Merry Christmas. For unto us is born this day, in the city of Bethlehem, a Savior, who is Christ the LORD.

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One of the best articles I’ve read on the SaaS debate. Thankfully not AI-produced drivel like some of the other AI/software debate articles being widely circulated on here.

10/10 speech by Secretary Rubio The fact that European leaders gave this a standing ovation at the end is truly a very encouraging sign

Dear Generalists, 70%+ of commercial SaaS code is free open source. Multi-billion $ moats have been built on top of free software for decades If your thesis is cheaper/faster dev cycles kills SaaS, you’re 15 years late. The product isn't the code

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SEO agencies are DEAD. I fired my $50k/mo agency and asked Claude to do it. Instead of my agency executing on content, building links, and driving pipeline, I now get: • 40-page audits • 145 keyword clusters • 19 AI-generated slop roadmaps • Do all the work myself instead

AI can build anything you ask for. But the hard part was never the building. It was knowing what to ask for in the first place.

Most business owners optimize their Google Business Profile in one sitting. Category. Address. Phone number. Description. Services. Products. All in one afternoon. They wake up the next morning to a suspended listing. Invisible on Google. Zero calls. Zero direction requests.

SERVICE-AS-A-SOFTWARE. That is the real opportunity for 90% of us. I keep watching smart people pour months into building beautiful UI applications that Anthropic and OpenAI are going to absorb in a single product update. It will feel ARCHAIC in two years that we used to click

Small Business owner, your data was not used to train LLM models, which means models must do a search to put your business in AI results. Which means optimization matters. On site, local factors, and AI citations. They all matter for local SMB

AI search is gaining market share over Google. More and more of your competitors are searching with ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini. If your business is not optimized for the AI search, they your business is invisible. Visit localaigrader.com and get your business graded.

Check how visible your business in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. This tool will give you a snapshot of how these models view your business. localaigrader.com

Local business owners: check your AI visibility before your competitors do. LocalAIGrader.com shows how visible your business is in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, then gives you a score and report with what to improve so you can rank better in AI search and win!

There's a massive difference between what a $500/month SEO agency does and what a $3,000/month one does. Most business owners don't know what they're actually paying for at either level so here's a transparent breakdown. At $500/month, you're usually getting one person managing

He is risen!

When you combine your knowledge and expertise and Claude’s AI capabilities, you end up with a powerful resource for your business Create Skills based on your experience and expertise that you can share with your team. Multiply your knowledge to your team.

Vibe coding by most users is not production ready. Be careful. When a software engineer vibe codes with AI, they utilize their expertise to ensure that code is structured properly, built in security, infrastructure layers, and more. Be careful vibe coding.

“Should I build an AI business?” No. Build a business that uses AI. AI models are commoditizing fast. Whatever you can build with today’s frontier model, someone else will build with next year’s free one. The moat is never the AI itself. The moat is the thing AI can’t replace.

AI compute cost is going to have a greater impact on AI adoption than what has been expected. The latest “experiment” by Anthropic suggests to me that the economics of AI and the promise of AI are not aligned. What do you think?