Real AI Use Cases: Business Owners Roundtable – Episode 19

Guest: Jace Graham, Founder of Rising Phoenix

TL;DL (Too Long; Didn't Listen)

The Big Idea: Stop guessing if your sales team is hitting their marks. Jace Graham shares how he built a custom GPT "AI Supervisor" that listens to sales calls, grades performance, and writes immediate, personalized follow-up emails.
Roundtable Blitz:
- Amy Scruggs reveals her blueprint for turning one long coaching video into a week's worth of social media content.
- Every Cat shows how they use AI to instantly translate dense, intimidating scientific papers into easy-to-read public updates.
- Richard Gearhart shares the frustrating, messy reality of trying to get different legal software platforms to talk to each other through AI.
The Hidden Cost: Why the massive boom in AI data centers is unexpectedly creating a gold rush for the natural gas industry and pushing the physical power grid to its absolute limits.

Episode Overview

How are real companies actually moving past the AI hype and driving measurable business results today? In this episode of Real AI Use Cases, host Elizabeth Gearhart brings together a roundtable of industry experts, founders, and professionals to pull back the curtain on how AI is changing the daily landscape of sales, marketing, non-profit operations, and infrastructure.

Our featured guest, Jace Graham of Rising Phoenix, breaks down how his company built a proprietary ChatGPT knowledge base that acts like an interactive supervisor for his sales team—grading calls, providing real-time critique, and auto-drafting hyper-personalized follow-up emails.

Plus, our roundtable dives into the challenges of system integration, the rapidly evolving landscape of new AI creative tools, and a fascinating look at the massive infrastructure and energy demands the AI boom is placing on the global power grid.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

The Custom AI Sales Supervisor: How Jace Graham leverages custom GPT frameworks to onboard teams, score live sales calls, and drastically reduce manual follow-up workflows.
Content Repurposing for Creators: Amy Scruggs (Amy Scruggs Media) explains her framework for instantly turning long-form video coaching logs into high-performing social media micro-assets.
AI inside Nonprofits: Jackie Ott Jaakola and Dr. Maggie Clacer (Every Cat) share how they use AI to instantly translate dense academic and scientific research papers into clear, accessible language for the public.
The System Integration Headache: Richard Gearhart (Gearhart Law) pulls back the curtain on the messy reality of trying to force separate legacy infrastructure platforms to communicate with one another using automated AI scripts.
The Real Cost of AI Power: A deep-dive look into data center infrastructure, the power grid, and why the AI revolution is creating an unprecedented long-term demand for natural gas.

Featured in This Episode:

Elizabeth Gearhart, Ph.D. (Host)

Bio: Elizabeth Gearhart, Ph.D. is a marketing executive, legal professional, and founder of Gear Media Studios. Holding a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry, Elizabeth bridges the gap between deep technical science and creative media execution, hosting the Real AI Use Cases roundtable to discover practical digital strategies for modern business owners.
Connect: Gear Media Studios
Richard Gearhart, Esq.:
- Bio: Richard Gearhart is an entrepreneur, seasoned business owner, and intellectual property attorney specializing in innovation and patent strategy. As the founder of Gearhart Law, Richard brings over two decades of experience helping inventors and businesses protect their intellectual property, while consistently exploring how emerging technologies like automation and AI can streamline administrative enterprise infrastructure.
- Connect: Gearhart Law

Jace Graham (Featured Guest)

Bio: Jace Graham is an energy sector analyst and the founder of Rising Phoenix, a company specializing in advanced business solutions, AI strategy integrations, and operational automation.
Connect: Rising Phoenix

Roundtable Panelists:

Amy Scruggs: Media consultant, national TV host, and founder of Amy Scruggs Media.
Jackie Ott Jaakola & Dr. Maggie Clacer: Executive leadership and research contributors representing Every Cat, a non-profit organization dedicated to feline health advancement.
Richard Gearhart, Esq.: Founder of Gearhart Law, seasoned intellectual property attorney, and innovation strategist.