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Notes from the build.
Notes on running a business from one place: the company brain, Andy the assistant, connecting the software you already have, and what a year in looks like.
Nothing leaves without you: how approval-first AI keeps you safeSafe AI for business is not a smarter model. It is drafts, approvals, an audit trail, permissions and isolation. How the approval-first way works at TAO.Read
Keep Xero, your CRM and your job system. Connect them instead.Why ripping out Xero, your CRM and your job system to get AI is the wrong move, and what it looks like to connect business systems two-way instead.Read
AI for tradies and builders: what actually gets handledQuotes, invoices, bookings, chasing and the site group chat. What construction business automation in Australia looks like when an assistant does the work.Read
Chandeliers To Die For: from five days to one, and $250k backHow a Sydney chandelier hire and events business took a five day job down to one and got about $250k a year back from a way of working that cost $550k to run.Read
The company brain: getting your business out of your headWhy every small business runs on knowledge in the owner’s head, what it costs, and what a company knowledge base built by AI looks like when it works.Read
What a done-for-you AI platform actually is, and what it is notMost AI for small business is a tool you have to learn. A done-for-you AI platform is built for you, connected to your systems and run by an assistant.Read One conversation about how your business works.
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