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Dakota Intelligence — AI for South Dakota Business — interactive Chamber Lunch and Learn presentation, 10 slides with animated diagrams and clickable info panels

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Mitchell Chamber of Commerce · Lunch & Learn

AI for South
Dakota Business

What it is. What it does. What to do about it — and why the timing is not arbitrary.

Timm Johnson · Dakota Intelligence

Mitchell, SD  ·  605-273-8300  ·  info@timmjohnsonai.com

AI wave →

The wave is already moving.

South Dakota is not watching from the sideline. Click each block.

Data centers are coming to SD

Hyperscale compute, fiber, low energy costs

12–24 month window — still open

Last period of compounding early advantage

Mitchell is early, not late

Ground floor is still open — locally

Before the outside vendors arrive

Local advantage has an expiration date

Washington Post · GovAI Research · 2026

This time it's the front office, not the factory floor.

White-collar jobs are first in line. Click each stat to understand what it means for Mitchell businesses.

350+
occupations mapped for
AI exposure + adaptability
6.1M
clerical workers: high exposure
and low adaptability
25%
of all job tasks already
touched by AI — late 2024

Key insight: High exposure does not automatically equal high danger. Programmers are highly exposed but have strong adaptability. The danger zone is high exposure combined with limited ability to adapt. What this means for your business →

Not all AI exposure is equal.

Two questions determine real risk. Click any quadrant.

Adaptability → AI Exposure → Low High Low High Safe for now Trades · Hands-on healthcare Agriculture fieldwork · Plumbing Low AI overlap + strong skills Exposed but adaptable Programmers · Financial analysts Web designers · Marketers High overlap + good retraining path Legacy stable Manual labor · Local delivery Food service · Personal care Low overlap + limited pivot Most at risk — click for full picture Secretaries · Office admin Bookkeepers · Data entry 6.1 million US workers in this zone The answer for every quadrant is the same: retooled jobs. Click to learn what that means.

What "AI pipeline" means for your business.

Four layers — from raw compute to the person keeping it running. Click each.

⚙️

Compute

Processing power — available as a service. No on-site hardware required.

🗃️

Data

Client records, field data, workflows. What AI learns from and acts on.

🔧

Services

Scheduling bots, document processors, content engines — built on compute.

🧭

Talent

People who configure and maintain the services. Locally — this is genuinely scarce.

Live system — Dakota Intelligence · 605-273-8300

Ava handles the call. The calendar fills itself.

Zero human touches from first ring to confirmed booking. Click any node.

start complete Inbound callCaller dials Ava AVA / VAPIAI voice agent ODINGuardian agent Make.comAutomation layer CalendarBooking confirmed Email confirmvia Resend Lead logODIN / Base44 DoneNo hands needed

Live system — ABRAXAS content pipeline

AI reads the research. Posts appear by morning.

Runs every night — research ingested, Claude generates content, queued for a single approval tap. Click any node.

start complete SchedulerRuns every night Make.comWorkflow fires RSS + feedsUSDA + AI news Claude APIBuilds content Content EngineBase44 storage ReviewTimm approves Posts readyBlog + LinkedIn PublishedGoes live

Three risks every business needs to know.

These are the questions your clients, staff, and auditors are already asking. Click each panel.

Data leakage

Client data pasted into free AI tools can be stored on third-party servers — and may train future models.

Click to understand your exposure

Accuracy problems

AI confidently generates wrong answers. Always verify before using with clients or in legal and financial contexts.

Click to understand liability exposure

Security gaps

Unmanaged accounts, API key mishandling, and AI-powered phishing targeting small businesses right now.

Click to understand the three threats

personal AI data leaves

Shadow AI is happening in your business right now.

Whether you know about it or not. Click each point.

What shadow AI looks like

Employees using personal ChatGPT on work data — no oversight

Why prohibition does not work

People find workarounds — policy plus approved tools is the answer

The $25/month solution

Enterprise AI costs less than most phone plans — and includes legal protection

Free tools vs. business tools.

The gap is smaller than you think. Click any row for context.

FeatureFree toolsBusiness / enterprise
Data used for trainingOften yes (default)No — contractually protected
Data Processing AgreementNot availableYes — legally binding
Admin controls / audit logNoYes
Monthly cost per user$0–$20$20–$30
ExamplesChatGPT Free, Gemini FreeClaude Business, Copilot 365
The handout you received today includes a one-page AI policy template. Complete it this week and share it at your next staff meeting.
5 slides · Deeper dives · Click elements for full context

Convergence and Futures — 5-slide interactive presentation covering biomimetic drones, BirdTamer, emotional surveillance, the VEIL System, and investment conversations in emerging AI convergence markets

Convergence & Futures · Emerging AI landscape

The next wave isn't about your desk job.

Three convergence vectors are forming at the same time. Each is significant alone. Together they represent an entirely different kind of shift. Click each to understand what's actually happening.

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Biomimetic AI

Drones that look like nature. Surveillance that looks like nothing.

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Emotional surveillance

AI reads face, voice, gait, keystrokes. Continuously.

Edge intelligence

AI that knows without sending anything to the cloud.

The convergence point: Biomimetic drone + edge AI emotion classifier + no cloud dependency = undetectable psychological profiling of anyone, anywhere, at scale. This is not science fiction. Every component exists today.
not a bird edge AI

When the bird is not a bird.

Biomimetic drones are operational. The surveillance convergence is here. And it creates a business opportunity. Click each.

What they actually are

Operational hardware — not prototypes. Click for specs.

Who is already deploying them

Military, law enforcement, corporate security. Click.

BirdTamer.com — the opportunity

Dual-use: manage your own swarm, detect theirs. Click.

micro-expression STRESSED 87% voice stress ELEVATED ↑ gait pattern ANXIOUS keystrokes TENSE pupil dilation FEAR: low posture GUARDED PROFILE CONFIDENCE: 94%

The machine reads your room.
And your face. And your gait.

Emotional surveillance AI is deployed commercially right now. Click each vector.

What AI detects — all six vectors

Micro-expression, voice, gait, keystrokes, pupil, heart rate. Click.

Where it is deployed right now

Retail, HR, airports, workplaces. Click for specifics.

The convergence — why it changes everything

Combine with biomimetic drone + edge AI. Click for the picture.

VEIL System — Ver 1.1X

"What you cannot be read for, you cannot be profiled from." Click each section to understand the value proposition and investment case.

Without VEIL — what surveillance AI reads

Behavioral fingerprint visible
Emotional state inferred
Intent map exposed

With VEIL — what surveillance AI sees

Behavioral signal disrupted
Profile incoherent
Intent map obscured
Ver 1.1X status: Functional prototype. Chrome extension. Resubmission to Chrome Web Store in progress. Enterprise licensing model under development. This is a conversation worth having.
Interactive architecture diagram · Click any node

ECHO local-first AI operating system architecture — norm compiler diagram showing inputs, 30 seed norms, local SQLite storage, and comparison to generic cloud AI

ECHO — local-first AI-OS · D:\ECHO\ · FastAPI + SQLite

Learning specificity matters.

Generic AI knows billions of people approximately. ECHO knows one person with compounding precision. Click any element.

ECHO local-first AI operating system architecture Diagram showing ECHO norm compiler at center with three input streams (conversations, behaviors, preferences) flowing in from the left, and personalized outputs flowing right. Thirty seed norms arranged in three concentric rings inside the ECHO core. Local SQLite storage connected below. Bottom comparison shows generic cloud AI versus ECHO local-first AI-OS. Conversations What you ask and say Behaviors How you work and decide Preferences What you keep or discard your inputs ECHO norm compiler established norms growing norms evolving norms SQLite · FastAPI · Bearer auth D:\ECHO\ — your hardware, your data Personalized Tuned to your patterns Context-aware Learns your edge cases Your norms. Yours. Gets sharper every day your outputs Generic cloud AI Knows billions — approximates everyone One-size-fits-all response model Data travels to cloud, trains their models Resets to baseline every conversation vs ECHO — local-first AI-OS Knows you with compounding precision Responses tuned to YOUR norms Data stays on your machine. Always. Gets smarter about you every day
Teal particles = data flowing in Amber particles = refined output flowing out Darker dots = established norms · lighter = evolving Click any element for detail
2 slides · Real benchmarks · Free tools linked

AEO Clock — two-slide interactive presentation showing how fast AI finds your business, with citation timing gauge, conversion stats, and action items

AEO — Answer Engine Optimization · ~900 pages tracked · 2026

How fast does AI actually find your business?

New research gives us real benchmarks for the first time. Click any zone or marker to understand what it means for Mitchell businesses.

AEO citation speed gauge showing three zones and three data point markers Horizontal bar gauge divided into three colored zones: Fast lane 0 to 14 days in green, Normal window 15 to 37 days in amber, Investigation needed 37 plus days in red. Inverted triangle markers at 6.81 days median, 18.68 days 75th percentile, and 37.10 days 90th percentile. Fast lane 0–14 days Normal window 15–37 days Investigate 37+ days 6.81 days median · 50th %ile 18.68 days 75th percentile 37.10 days 90th percentile Day 0 Day 14 Day 37 Day 50+
22%
of all searches in 2026
now go through AI engines
14%
AI-referred conversion rate
vs under 3% Google organic
No #1
AI search has no page rank.
You are cited — or you are not.
Research basis: ~900 marketing pages tracked across ChatGPT and Claude citation timing · 2026. Click any zone or marker above for what each threshold means locally.