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Over 400 Business Owners to Gather Tonight as Put AI to Work Goes Live
Over 400 business owners registered for the free Put AI to Work webinar with Curtis Jordan. The next step is the free School of AI for Business community, where they keep learning to put AI to work.
Read article2026-10-13 · Practical AI
Turn Messy Meeting Notes Into a Follow-Up You Can Trust
Use AI to separate decisions, actions, suggestions and open questions. Keep your follow-up accurate without inventing owners, deadlines or commitments.
Read article2026-10-12 · Practical AI
Too Many AI Suggestions? Choose One Business Move You Can Test
Compare two business options against your goal, time and available facts. Use AI to examine the trade-offs and choose a small test you can review.
Read article2026-10-11 · AI & Faith
It Sounds Human. What Are We Actually Hearing?
A Sunday reflection on AI, faith and trust: how conversational AI generates a response, what a human-sounding voice establishes, and what to check yourself.
Read article2026-10-11 · Practical AI
Show AI What Good Work Looks Like
Use a strong example of your own work to guide AI's tone and structure. A practical exercise for clearer drafts, with a reusable prompt and a simple review.
Read article2026-10-10 · Practical AI
Before You Automate a Business Task, Decide When AI Should Stop
Give your AI workflow clear stopping points: spot missing facts, name who makes the decision and test the awkward cases before allowing real actions.
Read article2026-10-09 · Practical AI
Did AI Actually Help? Review One Task Before You Repeat It
A practical end-of-week review for business owners: check what you used, count the effort, save one correction and choose what is worth repeating.
Read article2026-10-08 · Content & visibility
You Already Have Content. It’s in the Work You Do.
Too busy to create content? The questions you answer and decisions you make each day can help people understand your expertise. Start with one useful lesson.
Read article2026-10-08 · Practical AI
Before You Delegate to AI, Define What “Done” Looks Like
A three-sentence brief helps you define the result, supply the right facts and decide what to check before using AI-generated work.
Read article2026-10-07 · Practical AI
How to Build Customer Replies You Can Trust With AI
Use AI to uncover missing facts, check the promises in your wording and build one customer reply you can confidently reuse.
Read article2026-10-06 · Practical AI
What Do You Actually Sell? Make Your Offer Clear With AI
Turn a vague business description into one clear sentence with a practical AI prompt, local examples and a simple check for promises you cannot support.
Read article2026-10-01 · Website Studio
Can Customers Find Enough Information to Choose Your Business
A practical checklist for making your services, location and next step clear to a customer who is discovering your business for the first time.
Read article2026-10-01 · Website Studio
What Happens After Someone Sees Your Social Post
Connect your social posts to useful service information and an easy enquiry step, with practical ideas for preparing your Christmas offers.
Read article2026-10-01 · Website Studio
See Your Website Before You Pay with CCA Website Studio
How the complimentary CCA Website Studio concept preview works, what happens before launch and which costs are separate.
Read article2026-09-25 · AI Summit Gems
What proof can your customer see?
Give customers a reason to trust your offer. Choose one real example, explain what it demonstrates, and place it where buyers can see it.
Read article2026-09-24 · AI Summit Gems
Can a stranger explain what you sell?
Turn a vague service description into a clear offer. Use this simple sentence template and stranger test to improve your wording today.
Read article2026-09-24 · AI Summit Gems
Can your next customer find you?
Check whether customers can find your business and recognize what you offer. Use this quick visibility exercise to improve one public profile today.
Read article2026-09-23 · Business & AI
The One Skill Every Entrepreneur Needs in the Age of AI
Curtis Jordan explains Discernment at Speed: how to notice meaningful change, make sound decisions and act while an opportunity still matters.
Read article2026-09-22 · Business & AI
A New Buyer Has Entered the Marketplace
Your next customer may send AI to look for you. Is your business ready to be considered?
Read article2026-09-19 · Business & AI
You Have the Ideas. AI Can Help You Take Them Further.
Your ideas deserve a chance to grow. Curtis Jordan explores how AI can help you create, test and develop them, with human judgment guiding the work.
Read article2026-09-17 · AI & Learning
Who Benefits When We Fear AI?
Fear can attract investment, attention and political support. How do we examine those interests while taking the risks seriously?
Read article2026-09-17 · Business & AI
Customers Can Find You on Google. Why Aren’t They Clicking?
New research shows why search visibility and website visits can move in different directions, and what business owners should do about it.
Read article2026-09-14 · AI & Learning
I Teach AI. I Still Question the People Building It.
Using AI in my business does not settle the questions about its safety, its economics or who gets to control it.
Read article2026-09-13 · AI & Learning
How Much Are Your Forgotten Subscriptions Costing You?
Small monthly charges can quietly become hundreds or thousands of dollars a year. This practical AI-powered subscription audit can help you discover what you are paying for, decide what deserves to stay and stop unnecessary spending.
Read article2026-09-07
