AI

A Chief Nursing Officer processes what happened at the board meeting -- and discovers that the structural conflicts she has been managing for years have a name. Episode 02 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series.

A hospital CFO runs the same numbers two ways and gets answers that disagree by a factor of five. Episode 04 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series.

A dramatized community hospital board meeting — fictional health system, real governance dynamics — showing what changes when an AI has a seat at the table.

A working workflow for small business owners who know they should be posting online but never get around to it.

Why good people in well-run hospitals still end up in the wrong conversation, and what a structural fix might look like.

How connecting your Google Business Profile to your website structured data helps both AI search engines and traditional search understand who you actually are.

A small business owner's account of running a complete SEO audit with an AI coding agent in one session, fixing every issue the same afternoon, and what it means for the $80 billion SEO industry.

A small business owner's account of automating tax preparation with AI coding agents, and what it suggests about the near future of knowledge work.

Matt Shumer is right that AI is about to change everything. But the real transformation isn't about job loss -- it's about discovering that most of the limits you've been working within were never real.

When you can build a custom import tool in fifteen minutes, the calculus on which subscriptions to keep changes dramatically.