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Guides for working with AI
How to get real work out of Claude, ChatGPT and AI agents: skills and prompts that work, tool comparisons, and how to run a CRM, SEO and dashboards with your AI. New posts every week.
Context Windows Explained: Why Your AI Forgets Things Mid-Conversation (and What Actually Fixes It)
Your AI isn't forgetting things because it's getting confused - it's running out of room. Every model has a fixed "context window," the total amount of text it can hold and reason over at...
What a 5-Person Team Wastes in Tokens Every Month (A Real Case Study)
A 5-person team that lets everyone freelance their own AI prompts isn't just burning tokens - it's burning hours and shipping inconsistent work. This is a representative case study (a com...
The Hidden Cost of Re-Prompting: What It's Actually Costing You in Tokens
Open a new chat. Type "Act as our brand's copywriter. Here's our tone: confident but not salesy, no exclamation points, always speak to the reader as 'you.' Here's our audience: mid-marke...
Why Long Chats Get Dumber (and How to Fix It Without Starting Over)
You know the feeling. Message forty of a chat that started sharp is now giving you answers that ignore half your instructions, contradict something it said ten messages ago, or drift back...
Why a Skill File Is Cheaper Than Prompting From Scratch (Every Single Time)
A skill file is cheaper than prompting from scratch because it pays its setup cost once instead of on every single message. Every time you re-explain your role, tone, and format to a blan...
AI Agents for Recruiting: A Practical Guide (2026)
What AI recruiting agents do, the hiring tasks they handle best, how to use them responsibly, and which agents to start with.
AI Agents for E-commerce: What to Use and How (2026)
What AI agents for e-commerce do, the store tasks they handle best, how to put them to work, and which agents to start with.
How to Use Grok AI: What It Is Actually Good At
Grok's real differentiator is live access to public posts on X, and that is also its biggest blind spot. What the modes do, what the tiers cost, when to reach for it, and when to use some...
How to Use AI Agents for Customer Support (2026 Guide)
A practical guide to putting AI agents to work in customer support without wrecking your customer experience: what to automate, what to escalate, and how to set it up.
What Is MCP (Model Context Protocol)? A Plain-English Guide
MCP is the standard that lets AI assistants connect to your apps, files and databases. Here is what it is, how it works, and what you actually need to do to use it.
The AI Price War: Why Top-Tier AI Just Got Much Cheaper
Frontier-quality AI models now cost a fraction of what they did a year ago. Here is what the AI price war means for your work, and how to take advantage of it without changing your whole ...
How to Use Claude as an Agency New Business Lead: The Wesley Skill Guide
Most agency pitches do not lose on quality of work - they lose because the first 30 seconds talk about the agency instead of the prospect's actual problem. Using Claude as an agency new b...
How to Use Claude as a Web Design Agency Creative Director: The Mara Skill Guide
Design work gets rejected far more often for how it is explained than for how it looks. Using Claude as a web design agency creative director gives that explanation a backbone: a tool lik...
How to Use Claude as an Agency Project Manager: The Diego Skill Guide
Most agency project delays do not come from the work being hard - they come from unclear ownership and scope changes nobody wrote down until it became an argument. Using Claude as an agen...
How to Use Claude as an Agency Account Manager: The Reese Skill Guide
Agency clients rarely leave over one big mistake - they leave after months of status updates that listed activity instead of outcomes, and bad news that arrived too late to fix. Using Cla...