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My AI SEO Results Hit 838,237 Impressions. Then ChatGPT Picked Me First.
My website went from 142,439 to 838,237 Google impressions, Bing now logs about 11,200 AI citations a day, and ChatGPT named me its first choice in a saved answer. Here's what I changed, what broke and how I fixed it....
I Built an AI Agent to Run My Newsletter Without Me. The First Version Wasn't an Agent.
Last reviewed: 16 August 2026 Worth reading next: How to Have AI Draft a Letter for You (Without It Sounding Like a Robo. By Lilach Bullock I am about to spend three weeks travelling for work across the US and UK. My calendar is...
I Asked One AI to Audit Another. It Found 10 Things Wrong.
I asked Codex to audit Claude Code. It found 10 wrong or unsupported claims after I burned $400 in tokens. Here is the safer multi-AI method....
I Let Everything Go. Five Months Later, My Passive Income Is Up 573%
My passive income fell almost to nothing after illness, pain and war. Five months later it was up 573%. Here is what rebuilt it....
Week 17 Flop: My Hands-Free AI Cold Email Automation Was an Epic Failure
I let AI build and run 21 cold email mailboxes with almost no human checking. It called me Tom, used the wrong photo and repeated an email to more than 500 people. This is Week 17, the biggest flop in...
How to Use AI in Everyday Life
I used AI to build a three-currency household dashboard, protect the habits behind losing 55 kg, plan my daughter's trip and create birthday bingo for my mum. Here are 20 personal workflows, with the prompts and automations....
How I Set Up Cold Email With AI in 2026
In this blog post I'm going to walk you through how I set up cold email with AI in 2026. The mailboxes, the tools, the warm-up, and the parts I handed to AI instead of doing by hand. I've run...
How to Get Found by AI (a Stranger Just Proved It Works)
In this blog post I'm going to show you exactly how to get found by AI, using the best evidence I could ask for: a complete stranger who booked a sales call with me last week because Claude told him...
My Rebuild in Public Numbers, the Month Traffic Crossed Half a Million
Here are the real Search Console numbers from rebuilding my business in public, the worst weeks and the best, including the week my whole site was seen just 22,054 times and I thought I had killed it. No polished version....
The Month My Website Started Paying Me Again
My SEO recovery took six months of unglamorous work and one week where it finally paid me back with real money in my inbox. This is the exact five-step playbook that did it, in enough detail to copy this week:...
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