AIssisted Consulting

10/19/2026

I got to join Patrick and Hannes on OpenClaw's ClawCast, alongside Graham McBain, to talk about how we help small businesses put OpenClaw to work. Pretty wild one.

We got into where to start: connect the tools you already use, pay attention to the work your team repeats, and turn the routines that matter into skills. Proposals, bid calculations, email and calendar briefings, and pulling scattered leads into one place all came up. Joe Pishgar also came on to introduce the OpenClaw community forum.

Thanks to Patrick, Hannes, Graham, Joe, and the whole OpenClaw team for having me. Full episode: https://openclaw.ai/podcast/episode-13

AIssisted Consulting helps small businesses harness the power of AI without the hype.

10/16/2026

A spreadsheet can be a surprisingly good first draft of an app.

The column headings tell you what information matters. The formulas reveal some of the rules. The awkward workarounds show where a purpose-built screen might help.

Before replacing it, ask what actually needs to change. If the sheet does the job, keep it. If different people need different access, or every update depends on one person remembering five steps, write down that specific problem first.

AIssisted Consulting builds custom software and improves existing workflows. Sometimes the useful answer is a small internal tool. Sometimes the tools you already have need connecting.

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10/15/2026

Yesterday I got to join Patrick and Hannes on OpenClaw's ClawCast, alongside Graham McBain, to talk about how we help small businesses put OpenClaw to work.

We got into where to start: connect the tools you already use, pay attention to the work your team repeats, and turn the routines that matter into skills. Proposals, bid calculations, email and calendar briefings, and pulling scattered leads into one place all came up. Joe Pishgar also came on to introduce the OpenClaw community forum.

Thanks to Patrick, Hannes, Graham, Joe, and the whole OpenClaw team for having me. Full episode: https://openclaw.ai/podcast/episode-13

AIssisted Consulting helps small businesses harness the power of AI without the hype.

10/12/2026

OpenAI introduced GPT-6.1 Sol as an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol. They say it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, computer use, and professional work, at one-fifth of Astra's standard input and output token prices. Cached input is listed at $0.10 per million tokens. Those figures are OpenAI's, not a run we did.

10/09/2026

Anthropic published Claude Sonnet 5.5 on its news page. The listed price stayed at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Anthropic says output is 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5, and that in its own tests the cost is up to 30% less per task because the model uses fewer tokens. For a small business, that is a pricing fact to check against the actual step, not proof that a cheaper model should run every job.

10/07/2026

Last week Meta launched Muse for Small Business and OpenAI launched dots. Both are AI agents that keep working in the background and connect to the tools you already use. Meta says Muse can work with your page, ad account, storefront, books and customer records. OpenAI says dots connect to over 4,000 apps and run on their own cloud computer.

Before connecting one to your business, write down what it can see and what it's allowed to do without asking you. OpenAI's own launch post says dots "can still make mistakes, so always review consequential work."

If you want help drawing those lines, that's work we do at AIssisted Consulting.

10/05/2026

Citizens surveyed 500 U.S. business decision-makers in early September for its Q4 Business Pulse. One number stood out: among businesses using AI regularly across several parts of the business, 94% have reduced or eliminated spending on at least one outside service. Marketing services were the most common at 60%, followed by data analysis and reporting at 39% and bookkeeping at 38%.

Those same businesses were also twice as likely to expect to add full-time staff: 44%, compared with 22% of businesses overall.

So in this survey, the heavy AI users spent less on outside services and still planned to hire. The workflow automation work we do at AIssisted Consulting sits right in that gap: find the repeatable reporting and paperwork, automate it, and keep someone on your team reviewing what goes out.

10/05/2026

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10/02/2026

A document workflow can do more than move forms and reminders. Start with the files a business already trusts, return a short answer or comparison linked to the passage used, and leave a conflict or missing date visible. A person still decides customer commitments, prices, safety steps, and anything the sources do not settle. Cloud, local, or hybrid is a fit for those files, not a rule that every cloud tool is unsafe. An illustrative workflow from AIssisted Consulting—not a client case study.

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09/30/2026

Zapier counted 858,648 automation patterns from its own live workflows, as of June 26, 2026. Four outcomes made up 81.1 percent: a captured lead, a notification, a new record, and an updated record. The median pattern touched three apps. AI assistant steps showed up in 4.2 percent.

AIssisted Consulting uses that as a practical order for a local service business. Name the handoff between the tools already in use, and who checks the exception, before a model is added in the middle.