Before You Automate Anything: How I Evaluate an AI Workflow for a Small Business

Artificial intelligence tools are improving quickly. Every week, a new platform promises to automate customer service, replace administrative work, or “10x productivity.” For a small business owner, that creates pressure. You start to wonder: Are we falling behind? Should we be using this? But in my experience, the right question isn’t…

Why Measuring AI’s Ability to Complete Long Tasks Matters — and What It Means for Businesses

When most people think about AI progress, they think about big, flashy moments: an AI winning a chess match, generating a song, or answering a complicated trivia question in seconds. But if you run a business, you know real success doesn’t come from a single clever move. It comes from sticking with a project — handling complexity over days, ev…

5 No-Code Tools for Creating AI Agents (Without a Developer)

Small businesses are under pressure to adopt AI—but the idea of “building an AI agent” still sounds like something only a Fortune 500 company could afford. Most small teams can’t hire an engineer, let alone a full-on AI consultant. That’s where no-code tools come in. But first—what exactly is an AI agent? In simple terms, it’s an …

Claude’s Moral Code: What Anthropic’s New AI Study Means for Business Values

Artificial intelligence isn’t just about speed and efficiency anymore — it’s starting to express values. And that shift matters, especially for small businesses trying to lead with authenticity in an increasingly digital world. Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, just dropped a fascinating study analyzing over 700,000 real-world conv…

Introducing a New Seattle AI Directory: A Local Resource I Wish I Had Had

Over the past few months, I’ve been in touch with dozens of business owners, developers, and aspiring founders around the Seattle area who are trying to figure out where to begin with AI. Whether they’re looking for a consultant, a technical partner, a meetup group, or simply inspiration from a local startup doing great things, the question ke…