Just Some BS
Welcome to Just Some BS—the podcast for high-potential humans trying to figure it out without pretending they’ve got it all together.
Hosted by Brandon, this is where personal growth meets real talk, career chaos meets clarity, and leadership lessons are served with a side of sarcasm.
Each episode is part journal, part pep talk, part “did they just say that?”
Expect stories from the trenches of work and life, honest reflections, and the kind of insights you’d only get from someone who’s been through the BS and decided to podcast about it.
If you're into ambition, awkwardness, and a little bit of absurdity—you’re home.
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Manufacturing AI That Actually Works: 7 Tools to Save Hours (w/ Adam Marsh)
How do you take a solid ISO shop and make it faster, smarter, and easier to run—without ripping out your ERP? Adam Marsh (President, Ledge Inc.; founder, 80/20 Quality) joins Brandon to share a no-hype playbook for practical AI in manufacturing: secure models, simple automation, and quality workflows that actually ship more good parts.
In this episode you’ll learn:
- Where the real waste hides: why the floor is fine—and the back-end admin is bleeding cash (POs, certs, contracts, first-article packages).
- 7 AI tools that already work in a job shop:
- Weld-photo check that flags defects and explains confidence scores,
- RCA assistant (brain-dump ➜ fishbone ➜ 5 Whys ➜ corrective actions),
- Material-cert auto-review against spec,
- Contract/flow-down checker mapped to your QMS,
- PO-to-PO diff to catch line-item changes instantly,
- Proposal builder for same-call quotes,
- “What-if” scheduling & 13-week cash-flow sensitivities.
- Secure by design: SOC-2, no model training on your data, and picking the right model (not just one chatbot) per use case.
- Team-based incentives > heroics: how a “craftsman bonus” crushed rework and boosted throughput.
- Data before ‘AI’: simple standards, clean inputs, and crawl-walk-run rollouts that earn trust on the floor.
- CMMC, PPAP, FAI, AS/ISO—without the chaos: get deliverables right upfront so you pass first time and get paid sooner.
If you’re a CNC, fab, or industrial shop juggling certs, submittals, and schedules, this conversation gives you a field-tested starting list you can deploy next week—no rip-and-replace required.
📣 Episode Spotlight — Ledge Inc. & 80/20 Quality
Want AI that’s actually usable on the shop floor? Ledge Inc. implements quality systems (ISO/AS), fractional quality leadership, and a secure, multi-model AI workspace for cert checks, contract reviews, PO diffs, scheduling scenarios and more. Pair it with 80/20 Quality to capture error data at the source and fix the 20% that causes 80% of pain.
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