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2027 Business Predictions: AI, AEO and the Future of Bounce House Rentals | Just Go #118
Nick Glassett of The Jump Off and Alvin Bearden of Wow Inflatables share their 2027 business predictions for bounce house and party rental owners.
Will AI replace bounce house rental companies? No. Live events and real parties are one of the last things people want done in person, so rental companies that add personal touches will keep winning.
Is SEO dead in 2027? Not dead, but Nick and Alvin expect Google search traffic to drop fast while AEO, where ChatGPT and other AI assistants answer the question, takes over.
Will inflatables get cheaper? Prices are already falling across the board, and they expect costs and rental prices to keep dropping, so plan your pricing NOW.
What should rental owners do? Shift toward bigger events, add upsells like water slides, mini pools and cocktail kegs, and show your own party photos and stories, because people want what other people have!
Also in this episode: AI remakes of old cartoons (Alvin put himself and Bigfoot into Thundarr the Barbarian with one prompt), endless Seinfeld seasons, and whether pro sports is scripted.
Catch up on AI for your business at The Jump Off Store (https://thejumpoffstore.com/collections/training).
00:00 Welcome and the hurricane that turned into a nothing burger
04:22 AI movies, endless Seinfeld and the Thundarr remake
14:29 Cat videos, real content and why live events still win
24:16 Is pro sports already scripted?
28:22 How AI changes your business, prices and parties
41:20 2027 prediction: SEO fades and AEO takes over
46:04 Personal touches, water slides and margarita kegs
53:40 AI is not evil: a game plan for your business
28 Aug 2026
AI Employees That Run The Jump Off Ops | Just Go Podcast #117
Chapters
0:00 AI employees not chat
2:12 Taking the human out of the loop
12:24 AI that texts from a real number
17:52 Guardrails so it stays on the sale
21:40 Voice AI answers the phone
38:20 Which model for which job
41:24 Live: AI writes a WordPress plugin
44:24 Coupons and image cleanup
57:16 The UPS store mess
1:00:20 Dedicated AI managers
1:05:32 Drafting shop policy
1:55:00 Retraining your agents
2:06:00 Alvin’s haunted house story
2:14:30 Coffin-in-a-truck marketing
2:23:00 Bounce Into Biz / wrap
20 Aug 2026
AI Employees Are Now Running The Jump Off | Just Go #116
AI employees are running The Jump Off. Not as a pitch deck. In this episode of the Just Go Podcast, Nick Glassett and Alvin Bearden walk through what that looks like inside a real bounce house and inflatable rental company in Covington, Louisiana.
Nick told an AI agent to sell an old inflatable that was taking up warehouse space. The agent listed it on Facebook Marketplace, answered the buyer, set the meetup, and the customer showed up with cash. Nick was in a meeting and never opened Facebook.
If you run inflatables, this episode answers the questions operators are actually asking:
What is an AI employee in a rental company? Software that finishes the job. Nick breaks it into three phases: chatbots that answer, agents that complete one task, and swarms that spin up other agents to hit a bigger goal. At The Jump Off that looks like routing, SOPs, customer texts, and posts getting done overnight.
Which AI should you use? Nick uses ChatGPT for ideas, Claude for careful writing and code, and Grok for actions and checks. He runs them in the same workflow so they catch each other. ChatGPT will invent an answer to please you. Claude is slower and more careful. Grok is weaker at code and stronger at doing things.
What is AEO for a bounce house company? Answer engine optimization means publishing pages that solve a real problem so AI search can cite you. Examples from this episode: a soft unit, a tripped GFCI, weather delays. Those pages also give a customer-service bot something true to send. Keyword-stuffed pages are getting dropped.
What is the risk? AI will invent facts. One draft page claimed The Jump Off follows ASTM specifications on every setup. That was false and a liability. You cannot hand the keys over. A human still reviews.
Nick's line: you do not have to be the expert. The model is. Your job is to be the boss who checks the work.
Presented by Leisure Activities.
The Jump Off: https://itsthejumpoff.com (https://itsthejumpoff.com/)
The Jump Off Store: https://thejumpoffstore.com (https://thejumpoffstore.com/)
Bounce Into Biz: https://bounceintobiz.com (https://bounceintobiz.com/)
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