What If You Could Hire an Incredibly Smart Intern for $30 a Month?

For small business owners, the scarcest resources are time and money. You’re not just the CEO; you’re the marketing department, the sales team, and customer support, all before lunch. The idea of adding one more complex "tech tool" to your plate feels exhausting.

But what if you could change your perspective? Stop thinking about AI as a complicated tool to learn, and start thinking of it as an affordable, on-demand team member. One that can draft your emails, brainstorm marketing ideas, and organize your research, freeing you up to do the work that actually grows your business.

This isn’t hype. It’s about using AI as a “bicycle for the mind.”

A Bicycle Doesn't Replace You - It Makes You Faster

The analogy is simple. A human walking is inefficient. But a human on a bicycle is the most energy-efficient creature on the planet. The bike doesn't do the work for you, but it dramatically amplifies your own power, letting you go three times faster using five times less energy.

That’s exactly what AI does for your thinking. It’s a tool for amplification, not replacement. You are still in the driver's seat, steering and choosing the direction. But the repetitive, energy-draining mental work gets a massive boost.

Turn Your To-Do List Over to Your New "Virtual Intern"

For an entrepreneur or small team, this is where the theory becomes real. You can delegate entire categories of work to simple, low-cost AI systems - no coding required.

• Before AI: Staring at your screen, trying to find a new way to answer the same customer email you get five times a day.

• With AI: Give your "intern" a simple instruction: "A customer is asking about our refund policy. Write a polite, clear response that explains the process and thanks them for their business."

• Before AI: Your business's Facebook page has been silent for two weeks because you can't think of anything to post.

• With AI: Ask it: "Give me 5 social media post ideas for a local plumbing company this week. Make one about a fall furnace check-up, and another one featuring a positive customer testimonial."

This shift turns your role from "doer" of manual tasks to "director" of an efficient system. You provide the strategy and guidance; the AI handles the grunt work.

Where Will Your Bicycle Take You?

Viewing AI as your new virtual team member reframes it from a mysterious threat into a practical advantage. It gives a small business the leverage to compete with much larger companies by multiplying your most valuable asset: your expertise.

It doesn’t replace your intelligence, but it frees it from cognitive drag, allowing you to go further, faster, with the mental energy you already possess.

The question is no longer what AI will do, but what you will do with it. Now that you have a bicycle for your mind, where will you choose to go?

Jeff Uhlich

CEO & Founder

October 19th, 2025