chaos. It speeds it up.
03
Why AI Still Doesn’t Sound Like You
Fix your business context before you try to fix your AI output.
04
AI Search Is Changing How Customers Find Businesses
Ranking on Google isn’t enough. How AI tools decide whether to recommend you.
05
When AI Goes Down, Can Your Business Still Work?
Building an AI-supported business without creating a single point of failure.
06
AI Is Not Replacing Jobs. It Is Replacing Tasks
The four buckets of work, and how to get the founder out of the weeds.
Before you automate another process or buy another AI subscription, you need to know what's actually holding your results back.
Because this isn't about using more AI. It's about getting better outcomes from the AI you're already using.
Sixteen questions, three minutes, and you'll know which of three things is costing you most:
Whether your AI actually understands your business, your thinking and how you make decisions, so what comes back is worth acting on.
Whether you've got a clear strategy underneath it all: who you serve, what makes you different, and an offer built on both.
Whether your business runs on systems, or runs through you.
You don't fix that by guessing. And you don't fix it by adding another tool.