Automating Main Street | Logan Shimmer | Founder of Shimmer Labs

Logan Shimmer is the founder of Shimmer Labs, an AI automation consultancy helping Main Street businesses in Stillwater, Oklahoma automate the work they dread without losing what makes them human. He's built AI courses for Oklahoma State University and local technical colleges, and runs free weekly office hours where anyone in town can walk in and ask him anything about AI. Before that, he spent 15 years building automation across manufacturing, marketing, and the energy grid.In our conversation, we discuss:1. Why he builds a harness around AI instead of a fully autonomous pipeline, and why the companies behind ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have no incentive to tell you that2. Running bi-directional retros with his own AI agents, what one of them told him about his productivity, and why he calls them his "innies"3. The real story behind automating a yoga studio owner's cancellation process, and what she got back that had nothing to do with software4. Why "yes, and" from an improv class became his best tool for resetting client expectations about what AI can and can't do5. What's left for humans once the routine work is gone, and why he thinks trust, connection, and creativity get more room to grow, not less6. His five-part prompt framework (role, context, task, format, constraints) and the one part most people skipLOGAN LINKS:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loganshimmer/Website: shimmerlabs.coVLAD LINKS:Website: vladmoskovski.comLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vladmoskovskiFree Somatic Intelligence Toolkit for LeadersAI gives everyone data. The leaders who stand out also listen to their body's intelligence. Download the free toolkit here: vladmoskovski.com/handbook-landing-pageEPISODE LINKS:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033z600k53oJJi7CneGCed?si=5cc9vvfCSZmmf_cExjm8Vg&utm_source=copy-link&nd=1&dlsi=b9fa939ffd154488Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vlad-on-leadership/id1896931445