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10 setups from my posts · 20 guides · 49 copy-paste prompts
From my posts
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Free startup credits from Google Cloud, AWS and ElevenLabs (and who qualifies)
From the post: “Three more companies give startups free credits”
Claude isn't the only company handing out startup credits. Google Cloud, AWS and ElevenLabs all run programs too. Here's what each one gives, who qualifies, and where to apply.
10 to 15 minutes per applicationFree with emailOpen Comment STARTUPOct 6How to get a free year of Claude and up to $45K in startup deals
From the post: “Claude for Startups”
Anthropic's Claude for Startups program gives approved companies a free year of Claude Team, $1,000 in API credits and up to $45K in partner deals. Here's who qualifies and exactly how to apply.
10 minutes to applyFree with emailOpen Comment AIOct 6The free Google Maps lead scraper I run with Claude
From the post: “Free Google Maps lead scraper”
Give Claude a city and a business type and it pulls every Google Maps listing into a spreadsheet: name, phone, website, address and email. One more prompt adds their Instagram and Facebook.
3 copy-paste promptsFree with emailOpen Comment AIOct 2My Instinct setup: the AI assistant that lives in iMessage
From the post: “The $10B AI that lives in iMessage”
How to get Instinct, the rules I gave it before it touched my money, and the texts I sent to lower my AT&T bill, buy a printer and book a flight.
4 copy-paste promptsFree with emailOpen Comment CAPTAINOct 2How I made an AI character reel in 3 steps (the CAPTAIN prompt)
From the post: “This fake guy got 77M views. Here's how I made one”
Write a locked character in ChatGPT, turn each scene into a vertical video with Seedance 2.5 on Kie, and keep the character looking the same every post.
3 copy-paste promptsFree with emailOpen Comment AIOct 110 free open source tools worth knowing about
From the post: “10 Claude repos that feel illegal to know about”
Ten free GitHub projects with a clear use for a business owner or creator, what each one does, and the three I would try first.
1 copy-paste promptFree with emailOpen Comment CLAUDESep 30Claude for Small Business: workflows, training, and workshops
From the post: “Anthropic just quietly handed every freelancer a side business”
The Claude links from my post, with the current workflow library, free training, and workshop schedule.
1 copy-paste promptFree with emailOpen Comment AISep 30ChatGPT dots: the links and a first business setup
From the post: “The most insane drop of the year: ChatGPT just launched Dots”
Check access, connect one app, and try a draft-only lead follow-up task before letting a dot act for your business.
1 copy-paste promptFree with emailOpen Comment AISep 30Meta Muse for Small Business: HighLevel setup and first prompts
From the post: “Meta's AI agent now plugs into HighLevel”
Check access, connect HighLevel to Muse, clean up your CRM, and run four draft-only jobs you approve before anything goes out.
4 copy-paste promptsFree with emailOpen Comment AISep 28Here's how a lead runs through my CRM
The five stages, the form questions and the three automatic texts behind my CRM, set up step by step so you can copy them into your own business.
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Reply to Google reviews faster with one saved prompt
By the end you'll have a saved "reply writer" in ChatGPT or Claude that drafts review replies in your voice, plus a routine for posting them.
20 minutes For business ownersTalk through a job in the truck, get a clean estimate draft
By the end you'll have a ChatGPT project that holds your price sheet and turns a two-minute voice note into a line-item estimate draft and a plain-English note for the customer.
25 minutes For business ownersBuild your website FAQ from the questions customers already ask
By the end you'll have 10 to 15 FAQ answers written from your real customer questions and your real policies, ready to paste into your site.
30 minutes For business ownersWrite a job post that describes the real job
By the end you'll have a job post built from what the role actually involves, with pay, schedule and must-haves stated plainly, and a check for wording that could get you in trouble.
20 minutes For business ownersTurn this week's job photos into a week of captions
By the end you'll have five to seven captions written from your own photos, in your voice, with a short description for each photo you can use as alt text.
20 minutes For business ownersSet up a ChatGPT or Claude project that already knows your business
By the end you'll have one project with your business facts, voice and key documents loaded, so every new chat starts from what you've already told it.
30 minutes For business ownersWrite a one-page AI rules sheet for your team
By the end you'll have a single page your staff can read in two minutes: which AI tools are OK, what never goes into them, what needs a human check, and how to handle a suspicious "urgent payment" call.
30 minutes For business ownersTurn a sales call or consult into notes and a follow-up email
By the end you'll have a routine that turns any consult, estimate visit or discovery call into a short summary, a to-do list and a follow-up email draft, sent the same day.
10 minutes per call For business ownersRecord yourself doing a task once, get a step-by-step training doc
By the end you'll have a written SOP (standard operating procedure, meaning a step-by-step how-to for your team) made from a short screen recording of you doing the task.
20 minutes AI just droppedShipped Sep 17ChatGPT now works inside Microsoft Word, even on the free plan
By the end you'll have ChatGPT open in a sidebar in Word and know how to turn job notes into a client-ready proposal or letter without copying back and forth.
15 minutes For business ownersMake a Spanish version of your flyer, FAQ or booking message
By the end you'll have Spanish versions of your most-used customer materials, written for your actual customers, with a word list that keeps your service names consistent.
25 minutes AI just droppedShipped Aug 25Get post ideas from ChatGPT every Monday morning, free
By the end you'll have a ChatGPT scheduled task that sends you five post ideas for your business every Monday morning, without you having to remember to ask.
10 minutesLearning AI
Try AI on everyday things first.
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook. Here's how to turn any PDF into a podcast you can listen to
By the end you'll have uploaded your own document (a manual, a long article, class notes, a work report) and generated an audio summary you can listen to in the car, plus a way to ask it follow-up questions.
15 minutes AI just droppedShipped Sep 22ChatGPT can make flashcards now. Here's how to study anything with them
By the end you'll have an interactive flashcard deck made from your own notes (or any topic), saved in ChatGPT so you can come back and practice the cards you missed.
10 minutes AI just droppedShipped Sep 8Draw a stick-figure sketch in ChatGPT and turn it into a finished image
By the end you'll have drawn a rough sketch on your phone and turned it into a finished image (a birthday card, a room layout idea, a party invite), then edited just one part of it.
10 minutes Learning AIThe four blanks that fix most bad AI answers
By the end you'll have a fill-in-the-blanks prompt you can reuse for almost anything, plus a short "about me" saved in ChatGPT's custom instructions so you stop repeating yourself.
15 minutes Learning AITurn off AI training on your chats in ChatGPT and Claude
By the end you'll have switched off model training on your ChatGPT and Claude accounts, and you'll know which chat mode to use when you want nothing saved.
5 minutes Learning AISnap your fridge, get five dinners and a short grocery list
By the end you'll have five dinner ideas built around what's already in your fridge and pantry, a cook-this-first order, and a grocery list of only what's missing.
10 minutes Learning AIBuild a bill-splitting app in Claude without writing code
By the end you'll have a small working app, made by describing it to Claude, that splits a restaurant bill or group trip costs, including tax, tip and who owes whom.
20 minutes Learning AISet up a family safe word before an AI voice-clone scam call
By the end your family (or your team) will have a private safe word, a callback rule, and a short script for what to say when a panicked call asks for money.
10 minutes