Central Ohio AI is a podcast about real small business owners in Columbus and Central Ohio who are using AI to save time, generate leads, and get hours back in their week. Hosted by Jeff Binek, founder of Cbus AI Agents in Dublin, Ohio. Each episode features a local business owner or entrepreneur sharing how they are integrating AI agent systems into their daily operations. No jargon. No hype. Just honest conversations with people who run businesses in Columbus, Dublin, Powell, Worthington, and across Central Ohio. New episodes weekly. Learn more at cbusaiagents.com <br/><br/><a href="https://newsletter.cbusaiagents.com?utm_medium=podcast">newsletter.cbusaiagents.com</a>
Central Ohio AI
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Central Ohio AI is a podcast about real small business owners in Columbus and Central Ohio who are using AI to save time, generate leads, and get hours back in their week. Hosted by Jeff Binek, founder of Cbus AI Agents in Dublin, Ohio. Each episode features a local business owner or entrepreneur sharing how they are integrating AI agent systems into their daily operations. No jargon. No hype. Just honest conversations with people who run businesses in Columbus, Dublin, Powell, Worthington, and across Central Ohio. New episodes weekly. Learn more at cbusaiagents.com <br/><br/><a href="https://newsletter.cbusaiagents.com?utm_medium=podcast">newsletter.cbusaiagents.com</a>
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June 11, 2026
Replacing Your Software Subscriptions, One at a Time
<p>Timestamps are approximate against the recorded episode. Update after final upload if Substack's chapter timestamps shift on import.</p><p><strong>0:00</strong> · What this episode is: software, market dynamics, and a little theory. Where I get my read, the AI-native builders and the investors who put real money behind what they believe is coming.</p><p><strong>2:30</strong> · A quick history. Software used to be a thing you bought once and owned. Oregon Trail on a floppy disk, the office suite on a CD.</p><p><strong>3:45</strong> · AOL, the dot-com boom and bust, <a target="_blank" href="http://Pets.com">Pets.com</a>. The thesis was right, the timing was wrong, and the real winners had not been born yet.</p><p><strong>6:20</strong> · The rise of software as a service. Why every tool you use turned into a monthly fee.</p><p><strong>7:55</strong> · The honest reason for the switch: smoothing quarterly earnings. Raise the price ten percent and revenue climbs ten percent, whether the product improved or not.</p><p><strong>9:10</strong> · Subscription fatigue. Even a gym, about as far from a software company as it gets, carried thousands a year in tools it barely touched.</p><p><strong>11:30</strong> · The real opportunity is not replacing people. It is replacing the pile of subscriptions you resent and taking the savings straight to your bottom line.</p><p><strong>12:15</strong> · Two piles. The software your AI can reach and run, and the software that walls it off.</p><p><strong>12:50</strong> · What reachable looks like. Pull the P&L, export the balance sheet, draft the email to your CPA, all from one window.</p><p><strong>14:10</strong> · The other pile. Website platforms, and why getting an agent into them feels like pulling teeth.</p><p><strong>15:10</strong> · Gatekeeping. Plugins and add-ons that charge you again for features you already paid for.</p><p><strong>17:15</strong> · Own the folder. Why your setup has to outlive any one AI company, and the wake-up call coming for web-only users.</p><p><strong>18:15</strong> · Engine-agnostic. Open-source models trail the leaders by months, not years, and most small businesses do not need the absolute cutting edge.</p><p><strong>21:10</strong> · A system that works natively. Pushing a website live from my phone through my host's connection to my agent.</p><p><strong>22:30</strong> · Own your website in code. Stop paying the hosting rips and the transaction cuts that climb every year.</p><p><strong>25:10</strong> · One window. The books, payroll, expenses, invoices, the file share, the whole Google suite, all in one place.</p><p><strong>25:40</strong> · MCP, the standard outlet for AI. The simple habit: before you fight a tool, check whether it has a door.</p><p><strong>28:35</strong> · The closed tools. How even non-technical owners are already building their own local versions.</p><p><strong>30:40</strong> · The triage. Green, yellow, red, and what to do with each pile.</p><p><strong>32:00</strong> · Own your system, and the investing lens. Why pure subscription software faces a tough road ahead.</p><p><strong>33:30</strong> · When subscriptions get greedy. The gym CRM that climbed year after year for features nobody asked for.</p><p><strong>36:10</strong> · The near future. Describe an app to your agent, put it on your phone, own it outright.</p><p><strong>37:45</strong> · The takeaway. Host your own stuff locally, and triage the subscriptions you keep.</p><p>Listen wherever you get podcasts: <a target="_blank" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/central-ohio-ai/id1891146593">Apple Podcasts</a> · <a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6jnbkXA1IvrqRnhDQcuCzL">Spotify</a> · <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAhDwHzrM1XvUCq8BbE3Dcfzq3c-fXF7S">YouTube</a>.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://newsletter.cbusaiagents.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">newsletter.cbusaiagents.com</a>
May 28, 2026
Claude Just Shipped For Small Business. Here's What to Build This Week.
<p><strong>0:00</strong> · This is a call-to-action episode. Today we are not just listening, we are doing.</p><p><strong>2:35</strong> · Why Claude and Grok work better as a pair than either one alone. The personalities. The strengths each brings to a brief.</p><p><strong>5:00</strong> · What just shipped. Claude for Small Business is rolling out pre-built workflows and connectors into QuickBooks, DocuSign, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, PayPal, HubSpot, and Canva. Grok shipped custom skills and deployable agents.</p><p><strong>8:00</strong> · The aperture is wider than small business. These tools also fit local government, HOAs, townships, PTAs, teachers, and the parent who runs the books for the after-school program.</p><p><strong>11:20</strong> · The stat. 72% of businesses are testing AI agents. Phase one was the chat box. Phase two is the agent. We are still very early.</p><p><strong>12:00</strong> · AI does not fix messy. The will-and-trust example most adults can feel in their gut.</p><p><strong>14:30</strong> · The Friendship Fitness Google Drive moment. I thought it was organized at the time. Looking back, it was a mess.</p><p><strong>15:00</strong> · The quote of the year. AI comes along and drains the swamp. It reveals what a horrible mess everything is.</p><p><strong>17:00</strong> · AI amplifies what you already are. A tangent on the "AI is coming for your job" narrative and where I think it actually lands.</p><p><strong>18:30</strong> · Small businesses are the heartbeat of communities. Give an owner back time and money and the community gets it back too.</p><p><strong>20:30</strong> · 95% of AI projects fail. Failure means time was spent and nothing in the business actually changed. Start with the outcome.</p><p><strong>22:00</strong> · The three readiness checks. Do you know your own process? Is your information clean enough to hand over? Are you willing to be shown the mess?</p><p><strong>24:00</strong> · The call to action, part one. Sign up for Claude Pro at twenty dollars a month, get the connector, and wire it into VS Code.</p><p><strong>26:00</strong> · Part two. Build one workflow. Teach it your voice with ten emails or fifteen social posts you wrote by hand.</p><p><strong>28:30</strong> · Part three. Build one sub-agent. Why sub-agents are different. They run on Claude's web infrastructure, not your local machine, so you can spin up thirty of them in the background without bogging down your computer.</p><p><strong>30:00</strong> · A worked sub-agent example using a golf wedge research project that also hunts eBay for deals fifteen to twenty-five percent below market.</p><p><strong>33:00</strong> · Teachers, this is your summer. Become the AI person at your school. Understand what your students are capable of.</p><p><strong>35:00</strong> · How a student should actually use AI. Train it on the last five papers and the teacher's notes. Tell it to write at your level. Tell it to leave intentional errors. Cheat with some pride.</p><p><strong>36:30</strong> · The piece nobody talks about. 90% of AI work is your own logic and reasoning, because you are the check on the AI.</p><p><strong>37:30</strong> · Your task. One workflow. One sub-agent. Email me if you do it.</p><p>Listen wherever you get podcasts: <a target="_blank" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/central-ohio-ai/id1891146593">Apple Podcasts</a> · <a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6jnbkXA1IvrqRnhDQcuCzL">Spotify</a> · <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAhDwHzrM1XvUCq8BbE3Dcfzq3c-fXF7S">YouTube</a>.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://newsletter.cbusaiagents.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">newsletter.cbusaiagents.com</a>
May 21, 2026
When AI Recommends Your Competitor
<p><strong>Show notes · timestamps</strong></p><p>Timestamps are approximate against the recorded episode. Update after final upload if Substack's chapter timestamps shift on import.</p><p><strong>0:00</strong> · Cold open. Google's announcement about agentic phone calls and what it means for every small business.</p><p><strong>1:00</strong> · The history lesson. The cheap windows in Google Ads (2010) and Facebook Ads (2014) and what happened to the owners who got in early.</p><p><strong>4:30</strong> · Why this announcement is the start of a third cheap window. Paid AI search ads opening up.</p><p><strong>6:00</strong> · What Google actually announced. AI placing the phone call to local businesses on the customer's behalf. Home repair, restaurants, dog grooming, plumbers, landscapers.</p><p><strong>7:00</strong> · The phase change. From 6% to 45% of US consumers asking AI for local recommendations in one year. Projections of 70% by next year.</p><p><strong>8:30</strong> · A year ago this was a curiosity. Today it is existential for local business.</p><p><strong>12:00</strong> · The four signals AI uses to decide whether your business exists. Schema markup, llms.txt, definition-style content, review-rating threshold.</p><p><strong>14:30</strong> · Signal 1. Schema markup, the label maker for your website. Why pricing guesses by AI hurt the business in both directions.</p><p><strong>15:30</strong> · Signal 2. llms.txt. The plain-text file at the root of your site that AI tools pull to ground their answers.</p><p><strong>15:45</strong> · Signal 3 + 4. Definition-style content and the review-rating threshold. A 4.0 Google rating is now AI-invisible. The cutoff nobody warned the local business community about.</p><p><strong>17:00</strong> · The Friendship Fitness reflection. Conflicting business info across Yelp, local directories, multiple phone numbers. AI needs one truth source.</p><p><strong>19:50</strong> · Three moves to ship this week. Definition paragraph. Entity consistency audit. Schema + llms.txt with developer help.</p><p><strong>21:30</strong> · The closing window. The $50K floor on AI search ads dropped to zero on May 6. The pure-organic window is closing.</p><p><strong>22:00</strong> · Cost-per-click math today vs. where it goes next. The 2010 Google Ads playbook applied to 2026 AI search.</p><p><strong>27:00</strong> · Why operators with five-star reputations are quietly losing customers without knowing it. Birdeye 2026 GBP data. The funnel didn't break, it got smaller and more qualified.</p><p><strong>30:00</strong> · What I would do if I owned a service business in Columbus this morning.</p><p><strong>34:00</strong> · Open Claude tonight. Type best [your category] in [your city]. See who comes up. That's your shopping list problem.</p><p><strong>35:30</strong> · Close.</p><p>Listen wherever you get podcasts: <a target="_blank" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/central-ohio-ai/id1891146593">Apple Podcasts</a> · <a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6jnbkXA1IvrqRnhDQcuCzL">Spotify</a> · <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAhDwHzrM1XvUCq8BbE3Dcfzq3c-fXF7S">YouTube</a>.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://newsletter.cbusaiagents.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">newsletter.cbusaiagents.com</a>
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