Weekly Blitz: AI Should Remove Desk Work, Not People: A Real Workflow Test

EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Jason promised Julie Koehrer an AI workflow that could take prospecting, proposal prep, order entry, and follow-up off her desk. The first two attempts were beautiful, polished, and completely wrong. The third finally found the point: AI should remove desk work, not Julie.

That failure becomes the most useful part of the experiment. Jason and Julie talk through why context matters, where human judgment still belongs, and how much imperfection is acceptable when AI saves hours of repetitive work. Jason also offers Julie a one-month paid ChatGPT experiment so they can test the workflow in public.

The conversation moves into local AI video production with MiniMax H3, the flood of automated solicitation on LinkedIn, and the growing fight over data centers, power, tax incentives, and public accountability. The practical thread holds: use AI to create more room for relationships and judgment, then make companies and public officials answer for the costs pushed onto communities.

ABOUT THE CO-HOST

Julie Koehrer is an on-air personality and branding and marketing consultant with Q106.7 and Woof Boom Radio in Lafayette, Indiana. She brings nearly two decades of radio experience and a practical marketer's skepticism to The Weekly Blitz.

CO-HOST LINKS

Julie Koehrer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer
Q106.7: https://lafayetteq1067.com/

TIME STAMPS

00:00 - Julie's Joyful Journey celebrity softball game
01:20 - Two polished AI dashboards that completely missed the assignment
07:12 - The useful answer: remove desk work, keep Julie
09:19 - Building a reusable prospect brief before the client meeting
13:06 - Jason offers Julie a one-month paid ChatGPT experiment
15:01 - When good enough AI work beats endless design revisions
19:41 - Teaching people to build their own AI workflows
22:06 - Agent employees, local models, and a Mac mini AI lab
25:39 - Testing MiniMax H3 as an always-on video studio
28:08 - Why AI keeps writing like an influencer
30:21 - Automated solicitation and the collapse of real connection
37:50 - Northwest Indiana outages and the data-center fight
46:17 - An agentic human design process built around judgment

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Chief Solutions Architect at Chakra AI Solutions
Co-Founder of Wooden Boy Industries
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MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq
Riverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr
Wispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Joyful Journey Adult Day Service: https://joyfuljourneywl.org/
Claude Design: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs
ChatGPT Images 2.0, April 2026: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-0/
MiniMax H3 open-source video model, August 2026: https://www.minimax.io/news/minimax-h3-open-source
Empire of AI by Karen Hao: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/460331/empire-of-ai-by-hao-karen/9781802064650
Texas data-center interconnection audit, August 2026: https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-directs-comprehensive-data-center-audit