AI Prioritized

Nicole McCain

  AI Prioritized with Nicole McCain helps business owners stay ahead of the AI curve with practical insights, real-world strategies, and hands-on demonstrations. Each episode breaks down the latest AI tools, trends, and use cases, showing you how to apply them to your marketing, business strategy, productivity, and everyday life. Discover smarter ways to attract customers, streamline your workflows, make better business decisions, and reclaim your time. Nicole cuts through the AI hype to help you focus on what matters, what works, and what's worth your attention. Stay informed, work smarter, and put AI to work for your business and your life. 

Episodes

  1. Nov 5

    How To Build Your AI Operating System(Beginner Friendly)

    What if Claude already knew your business, your voice, your offers and your clients, so you never had to explain yourself twice? That is an AI operating system. In this episode of AI Prioritized, I show you how to build one in Claude, step by step, with no coding and no tech background. This beginner friendly walkthrough covers Claude Projects, skills, connections and routines. An AI operating system is simply the thing that runs in the background and keeps your business organized, like the settings and contacts your phone remembers for you. I walk you through the setup I use to run my own business, which saves me about 20 hours a week. IN THIS EPISODE - Why your business is really five departments (marketing, sales, finance, operations and client care) and why you build one small system for each - Step 1, the Business Brain: the five questions to answer in your Claude Project instructions, plus a sample prompt you can copy - How to add a knowledge base of real documents, and how to protect private client information - Step 2, your first skill: how to turn a task you repeat into a saved set of steps Claude follows every time - Connections: letting Claude see your calendar, email and tools, and how to switch off what you don't want it to do - Routines: a Monday summary or a Friday recap that shows up on its own - The three beginner mistakes to avoid: being vague, building everything at once and accepting the first draft WHAT I PROMISED YOU Want my exact checklist for setting up your AI operating system across five departments? Comment SYSTEM on the YouTube video and I will send it to you. Want help building it for your business? Book a call using the link below. CHAPTERS 00:00 What if Claude already knew your business? 00:18 Welcome to AI Prioritized 00:50 What an AI operating system really is 01:31 Your business is five departments 02:15 Step 1: Train the Business Brain 02:47 The five questions for your instructions 04:04 A copy and paste starter prompt 04:27 Add your knowledge base (and protect client privacy) 05:23 Test what Claude knows about you 05:54 Step 2: Build your first skill 08:37 Get the setup checklist 08:49 Connections: let Claude see your tools 10:05 Routines: your Monday summary and Friday recap 10:32 Three beginner mistakes 11:30 Your five AI employees 12:46 Your next step LINKS Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ETjsnMa_-II AI Prioritized show notes and newsletter: https://www.aiprioritized.com/ Join the AI Incubator: https://www.skool.com/aiincubator Book a 1:1 Deep Dive Business Strategy Assessment: https://links.convertwave.ai/widget/booking/vmwXPw3xMsgrzEItEV8v Be a guest (women building with AI, $20k+ months): https://www.aiprioritized.com/#guest Consulting: GentivAI.com About your host: I'm Nicole McCain. After 20+ years leading operations, product and technology initiatives at top Fortune 500 companies, I help business owners build practical AI workflows and turn AI investments into measurable ROI. Subscribe for weekly AI updates and hands-on demos. Systems over sacrifice.

  2. Oct 27

    How to Get ChatGPT to Recommend Your Business

    When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity to recommend a business like yours, do you come up? In this episode of AI Prioritized, I explain how AI assistants decide who to recommend, and I give you a 15-minute AI visibility check you can do tonight plus three fixes for this week. No one can guarantee you a spot in an AI answer. But you are not powerless, and you don't need to be technical to fix this. IN THIS EPISODE How ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI find, understand and confirm businessesWhat OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and Google say publicly about AI search (OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot)The 15-minute AI visibility check: 10 buyer-style prompts, 5 prompt types, testing fairly, logging results and finding patternsFix 1, be clear: what your homepage should say in plain textFix 2, match everywhere: LinkedIn, Google Business Profile and directoriesFix 3, show up where AI already looks: articles, podcasts and communities WHAT I PROMISED YOU The free AI Visibility Checklist and prompt log from this episode is coming soon at AIPrioritized.com. Run your 10 prompts this week, then share what showed up instead of you inside the AI Prioritized community. CHAPTERS 00:00 Maya's story: the client who never found you 00:54 Welcome to AI Prioritized 01:19 The question everyone is asking 02:15 Old search vs. AI search 02:32 No guarantees, but you're not powerless 03:13 How AI assistants choose who to recommend 03:55 What OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and Google say 05:12 Find, understand, confirm 05:54 The 15-minute AI visibility check 06:02 Step 1: Write 10 buyer-style prompts 08:25 Step 2: Run them in ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity 09:12 Step 3: Log what you see 09:50 Step 4: Look for patterns 11:00 Fix 1: Make your homepage answer client questions 12:19 Are you blocking AI crawlers? 12:57 Common website mistakes 13:59 Fix 2: Make your info match everywhere 14:38 Fix 3: Show up where AI already looks 15:52 Your homework and free checklist 16:28 Next time: the follow-up leak QUICK ANSWERS 1. Can I pay to rank in ChatGPT? No. Nobody can guarantee AI recommendations, and OpenAI says so on its help pages. 2. Do I need a special AI file for my website? No. Google says its AI features need no special markup, just clear, helpful text it can read. LINKS Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/daGsRckXsZ8 AI Prioritized show notes and newsletter: https://www.aiprioritized.com/ Join the AI Incubator: https://www.skool.com/aiincubator Book a 1:1 Deep Dive Business Strategy Assessment: https://links.convertwave.ai/widget/booking/vmwXPw3xMsgrzEItEV8v Be a guest (women building with AI, $20k+ months): https://www.aiprioritized.com/#guest Consulting: GentivAI.com About your host: I'm Nicole McCain. After 20+ years leading operations, product and technology initiatives at top Fortune 500 companies, I help business owners build practical AI workflows and turn AI investments into measurable ROI. Subscribe for weekly AI updates and hands-on demos. Systems over sacrifice. A note on the video: the on-screen host is my HeyGen AI avatar, lip-synced to my own recorded voice. The words and ideas are mine.

  3. Oct 11

    Claude 5.5 Updates You Need to Know: How to Use The New AI Models

    The new Claude 5.5 updates explained for business owners. In this first episode of AI Prioritized, I walk through the new Claude model family, the combined chat and Cowork window, and a simple system for choosing the right Claude model for marketing, lead generation, sales and business automation. Anthropic shipped four updates in three weeks: Chat and Cowork became one window (Sep 16), Opus 5.5 (Sep 22), Sonnet 5.5 (Sep 28) and Haiku 5.5 (Oct 7). IN THIS EPISODE - Opus 5.5 for judgment: research, analysis, strategy, anything a client will read - Sonnet 5.5 for clearly defined execution: drafts from a template, set steps, routine documents - Haiku 5.5 for speed and volume: sorting leads, labeling, summaries, form filling - The permission setting I use before Claude works across your files and apps - The most expensive AI mistake: putting your smartest model on every task - A decision rule you can paste into your Claude instructions or team SOP WHAT I PROMISED YOU The action report prompt, the model and approval rule, and the other prompts from the episode are on the companion are in this YouTube video episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnyZEs-kymU&t=206s CHAPTERS 00:00 The cost of using Claude the old way 01:45 Opus 5.5 and the action report prompt 05:00 The permission setting and the one-window Claude 09:30 Sonnet 5.5 for clearly defined jobs 10:30 Haiku 5.5 for speed and volume 11:15 The most expensive AI mistake 12:15 Your three-level model system and decision rule 14:00 Recap and your next step QUICK ANSWERS 1. Which Claude model should I use? Opus 5.5 for judgment, Sonnet 5.5 for clearly defined execution, Haiku 5.5 for speed and volume. 2. What does the Claude API cost? Opus 5.5 is $4 per million input tokens, Sonnet 5.5 is $2 and Haiku 5.5 is $0.10. If you only use the Claude app, you pay your plan price. LINKS Join The AI Prioritized community: AIPrioritized.com Weekly newsletter: The AI Prioritized Brief - AIPrioritized.com Consulting Website: GentivAI.com Anthropic sources: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5 | https://www.anthropic.com/claude/sonnet | https://www.anthropic.com/claude/haiku | https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12138966-release-notes About your host: I'm Nicole McCain. After 20+ years leading operations, product and technology initiatives at top Fortune 500 companies, I help business owners build practical AI workflows and turn AI investments into measurable ROI. Subscribe for weekly AI updates and hands on demos.

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  AI Prioritized with Nicole McCain helps business owners stay ahead of the AI curve with practical insights, real-world strategies, and hands-on demonstrations. Each episode breaks down the latest AI tools, trends, and use cases, showing you how to apply them to your marketing, business strategy, productivity, and everyday life. Discover smarter ways to attract customers, streamline your workflows, make better business decisions, and reclaim your time. Nicole cuts through the AI hype to help you focus on what matters, what works, and what's worth your attention. Stay informed, work smarter, and put AI to work for your business and your life. 

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  • Creator
    Nicole McCain
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
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