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Practical guides on AI and automation for small businesses. Everything here is something I built, broke, or fixed first.
AI Explained What Is Claude AI? Anthropic’s Own Words, Dated
Claude is a large language model and chat assistant made by Anthropic, one company's product; this page reports only what Anthropic's own pages say it does, where its limits are and how chats are handled.
AI Explained Who Invented Artificial Intelligence? What the Documents Show
The primary documents name no single inventor of AI: a 1955 proposal by four authors used the term artificial intelligence, and different institutions credit different people for different parts of the field.
AI Explained How to Use AI in Your Business: A 7-Day First-Week Plan
This site's first-week method is one chat assistant, five everyday writing tasks, one check on every output and a written count on day 7, and it promises no result.
AI Explained Is Microsoft Copilot Free? Which Copilot Costs What (2026)
Microsoft says its Copilot app is free with a Microsoft account and Copilot Chat is included at no additional cost with eligible Microsoft 365 work plans, but Microsoft sells several different products under the name Copilot, so check which account and which Microsoft 365 plan you already pay for before adding a paid Copilot.
AI Explained How to Use Google AI for Your Business: First Steps (2026)
Google AI is several separate tools that appear in different places depending on your account, so find which one your account already shows before you follow any steps.
AI Explained What Is AI Ethics? What the Main Frameworks Ask of You
AI ethics is the set of principles that documents such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the OECD AI Principles and UNESCO's Recommendation list for building and using AI, and none of the three is a US law for a small business; the binding rules are separate.
AI Explained Is ChatGPT Accurate? What OpenAI Says and What to Check
OpenAI's own pages say ChatGPT output may not always be accurate and should not be the sole source of truth, and the one error rate OpenAI publishes is tied to one benchmark and two named models, so an owner should verify every fact before it leaves the building.
AI Explained What Can AI Do for a Small Business? Documented Tasks and Limits
Five vendor pages read on 7 October 2026 document AI that drafts email, writes up meetings, transcribes voicemail, pulls typed and handwritten text out of documents and answers questions about a contact or company, and each row pairs the feature sentence with what the same page says about errors.