AI Agents That Actually Work: How We're Automating Business, Travel & Everyday Life

About this episode

What happens when AI stops being an experiment and starts becoming part of your everyday life? Samantha Viola Wilson and Brittany George sit down for a candid co-host catch-up about the AI tools and agents they are actually using, and the lessons they learned from the ones that failed. They cover lost websites and backups, agent setups that were not worth the effort, sales and CRM workflows, meal planning, travel, Etsy, RFPs, podcast production, reusable skills, and why small businesses can move faster with AI.

Chapters

• Just the two of us (0:00)
• Losing two websites and the backup lesson (0:44)
• Choosing the right AI for each job (5:24)
• What we really spend on AI (8:11)
• Why complicated AI agents kept breaking (9:10)
• Setting up a working agent in minutes (12:06)
• Meal planning and the 30-avocado mistake (15:06)
• Launching 55 Etsy products with AI (18:45)
• The AI travel agent that saved a birthday trip (20:20)
• Cleaning email and tracking subscriptions (24:52)
• Building a CFO agent (26:58)
• Turning an Excel budget into a custom app (28:37)
• A task manager built around real work (31:10)
• Map the workflow before building the bot (34:51)
• Turning repeatable work into reusable skills (36:54)
• The voice tool Brittany recommends most (40:50)
• Building an enrollment dashboard in 30 minutes (41:27)
• The small-business advantage with AI (44:30)
• From meeting transcripts to automatic follow-ups (45:58)
• Building an AI agent for RFPs (46:42)
• AI support for parenting and homeschooling (49:02)
• Automating the podcast workflow (50:28)
• Should Intelligence Resources host a live event? (53:11)
• Final thoughts and listener feedback (53:44)

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