Plain-English guides for business owners.
Longer, evergreen pieces you can hand to your team. For the weekly field notes, see the posts.
What is shadow AI?
The AI your staff already use without telling you, the real risks in order, and a one-week plan to get it under control.
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AI acceptable use policy template
A free one-page policy for small businesses: approved tools, what never gets pasted in, and when a human reviews.
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- Jun 23, 2026 Read →
How We’re Solving SMB Problems with Practical AI Agents
We’ve been heads-down building the systems that make AI agents work for real businesses. Here’s what we’ve learned—and what’s working today for SMBs like yours.
- Jun 23, 2026 Read →
Hermes Agent: the self-hosted agent that learns
Hermes is an open-source agent from Nous Research that lives on your server, runs on Slack/Telegram/email/CLI, and gets smarter the longer it runs. It crossed 60,000 GitHub stars in two months. Here is what it does and when to use it.
- May 13, 2026 Read →
Plan Mode and Claude Design: what Anthropic shipped this spring
Plan Mode turned Claude into a colleague who reads the problem before writing. Claude Design turned it into a designer who learns your brand. Here is what each does and where it lands for a Central Coast business.
- May 13, 2026 Read →
The agent layer arrived this spring. Here's what Central Coast businesses should actually do about it.
In the past 90 days Anthropic, OpenAI, Notion, and the open-source world all shipped serious agent products. Here is how to think about the convergence — and what to do about it on the Central Coast.
- Apr 12, 2026 Read →
Why Santa Barbara businesses should care about AI now
If you run a small business on the Central Coast, the question isn't whether AI matters. It's what to do about it this quarter.
- Mar 6, 2026 Read →
Automate Fishing Report Emails for Santa Barbara Charter Companies
Over a single automated system, you can streamline daily reports, avoid hazardous conditions by sending timely alerts, and boost bookings and client trust with consistent, personalized updates that cut manual work and improve safety. Key Takeaways: Automation cuts manual work and
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