The blog

Short posts about putting AI to work in a small business. Most come with a free skill you can download and use the same day.

No. 12How-to

Will payroll clear on Friday?

You have money coming. You just don't know if it comes before Friday. Here is a free skill that reads your books and tells you the day, the number, and what to do about it.

No. 11How-to

Nobody can tell your business from the other guy's

The blue on your shirts isn't the blue on your sign. Your cards have the old number. Here is a free skill that writes the one page that makes it all match.

No. 10How-to

A guy who quit in September is still getting paid

Dana forgot to clock out on Wednesday. Payroll ran Friday. Her check was a day short and she found out before you did. Here is a free skill that catches that before a dollar moves.

No. 09How-to

Why every AI flyer looks the same

You can spot an AI flyer from across the room. Here is why that happens, and the free skill I use to make one that looks like a real print shop did it.

No. 08How-to

The one email that matters is buried

You check your inbox forty times a day looking for the one email that matters. Here is a free skill that reads it once, at a time you pick, and tells you what needs you.

No. 07Getting started

Start with the phone

If you run a business where people call you, the first useful thing AI can do has nothing to do with writing. It has to do with answering.

No. 06Money

What AI actually costs

The monthly fee is the small part. Here is the whole bill, including the three lines nobody puts in the proposal.

No. 05Straight talk

You don't need a chatbot

The most useful AI in a small business has no chat window, no name, and nobody talks to it. It just does one job every day without being asked.

No. 04Buying guide

How to tell if an AI tool is worth paying for

Six questions to ask before you hand over a card. If the person selling it cannot answer them in plain words, that is your answer.

No. 03Straight talk

Five things AI still can't do in your business

I build with this stuff every week. Here is where it stops, in plain words, so nobody can sell you past it.

No. 02How-to

Write it down first

You cannot automate a job you cannot describe. Here is the twenty-minute exercise that has to come first. It needs no software, just paper.

No. 01Getting started

Your first thirty days with AI

A week-by-week plan for an owner who has decided to do something about AI this year. You do not buy anything until week four.

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