ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Straight answers on AI for small business.
Most AI advice is built for Silicon Valley, not for the business you actually run. The Unjammer Podcast starts with your process. We unjam it first, then add AI where it matters, one process at a time.
Host Dr. Mike Donaldson spent 20 years fixing broken processes on the manufacturing floor and brings that to every episode. You will hear where to start, what AI really costs, what to fix before you buy anything, and what AI will never replace. Every episode is short, practical, and ends with a next step you can take that week.
Questions or episode ideas? Send them through the contact page at unjammer.com/contact.
Update frequency:
every 12 days
Average audio length:
10 minutes
English
United States
11 episodes
since May 13, 2026
episodic
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AI is picking up the repetitive work in your business right now, the spreadsheets, the slide decks, the status reports nobody reads twice. Watching that happen, a quiet worry sets in. If a machine can do parts of the job, what is actually left to do.
This episode draws a clear line between the work…
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You think you know your business data. Names, emails, purchase history, all accounted for. Then you actually go look, and the picture changes. Records live in a CRM. More sit in email threads nobody archived. PDFs sit in a shared folder nobody has opened in years, and phone numbers get …
Most business owners already know their data is a mess. Spreadsheets in three formats. Customer notes buried in email. Files nobody has opened in years. That mess is not the problem. Waiting for it to disappear before starting an AI project is.
This episode walks through Plan, Do, Check, Act, a fra…
Your team is already using AI. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, whatever they found first. No meeting happened. No policy got written. It just started, and now you are managing something you never agreed to in the first place.
This episode lays out what has to be in place before that keeps going unchecked.…
Description
Business owners are excited about AI agents, and the demos make it easy to see why. Agents that browse, write, file, and work while you sleep look like the answer to a desk that never clears. What the demos never show is the mess behind the camera — the undocumented files, the naming sy…
You found an AI tool. The price looked reasonable, so you signed up. Then the real costs showed up. Setup time. Staff training. A bill that did not match what you expected. None of that was on the pricing page, and you are not alone.
This episode gives you the math most vendors will never walk you …
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You have heard about AI. You have probably bought a tool or two. Somewhere along the way, things did not go as planned. Not because the tool was bad. Because nobody told you to figure out where you were starting from first.
This episode gives you a concrete way to think about your start…
You bought an AI subscription. You tried it. It never quite worked the way you expected or it felt like a whole other job on top of the one you already have. So it just sits there doing nothing. The problem is not the tool. It's that you skipped the foundation.
Two ratios change how you think about…
Most small businesses don’t have a tools problem. They have a process problem. And adding AI on top of a broken process doesn’t fix it — it just makes the mess move faster.
In this episode, Dr. Mike Donaldson breaks down Lean AI: a framework that starts with your operations, not the technology. You…
When the doors close at 5 PM on a small business, most owners are not heading home. They are staring at spreadsheets, chasing invoices, and trying to figure out what to post tomorrow.
That is the resource gap. Big companies hire experts for everything. Small businesses have themselves.
AI is closin…
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