Christian Rodwell is the founder of Simplish AI, which helps owner-led businesses of 1 to 12 people find the hours hiding in their week with AI. He hosts AI for Business, Bournemouth, has hosted 417 podcast episodes and wrote the Amazon best seller Sack Your Boss.
Speaking and podcast guesting
I talk to owner-led businesses, and the people who advise them, about using AI without the jargon or the made-up numbers. Podcasts, stages, panels and team training, in person or remote from Bournemouth.
Three conversations
Each one stands alone as a full episode or talk. Pick one, or blend them.
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TimeHow to find your hidden hours
Every owner-led business has hours each week going on work that should never touch the owner: chasing invoices, writing quotes, clearing the inbox at nine at night. I name the six everyday tasks where those hours hide, show how to put a number on them in fifteen minutes, and explain why the first fix is almost never a new tool.
Listeners leave witha six-category checklist to count their own hidden hours this week, and the £15 an hour rule that keeps the number honest.
Ask me"Where do the hours actually hide in a small business?"
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NumbersWhy most AI savings numbers are made up
Most headline AI savings figures come from one trick: valuing admin time at the owner's charge-out rate instead of the £15 an hour it would cost to delegate. I break down how the inflation works, why small believable numbers win with anyone who can do arithmetic, and how to sanity-check any pitch before signing.
Listeners leave witha sixty-second test they can run on any AI proposal or consultant's savings claim.
Ask me"What is the arithmetic trick behind most AI savings claims?"
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Voice AIWhat happens when a voice AI runs the discovery session
When a business books a Simplish AI assessment, the fact-finding session is run by Danni, our voice AI business analyst. Clients are often more open with her than they expect to be, and many realise, while they're still talking to her, that the same approach could work in their own business. What I've learned from handing discovery to voice AI, where it does the job better than a form or a questionnaire, and what a small team can copy without becoming technical.
Listeners leave withthe one customer conversation in their own business an AI could take on first, and a simple way to test it.
Ask me"What changes when the first voice a client hears is an AI?"
Why hosts book me
I know your side of the mic
417 episodes as a host across Escape the Rat Race Radio and WealthTalk. I turn up prepared, keep answers tight and make the episode easy to edit.
Real numbers, not hype
Everything I share is grounded in work with owner-led businesses of 1 to 12 people, priced at what the time is actually worth.
Live demos
At the launch of AI for Business, Bournemouth, I handed a phone to someone in the audience and let them talk to Danni, our voice AI, live. I bring that kind of demo to stages and workshops.
Formats
Podcast guest
Remote from Bournemouth on UK time, on video or audio. Happy to share the episode with my network on LinkedIn and by email.
Stage talk
Conferences, business networks and member events, built around one of the three talks above.
Panel or fireside
A practical, non-technical voice on AI for small businesses alongside other speakers.
Team training
A hands-on session with your team to find the hours in your own business and test the first fixes.
Speaker kit
Everything a host or organiser needs. Copy a bio, download a photo, and you're done.
Christian Rodwell is the founder of Simplish AI, which helps owner-led businesses of 1 to 12 people find the hours hiding in their week with AI, and the host of AI for Business, Bournemouth, a free monthly meetup for non-technical business owners. His career began in dance music, as Label Manager at Positiva/EMI and later Label Director at Cr2 Records, working on multiple UK number one singles. He went on to found the Escape the Rat Race community, write the Amazon best seller Sack Your Boss, and host 417 podcast episodes across Escape the Rat Race Radio and WealthTalk.
Christian Rodwell is the founder of Simplish AI, which helps owner-led businesses of 1 to 12 people find the hours hiding in their week with AI. Every assessment starts with a discovery session run by Danni, a voice AI business analyst, and comes with a guarantee to find at least five hours a week or the client doesn't pay. He also hosts AI for Business, Bournemouth, a free monthly meetup for non-technical business owners. Christian's career began in dance music: at Positiva, EMI's dance imprint, he worked on UK number ones including Spiller's "Groovejet", and as Label Director of Cr2 Records he oversaw Fedde Le Grand's UK number one and the official Space Ibiza compilations. In 2014 he founded Escape the Rat Race, a London community that passed 1,500 members in its first year, and wrote Sack Your Boss, a number one Amazon category best seller. He has hosted 417 podcast episodes, interviewing guests including Seth Godin and Daniel Priestley, and spent seven years as Membership Director at WealthBuilders. He lives in Bournemouth.
Heard as a guest on
The Blue Light Leavers Podcast
Two episodes, 2020: your year of change, and why one source of income isn't enough.
Systemize Your Success
With Dr Steve Day, 2021.
Invest in You
Episode 3, 2018.
Amazing FBA
Two parts, 2018.
SynchStories: Cr2 Records
A 15-part video series from Synchtank on the Cr2 story, 2015.
Book Christian
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