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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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Services, honestly
Local SEO and AI search visibility: what's actually different
GEO vs SEO for a local business: what local search and AI assistants share, what's different, and how a one-person AI agency sells each without promises.
Run the agency
How to keep track of what you promised on calls
How a one-person AI agency keeps track of promises made on client calls: what counts, a one-line note during the call, the recap email, and a weekly check.
Work with your AI agent
Claude Sonnet 5 and client web work: what to test first
Is Claude Sonnet 5 good for client websites? What changed on 30 June, and a short test on a past project before a one-person AI agency trusts it with a client.
Notes from the team
Half a year of notes on client work, in plain words
Six plain rules for running a one-person AI agency that half a year of our notes on client work keeps coming back to.
Services, honestly
Which service to add after websites
What should a one-person AI agency sell after the website? How to choose your next service, from care plans and local search to AI answers, chat and phones.
Run the agency
Where should a one-person AI agency's money records live?
How a one-person AI agency can track who owes what: three money states, where each record should live, how long to keep them, and a monthly check.
Win and deliver websites
How to hand over a site your AI agent built
How a one-person AI agency hands over a website its AI agent built: the files, source, accounts and notes a client should get, and what to check first.
Work with your AI agent
What to do when your agent gets a fact about a client wrong
What to do when AI research about a client is wrong, a risk in using AI agents for client work: correct the source, check what it touched, tell the client.
Run the agency
Summer hours and holiday closures: a routine for seasonal businesses
How to update holiday and seasonal hours on Google, Apple Maps and a local business website, with a routine a one-person AI agency runs for every client.
Win and deliver websites
A local business homepage that answers what customers ask
What a one-person AI agency puts on a local business homepage: the questions customers ring about, the order to answer them, and matching the Google listing.
Own your agency and choose tools
10Web and AI WordPress builders: what they change for a one-person AI agency
A fair look at 10Web for a one-person AI agency: what the AI WordPress builder and agency tools do well, what to check before you commit, and who it suits.
Services, honestly
Care plan tiers that don't confuse anyone
How many website care plan tiers a one-person AI agency should offer, what changes between them, how to name them, and how to help a client pick one.
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