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Practical guides on AI and automation for small businesses. Everything here is something I built, broke, or fixed first.
Uncategorized Turn an Idea Into a Product: A Practical Roadmap
What if the fastest way to turn an idea into a product is to build less at first? A promising idea can feel exciting and still be too broad to guide...
Uncategorized AI Product Development: From Product Problem to Real-World Use in 2026
What if the hardest part of AI product development isn’t choosing a model, but finding a problem worth solving? AI can make almost any idea sound...
AI Explained AI Tools for Small Business: What to Use for Each Job
A small business does not need a ranked list of AI products: it needs to name the job, pick the kind of tool that does it, and ask one concrete question before buying, starting with the job where a person can check the output before a customer sees it.
AI Explained What Is AGI? How 4 Documents Use the Term
Four documents use AGI differently: OpenAI's Charter states it as what its mission is aimed at, a 2023 paper proposes levels and places that year's chat models at its first AGI level, Anthropic's CEO calls the term imprecise, and a Microsoft post uses it as a term in a business agreement. This site's view: judge a tool by what it does on your task today.
AI Explained ChatGPT Alternatives for Small Business, Compared (2026)
This page ranks no assistant: it lists Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity and ChatGPT with the same five facts from each vendor's own pages, and suggests first checking which assistant your Google or Microsoft plan already includes.
AI Explained Is ChatGPT Free? What OpenAI’s Free Plan Includes (2026)
OpenAI offers a Free ChatGPT plan with unlimited everyday text chats and separate, unsized limits on other tools, says ads may appear on the Free plan in certain countries, and says Free, Go and Plus are designed for individuals while Business is the plan for organizations.
AI Explained What Is ChatGPT? A Plain Answer From OpenAI’s Own Pages
ChatGPT is an AI product from OpenAI that you chat with; OpenAI's own check for whether it is searching the web is the search or deep research icons in the input bar or cited sources, and its pages ask users to verify important information.
AI Explained What Is the Future of AI? What 5 Named Sources Project
The five named sources read for this page give dated projections with stated assumptions and stated uncertainty, not facts; they measure different things by different methods, and a small business can plan without relying on any of them.