The MESH

Agents on Main Street

2 episodes

Every small business owner is drowning in answers. Your accounting software has them, your project management tools have them, and now AI can produce ten more before you finish typing. But answers were never the problem. The real challenge is knowing which questions to ask. Agents on Main Street is a practical show about putting AI to work in real small businesses: the shops, contractors, and service companies on Main Street, not the Fortune 500. Hosts David Waechter and Mitchell Turner bring two very different backgrounds. David is a residential home builder in Western North Carolina with a career spanning farming, consulting, and corporate intelligence work. Mitchell is a 25-year tech veteran who lost his job to AI and now helps people build with it. Each episode starts with a real business problem and walks through how they actually solved it: what worked, what failed, and what they'd do differently. Topics include standard operating procedures, meeting and call recording, automated daily briefings, AI agents and guardrails, and the human side of change, including the question of whether you should be afraid. No hype, no jargon for its own sake, and no AI company paying them to say any of it. Just honest, tested lessons for owners who want to make more by losing less. Answers are everywhere. We're here for the questions.

Episodes

  • · 53m

    The AI Constitution

    The conversation revolves around the concept of an AI constitution, emphasizing its importance for businesses in defining their goals and guidelines for AI usage. The discussion…

  • · 55m

    The February 7th Problem: Why Answers Aren't Enough

    In the first episode, David Walker and Mitchell Turner introduce themselves and explain how a home builder and a burned-out software engineer ended up building an AI system for a…