Let’s say you’re running a vegan supplement brand and you have three product ideas. A sleep support blend, a digestive enzyme, or an energy booster. You have no clue which one will actually sell.
You could guess. You could spend thousands on market research. Or you could do this: Feed six months of customer comments from Amazon reviews, Reddit threads, and Instagram into ChatGPT. Ask it to find patterns in what people are complaining about.
If digestion comes up 47 times and sleep only comes up 12 times, you have your answer. In 20 minutes, not three months.
That’s what I keep seeing with vegan entrepreneurs who are actually growing right now. They’re not using AI to replace themselves or sound like robots. They’re using it to test ideas faster, skip the paralysis spiral, and get back to the work they actually started their business to do.
Here’s exactly how.
1. Testing Ideas Before They Waste Months Building Them
You have a list somewhere, mental or actual, of things you have been “meaning to do” for your business.
Launch a course. Start a podcast. Redesign your website. Create a new product line. But you never do it because what if you spend three months on it and nobody cares? What if you invest money and it flops?
So the ideas just sit there.
Here’s what you can do now: Test the idea before you build the whole thing.
Say you want to launch a new vegan protein powder, but you’re not sure what flavor to lead with. Instead of guessing based on what you personally like, you could:
- Copy customer reviews from competitor products on Amazon
- Grab comments from Reddit threads about vegan protein
- Pull Instagram comments from posts about protein powders
- Paste it all into ChatGPT
Then ask: “What problems are people complaining about most? What flavors do they wish existed? What keeps coming up?”
Maybe you discover people are sick of chocolate and vanilla and keep asking for chai or matcha. Maybe you find out texture matters more than flavor.
You don’t need to build it to know if it’s worth building. AI lets you sketch it out, pressure-test it, and decide if it’s actually worth your time, before you’re in too deep.
Try this: Take your next “someday” idea. Spend 30 minutes gathering what people are already saying about that topic (reviews, comments, forum posts). Feed it into ChatGPT or Claude. Ask: “What are the top 3 problems people mention here?” See what comes back.
2. Making Decisions Without Spiraling for Three Days
If you ever spent two hours researching which email platform to use, or an entire week trying to pick a product name, or three days redoing your pricing strategy for the fourth time… you know.
It’s not that you are indecisive. It’s when you are running everything yourself, every choice feels high-stakes. What if you pick wrong? What if you waste money? What if this is the decision that tanks everything?
So you research. And research. And research some more. And guess what? That’s also wasting time.
What you could do instead: Compress the research phase from hours to minutes.
Let’s say you’re stuck choosing between Mailchimp, ConvertKit, and Klaviyo for your vegan bakery. You’ve been “looking into it” for two weeks. Open ChatGPT and type:
“I run a small vegan bakery. Budget is $50/month max. I need something that integrates with Shopify, has easy automation for abandoned cart emails, and doesn’t require a PhD to figure out. Compare these three platforms and tell me which fits best.”
You’ll get a breakdown in two minutes. It won’t make the decision for you, but it’ll kill the endless loop of “but what if I’m missing something?” so you can actually choose and keep moving.
Try this: Next time you’re stuck on a decision, write out exactly what you need (budget, features, constraints). Ask ChatGPT to compare your options based on those criteria. You’ll still make the final call, you’ll just get there faster.
3. Actually Understand Their Customers (Without Hiring a Data Analyst)
You read comments. You scroll through reviews. You check your DMs.
But when you are running a business solo or with a tiny team, you’re too close to it. You see individual pieces of feedback, but you miss the pattern.
Here’s what you might be missing: The thing your customers are literally telling you, over and over, in slightly different words.
Let’s say you run a skincare brand. You have hundreds of reviews. Mostly positive, 4-5 stars. But sales have plateaued, and you can’t figure out why.
Here’s what you could do: Copy every review from the past six months into a Google Doc. Paste it into Claude. Ask it to find recurring themes, both positive and negative.
You might discover that people keep mentioning your pump bottle is “hard to use,” or “you can’t get the last bit out.” Things you’ve been reading individually but never saw as a pattern. Just random one-off complaints.
But when AI shows you it’s actually coming up repeatedly, you know it’s worth fixing. You don’t need a data analyst. You just need to get all the feedback in one place and ask AI to spot what you’re too exhausted to see.
Try this: Grab your last 50 customer emails, reviews, or DMs. Paste them into Claude or ChatGPT. Ask: “What are people saying they love? What keeps coming up as a complaint or friction point?” See what patterns emerge.
4. Finishing Content Instead of Staring at a Blank Screen Until You Give Up
You know you need to post on social media. You know you need to send that newsletter. You know your website copy needs updating.
But every time you sit down to write, your brain just… freezes. You spend an hour staring at a blank screen, second-guessing every sentence, and eventually giving up.
It’s not that you’re a bad writer. It’s that starting from nothing is brutal when you’re already running on fumes from everything else.
What could help: Use AI to get you past the blank screen so you can actually write.
Every Monday, you could open Claude and ask it to brainstorm five email subject lines about whatever you’re planning to write about. Pick one, tweak it to sound like you, then write the rest yourself. What used to take two hours (including 90 minutes of procrastination and self-doubt) might take 30 minutes.
Or try this: Paste your brain dump into Claude and ask it to organize your thoughts into an outline. You’re not asking it to write for you – you’re asking it to give you a structure so you’re not starting from zero.
Because the hardest part isn’t the writing, it’s starting.
Try this: Next time you’re stuck on content, open Claude and dump everything in your brain about the topic. Just word-vomit it. Then ask: “Turn this into a simple outline I can use to write from.” You’ll still write it in your voice, you just won’t be staring at a blank page anymore.
5. Getting Your Time Back So Running Your Business Doesn’t Feel Like Drowning
You didn’t start a vegan business to spend 20 hours a week answering the same customer questions, scheduling posts, and organizing spreadsheets.
You started it because you wanted to create something meaningful, help people, make an impact… But somewhere along the way, you became a full-time admin assistant. The actual work you love? You barely have time for it anymore.
Here’s what could change: Stop doing everything manually. Let AI handle the repetitive stuff so you can do the work only you can do.
Let’s say you’re a vegan wellness coach spending 15 hours a week on admin:
- Answering the same 10 customer questions over and over
- Transcribing coaching calls so you’ll remember what was discussed
- Organizing feedback and trying to figure out what’s actually useful
You could use AI to:
- Draft responses to FAQs (you’d still personalize before sending)
- Auto-transcribe calls with Otter.ai so you can focus on the conversation instead of scribbling notes
- Summarize client feedback and flag patterns without reading every single response
That could mean getting 10 hours back. Every week. Which you could use to finally build that program you’ve been putting off. Or take an actual day off.
That’s what this is really about. Not “productivity hacks.” Getting back to the reason you started this thing in the first place.Try this: Write down every repetitive task you do weekly. Pick one. Ask yourself: “Could AI do 60% to 80% of this so I just review and finish?” Start there.
Where to Start
Pick one thing from this list. Just one.
Try it this week. See what happens.
You don’t need to overhaul your entire business or become an AI expert. You just need to stop doing one thing manually that’s eating your time for no reason.
Want the full roadmap? Our AI From Scratch course shows you exactly how to integrate AI into your vegan business – no tech jargon, no fluff. Just practical, hands-on strategies you can start using today to save time, create content faster, and get back to the work you actually love.
