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From ChatGPT to AI-Powered Operations: Matthew Palmieri on Building Smarter Trade Businesses
What happens when AI moves beyond prompts and starts becoming part of how you actually run the business?
In this episode of Catalyst for the Trades, Jennifer Bagley sits down with Matthew Palmieri of My Happy Home to talk about his evolution from using ChatGPT for basic searches to building AI agents and systems around real home service operations.
Matthew shares lessons from building with AI, including why clean data matters, how AI can amplify bad assumptions, and why contractors should start with a real business problem instead of a shiny new tool.
They discuss:
Moving from conversational…
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