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Honest question.If you had a free afternoon to fix one thing in your business with AI, where would you even start?Most p...
10/08/2026

Honest question.

If you had a free afternoon to fix one thing in your business with AI, where would you even start?

Most people freeze. 400 tools. Zero guidance.

Start here instead: what's the task you do every week, hate, and that follows the same steps every time?

That's your first system. One. Not ten.

Tell me in the comments. Then save a seat for our free training.

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OpenAI just published 722 finished research papers. One prompt each.Not a demo. A public folder anyone can open.An unrel...
10/08/2026

OpenAI just published 722 finished research papers. One prompt each.

Not a demo. A public folder anyone can open.

An unreleased model was handed about 4,000 hard math problems. Each result took roughly three hours of computing time.

Here is the part most headlines skipped. Only 162 of the 722 have been checked by software that confirms every step. That's about 22%.

An MIT mathematician put it in four words: "We should ask for receipts."

Your business is about to get the same problem. An AI agent can hand you a stack of finished-looking work before you've had coffee. Whether any of it is right is a separate job, and that job decides if the work is worth anything.

Most people building with AI haven't set that job up.

When your AI hands you finished work, who checks it?

What happens when your customer's AI agent shows up at your business before your customer does?It's about to be a normal...
10/07/2026

What happens when your customer's AI agent shows up at your business before your customer does?

It's about to be a normal Tuesday.

Yesterday, Sierra and Meta announced Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard for how a person's AI agent signs in to a business and what that business lets it do. Walmart, Shopify and Stripe are founding partners, along with Genesys, Rocket and Instinct. The first spec is due later this month.

Here is how it works in plain terms.

The agent arrives as a guest. It can check stock or read your returns policy. Once the customer signs in, the customer decides whether the agent gets read-only access or the right to make changes. Then you decide how it gets served: through your website, through your systems, or through an agent of your own.

Two things are worth knowing. Payments aren't in the first version. And Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic aren't on the partner list. So this is one standard among competing ones, not the finish line.

That's not the point.

The point is that the big names have stopped debating whether customers will send agents. They're writing the rules for the front door.

Most agents today use your website the way a person does. They load pages and click through forms. When that fails, they call your support line or open your chat. If your answers live in someone's head, or in a PDF nobody updated, the agent hits a wall and your customer goes to the competitor whose answers were easy to read.

You don't need a protocol to get ready. You need three things written down in plain language: what you sell, what it costs, and what happens when something goes wrong.

Agents will be reading that before your customers do.

If an AI agent walked into your business today and asked for your pricing, your hours and your return policy, could it get a clear answer in ten seconds?

An Amazon seller came to us at about $120K a month.A few months later: $300K a month. Same products. No big new ad budge...
10/07/2026

An Amazon seller came to us at about $120K a month.

A few months later: $300K a month. Same products. No big new ad budget.

What changed was the plumbing. AI took over the customer questions, listing work, and weekly reporting that had been capping growth.

Most businesses doing $500K to $5M have $150K to $200K in profit sitting uncaptured.

Find yours with our free 3-minute AI Profit Gap Audit.

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10/06/2026

Kids have a new insult: "That's so AI."

It means generic. Bland. Could be anyone.

They're right about most of what gets posted. And it's not an AI problem. It's a context problem.

Ask AI with zero information about your business and you get the average of the internet. Give it your real context first and it starts sounding like you.

That's what we teach in our free training. No coding.

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Where do your customers spend their time when they're making something?Increasingly, inside ChatGPT. And as of Monday, t...
10/06/2026

Where do your customers spend their time when they're making something?

Increasingly, inside ChatGPT. And as of Monday, that's where the ads are going.

OpenAI said it will start testing visual ads during image generation later this month. US only. An initial group of advertisers. The ads are labeled, and they sit separate from the image you're creating.

The number behind it: ChatGPT now reaches 1.2 billion people every week.

A few facts so you have the real picture. Paid Plus, Pro and Enterprise users won't see these ads. OpenAI says ads won't change the answers ChatGPT gives, and that they'll stay out of sensitive conversations. This builds on the text and link ads it already introduced this year. It's a test, not a rollout.

Here's what matters for you.

For twenty years the same thing happened. People moved to a new place for attention, and the businesses that showed up early paid the least for it. Search did it. Facebook did it. Now the free tier of the biggest AI app on earth is doing it.

Most owners will read this as an ad story. It isn't. It's a signal about where buying decisions are starting.

Someone asks ChatGPT to design a logo, a flyer, a menu, a product photo. They are in the middle of a project and they need something. That's a buyer with a problem and an open tab.

The owners who win here won't be the ones with the biggest budget. They'll be the ones who already know exactly who they're talking to, what that person needs in that moment, and what the one next step is.

An ad budget doesn't fix a fuzzy offer. A new channel just makes a fuzzy offer expensive faster.

So before the channel matters, the offer does.

If your customers are already asking AI for help before they ever call you, what would you want it to say about your business?

Do you know what your cash balance will be in six weeks?Most small business owners don't. They know today's number. They...
10/05/2026

Do you know what your cash balance will be in six weeks?

Most small business owners don't. They know today's number. They guess the rest.

That just changed.

On October 1, Perplexity and American Express launched ten pre-built AI Skills for US Amex Business Card Members. Tax prep. Cash flow forecasting. Marketing campaigns. Hiring. You don't write a prompt. You fill in a short form, like which period you want forecast.

Here's what the cash flow Skill does. It pulls your bank balances and transaction history. It builds a week-by-week forecast. It flags the weeks where you come up short.

The tax prep Skill sorts your transactions, flags the unusual and uncategorized expenses, and builds a report your accountant can review.

That's CFO work. The work most owners skip because it takes a spreadsheet, a free weekend, and patience nobody has.

Now it's a form.

A few facts so you have the real picture. It's for Business Card Members, not Corporate Card. It runs on Perplexity Enterprise and uses Computer Credits. You connect your card and your operating bank account through Plaid. A full forecast needs that bank connection. Linking your accounting tool makes the timing sharper.

So not free, and not magic. But the barrier moved from "I don't have a finance person" to "I haven't connected my accounts."

Here's the part that matters most.

A forecast doesn't fix anything. It tells you week seven is short. What you do about week seven is still on you. Move an invoice. Pause a hire. Push an offer. Call a client.

Two owners will get the same forecast this month. One will read it and move. The other will let it sit in a tab.

Same tool. Same numbers. Different year-end.

And this is the pattern across every launch this week. The tools that used to need a specialist are turning into forms. The scarce thing now is the owner who knows what to do with the answer.

If a forecast flagged a shortfall six weeks from now, what's the first move you'd make?

3 employees to 160. $50K to $75M.I did that as a COO. Before AI existed. Most of it was brute force: more people, more m...
10/05/2026

3 employees to 160. $50K to $75M.

I did that as a COO. Before AI existed. Most of it was brute force: more people, more meetings, more nights at the office.

Today I watch solo owners build the same systems in an afternoon. The follow-up. The CRM. The dashboard.

The difference is giving AI the real context of your business.

I didn't have that leverage. You do.

Free training at aigrowthcapitalists.com.

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What if your next website redesign took one conversation?On Thursday, Shopify launched Canvas.Every page of your store, ...
10/05/2026

What if your next website redesign took one conversation?

On Thursday, Shopify launched Canvas.

Every page of your store, laid out side by side. You pan across the whole site, zoom into any section, and tell Sidekick, Shopify's built-in AI agent, what to change. Or you click the thing you want different.

The change shows up right away. Not on a flat mockup. On a working version of your store's real code, which you can check on a phone, on a desktop, across your products and collections.

Here's the part most people will skip past.

Sidekick now works directly inside the theme's files. It checks its own code. It checks screenshots of what it just built. Then it hands the result back to you. That covers anything from one section to a full redesign.

Shopify says Canvas doesn't replace the regular theme editor yet, and it's rolling out over the next few days. This is version one.

Think about what that does to the old routine. You have an idea for the store. You write a brief. You wait on a developer. You wait on revisions. You pay for revisions.

That routine just got optional.

And when building gets cheap, one thing gets expensive: knowing what the store should do. Which page earns the sale. Which offer goes above the fold. What a returning customer should see first.

Sidekick can build whatever you describe. It can't tell you what to describe.

That gap is where the money is. Two owners will open the same tool this month. One will type "make it look better." The other will walk in with a conversion plan, a page order, and a reason for every section.

Same tool. Different store. Different revenue.

You don't need to run a Shopify store for this to matter. This is where every website tool is headed, and your competitors will get there whether they have a plan or not.

When you can build anything by describing it, what's the first thing you'd describe?

10/04/2026

If you've bought the course, tried the side hustle, or asked ChatGPT something and got a generic answer back, and quietly gave up...

It wasn't you.

Most courses sell information. You got a pile of videos and a pat on the back. What you needed was one working system inside your actual business.

That's the only thing we do differently. We build ONE system, in YOUR real business, with your real numbers.

It's a slower start. It's also the one that sticks.

We walk through it in a free training. Save a seat on a quiet Sunday and decide for yourself.

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