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The AI On-Ramp: A Small Business Owner's First Thirty Days - Softcover

Coburn, Jess W

 
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Synopsis

Most books about AI for business start with strategy. This one starts with you typing something into a box and watching what comes back.

It's written for the owner who has been hearing about this for three years, tried it once, got a mediocre answer, and closed the tab. You're not behind. You were handed the wrong first chapter.

Sixteen short chapters. Each one is a ten minute read and one thing you actually do.

What you'll do, not what you'll learn about:

Write the fee increase letter that's been on your list since March, and send it before your coffee gets cold.

Read the thirty one page lease you never finished, and find the automatic renewal clause buried in section 4(b) that costs you real money if you miss the notice window.

Clean up the client list four people have been adding to since 2019, including the duplicates, the broken phone numbers, and the genuinely useful note somebody typed into the wrong column.

Practice the conversation you're dreading on Thursday, out loud, before you have to have it.

Learn the two second test that catches it when it's making things up, because it sounds exactly the same whether it's right or inventing.

Pick one task and make it stick for thirty days, tracked on a sticky note. Not a transformation. One task.

What's not in it.

No frameworks until chapter fifteen. No acronyms. No predictions about the future of work. There's one chapter on the rules that keep you out of trouble, and it's four rules that fit on a page, placed near the back on purpose. Your team is already using this on their phones. The question was never whether to allow it.

Jess Coburn has spent twenty seven years putting technology into small and mid-sized businesses, which mostly means cleaning up the results when it went badly. He wrote this for the client who keeps asking where to start.

Start Friday. One thing. Thirty days.

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