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Build Your Own Tools. No Developer Needed.
You can build a working tool for your business in one evening. No developer, no agency, no waiting for a…
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You can build a working tool for your business in one evening. No developer, no agency, no waiting for a…
How to Build a Weekly Numbers Brief From Three CSV Files
This is the second live demo from the October 14 roundtable. Three ordinary CSV exports in a folder become a…
How to Build a Margin Calculator With AI in One Prompt
This is the exact sequence from the October 14 roundtable. You end up with a working margin calculator you can…
You agreed on the plan. Then your A.I. lost track of it.
Halfway through a launch or a website move, the AI forgets what you agreed this morning. Lock the plan into…
Grok Bot as Your Chief of Staff
One bot reads the mail and the calendar, drafts the replies in Gmail, and never sends them. Three priorities, Send…
A.I. Assistants Can Now Book Appointments and Show Your Inventory. Is Your Company Showing Up?
Assistants now book tables and appointments from a listing. Three paths to show up: a chat box on your site,…
Your A.I. Can Now Click Through Websites For You.
Chat talks about a page. Cowork and Grok can open the page, click through it, and bring back flights, exports,…
Google A.I. Is the Search Result. Is Your Website In It?
Google now answers the search before the old list of links. Ads sit first, the AI box sits next, then…
A Device to Use A.I. on Files You Wouldn’t Share With Cloud A.I.
A Device to Use AI on Files You Wouldn’t Share With Cloud AIs. The idea has been in my head…
Some Files Should Never Touch the Cloud. Use Local A.I. Instead.
Some Files Should Never Touch the Cloud. Use Local A.I. Instead. Everybody has something they would never share with ChatGPT.…
Stop Asking AI to Think. Ask It to Build the Tool.
Stop Asking AI to Think. Ask It to Build the Tool. This is about building actual programs that do things…
Your AI Doesn’t Know What It Can Do. Make It Find Out.
Your AI Doesn’t Know What It Can Do. Make It Find Out. An AI Essentials Roundtable member used Grok to…
Ask for Twenty Ideas, Not the Best One
Ask A.I. for Twenty Ideas, Not the ‘Best One‘ Ask AI for the best solution to a problem and it…
Your Co-Pilot Can Build Other Co-Pilots
Your Co-Pilot Can Build Other Co-Pilots Most people try to force every task into their main co-pilot. That works until…
Grok Is Now a Real Co-Pilot Option
Grok Is Now a Real Co-Pilot Option Grok 4.5 and 4.6 have finally arrived. With it’s new capabilities, it can…
Your AI Now Signs Its Work. Invisibly.
Your AI Now Signs Its Work. Invisibly. Back in early August I wrote about the EU’s new AI transparency rules…
“HIPAA-Ready” Is Not “HIPAA-Compliant.” Know the Difference.
“HIPAA-Ready” Is Not “HIPAA-Compliant.” Know the Difference. Big news landed quietly this summer for anyone running a healthcare-adjacent business: Claude…
Chat Thinks. Cowork Works.
Chat Thinks. Cowork Works. Your AI has been a brilliant conversation partner. Ask, answer, ask, answer, and the moment you…
Don’t Ask AI to Read a Thousand PDFs. Ask It to Build the Reader.
Don’t Ask AI to Read a Thousand PDFs. Ask It to Build the Reader. One of my members inherited a…
Make It Find What It Missed
Make It Find What It Missed The most dangerous thing about AI output is how finished it looks. First drafts…
The EU Just Made AI Honesty the Law. Here’s What Actually Applies to You.
The EU Just Made AI Honesty the Law. Here’s What Actually Applies to You. On August 2, new European Union…
The First AI Break-In Was an Accident
The First AI Break-In Was an Accident In mid-July, an AI model being tested by OpenAI broke out of its…
Claude Is Your Website Developer Now
Claude Is Your Website Developer Now A client of mine was late getting me what I needed for their website…
Three Homepage Concepts Before Lunch
Three Homepage Concepts Before Lunch Here’s a feature most business owners haven’t discovered yet: you can ask your AI for…
Your Meetings Are Full of Blog Posts
Your Meetings Are Full of Blog Posts The hardest part of content marketing was never the writing. It’s that the…
It Worked on Day One. Check Day Fifteen.
It Worked on Day One. Check Day Fifteen. Here’s the uncomfortable truth about automation that nobody selling it leads with:…
Five Prompts That Fix Most Bad AI Answers
Bad AI answers are usually bad prompts wearing a disguise. Five sentences that reliably turn a mediocre response into the…
I Made AI My Project Manager
Connect a free project management tool to your AI and it builds and runs your project boards for you. Here…
Everyone Bought the AI Tools. Almost Nobody Built the Two Systems.
Revenue teams are drowning in AI point solutions while pipeline still gets built by hand. The companies pulling ahead built…
The Two Growth Machines Every Small Business Can Finally Afford
One machine tells you exactly who to call each morning. The other makes the right people call you. Both used…
A Prospect Sent Me Two Sentences. Three Hours Later, They Had a Working AI System.
A real build story: from a two-line email to an automated lead system that replaced 15 hours of weekly manual…
Stop Asking AI to Make Your Images. Ask It to Write the Prompt.
The two-step image workflow that gets professional, on-brand graphics in minutes: your business AI writes the prompt, a dedicated image…
Which Marketing Automation Platform Actually Fits Your Business? A Plain-English Guide
Which Marketing Automation Platform Actually Fits Your Business? A Plain-English Guide Every week I am asked by my customers if…
Hand AI the Whole Folder
Big messy multi-file projects break the chat window. The desktop workflow that handles fifty files at once, and how to…
You Might Not Need AI to Run It
Do you need AI to build your system, or to run it? Most people never ask. The answer changes what…
Stop Asking AI to Write. Make It Interview You.
The best AI content trick isn't a better prompt. It's reversing the direction: make the AI ask you the questions…
Your AI Isn’t Broken. Check Your Settings.
Getting cut off by your AI mid-project? Before you blame the tool or buy more credits, check one setting. One…
How A.I. Can Build Calculators & Interactive Charts For Your Website
How A.I. Can Build Calculators & Interactive Charts For Your Website Have you ever wished you had an interactive calculator…
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