Practical Tips
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- My Grok Bot Knows What Is in Every Tote
· AI, Practical Tips
I am moving out of a paid storage unit, and a Grok Bot named Totes is keeping the inventory. I snap a photo on my phone, add a few words, and the record updates.
- People Are Discovering Grok Bot. Here Is What They Are Finding.
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
Owners, writers, and engineers are putting Grok Bot to work. A look at what they build, what they praise, what frustrates them, and what it means for a small business.
- I Manage a Fleet of Grok Bots Every Day Without Losing Work
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
My Grok Bots do real work for my business every day. These are the habits I use to look after a very capable tool and keep my work safe.
- Gemini Called My Website a Textbook Example. Here Is What It Took.
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
I asked Google Gemini whether my small-business website was ready for AI agents. It said textbook example. That verdict took months of invisible work, and you can run the same test tonight.
- I Fired Anthropic From My Daily Brief
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
I moved the judgment and writing work in my daily report from cloud models to a local Qwen model. It costs less and keeps more of my data at home.
- Getting Started with Local AI: A Coding Stack That Runs on Your Own Hardware
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
For the past couple of weeks I have done real coding on a model running entirely on my own GPUs. Here is the hardware, the model, and what every parameter actually does.
- Why JSON-LD Is the Cheapest Insurance Your Website Can Buy
· Small Business, Practical Tips, Strategy
Business websites with proper structured data get seen more often, understood more clearly, and trusted more readily. Yet nearly a quarter of all websites have none at all.
- My Registered Agent Charged $400 to File a $70 Form. I Fired Them This Morning.
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
Becoming my own registered agent and using Claude Code to manage the paperwork saved money, but the real win is owning my business records in a system I control and can search.
- I Woke Up Worried About a Denied Insurance Claim. Fifteen Minutes Later, I Wasn't.
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
How I used Claude Code to turn a confusing insurance denial into a clear, organized answer -- and why I'm building an AI-managed insurance filing system for everything.
- I Fired QuickBooks. Then I Built Something Better in Twenty Minutes.
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips, Strategy
Replacing a $150/month accounting platform with open-source tools and AI revealed something bigger: the build-vs-buy calculus has shifted, and most of us have not caught up.
- I Published a Blog Post and Shared It on Social Media Without Opening a Browser
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
A working workflow for small business owners who know they should be posting online but never get around to it.
- Your Google Business Profile Is Floating in Space
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
How connecting your Google Business Profile to your website structured data helps both AI search engines and traditional search understand who you actually are.
- I Fired My SEO Expert (And Hired Claude Code Instead)
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
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.
- The Three-Way Email Paradox: Why Warm Introductions Beat Your Entire LinkedIn Network
· Small Business, Practical Tips
The math is clear: 12 genuine advocates beat 500 LinkedIn connections. A Kirkland business owner explains why three-way email intros actually convert.
- Doing My Taxes with Claude Code and Codex
· AI, Small Business, Practical Tips
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.
- Cancel Your SaaS, Keep Your Data: How AI Coding Agents Change the Economics
· AI, Practical Tips
When you can build a custom import tool in fifteen minutes, the calculus on which subscriptions to keep changes dramatically.