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7 Small-Business Tasks You Should Automate — and 5 You Probably Shouldn’t
ByStephen September 25, 2026September 22, 2026

Automation works best on repetitive, rules-based work. Here are seven small-business tasks worth automating and five where human judgment is usually more valuable than another workflow.

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Digging Deeper: Granola’s AI Notepad Skips the Meeting Bot — Useful, but Privacy Still Matters
ByStephen September 24, 2026September 21, 2026

Granola records meeting audio through your device instead of sending a bot into the call, then turns notes and transcripts into searchable meeting memory. That is useful—but still worth treating as recorded conversation.

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Digging Deeper: RunningHub’s One-Click Cutouts Are Real — But the Platform Is Much Bigger Than Background Removal
ByStephen September 22, 2026September 21, 2026

RunningHub really does offer one-click cutout workflows, but its larger story is a marketplace for AI apps, ComfyUI workflows and model APIs with usage-based billing.

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Digging Deeper: FLORA’s Generative AI Canvas — The Interesting Part Is the Workflow, Not Another Model
ByStephen September 21, 2026September 21, 2026

FLORA puts text, image and video models into a node-based creative canvas. The real value is not one more generator—it is turning repeatable creative work into a visible workflow.

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Something Squirrely — Episode 13: Content Repurposing Costs $1,200 a Month? Only If Your Time Is Worth $100 an Hour
ByStephen September 19, 2026September 18, 2026

Pluno’s ad says content repurposing costs $1,200 a month because it can consume 12 hours at $100 an hour. The automation is real. The $1,200 is an assumption dressed like a bill.

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What AI Is Actually Good For in a Small Business
ByStephen September 17, 2026September 19, 2026

AI can save a small business real time and effort, but its best uses are usually practical: research, drafting, organization, analysis, customer support, and content assistance—not running the entire company while you sleep.

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Something’s Squirrelly

Something Squirrely — Episode 11: Your First Month of an AI App Builder Is $1. Month Two Would Like a Word
ByStephen September 17, 2026September 18, 2026

Emergent is advertising its AI app builder for $1 for the first month through an affiliate promotion. The product is real, the discount is real, and the recurring price is the part you need to remember.

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Something Squirrely — Episode 8: Floot Says the AI Builder Costs $0. Apparently the Asterisk Has the Credit Card.
ByStephen September 17, 2026September 18, 2026

Floot says its MCP AI app builder costs $0. We dig into build-action limits, hosting costs, code export, and what the asterisk really means.

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ChatGPT for Absolute Beginners: No Prompt Engineering Degree Required
ByStephen September 14, 2026September 18, 2026

Artificial intelligence has reached that slightly awkward stage where almost everyone has heard of it, millions of people use it every day, and plenty of other people are still quietly wondering what everyone is talking about. You may have heard somebody at work mention ChatGPT. You may have seen television stories about artificial intelligence, Facebook…

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Something Squirrely — Episode 5: They Monetized the Loading Screen — and They’ll Give You Half
ByStephen September 14, 2026September 19, 2026

Every once in a while an advertisement appears that does not immediately make us think, “That’s bullshit.” Instead, it makes us wonder, “Why did nobody think of that sooner?” That was my reaction when an advertisement for Kickbacks.ai appeared in my Facebook feed with an unusual proposition: advertisers bid for the idle line displayed while…

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