Argentina reached back-to-back World Cup finals on a run of one-goal wins. What that climb teaches small business owners about effort, ceilings, and building something that compounds.
Two Things Happened This Week, and Both of Them Matter to Inspectors This week we got the email we had been waiting on. Outcome Orbit AI is now an approved InterNACHI Vendor Member, and our member-exclusive offer for InspectorVoice has been submitted to the InterNACHI Vendor Offers Portal. Both
You're mid-session with a client. Maybe you're a therapist holding space for someone working through something heavy. Maybe you're a trainer spotting a deadlift. Maybe you're a stylist with foils in and a timer counting down. The phone rings. You can&
You're under a house. Flashlight in one hand, moisture meter in the other, crawling through a tight crawl space while your phone buzzes in the truck. By the time you're done, there's a voicemail. Maybe. Sometimes it's just a missed call with
Last week I wrote about the hidden cost of operational work for business owners. The math was sobering: 15 to 25 hours a week of your time, at $100 to $150 an hour, gone to tasks that don't grow the business. Today I want to talk about the
Let's be real for a second. You didn't start your business to spend Tuesday afternoons formatting follow-up emails, chasing down reports, or rewriting the same proposal template for the fourth time this month. But here you are. And the honest truth? You're not
The internet's hottest AI agent went from zero to 145,000 GitHub stars in weeks. But "popular" and "safe for your business" are two very different things. If you've been anywhere near tech Twitter, YouTube, or LinkedIn in the past week, you&
Forget chatbots. This year, AI becomes your most reliable employee — if you're ready. In Part 1, I covered what 2025 actually delivered for small businesses. Now let's talk about what's coming because 2026 isn't going to be a bigger version of 2025.
It's been three years since ChatGPT launched. Here's what the past year actually delivered for SMBs and what all the noise missed. I'll admit it: I've been quiet for a few weeks. Between wrapping up a major AI implementation project and the
Where do you want to be in 3 years? That question hit me hard as I realized it was exactly three years ago—November 30, 2022—that OpenAI introduced ChatGPT to the world. In that time, AI went from "something the tech giants do" to something your local
Over a year ago, I watched Google Labs introduce NotebookLM through our internal dogfood program at Google Cloud. I'd tested dozens of AI tools, but this one was different—it actually solved real business problems without the usual complexity. Fast forward to launching Outcome Orbit AI. My first
Look, I get it. Another AI tool. Another promise to "revolutionize" your marketing. But here's why you should actually pay attention this time. Google just launched Pomelli through their Labs division, and after testing it with three different SMB clients this week, I'm genuinely