{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Pragmatic AI with Matt Stauffer","title":"AI for Virtual Assistants: Skills, Automations, and the Human-in-the-Loop","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2545,"description":"In this episode, Matt Stauffer sits down with Kayla Helmick to talk about her journey from traditional virtual assistant work to leveraging AI for automations, podcast editing, and app development — and how she turned an early existential threat into the biggest boost her business has ever had.They get specific about the practical stuff: building reusable Claude skills to process podcasts, fixing stuck Zapier and Tally form automations, and going from playing around in Lovable to building and deploying a full Laravel app with Claude Code — her first being a memorial website for a friend.The conversation also widens out to the harder questions: keeping a human in the loop for quality, how AI is reshaping the future of virtual assistance and the work itself, and what it even means to call yourself a \"virtual assistant\" when you're shipping internal tools.Matt Stauffer on X - https://x.com/mattstaufferTighten Website - https://tighten.com/Kayla’s Website - http://kaylahelmick.comKayla on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kayla.helmick/Kayla on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaylahelmick/Kayla Helmick on X - https://x.com/kayla_helmick-----Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten - https://tighten.com/Big thanks to the companies that support the show:Mailtrap - https://l.rw.rw/pragmaticai_4","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7aIGYa7TMm5003o6AXFcVLVUuQ_jipe1tlCSiSzHCtI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ODZh/NmNkYWVmNDA0MGY0/NTIzNGRmZmI5NjU1/MjY4Mi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}