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Scott McIntosh
AI Prices Are About to Fall Off a Cliff. Plus: 13 Words That Can Sabotage Your Reputation.

Jun 19, 2026

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3 min read

AI Prices Are About to Fall Off a Cliff. Plus: 13 Words That Can Sabotage Your Reputation.

Microsoft shipped AI agents into all of 365 and is already hunting for a cheaper engine, Anthropic blinked on pricing, and researchers showed how a single Reddit comment can poison AI search results.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
You're Paying 9x Too Much to Run Your AI Automations

Jun 17, 2026

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3 min read

You're Paying 9x Too Much to Run Your AI Automations

Zapier CTO's live breakdown shows exactly where small business owners are burning money on the wrong models.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
Your Favorite AI Model Could Disappear by Tomorrow Morning

Jun 16, 2026

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3 min read

Your Favorite AI Model Could Disappear by Tomorrow Morning

The government just proved it, and here's the backup plan that costs you nothing extra.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
Your Competitors Are Not Using AI (Most of Them, Anyway)

Jun 15, 2026

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3 min read

Your Competitors Are Not Using AI (Most of Them, Anyway)

One in five companies has touched AI at all. You're already ahead. Here's how to get further ahead this week.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
Stop Trading Prediction Markets — Trade STOCKS Using Prediction Market Signals

May 25, 2026

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6 min read

Stop Trading Prediction Markets — Trade STOCKS Using Prediction Market Signals

The smartest play isn't betting on Polymarket. It's letting Polymarket tell you which stocks are about to move.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
10 Ways AI Is Actually Beating Polymarket Right Now

May 23, 2026

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9 min read

10 Ways AI Is Actually Beating Polymarket Right Now

Yesterday we covered the pricing quirk that makes prediction markets beatable. Today, the ten ways professional AI traders are exploiting it.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
How to Beat Polymarket Almost Every Time (The Math Most People Miss)

May 22, 2026

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4 min read

How to Beat Polymarket Almost Every Time (The Math Most People Miss)

A simple pricing lesson from the world's largest prediction market — and why it applies to almost every business decision you make.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
Page One in 8 Weeks: The SEO + AIO + GEO Playbook (And How to Use It Yourself)

May 19, 2026

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4 min read

Page One in 8 Weeks: The SEO + AIO + GEO Playbook (And How to Use It Yourself)

We rebuilt a client's site and Google went from showing it 6,100 times a day to 44,000. Here's the exact playbook, in plain English, plus a free 60-second scanner so you can grade your own site.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
Anthropic just built Claude specifically for you.

May 17, 2026

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5 min read

Anthropic just built Claude specifically for you.

The company that makes Claude launched "Claude for Small Business" this week.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
The end of software as we knew it.

May 12, 2026

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6 min read

The end of software as we knew it.

The old software building playbook was: spend two years building, launch, then update slowly. AI just killed that. The new playbook builds software around your business in real time.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
A vegan cheese shop in Texas just clawed back $250,000 from a giant shipping carrier. Using AI.

May 10, 2026

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5 min read

A vegan cheese shop in Texas just clawed back $250,000 from a giant shipping carrier. Using AI.

No engineering team. No data analysts. No consultants. Just a founder, a year of invoices, and two AI tools that cost less than a phone bill.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
Your website bounces 90% of visitors. A startup just figured out why.

May 7, 2026

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3 min read

Your website bounces 90% of visitors. A startup just figured out why.

A new tool replaces your static webpage with an AI that actually talks to visitors, shows them your product, and books meetings. Plus: Claude Code limits just doubled overnight.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
Apple Just Waved the White Flag on AI

May 6, 2026

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3 min read

Apple Just Waved the White Flag on AI

The biggest tech company in the world is letting outside AI run its phone. That's not a gift to you. It's a warning to every business owner.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
A federal judge just ruled your ChatGPT conversations aren't privileged. If you're a lawyer paying $20/month, your settings are wrong.

May 3, 2026

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9 min read

A federal judge just ruled your ChatGPT conversations aren't privileged. If you're a lawyer paying $20/month, your settings are wrong.

A 60-second fix, a federal preservation order most attorneys don't know about, and the intake bot on your homepage that may be a malpractice trap.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
Perplexity just gave you a 50-person specialist team (for $200 a month)

May 2, 2026

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4 min read

Perplexity just gave you a 50-person specialist team (for $200 a month)

One click. Pre-built tasks. Real work. Plus a free trick that gets you most of the way there for zero dollars.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
Gemini just learned a trick Claude has been doing for months

Apr 30, 2026

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3 min read

Gemini just learned a trick Claude has been doing for months

Google added native file creation to Gemini this week. It's a big deal, but if you've been waiting to use AI to make real Word docs, Excel files, and PDFs, you've already had a better option.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
The Robots Are Here. Now What?

Apr 29, 2026

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6 min read

The Robots Are Here. Now What?

A robot just smoked the human half-marathon record. Tesla just admitted it built zero working ones. And Congress is trying to ban the Chinese ones. Here’s where things actually stand.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
OpenAI just leapfrogged Claude. Here's what that means for your business.

Apr 24, 2026

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5 min read

OpenAI just leapfrogged Claude. Here's what that means for your business.

GPT-5.5 "Spud" takes the lead, Anthropic has its worst week in months, and the definition of "AI model" just got a lot more interesting.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh

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The Brand Police Just Got a Robot

Apr 18, 2026

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9 min read

The Brand Police Just Got a Robot

How AI is ending the "wrong shade of red" problem forever, and what graphic designers need to know right now.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
I Was Gone. AI Wasn't. Here's What You Missed.

Apr 15, 2026

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6 min read

I Was Gone. AI Wasn't. Here's What You Missed.

A week of AI news, the stuff that actually matters to your business, in one issue.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
Your Business Brain Is Already Built

Mar 29, 2026

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5 min read

Your Business Brain Is Already Built

AI consultants are charging $30,000 to build "custom knowledge systems." Here's the honest truth about when Claude already does the job and when you actually do need the custom build.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
Your AI is about to leave the chat window

Mar 20, 2026

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3 min read

Your AI is about to leave the chat window

And that's a very good thing for your business

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
The Lobster That Ate the Internet (And What It Means for Your Business)

Mar 18, 2026

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4 min read

The Lobster That Ate the Internet (And What It Means for Your Business)

Plus: Anthropic goes mobile, OpenAI panics, and a week's worth of AI news in one issue

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
You're Paying $200. Anthropic Is Spending $5,000.

Mar 9, 2026

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4 min read

You're Paying $200. Anthropic Is Spending $5,000.

The math behind AI's biggest subsidy, and what it means for your business today.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
The AI War Nobody Voted On Just Got Real.

Mar 6, 2026

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6 min read

The AI War Nobody Voted On Just Got Real.

Plus: A new $599 laptop built for AI, the tool that turns any document into a cinematic video, and why the biggest winners in journalism right now are the ones using AI — not fighting it.

Scott McIntosh
Scott McIntosh
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