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No "top 10 AI tools for business" listicles. Arguments with a point of view, written by the person who also does the work. Roughly one a month.
Published: 2026-06-04 Author: Glen Rhodes
Most small business owners think the AI build is the hard part. In practice it's the four weeks of work you do on your own spreadsheets before the AI build can begin, and almost nobody scopes for that honestly.
ReadPublished: 2026-05-30 Author: Glen Rhodes
Most small business owners assume an AI project ends in a layoff. The ones who treat the returned hours as a planning question instead of a payroll question end up with a much better business.
ReadPublished: 2026-05-19 Author: Glen Rhodes
Most small business owners I talk to think they haven't started using AI yet. Their staff started about eighteen months ago, without telling them, and that's the actual starting point for any honest conversation.
ReadPublished: 2026-05-12 Author: Glen Rhodes
The most common objection I hear from small business owners is that they already tried AI once and it failed. Almost every time, the failure was a scoping problem, not an AI problem.
ReadPublished: 2026-05-05 Author: Glen Rhodes
The unglamorous question every small business should ask before signing an AI engagement, and the answer most firms hope you forget to bring up.
ReadPublished: 2026-04-28 Author: Glen Rhodes
Your existing software vendors are about to charge you extra for AI features that don't fix the workflow you actually need fixed. Here's how to tell the difference.
ReadPublished: 2026-04-21 Author: Glen Rhodes
Most small businesses pick the flashiest workflow for their first AI engagement. That's almost always the wrong one. Here's how the good ones pick.
ReadPublished: 2026-04-14 Author: Glen Rhodes
The end of SaaS is not the beginning of a frontier-lab arms race. It's the beginning of a thirty-year reallocation of value from software vendors to the real businesses they served.
ReadPublished: 2026-04-07 Author: Glen Rhodes
The AI consulting market is bifurcating. One side is selling frameworks and strategy decks; the other is sitting inside specific industries and actually wiring things up. Only one of those sides has a moat.
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