Simplifying Life Through Technology

AI In Our Industry

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On this episode of “SoundVision Tech Talks,” Mark and Andrew sit down to discuss using AI in our industry.

Worried AI is going to replace your job? We flip the script and discuss how to turn AI models into true thought partners that make work smoother, proposals sharper, and decisions faster. We walk through the exact tools and workflows we rely on day to day, from custom GPTs that punch holes in our proposals to an “attorney” model that benchmarks subcontractor agreements in seconds. You’ll hear how we combine voice-first tools like Whisperflow with Plaud and Slack AI to capture meetings, extract action items, and stay fully present with clients instead of buried in notes.

We also dig into the CRIT prompt method—context, role, interview, task—to get AIs asking us smarter questions before they generate results. That same approach powers real-life choices: one model analyzed mid-size trucks and recommended a Honda Ridgeline based on our criteria, while another built a balanced, points-friendly road trip with leaf-peeping stops, cooking classes, and wine tours. When you provide clear constraints, AI gives you options you can trust and refine without the overwhelm.

For client education, Notebook LM transforms dense PDFs into interactive mind maps by floor, room, and device, complete with specs, images, and even a dynamic “podcast” interface that answers follow-up questions. And for rapid internal experiments, Google AI Studio lets us “vibe code” small tools with plain English, turning ideas into working prototypes we can hand off for polish. We stay realistic about risks—misleading media and bad sources exist—so everything gets human review and context. The goal is simple: enhance the human, reduce busywork, and raise the quality bar.

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SPEAKER_00:

I we do that one more time.

SPEAKER_03:

It's taking over the world, Andrew. What is AI?

SPEAKER_01:

That's ridiculous, and it doesn't make any sense.

SPEAKER_00:

I know, Eric. I know.

SPEAKER_03:

Eric came in. I w we were talking about a uh custom GPT the other day. Eric came in and he he sits down and and he gets all serious and he goes, I'm just not sure I want to I want to back this because I think it might take my job.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh my god. Eric No, and that is a point we're gonna get to. Fantastic. Let's do it. So um, as everyone has probably noticed, AI has become more and more involved in almost every industry. So we thought it would be a good chance to discuss how we use it. Um my God, excuse me. Discuss how we are taking AI and we're not letting it replace us, but we're using it to enhance us because it really can be a very useful tool.

SPEAKER_03:

Agreed. 100% agreed. I am I am all in on AI. It's one of one of my new passions. Oh yes, Mark loves AI. I do, and I I listen to a number of podcasts now, and I'm I'm kind of researching it and playing with some stuff, and uh there's there is a lot out there, so I know we're gonna talk about a couple different things.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, definitely. Excuse me. Um, okay. Oh my lord, the train of thought.

SPEAKER_03:

I'm I'm ready with you, I'm doing a little research, so you just you just go on. Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

So let's get into what AI tools that we use um here at South Vision.

SPEAKER_03:

Take two AI.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, so we wanted to get on here to discuss um some of the AI tools that we are using to our advantage because AI can be used to your advantage as a tool.

SPEAKER_03:

Do you know? I had to look it back up. I heard it on a podcast the other day, so don't look at my phone. Do you know what the GPT stands for? And ChatGPT?

SPEAKER_00:

No, tell me. I've actually been curious about this.

SPEAKER_03:

And and actually, they they uh didn't have this name. They did not have the name ChatGPT until I think it was like two in the morning the day they were uh announcing it. I just heard a podcast. What? Yeah, they made up the name, and some engineers made up the name. GPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer. What the heck? That sounds like a beast. And I wish I knew that the actual name they had another name for it that they were gonna use, and it and if you obviously you can find it, but uh it it was crazy, it just didn't make any sense. But by 2 a.m.

SPEAKER_00:

in the morning, things like that.

SPEAKER_03:

Not that chat GPT actually makes any sense either. No, uh, but uh, anyways, yeah, so uh some of the tools that we use, you know, there's there's a lot of practical things. Um we are past the uh using AI, whether it's Gemini or whether it's Copilot or whether it's chat or Claude or whatever. Uh perplexity is another one. Like we're past just having it do emails. Yeah, we tend to write our stuff and then let the AI check it. Uh and and so that is the tip, tip, tip of the iceberg. Yeah. Um but what's nice in our industry is that AI is allowing us to be more efficient, it's allowing us to be more creative. Um, it's allowing what I'm what I'm learning is that it can expand what I'm good at and make me better at it. Yeah. Uh and so that's that's how I'm using it. Um, I'll give you I'll give you a couple right in the uh off the top. Uh one of the things we're doing with chat now is when we do a proposal for a customer, we have created a custom GPT, uh, which if you don't know what a custom GPT is, just real quick, uh like chat, you know, you go in and you it's just gonna ask anything. Yeah. Well, that's just wide open. In a custom GPT, you basically instruct it who it is. You say, Hey, I need you to be a financial advisor. Hey, I need you to be an attorney, hey, I need you to be a plant expert or you know, whatever. And you give it as much detail as possible. So when you ask it a question, it has all that reference and it knows where to get the context from and what you're looking for and that sort of thing. So it really just sort of uh aims it in a direction. Well, one of the things that we did was we created a uh a GPT that is our demographic customer, the person that we normally uh are working with and designing for. Yeah. And so when we did the proposal, we put it in that custom GPT and we have it shoot holes in it. We say, what are we missing? What questions would this person ask? What does our scope of work not cover? What you know, what do we need to accentuate? What do we need to do? And it literally like comes up with this stuff. So that's a good use case uh on it. Another one that we've done, uh, another use case uh that it probably any small business that uses contracts would be great, is I also created a custom GPT. We get uh contracts from our builders, yeah, usually every year. And it's a subcontractor agreement where the subcontractor and it outlines all kinds of stuff insurance and you know what happens if you make a mistake and how do you get paid and all that stuff. It's all in there. And I used to read all of them, and they're usually in the like 10, 12 pages, they're legal contracts, yeah. And but yeah, 10, 12 pages takes, I mean, it would take me an hour and a half, let's say. Yeah, to be thorough. To be thorough. Well, one day I'm reading one and I'm like, let me just try this. So I created like an attorney. I actually call it, are you ready? Oh god. It's my personal Andy Dufresne from Shawshank Redemption. Uh, and and he's my attorney, and I put it in there and I said, you know, these are the things I'm looking for. Uh-huh. And it read the whole contract and then breaks it all out for me in seconds. Yeah. It actually found in one customer, or well, excuse me, one one builder, they are they they were referencing old insurance terms. It told them that their reference was old and needed to be updated. So I actually gave that to them. And they were probably like, thank you. So they didn't have to go to their attorney for that. So now, so that's cool enough. But then I put that contract into the custom GPT and I've repeated this like six or seven times. So now I have six or seven contracts, and it references all of those when you give it the new one. And then it breaks it down and it says, you know, this contract is stricter than these, and it's well, you know, lighter here, and it it gives you a whole table that's broken down. It's in and it does it in seconds. It's incredible.

SPEAKER_00:

That is the craziest part of just how fast it comes out.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes. So that's a that's a use case. Uh, some of the things that we're using, and then I know we'll we'll go into um some specifics, but uh I I love, love, love Whisperflow. Whisperflow is free for uh and and basically you download it and it works in every app, it works on any device, it's brand agnostic, it doesn't matter. And essentially you don't have to type anymore. You just press down a button. It is better on a computer than it is on a phone, but it works on a phone. You press a button and you just talk, just like I'm talking now. It does not immediately print. So it's not like you're uh, you know, you go to uh Siri or whatever and you start talking and it's transcribing what you're saying. It doesn't do anything until you stop and let off the button, and then it sends it out to an AI and it it makes what you wanted to say like what it what it thinks you wanted to say, and it formats it by the way, the way that you like it after a while. It learns how you want to bullet point, numbers, paragraphs, the writing style you want, all that stuff. And it does it like that, and you never have to type, you just talk.

SPEAKER_00:

So again, crazy. And what's good about that is you can kind of have like a conversation with it, like your mid-sentence, and you're like, oh, wait, no, go back up there, or that's exactly right. Give it random notes that you would think would make it go like whoa, and out of whack, but it takes everything in.

SPEAKER_03:

It is so cool. Yeah, talking uh just totally extemporaneously. That's that's the beauty of it. Um, we use plod. So plod is a device, it's actually a device, it can go on on your phone. Uh it looks like a little credit card. They also have uh ones that are like uh almost like a Fitbit kind of thing. Uh and what Plaud does is you just turn it on, and you need to, of course, tell everybody that you're recording something. But yeah, you record uh your meeting. So if you're you know, it could be a phone call, it could be uh, you know, you're out in a meeting and you're you want to capture all the data, you know, what you guys discussed. So when you come back, you can do a good proposal, which is exactly what we do. And it records everything and then it gives you a whole transcript, but it also gives you a summary of what happened. And once you give it some direction, it will give it to you the way that you want it. So it will parse it out. So we use it as what's called a typically called an intake form. So if you imagine if I go out to meet with a customer and I want to capture all the stuff they want in their home, I've got pad and paper, and I'm it's on an intake form. I'm writing down their name and address, and I'm writing down the rooms and where they want speakers and where they want you know, shades and lights and blah blah blah. And I have this whole document right that I've created. Well, Plaud will do that just while you're talking. Yeah, it's nuts. It is so cool. Takes a while to set up, but once you get it set up in a template, it does it, it works great.

SPEAKER_00:

And it's helpful because like a lot of the times when you are taking notes, you know, you're more focused on getting those notes down versus having a conversation with that person and really getting down to what they wanna, what they want, what they're looking for.

SPEAKER_03:

I am so glad you said that because that is a huge benefit, is you are interacting with the with the other person. You're engaged, you're listening, yeah, you're asking questions, you're not worried about transcribing stuff, writing it down, missing something. You don't do anything, you just turn this on and go. Yeah. And then when you're done, you turn it off. In fact, that's the biggest problem with it is you forget to turn it on.

SPEAKER_00:

And then you have your whole conversation. Oh, yes. Or you forget to turn it off and you have your whole conversation from the car ride back.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh my god, yeah, that's that is that's the worst part of it. Other than that, it's it's fantastic.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh another one, and and this is um this is something I learned. I read a uh another book called uh the AI driven leader. And what was what's in there is what's called uh uh they they talk about prompt theory, and I know they're this is a big thing. Um, it was explained to me early on, and and it's explained in the book similarly, where if you imagine um whichever AI uh you is your favorite, uh we'll just say Gemini for this one. It's like having the best assistant in the history of the world. Yeah, like you bring in the best assistant, you hired this man or woman, and they are sharp. Like they got it going on. You can't just take them into an office and sit them down and leave and say, Cool, see ya, and leave. Right. They have no idea what to do. Like you've got to give them context, you've got to give them some things to work in. That's what this kind of prompt theory is. And the one that's described, it's not the only one, it's just one is is called crit. Okay. And that's an acronym. Uh it means uh context, role, interview, and task. Context, role, interview, and task. And what essentially the way this works is you go into any again, any one of them. So we're saying Gemini. So you go into Gemini and you tell it, you just mind dump and you can use whisper flow, by the way. You just talk, it tell it everything about what you are you need. You know, in our case, hey, we're gonna do this proposal and we're gonna talk about everything about the house. You you don't have to do it in any order, you don't have to do it in any sequence, you don't have to, I mean, you just extemporaneous talk. Yeah. Once you're done with that, and go on as long and as much, the more you give it, the better. Once you're done with that, then you're gonna assign a role to it. So you're gonna tell it, hey, you are a seasoned uh professional that that has worked in the audio video uh automation industry for 30 years creating proposals in this kind of format, and you know, with uh for this demographic and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you tell it all about its role. You're an attorney, you're a financier, you're a mortgage broker, you're a whatever, and you tell it the role. Then you have an interview. This is this is the cool, cool part. Instead of you asking the AI questions, you have the AI ask you questions. So you turn it around and you say, and this is really important in the in the interview step, you say, ask me one to X, however many you want. Let's I usually do three to five. Gemini, ask me one to three to five questions, one at a time, to ascertain a better understanding of a deeper understanding of what I want you to do and what is involved, and maybe something I haven't thought of and whatever. And then sit back and it will ask you stuff, and then uh you just answer it. At the end, you say, okay, and then your task is you know, give me a proposal or uh give me some ideas on what I should do. What are my next steps? Blah blah blah blah blah. It's crazy how good it is if you do that.

SPEAKER_00:

Crazy. And again, I think uh again, using it as a tool, it helps you think of things that you probably would have gotten to eventually, but you're just so focused on trying to get it all out there that it's like, ah, yes, thank you, you know.

SPEAKER_03:

We uh we're talking about specific use cases, and I know we're uh I don't then not sure of the total, like oh scratch all that. We've been talking about some specific use cases. I'm gonna tell you something that I used it for that really blew my mind for work. So we needed to buy a couple new um vehicles, and I have a truck that um we were gonna give to the production team, which we did. We gave it uh Ford F-150, I've had for seven, eight years, gave it to production team. It's a great show. I love the truck. And I wanted to get a smaller truck, like a medium-sized truck, and so I while I was driving um to Wilmington, I am talking to chat in the car. I'm literally just having a conversation with fact I nicknamed mine Jeeves, so he responds to Jeeves, and uh, and so I'm I'm having a conversation with Jeeves, and I'm like, okay, I need to buy a mid-sized truck. So I said the Chevy, the Ford, the Jeep, and the GMC. Those were the four. I just picked those four because I liked them.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

And for about 30 minutes, we went over. I mean, I went in deep, like, you know, gas mileage and off-roading, which I never do, and uh, you know, uh towing capacity and all the dimensions to fit into the garage, all the stuff.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, all the details.

SPEAKER_03:

All the details. We get done, and I say, and I didn't even I wasn't planning on this, I just happened to say it. I was like, you know, now that we're done, will you go through what we talked about and tell me, did I miss, is there any vehicles I missed based on what we talked about that I should look at? And literally the response, literally, the response was, well, Mark, based on all that we've talked about, you should buy a Honda Ridgeline. Now, my son Matthew has a Honda Ridge line.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03:

I never brought up Honda or Ridgeline over. It never came up in the conversation. And and I said, Really? Why? And it went back and outlined, this is audio, by the way, it's talking to me. It went back and outlined all the things that I'd asked for and said, this is the best truck for what you've asked for. And it even said, you know, one of the things that you really like is the trunk, but you won't have to have a bed cover on the ridgeline because it's got the like trunk in the back. It's the only one that has that. Oh my, you know. I'm like, oh my God. I, by the way, the next thing I said was, find me a 2023 ridgeline, you know, in this price range, this model. Don't tell me it found actual works. Oh, oh, it absolutely found actual works. Holy crap. It found the one I bought. Oh my gosh. I I will tell you, I missed this one, but it found a 2023 Honda Ridge line, exact model I wanted with uh 900 miles on it. 2023 with 900 miles on it. It was in uh it was in Pennsylvania, and it was in the price range that I wanted to pay. And I called it it uh I got this on like a Saturday night and I called. They weren't open on Sunday. And by the time I called Monday, I'd left a message, someone bought it on Sunday. I was literally gonna fly to Pennsylvania to pick up and go get it. I mean it's like a brand new truck. Yeah, 900 miles. 900.

unknown:

What the heck?

SPEAKER_03:

That's what it found. You know, it researched all the auto traders and thecars.com and the Carvana and all of them and found these.

SPEAKER_00:

And it it it's yeah. So now that I'm thinking about that, you definitely took it a step further, but I recently got a new car this year, too. You did finally, but that I went now that I'm thinking about it, I went to chat too. Like first it started out with here are the kind of things I'm looking for, but then I was down between two options and I had to go through everything. And again, lifestyle, mileage, what's gonna be good for the and it did it. I got my little Chevy with it.

SPEAKER_03:

We started with emails, and I said it was the tip of the iceberg. The other thing that that AI uh that we use it for both personally, I use it for personally all the time now, and we use it for corporately is a thought partner, which is what we've just described. You've got an idea, you know. No, we're talking about buying a car, but it could be anything. You've got an idea uh for a new business, you've got an idea for um, you want to choose between two restaurants, yeah. Uh, where to go on vacation. Oh, here's another one. This was this was actually very early. I did this uh two years ago. I was we were planning a vacation. Um, we wanted to go up, um, I didn't even know what the term leaf peeper was. But leaf peepers up north, uh northeast, those are the guys, those are the folks that drive up there during the leaf season, like kind of now, and see the changing of the leaves.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, I guess that kind of that's a term, it's called leaf peepers.

SPEAKER_03:

And so we wanted to uh go up north and and do that. Uh we were gonna take two weeks and drive around. And I I mean, I didn't I don't know. So I literally went into chat and had it build the entire trip. I remember this. It was crazy. This was actually probably the first thing that I got deep in because at first I was just like, hey, you're gonna drive in the two weeks and I want to see weaves, like, where do you go? Yeah, and it started there. But the detail I got to was uh even my even my wife Chris, who's she's just like, oh my god, like we are. I I said, okay, I want to drive the exact uh roughly the same amount of mileage every day, except for the first day and the last day. Uh-huh. I want to stay in hotels that only use you know points. I want to be um, I want to have a uh a wine tour in one day. I want to do a uh cooking experience in one day, I want to see these cities in this order. And I I mean And it did it. It did it. And and not only would it do it, it would give me like options and it would say, you know, well, do you want this or this? And uh it was crazy. And we did it. Like we You literally took the trip that chat gave you.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. I remember that. And that was two years ago.

SPEAKER_03:

That was two years ago. Yeah. Oh uh, I'm sorry, I apologize. That was last October. It was a year, it was a year ago. Not two years ago, it was a year ago.

SPEAKER_00:

I remember that. That I thought that was so cool.

SPEAKER_03:

I've since found that if you go into chat and you go to custom GPTs, if you want to travel anywhere, like just look for it, it's there. And what's cool about that is you know, if you want to go to Portugal, it is it when you do the custom GPT. I mean, you could do it just in chat, but if you do the custom GPT, it already knows everything about Portugal. It's already been entered into it.

SPEAKER_02:

Right.

SPEAKER_03:

So you just say, I want to go to Portugal for a week and a half. You know, where do where do I want to go see? And and and it plans it for you, and then you just tell it how to adjust. So yeah, very cool. So cool. So cool. Cool stuff.

SPEAKER_00:

What I love from a marketing standpoint, when we talk about all those proposals and documents that you create, me as someone who's trying to figure out what all these part numbers are and the breakdown of the scope, it will break it down and I'll tell it, okay, what I need from this is I need the vendor, I need the type of products. And then of course I can get in to give me some information about the products, but oh my gosh, especially when I first started in this industry, it became like my teacher. Like it was helping me figure out what all this was. And oh my lord, it is that I just find so incredible.

SPEAKER_03:

We are starting to use a product that a lot of kids in school are very familiar with, and that's notebook LM. And notebook LM, uh, you know, we should back up just a second. All AI are what's called LLMs, large language models. They essentially predict the next word. That's that's how they work. Um, anybody that knows about AI knows that, but some people maybe this first time they're hearing it. So that's that's what that is. Notebook LM is a particular AI that is very popular for kids in school, uh, making flashcards and uh and breaking down um uh uh what uh teachers uh deliver. They deliver not the speeches, but what do they deliver? Um lectures? Lectures, thank you. Breaking down lectures and notes and stuff. Um what we use it for is you can take a proposal and put it in notebook LM, just a PDF of the proposal, not no description at all. Just stick it in there. And Notebook LM will break it down into what's called a mind map, and so it'll break it down by floor, by room, by section, by area, and the customer can then go in and click on that particular room and drill down to the very part, like they can drill down to every speaker, and it will tell them, like you were just talking about, Andrew, it not only the stuff that's actually in the proposal, but it goes out and finds uh pictures and specifications, yes, all the details about that item or that room or that area, and it will break it down for them so they can see that it will give them options, it will give them, and it's all right there. It will also, this is getting crazy. It will also create a podcast inside of Notebook LM that has two people actually conversing about what you put in there. You can go in and ask them questions, and it will like say, Oh, I'm taking a call from Mark and let's see what he's got. Mark, what is the question? And then you ask it the question and it pivots and goes to whatever your question is.

SPEAKER_00:

Like it's a live podcast.

SPEAKER_03:

It's a like it's a live podcast. Yeah, that is crazy. It is crazy. We're we're kind of we've started um really on the early side of this, but started to see uh delivery of our proposals to folks. You know, what's a what's a better way? As I said, we're always trying to get a little better. What is a better way to deliver this so that they get all the information they want? They can, if they want it real high level, fine. If they want to drill down, fine. Like we want to be able to provide that to our customers. Um, and and so that's yeah, that's another one that we're working on. But notebook album is very cool.

SPEAKER_00:

I think it's is it one firefly that we use in meetings?

SPEAKER_03:

Because you have to hold on, you have to scratch that. Oh one Firefly is the uh is the um media company for HTSA and ProSource. Oh AI Fireflies. But but actually, but actually we're using uh we're using Slack AI now.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, so Slack is good. So one thing that I think is so helpful is we use so we use Slack to communicate with all of our departments. Slack AI, turn that on during all of our meetings. Not only does it jot down everything we talked about, it'll uh give you action items. It'll say this person is gonna do this. Here's the list for Andrew, here's what Mark's gonna do. And I think it's again with that whole instead of worrying about writing everything down, you really can focus and engage in your meetings and really get into the meat of it, and it has it all there for you transcribed.

SPEAKER_03:

We we you know, I hear all the time about how AI is gonna take jobs. And I mean it'd be naive to say that it's not gonna take some jobs. Yeah. It will. But it will enhance people's abilities in stuff that they already do. You know, an AI, well, I don't know, maybe someday there'll be a robot that can wire a house or I don't know, maybe.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh god, scary times.

SPEAKER_03:

But we do not, you know, the the stuff that we do uh is very people-centric. Yeah. We're trying to create uh an environment where people can excel even more, they have less stress, and can deliver better results. And so we're leveraging AI to do that kind of stuff. Uh and and I mean it's it's um it's a very exciting time that I that we are in. Uh, and in our world, it's gonna allow us to provide better solutions, we think, for our customers. Yeah. Down down the road.

SPEAKER_00:

So yeah, and it's you know, it's you get on board and you gotta you gotta roll with it. Oh god, I couldn't even think what I was gonna say there. Um but for all of our listeners out there, these are just a few of the incredible AI tools out there. And again, you know, these tools are there to help us. And so for anybody listening, you know, I'd suggest checking out these tools because you you'll be surprised how again, it's not replacing it, it's just enhancing what you're doing.

SPEAKER_03:

Let me give you one more before we go. All right, let's see. It's fun to play with. Uh, this is a new one that came out a few weeks ago. It's uh Google AI Studio. Oh, yeah. Google AI Studio is very cool. Um if you go into that uh and you you wanna you can build you can build basically things, you can build apps right in it, and it will actually code the app for you. And you can watch it, you can watch it or you don't have to watch it. But it will write, you don't need there, uh there's a term now out there the kids are using called vibe coding. And vibe coding is essentially any human as long as they know English or frankly any language. Uh-huh. But if you know English, you can code. Like you don't need to know how to you know write computer code. Uh that's called vibe coding. And so you can vibe code on this. You can basically just say, hey, I want to create this. By the way, in AI uh uh uh in um uh Google um uh in the suite, if you don't even know where to start, there's a little button that'll say uh uh create idea or whatever, and it will literally do it for you. Yeah, it has prompts for you, it has prompts for you, yeah, yeah. So you can as a thought partner, but I you know, just I just try it. Go in and just I don't know anything like cooking. Uh I mean you could just go on and on and on about whatever and and come up with uh a cool you know a cool app or a cool solution. It's fun to play with.

SPEAKER_00:

It's really fun. I've played around with it, and what I found what was like I thought was so cool is that I put in a bunch of still shots of a room. And you know, we love seeing um in our homes like a whole 360 showcase of the room. Oh wow. What I can do is take those stills, no videos, put those all in, and it'll make that 360.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh so I'm glad you said that before we got off because I I am not the video person. I I don't use it for that, and so I am just scratching the surface because I know the the power of it now is ridiculous, it's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_02:

It really is.

SPEAKER_03:

It's ridiculous. And and actually, um, I think you know, we're we're extolling all the the positives, but I I would say that it it is prudent to know that if you are online um you have to be careful because you don't know there's anything could be real or not real. Yeah. Um, you know, when I say real or not real, I mean like a a picture of you know uh uh you go on Facebook, oh my that's the worst. Yeah, uh they're just not real. No. Um but the the it's already at the point where the quality is so good.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

But but from a constructive standpoint, Andrew is is a ridiculously talented artist. And you know, to to use that artistic ability here talking about from uh you know a floor plan or a walkthrough. Uh it's incredible to be able to create that vision for somebody, for a customer. This is what you're gonna be like in your room. This is what it looks like.

SPEAKER_00:

Exactly, exactly. That's very powerful, very cool. Yeah, and again, as you said, I am an artist, and as an artist, I was very hesitant about using AI at the beginning because they can create a painting that could take me 20 hours in a second. But again, it's finding how you can use it to your advantage. That's right. You know, that's right. So again, uh go play around with some of this stuff. There are gonna be negatives, but hopefully some of these positives can help you, your company, or your personal life.

SPEAKER_03:

Yep, and that's how that's how we're using it. We're we're using it to create, again, better experiences for our customers uh and uh a more uh giving our team members access to more powerful tools so that we can elevate ourselves. Yep, and just get better. All right, Andrew.

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