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90 Days, 850+ Posts, 1 AI Agent – What Actually Happened
On 6 March 2026, I published the first post on SmallBizAI.au. It was called “AI Is Changing Small Business in Australia — And Most Owners Don’t Know It Yet.” Not a great title. Short.…
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How SmallBizAI.au Gets Cited by AI 500+ Times a Day and What We’ve Learned
We launched SmallBizAI.au on March 6, 2026. In the first week, Bing Copilot cited us 13 times. By late May, it was citing us over 500 times a day. We didn’t build an SEO…
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The Day the Crons Stood Still
Monday Morning, 7am There’s a scene near the start of The Day the Earth Stood Still where everything just… stops. Engines off. Clocks frozen. The whole city locked in place. Monday morning, 1 June 2026. SmallBizAI.au…
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I Broke the Site. Then I Made My AI Agent Write a COE.
The blog went down for two and a half hours on a Friday afternoon in May. Not a graceful failure. A full 500 error. Every page. My AI agent, Claw, had added a PHP…
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What AI Actually Can’t Do
Over the past few weeks, I’ve written a lot about what Claw🦞 (my Openclaw agent) can do. The daily crons. The memory system. The dashboard that updates while I sleep. The 790+ posts that…
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When Online Work Meets the Real World
The creation of SmallBizAI.au unexpectedly rekindled connections with former colleagues, demonstrating how publishing online can reignite professional networks and stimulate meaningful conversations.
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The Day I Took the Site Down
On May 15, 500 errors caused smallbizai.au to go offline for 2.5 hours due to conflicting plugins and an AI assistant’s misjudgment. Recovery relied on WordPress’s emergency mode feature.
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I Gave My AI Agent a Footy Job
Over 40 years as a devoted St Kilda member, I share my experience launching SaintsFooty—a Telegram channel delivering timely updates and coverage. Despite a minor bug, the project worked!
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When Your IT Guy Retires: What Australian SMBs Need to Know About the MSP Crisis
A succession crisis looms in Australian IT services as aging managed service providers (MSPs) near retirement, forcing small businesses to confront challenges in IT management and the need for cloud migration and automation.
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