Unjam your growth. Fifteen minutes an episode, for owners and operators who want a straight answer about where AI actually fits.
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.
AI is picking up the repetitive work: updating spreadsheets, building slide decks, drafting status reports nobody reads twice. Watching it happen, a quiet worry sets in. If a machine can do parts of my job, what is actually left for me to…
Episode notes, chapters and transcriptDESCRIPTION Every business thinks it knows its data. Then you start looking. Records in a CRM, email threads no one organized, PDFs no one has opened in years, phone numbers duplicated across systems. If you cannot find it, you cannot…
Episode notes, chapters and transcriptOwners wait. They organize their data and tell themselves, maybe next quarter we'll be ready. Meanwhile the lessons a real project would teach them never arrive. Everybody's data is messy. The real problem is treating that mess as a reason…
Episode notes, chapters and transcriptYour team is already using AI. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, whatever they found. No one asked for permission and no one wrote any rules. It just started happening, and no one told them what not to type into the chat window. Dr. Mike treats AI…
Episode notes, chapters and transcriptDescription The demos look great: AI agents that browse the web, write emails, and file documents while you sleep. What the demos don't show is the messy desk behind the camera. Undocumented files, a naming system only one person…
Episode notes, chapters and transcriptThe tool looked useful and the price seemed reasonable, so you signed up. Then the real costs showed up: setup time, staff training, workflow rebuilds, a productivity dip, and hours spent fixing bad AI output that got out before anyone…
Episode notes, chapters and transcriptDescription You bought the paint, opened the can, and got ready to start. Then the color looked wrong in the room, the brush was too big, the rollers were dried out, there were no tarps, and the furniture was still in place. The enthusiasm…
Episode notes, chapters and transcriptYou bought an AI subscription. You tried it, and it never worked out the way you thought, or it felt like a whole other job. So it just sits there doing nothing. The problem is treating AI like a vending machine: money in, productivity…
Episode notes, chapters and transcriptMost AI advice sounds like it was written for Silicon Valley startups with endless venture capital. You don't have a chief AI officer or a $10 million budget for R&D. You have a business to run, customers to serve, and a bottom line to…
Episode notes, chapters and transcriptWhen the doors close at 5:00 PM, most small business owners are not heading home to relax. They are staring at spreadsheets, payroll, and the next social media post. Big companies hire experts for all of that. Small businesses only have…
Episode notes, chapters and transcriptYou have questions about AI, and most of the answers out there are built for big business, not for your small business. The Unjammer Podcast gives you direct answers instead. Each episode takes one operational headache that slows a small…
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