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Notes from the lab.

Plain-language notes on putting AI to work in a service business. The same ideas go out on our social channels every day.

September 7, 2026The AI you need is already installed

Gmail, Microsoft 365 and Canva shipped real AI into the menus you already use. Five minutes with the tools you already pay for beats a new subscription.

September 4, 2026A competitor check while you have lunch

Deep research mode in ChatGPT and Gemini reads dozens of sources and writes a cited report. The competitor check you keep putting off is a lunch-break task now.

September 1, 2026Your truck is a desk now

Voice mode in ChatGPT and Claude can reach your email and calendar mid-conversation. The admin that used to wait for a desk gets done between jobs.

August 24, 2026Stop re-teaching AI your business every morning

A generic chat box forgets your prices, your policies and your customers the moment you close the tab. The AI worth having already knows them.

August 21, 2026The call you missed is the job you lost

Most missed calls never get a callback, and the caller has already dialled the next name. What a text-back that fires in seconds actually changes.

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