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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
Website chat for small businesses: when it helps and when it doesn't
Does a small business website need a chatbot? When chat helps, when it gets in the way, and how to sell it as an AI agency service with a person behind it.
Work with your AI agent
Researching local businesses with your AI agent, with sources
How to have your AI agent research a local business before a pitch, the first job of AI agents for client work: what to ask, sources and dates, what to check.
Notes from the team
What "paid" should mean
When should a one-person AI agency count a payment as paid? Why a client saying it's paid isn't confirmed money, and the simple rule we recommend.
Win and deliver websites
Your first website for a friend's business: doing it properly
Your first website as a one-person AI agency, for a friend's business: a price, a one-page scope, accounts in their name and a clear finish line.
Work with your AI agent
Let your agent draft client replies, then send them yourself
Can AI draft emails to clients safely? Yes, if your agent drafts and you send. AI agents for client work: what to give yours, what to check, what to write.
Own your agency and choose tools
What to put in a website agreement, in plain words
A plain-words website agreement for a one-person AI agency: scope, payments, approvals, who owns the site and accounts, and how either side can leave.
Run the agency
How to turn client messages into a to-do list you trust
How a one-person AI agency keeps track of client requests across email, text and WhatsApp: one list, one line per request, set sweeps, a reply that confirms.
Services, honestly
Let's Encrypt's 45-day option: should client sites switch now?
Let's Encrypt's opt-in tlsserver profile now issues 45-day certificates. Which client sites should switch now, which should wait, and how to check renewals.
Own your agency and choose tools
HubSpot's free CRM for a one-person AI agency: enough or too much?
Is HubSpot's free CRM enough for a one-person AI agency? What it does well, where its free limits show, and what it leaves out for client website work.
Win and deliver websites
Showing a client the right version of their website
How a one-person AI agency makes sure a client approves the right version of their website: name each version, send a fixed link, check what goes live.
Services, honestly
How to price a care plan when hosting is included
Should a care plan include hosting? How to price hosting and care as recurring revenue for an AI agency, what to pass on at cost, and when a client leaves.
Notes from the team
Why every approval should cover one exact version
Why we think a client approval should cover one exact version of a website, email or invoice, and why it matters even more when an AI agent does the work.
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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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