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Weeks Ahead AI

Weeks Ahead AI

Written by: Brad Andrus Terry Brockett Mitch Felderhoff
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Not sure where to start with AI? Weeks Ahead AI takes the fear out of the unknown and shows you exactly how to use AI tools in your business to save time, boost productivity, and stay ahead.

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  • #18 - Build Your 2026 Business Budget in 1 Hour With Claude AI
    Jan 21 2026

    Many businesses avoid budgeting because it feels complex, time-consuming, or intimidating.

    In this episode of Weeks Ahead AI, the team walks through how business owners can use AI to build a complete annual budget using historical financials, without starting from a blank spreadsheet.

    Throughout the episode, the team highlights why Claude performed best for this specific task, particularly when it comes to financial analysis, spreadsheet structure, and handling assumptions, while still acknowledging that different AI models excel at different jobs.

    In This Episode

    • Why many businesses still avoid annual budgeting
    • Using Claude AI to turn past P&Ls into a working budget
    • Why some AI models perform better at financial analysis
    • Applying growth assumptions and seasonality
    • Reviewing and correcting AI-generated budgets
    • Running hiring and growth scenarios in real time

    Episode Timeline

    00:00 – Why budgeting gets delayed or skipped
    Common reasons business owners avoid the process.

    03:00 – Why January is not too late
    Using last year’s numbers to move forward.

    06:30 – Uploading historical financials into AI
    How much data you actually need.

    09:00 – Choosing the right AI for the job
    Why Claude stood out for financial modeling.

    12:30 – Building a full annual budget
    Revenue, expenses, and staffing generated automatically.

    15:00 – Monthly views, seasonality, and assumptions
    How AI applies real-world business patterns.

    18:00 – Reviewing assumptions and fixing errors
    Why human oversight still matters.

    21:00 – Scenario planning
    Testing hires, marketing spend, and growth decisions.

    25:30 – Why AI budgeting works now
    How recent improvements changed what is possible.

    29:00 – Managing multiple AI tools
    The downside of subscription sprawl.

    32:00 – Final takeaways
    How to apply this approach in your business.

    Tools and Resources Mentioned

    • Claude for financial modeling and spreadsheet work
    • Wispr Flow for voice-to-text prompting
    • Excel for reviewing and adjusting budgets

    If you have been putting off building a budget, this episode shows how AI can help you get it done faster and with more clarity. Subscribe to Weeks Ahead AI for practical, real-world AI use cases.

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    34 mins
  • #17 - How to Build A Presentation in Seconds Using Gamma AI
    Dec 5 2025

    Creating presentations used to take hours. Now you can talk for a few minutes, grab a transcript, and use Gamma to instantly build a clean, organized slide deck. In this episode of Weeks Ahead AI, Brad and Mitch walk through a real example in real time, showing how Gamma restructures messy conversations into a polished ten page presentation that can be exported to Google Slides, PowerPoint, Canva, or PDF.

    They also explain practical tricks like using dashes to control slide grouping, how Gamma reorganizes content for clarity, and why this is one of the best low risk, high reward entry points for anyone using AI in their workflow.

    In This Episode

    • Live walkthrough of building a ten page deck in seconds with Gamma
    • How transcripts from Plot or an iPhone recording can become presentations
    • Why Gamma reorganizes your conversation into a clean narrative
    • Exporting to PowerPoint, Google Slides, Canva, and PDF
    • How to prepare board decks, proposals, and SOP slides in a fraction of the usual time
    • Why presentation building is one of the easiest wins in AI adoption

    Timestamps

    00:00
    Intro to Gamma and why Brad and Mitch use it for fast presentations

    02:00
    Turning a nine minute Relay Hub conversation into a ten page slide deck

    04:50
    How Gamma reorganizes raw conversation into a strong narrative flow

    06:30
    Key features like multimodal support, images, and customizable cards

    08:15
    Exporting the deck into Google Slides or PowerPoint for final edits

    10:00
    How to structure board decks by marking slide breaks in your transcript

    12:45
    Other AI tools like Lucidchart that use transcripts for diagrams and SOPs

    14:30
    Final thoughts and why this is a powerful time saver for any team

    Links and Resources

    Gamma: gamma.app
    Plaud: Plaud Voice Recorder
    Relay Hub Episode

    Try taking a short voice memo, transcribing it, and dropping it into Gamma. Watch it turn into a complete presentation in seconds. Share your results with us at weeksahead.ai.

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    15 mins
  • #16 - The AI Tool Turning Months of Work to Minutes
    Nov 19 2025

    Most blue collar small businesses already sit on a gold mine of data from sensors, machines, and equipment, but barely use it. In this episode of Weeks Ahead AI, Brad, Terry, and Mitch bring back Josh Knutson, founder of Lium AI, to explain how AI can turn messy physical data into clear decisions for manufacturers, plants, and operators who live in the real world, not in spreadsheets.

    In This Episode

    • How a former therapist became a tech founder solving real world problems
    • What it means to “ask your instruments” and talk to plant data in plain English
    • Real use cases from astrophysics, oil and gas, satellites, and manufacturing
    • How AI can boost throughput, quality, and food safety
    • Why compute and power matter, and how smaller models change the future
    • Practical steps for blue collar small businesses that want to start using AI

    Timestamps

    00:00 Why Josh is back and why physical world AI matters
    02:10 From therapist to tech founder and the creation of Lium
    04:40 Raising capital and building an AI startup around huge datasets
    06:30 “Ask your instruments” explained in simple terms
    07:45 Astrophysics example where months of work drop to 75 seconds
    11:55 Oil, gas, and geothermal insights hidden in existing data
    13:40 Why traditional AI tools choke on satellite and sensor data
    15:55 Real world routing and decision making using weather and soil data
    18:15 Why small and midsize manufacturers need this tech too
    18:40 Extrusion and pet food manufacturing as a clear example
    20:15 Point at your data, ask a question, get a recommendation
    21:55 The future of autonomous agents tuning equipment in real time
    25:55 Compute, power limitations, and the push for smaller models
    29:25 Data centers, generators, and geothermal possibilities
    31:00 CNBC predictions and where to learn more about Lium AI

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    33 mins
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