writing
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7 Weeks of Social Sharing: Key Insights and Results
Seven weeks ago I wrote about starting a daily social sharing experiment. Ten days in, some early signals, no real conclusions. I promised to come back at 30 days with actual numbers. I’m a bit late. Here’s what seven weeks looks like. The numbers 125 posts shared. 69 AM slots, 53 PM slots, a couple of… 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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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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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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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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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
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Australian Boards Don’t Understand AI. Here’s Why That’s A Problem For All Of Us.
And I’ll tell you what I’ve noticed: the people making technology decisions at most Australian companies often understand finance, law, and general management very well. They understand technology considerably less well. New research from Queensland University of Technology has put numbers to something I’ve experienced firsthand. Out of the 500 largest ASX-listed companies, more than… Continue reading