How to Automate Your Small Business With AI Agents
The exact playbook I use to automate a real small business with AI agents — from the $5/month Cloudflare stack to the tasks that actually pay off.
Jul 3, 2026
The Agent Notebook
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396 posts on growth, marketing, sales, processes, business, SEO, GEO, and AI agents — written from the operator's seat.
How to Build a Personal Brand Online in 2026
A practitioner's guide to building a personal brand from scratch — how to pick your niche, find your POV, publish consistently
Jul 1, 2026
How to Add Memory to an AI Agent: State Patterns
Stateless agents forget everything between runs. Here are the three memory patterns I use in production — working, episodic, and semantic
Jun 29, 2026
How to Build an Email List from Zero: The 2026 Playbook
Step-by-step guide to building an email list from scratch — the lead magnets that convert, where to place opt-in forms, how to write a welcome sequence
Jun 26, 2026
How to Monetize a Newsletter: 5 Revenue Models
A practitioner's breakdown of the five newsletter revenue models — from paid subscriptions and sponsorships to course funnels and affiliate income
Jun 24, 2026
How to Build Your First MCP Server: A Practitioner's Guide
The exact TypeScript code I use to build and register MCP servers — stdio transport, tool definitions, and how to test them in Claude Desktop in under 30…
Jun 22, 2026
How to Validate a Business Idea Before You Build It
A practitioner's framework for testing whether a business idea has real demand before you invest time and money — 5 methods, common traps
Jun 19, 2026
AI Agent Cost Math: When Haiku Beats Sonnet
Updated for 2026. The cost math I use to pick Claude Haiku vs Sonnet per task — token economics, the routing rule, and where cheap models quietly cost more.
Jun 7, 2026
How to Debug an AI Agent in Production (A Field Guide)
Updated for 2026. The exact playbook I use to debug AI agents running live — trace every step, isolate the failing layer, and reproduce non-determinism fast.
Jun 7, 2026
How to Measure Traffic From AI Search
Updated for 2026. How I measure AI-search traffic from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude — referrer tracking, the dark-traffic problem, and what to trust.
Jun 7, 2026
Multi-Agent Orchestration: Queues, State, Handoffs
Updated for 2026. The orchestration patterns I use to run multi-agent systems — durable queues, externalized state, and clean handoffs that survive retries.
Jun 7, 2026
The Eval Harness I Use to Ship AI Agents Without Fear
Updated for 2026. The eval harness I use to ship AI agents — a graded test set, an LLM judge, and a regression gate so a prompt change can't break prod.
Jun 7, 2026