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AI resources for small business owners
Guides, checklists and tools I built for founders running 5 to 20 people.
Why I give this away
Not every business can hire help right now. Some founders would rather build it themselves, and plenty of them do it well.
Everything on this page is the same thinking I use with paying clients. Take what you need and put it to work. If you get stuck, or you'd rather hand it off, you'll already know how I work before we talk.
Guides and checklists
Free guide
Fix First, Scale Smart
The 10 systems a growing business needs before adding AI to any of them, and the order to build them in. Get the guide → Free by emailAI playbooks and checklists
10 step-by-step guides for automating the work your team does by hand, like lead intake, client onboarding and SOPs. Get the playbooks → Sample SOPsWorkflow SOPs by trade
Worked SOPs for one workflow at a time, starting with an HVAC service call. Each step says what AI does, what a person decides and when the work stops for a human. See the sample SOPs → ResearchSmall business AI statistics
Over 120 statistics on how small businesses use AI, what it changes and what holds them back, each checked against its primary source. See the research → GuideFounder bottlenecks
A diagnostic for the decisions and know-how that only live in your head, and how to hand them to your team. Run it on yourself first. Read the guide → Free guideFind your first automation in 5 days
A one-week tally of what your team retypes between tools, then a step-by-step build for the top item. Includes the message to send your team. Read the guide → Free checklistThe holiday test for your automations
Find the automations that stop when one computer is off, and move the worst one somewhere that is always on. Read the checklist →Tools you can use today
Free tools
Custom GPTs
The GPTs I built for my own work, including an SOP Specialist and a Support Response Assistant. Open one in ChatGPT and use it today. See the GPTs → Skills and agentsWhat I built
The Claude skills and agents that run my own business, from a Monday operating briefing to the system that drafts this blog. See how each one works. See the builds →Articles
Articles
AI operations
How a small business runs day to day with AI in the workflow, and where to start. Read the AI operations articles → ArticlesAI automation
Which work to automate first, how to build it so it holds up, and what it costs. Read the automation articles → ArticlesSEO and AI
How I run SEO for a small business, with AI doing most of the research and drafting. Read the SEO articles →Want help putting these to work?
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