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Practical how‑tos for runningan agency on your own.
How to research a business before you pitch, check a site before you hand it over and decide whose name each account goes in. Each one works with the tools you already have, and every article lists its sources and when they were checked.
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Work with your AI agent
Give your agent your prices so every quote matches
How to make AI quotes use your real prices, a must for AI agents in client work: a price list your agent reads every time, quoting rules, and a check first.
Own your agency and choose tools
Wix, Squarespace or custom: when a builder beats a custom site
Wix or Squarespace versus a custom site for a local business, from a one-person AI agency's view: what each does well, budget, editing, moving, who each suits.
Services, honestly
How to fix wrong business details that AI assistants repeat
When ChatGPT repeats the wrong address, hours or phone number for a business, fix the sources it reads. A step-by-step guide and a service your AI agency sells.
Win and deliver websites
How to show a client two versions side by side
How a one-person AI agency presents website design options: two real versions that differ in one way, a side-by-side review, and a record of the choice.
Run the agency
How to run a one-person AI agency next to a day job
Running a one-person AI agency next to a full-time job: what to check first, how to set reply times, how much work to take on, and a weekly routine.
Notes from the team
Learning to say "quoted first"
A note from the team on scope creep in a one-person AI agency: why small free extras add up, and the two words that keep a friendly client relationship fair.
Services, honestly
Questions to ask before you resell a receptionist service
What a one-person AI agency should check before reselling an AI receptionist: who owns the number, what it may say, messages, costs, mistakes, leaving.
Work with your AI agent
What your agent needs to update a client site safely
How AI agents for client work can update a live website safely: the request, the facts, a copy to work on, a version to roll back to, and a check first.
Run the agency
A follow-up that brings back a quiet client
A check-in email for a one-person AI agency's past clients: why a useful note beats 'just checking in', three templates, when to send, and what to do next.
Own your agency and choose tools
Should you host client websites yourself?
Should a one-person AI agency host client websites? The work it adds, when it suits a care plan, when the client should hold the account, and the exit.
Own your agency and choose tools
How to leave a tool without losing your client history
How a one-person AI agency exports client data from a CRM or notes app before switching: what counts as history, what exports miss, how to check the files.
Win and deliver websites
A website brief template for local businesses
A website brief template for a one-person AI agency and its local clients: the questions that matter, a filled-in florist example, and the unknown answers.
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Services a one-person AI agency can sell, and how to win the clients who buy them. By email, for people who run their agency on their own.
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