Notes from the actual work.
What I learn building AI systems for real businesses. No theory, no hype.
Is It Safe to Let AI Make Changes to Your Website?
I let Claude make every edit on a client's website and only pressed publish. A plugin that updated itself and 275 link edits in one batch taught me the rest: back up first, check the live page and keep the publish button.
How Do You Use AI for Data Entry When the Numbers Have to Be Right?
A lawyer was about to spend his Saturday typing two years of pay stubs into Excel. AI did the typing in an afternoon. These are the checks that made the numbers safe to rely on.
What Should You Export Before You Cancel Your Accounting Software?
What I downloaded and checked before canceling the accounting software for two of my businesses, how I proved the export was complete, and the files a standard download left out.
What Does It Really Take to Have AI Write Your Social Media Posts?
The setup took about a weekend and runs for about $1.70 a month. Making the posts sound like the owner took weeks, and the first live weeks showed which checks were missing.
How Do You Rebuild a Year of Books From Bank Statements?
A client had a year of bank statements and no books. Nine days later the accountant had all three reports. These are the checks that caught what went wrong on the way.
How Do You Research an Amazon Listing Before You Write It?
Before AI wrote a word of a small manufacturer's first Amazon listing, I wanted four answers, each from its own source. Every one of them changed the copy.
What to Check Before You Cancel a Web Host, Domain or Email Account
Canceling my old web host on schedule would have taken two other domains off the internet. These are the six checks that found everything depending on it first.
Why Your Team Ignores The Process You Wrote Down
The same instruction sat in four separate files, was read, was agreed with, and all 25 pages broke it anyway. Where a rule lives decides whether it holds.
Why Your AI Context File Is Probably Wrong
It never invented anything. It wrote down what I said and made it look checked, and I carried the file for weeks before a second AI session caught it.
How Do You Know If AI Actually Did The Work?
Five scripts reported success in one session and none of them had worked. Two questions separate work that happened from work that was reported.
How Do You Tell If AI Research Is Any Good?
Fifteen sources agreed with me, and all fifteen had read the same blog post. Two questions that catch this, plus the one change that turned 15 sources into 49.
How Do You Verify AI Output Before You Act On It?
A second AI agreeing with the first is not verification. The three-layer pattern I used on a court deliverable: 602 field comparisons, 6 disagreements, 0 errors shipped.
How to Make AI Remember Your Business Between Sessions
Three plain text files, no plugin and no subscription. Plus the reason a correct note still gets ignored, which I found across 11 client projects.
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