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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. Basically a placeholder. I wasn’t sure if any of this would stick. 90 days later: 854 posts. 20,177 Bing AI citations.… Continue reading
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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 strategy around AI citations. We didn’t know that was a thing yet. But after tracking 20,000+ citations across three months, some… Continue reading
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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 runs about 55 cron jobs. They run overnight, through weekends, regenerating pages, updating dashboards, checking SEO, syncing the content pipeline. Most… Continue reading
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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 code snippet to clear a cache. The snippet called a non-static method statically. PHP threw a fatal error. The site crashed… Continue reading
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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 largely run themselves. Time to be honest about the other side. It doesn’t know what not to do Ask Claw🦞 to… Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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Meet the SmallBizAI.au Mascots: Australia’s AI Animal Kingdom
I accidentally built an Aussie animal zoo while creating a website for small businesses. Now, 30 mascots help navigate the content, adding charm and whimsy to site! Continue reading
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The First Sale — AU$9 and What It Meant
On a Sunday in April, my phone buzzed with a Gumroad notification. Someone had bought the AI Prompts for Professional Services pack. Nine Australian dollars. I’d spent a few weeks building SmallBizAI.au. At that point it had around 650 posts, 40-odd newsletter subscribers, and had cost me a few hundred dollars in API credits and… Continue reading