It’s November, which means it’s editing season, the time of year when wedding videographers everywhere are staring down a backlog of films while simultaneously trying to run a business, stay on top of admin, keep their social media alive, and remember to eat. Jason and Danny get into exactly that this week, the reality of running a one-person operation when life keeps getting in the way, from nursery plagues to family health, and why productivity suffers more than most people realise when you lose even a few weeks in peak season.

But the main event this week is Jason. Over the past week he built himself an AI-powered business dashboard using Claude and Notion, and it has already changed how he works. He walks through exactly what it does, how it reads his emails twice a day to surface the things that actually need his attention, how it populates his calendar each evening with a prioritised to-do list based on deadlines and edit times, how it tracks every client project and flags where outsourced films are in the pipeline, and how he gamified the whole thing with a scoring system and daily streaks so his business now works like a game he actually wants to win.

Danny points out, correctly, that Jason basically built himself an AI boss. Jason agrees entirely and says he has never been more productive.

They also talk about why AI is not just about doing the work for you, it is about fixing the specific weak spots in how you personally operate, and why knowing your own business data, where you are in bookings compared to this time last year, what upsell opportunities are sitting untapped, how many hours you actually spent editing last month, is the thing that most videographers are missing. All of that is in here too.

There is also a teaser for the That Wedding Videographer Summit, taking place on the 23rd of March in Glasgow. The speaker lineup is announced, including Bach Films flying over from South Africa, The Wild Strawberry from France, Abigail and Luke Films, Zaid Film Co, and Rather Lovely Films. Plus a hint at an Industry Pro session on AI being added to the summit, run by someone who is using it to genuinely transform their business income.

Tickets are available now at twvp.co.uk/summit.

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