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Mapping My LinkedIn Journey: 23 Years of Professional Connections
I’ve been on LinkedIn since 2003, my first connection was on December 27 2003 to John Worton. Twenty-three years. I have never once stopped to look at what I’d actually accumulated there. That’s not humility. It’s just how it goes. You’re busy working, you connect with people after meetings and conferences, and the number ticks… 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
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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