Episode 10

Who Gets to Compete in an AI-Native Economy?

A free A.I. account won't close the next business access gap. The real divide is between businesses that can turn A.I. into operating capacity and those left with only a chat box.

I build A.I. employees, and I've seen agents deployed inside some of the largest enterprises. They still require supervision, permissions, review, and people who can orchestrate the work. In this episode, I connect that reality to Dario Amodei's call to pace the A.I. frontier and explain why small businesses need access to the infrastructure around the models, not merely the models themselves.

In this episode:

  • What Dario Amodei means by pacing the A.I. frontier
  • Why agentic operations can become standard without becoming fully autonomous
  • What an AI-native business is beyond purchasing Chat G.P.T. or Claude
  • Why the next competitive gap is infrastructure, not intelligence
  • How small businesses can build one measurable agentic process now
  • What EverFreely is being built to do for grants, pitch competitions, speaking calls, podcast guest opportunities, and awards

Who this is for: Small-business owners, independent experts, and organizational leaders who want A.I. to create real operating capacity without giving away human judgment.

If you spend hours searching for grants, pitch competitions, speaking calls, podcast guest opportunities, or awards, then rebuilding the same story for every application, join the EverFreelyâ„¢ research waitlist: https://seedandsociety.com/everfreely

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Makeda Boehm makes AI, agents, and automation useful for your work, business, and life so you can create more money, time, and options.

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Makeda Boehm

Makeda Boehm is a Strategic AI Advisor, keynote speaker, and educator who has closed nearly $10M in enterprise tech sales and earned seven figures doing it. She holds a BA in African American Studies and Sociology, an MBA in Organizational Management, and is completing an MS in Data Science. She teaches service-based business owners around the world how to use AI, automations, and agents to create more money, time, and options. She runs a mortgage-free 10-acre homestead in Tennessee, homeschools two kids, and has maintained a daily AI practice for over 500 days. seedandsociety.com