Ravensight: AI for Small Business

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AI isn’t just for the S&P 500 anymore. Each week, we explore how small businesses can use AI to save time and money, reduce stress, and grow faster. From automating estimates and emails to improving customer follow-up, you’ll learn what’s working now, what’s hype, and how to make AI actually useful in your day-to-day business. The tools are getting better every month... don’t get left behind while others automate. Start learning what’s possible today.

Episodes

  1. 10/21/2025

    Stop the "Slop" - How To Make ChatGPT Sound More Human: A Comprehensive Guide to Using AI for Business Writing

    Are you struggling with AI-generated writing that feels "off" or sounds overly artificial? If you're one of the estimated 20–30% of American workers who are increasingly using AI (like ChatGPT) for professional tasks, you may be dealing with the deluge of emails and reports that sound suspiciously robotic. This phenomenon—sometimes referred to as "AI slop"—can lead to reader mistrust, frustration, and apathy.In this comprehensive episode, based on the in-depth guide from Ravensight AI, we reveal the detailed guidance, techniques, and specific prompts you need to make ChatGPT or Gemini sound more human. The goal is to successfully combine human warmth and judgment with the speed and efficiency of AI. Inside this episode, you will discover:• The linguistic and psychological quirks that cause AI-generated prose to deviate from natural human expression, such as using overtly formal words, generic phrasing, and excessive em-dashes.• Strategies to train your Large Language Model (LLM) by providing specific examples of your desired tone, rhythm, and style.• Practical tips for giving clear style instructions, such as preferring short, varied sentences, using contractions, and using vocabulary a real person might use in conversation. • The Universal "Humanizer" Prompt that can be used with ChatGPT or Gemini to produce business communication that is natural, human, and trustworthy—avoiding generic or overly formal language.Learn how to harness AI's speed without sacrificing the genuine, relatable voice that connects with your readers, ensuring your business emails and presentations sound like they weren't written by a robot. Get the full comprehensive guide and all prompt examples here: https://ravensightai.com/how-to-make-chatgpt-sound-more-human-a-comprehensive-guide-to-using-ai-for-business-writing/

    12 min

  2. 10/15/2025

    How to Use Gemini Gems: Create and Share Your Own AI Helpers

    Unleash Your Own AI Workforce: Mastering and Sharing Gemini Gems Are you ready to stop repeating yourself and start automating? In this episode, we explore Gemini Gems—a relatively powerful but often underutilized tool. These customized versions of Google's Gemini Assistant act as reusable specialists that remember your instructions and handle repeatable tasks. Whether you need to generate quarterly letters in your authentic tone, saving hours of writing, or convert rough meeting transcripts into polished summaries, Gems provide a perfect middle ground between ad-hoc prompting and full workflow automation. We walk through the straightforward process of creating your first Gem, which involves naming it, writing clear instructions (including task, tone, and guardrails), and adding relevant context. We also highlight some of the most practical examples you can copy and use today: • The Lead Reply Gem: Writes fast, on-brand replies for new inquiries. • The Document Review and Summarizer Gem: Skims long PDFs or email threads and returns a concise brief with risks, open questions, and next steps. Plus, learn about the powerful feature that lets you share custom Gems directly with your team, much like sharing a Google Drive file, instantly turning your specific AI helper into a shared asset.Stop manually copying and pasting prompts—it's time to create and share your own AI experts!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------For the full step-by-step guide and more AI insights, visit Ravensight AI: How to Use Gemini Gems: Create and Share Your Own AI Helpers: https://ravensightai.com/how-to-use-gemini-gems-create-and-share-your-own-ai-helpers/ More from Ravensight AI: ravensightai.com

    17 min

  3. 10/11/2025

    How To Automate 30% Of Your Work: The Small Business Owner's Guide to Less Stress and More Time

    Are you a small business founder clocking 50 hours or more a week and constantly feeling bogged down by repetitive tasks? Surveys indicate that over 80% of small business owners work more than 40 hours per week, and the average owner reports receiving less than two hours of truly uninterrupted, highly productive time per day. This podcast offers a deep dive into the practical reality of AI workflow automation, a technology projected to automate up to 30% of the work you currently do. Our mission is simple: to show non-technical founders exactly how to implement tools that provide less stress and more time. What you will learn:• Go Beyond the Chatbot: Understand why copying and pasting into a browser app merely scratches the surface of true automation. The real game changer is AI's superior ability to handle unstructured data—like handwritten notes, complex emails, or voice memos—and reliably convert it into the clean, structured outputs your CRM or accounting software needs. • Practical, Immediate Results: Learn how to free up your time for high-value stuff like strategy, talking to customers, and closing sales. We bust the myth that AI solutions require big bucks, often providing payback within a month or two. • Automate Your Drudgery: We recommend starting with your least favorite task and show you concrete, high-impact use cases, including instant lead responses, auto-creation of financial documents from messy notes, and generating tailored marketing content for multiple channels from a single idea. • The Right Tools for the Job: We break down the ecosystem of platforms, from the simple and fast entry point, Zapier, to the visually complex and cost-effective Make, all the way to n8n for ultimate power and scaling economy. Best of all: for basic, high-impact automations, no coding is required. AI isn't here to replace humans; it's here to augment them, allowing you to spend more time growing your business or even getting home for dinner. Start with one task this week and see the immediate return. Learn more at https://ravensightai.com/ and check out our free primer on how you can start building your own AI workflow automations at https://ravensightai.com/what-is-ai-workflow-automation/

    34 min
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AI isn’t just for the S&P 500 anymore. Each week, we explore how small businesses can use AI to save time and money, reduce stress, and grow faster. From automating estimates and emails to improving customer follow-up, you’ll learn what’s working now, what’s hype, and how to make AI actually useful in your day-to-day business. The tools are getting better every month... don’t get left behind while others automate. Start learning what’s possible today.

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