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AI & Automation.
Practical AI and automation for founders and operators — agents, workflow design, and the build-vs-buy calls. Field notes from teaching thousands of Ukrainian and Polish entrepreneurs to automate the work they do twice.
7 posts
018 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026Teaching Tens of Thousands to Build With AI: What Sticks
After teaching tens of thousands to build with AI, I've learned what makes the skill durable. Most people stall at the demo. The few who ship share small habits.
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028 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026Workflow Automation Patterns That Actually Save Hours
Four reusable automation patterns I teach entrepreneurs — trigger-action, human-in-the-loop, data-in/draft-out, and scheduled digests — each with a concrete example.
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039 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026AI Automation for Solo Founders: First High-Leverage Wins
The first AI automations a solo founder should ship to buy back hours, ranked by leverage and ease: inbox triage, content repurposing, lead handling, reporting.
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049 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026What Entrepreneurs Get Wrong About AI: Hype vs. Utility
Most founders chase AI demos that impress and never ship. The real wins are boring, repeatable, and compound quietly. Here is how to tell them apart.
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058 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026Build vs. Buy: When an SME Should Wire Its Own AI
A practical build-vs-buy framework for SMEs deciding whether to wire their own AI workflow or pay for a vendor tool, judged on four factors.
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069 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026How to Build Your First Useful AI Agent for a Small Business
A plain-language walkthrough for shipping one genuinely useful AI agent: scope a single repetitive job, wire inputs and outputs, and keep a human in the loop.
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078 MIN·UPDATED · JUN 2026Do It Twice, Think About Automating; Three Times, Automate
My rule for deciding what to automate: count how often a task repeats and how much it costs you. Twice, you think. Three times, you build.
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