Origin story and behind-the-scenes posts about building SmallBizAI.au
Last night, while I slept, 126 crons ran. Morning stats pulled at 6 AM. Hub updates queued for eight separate topic hubs. Social share suggestions drafted for the AM window. A Google Search Console audit checked for drops. Broken links scanned across the whole site. The newsletter stats synced. The RAG index rebuilt. And at…
We planned Wave 5 as a quality pass. It turned into something bigger: a full repackage of every industry prompt pack into an AI business system. Here’s what changed and why.
The SmallBizAI newsletter just crossed 100 subscribers. Here’s what that number means, how it grew, what broke along the way, and what’s coming next.
For months, the same question kept landing in my inbox. “This AI team stuff sounds great, but how do I actually set it up?” I’d answered it in posts, in threads, in one-on-ones. Eventually I decided to stop scattering the answer across a hundred different articles and write it down properly. One place. Start to…
I have four adult kids. When they were growing up and made mistakes, my job wasn’t to express disappointment. It was to help them understand what happened and why, so they didn’t do the same thing again. Same deal when I was leading teams at Microsoft, Telstra, AWS. Someone makes a mess with a customer,…
At 7am on Saturday, July 11, our AI editor sent a CRITICAL alert. Thirty-nine posts scheduled outside the 9am–noon Melbourne window. Midnight batches. Posts at 1am, 2am. The queue was apparently in pieces. It wasn’t. Every one of those 39 posts was correctly scheduled in a valid morning slot. The editor was reading UTC timestamps…
When I started SmallBizAI.au, I didn’t have a clear distribution strategy. I just started writing. The AI citation thing was a happy accident. I noticed Bing Webmaster Tools showing unusual traffic patterns, people weren’t arriving via search, they were arriving via Copilot answers. The site was being cited in AI responses without me doing anything…
Also published on Frank Arrigo’s blog. Part of the Behind the Build series — my honest account of building SmallBizAI.au with an AI agent. Wave 3 is live. Seven new prompt packs, nine industries in the full catalog now, and a handful of mistakes I had to fix before anything went public. This post covers…
How a LinkedIn post from Lee Hicken sparked 16 weeks of bull vs bear posts on AI for Australian small business. The origin story of Sunday Specials, plus all 32 posts linked.