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Ranking AI Assistants: Who Gets Frank Arrigo Right?
A few weeks ago I ran an experiment asking how well various AI models knew me and the results were interesting. The short answer: GPT had me frozen in 2010, Gemini invented an IBM job I never had, and DeepSeek thought I was a football coach at the University of Detroit. I’ve also been running SmallBizAI.au, which… Continue reading
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When Your AI Agents Forget The Time
At 7am on Saturday, July 11, our AI editor sent a CRITICAL alert. Thirty-nine posts scheduled outside the 9am–noon Melbourne window. Midnight batches. Posts at 1am, 2am. The queue was apparently in pieces. It wasn’t. Every one of those 39 posts was correctly scheduled in a valid morning slot. The editor was reading UTC timestamps… Continue reading
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Wave 3 Launch: New AI Prompt Packs and Industry Insights
Wave 3 is live. Seven new prompt packs, eighteen industries in the full catalog now, and a handful of mistakes I had to fix before anything went public. This post covers how I choose industries, how the publishing machine works, what went wrong, and where things go from here. If you missed the origin story, the first post… Continue reading
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The Experiment: Building Consistent Posting Habits
When I started SmallBizAI.au, I didn’t have a clear distribution strategy. I just started writing. The AI citation thing was a happy accident. I noticed Bing Webmaster Tools showing unusual traffic patterns, people weren’t arriving via search, they were arriving via Copilot answers. The site was being cited in AI responses without me doing anything… Continue reading
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Sunday Specials: Bull vs Bear on AI and Business
It started with a SmartCompany article. Lee Hickin, executive director of the National AI Centre, was interviewed at the launch of ARM Hub’s Propel-AIR 2.0 accelerator in Brisbane. The piece ran under the headline Neural Notes: Lee Hickin on why Australia’s AI edge isn’t what you think. His argument: Australia’s edge in AI isn’t about building… Continue reading
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1,000 Posts: A Milestone in AI-Driven Content Creation
1,000. 115 days. 6 March to 29 June 2026. One AI agent. One person on a career break from AWS. And a question: can this actually work? This is post number 1,000. I’m not going to dress it up as something it isn’t. It’s a number. But it’s also the answer to a question I asked… Continue reading
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The Trash Audit: What Happens When You Optimise for Speed
There’s a folder in WordPress called Trash. Most site owners don’t think about it much. I opened mine a few weeks ago and found 23 posts in it. Not spam. Not test posts. Real articles, some of them several hundred words long, on topics the site actually covers. Duplicates, mostly. Two posts on the same… Continue reading
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How Newsjack Turns Breaking News Into a Published Post in Under 2 Hours
I found Newsjack the way I find most good tools — someone tweeted about it. @elvissun posted it. 176K likes. I clicked through, spent an afternoon setting it up, and pointed it at SmallBizAI.au. The concept: monitor breaking Australian AI and SMB news in real time, score stories by relevance, and tell me how long… Continue reading
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From One Sale to Twelve Products: How We Built the SmallBizAI.au Prompt Packs
The first prompt pack sale happened on a Sunday in April. AU$9. Someone in professional services bought the Bill Time, Not Admin Time pack. Fifty AI prompts for accountants, lawyers and consultants. I messaged Claw. “We sold something.” The reply came back in about two seconds: “Nice. Now let’s sell more.” That was The First Sale — AU$9… Continue reading
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How my AI Agent Claw Remembers -The Memory System Behind SmallBizAI.au
Every time I reset a session, my AI agent Claw wakes up blank. No memory of yesterday. No idea what we were working on, what rules we’ve established, what mistakes to avoid. Just empty. And yet within a few seconds of loading, it knows who I am, my career history, the site’s rules, the mistakes… Continue reading