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Notes on AI That Actually Work

Practical, honest writing on AI strategy, AI agents, automation, and getting found in AI search. Built from real client work, not hype.

WebMCP and the agent-first web, by Dahlia Imanbay
📺 Content Systems

How I Grow YouTube Watch Hours Without Buying Them

You cannot buy your way to monetization. Ad watch time does not count toward the 4,000 hours. What I learned running two YouTube ad campaigns.

Content Systems • 8 min read
📊 Industry Watch

Reddit Vanished From ChatGPT Citations Overnight. Here Is What That Actually Means.

Reddit's ChatGPT citation share dropped 86% in six days. The real Promptwatch data, the likely cause, and the AI visibility lesson worth taking from it.

Industry Watch • 7 min read
🔍 SEO Experiment

I Tried 3 TikTok SEO Hacks on My Own Website. Here's What Happened.

Three free SEO hacks, run on my own two sites in one afternoon: the Search Console question trick, exact-match answers, and internal linking.

SEO Experiment • 7 min read
📩 AI Tools & Strategy

The Tool That Reads My Newsletters For Me (So I Don't Have To)

I connect my inbox to AI with read-only access, so it can read and summarize the newsletters that break industry news first, never send or delete anything.

AI Tools & Strategy • 5 min read
🎯 AEO & GEO

How I'd Get a Nonprofit Named by AI Search

When a donor asks ChatGPT where to give, three organizations get named. Here is the playbook I use to make sure a nonprofit is one of them.

AEO & GEO • 7 min read
🤝 AI Strategy

I Build AI Content Systems. Here's Why I Use Less Visible AI in 2026.

This year 39% of consumers trust a brand less for heavy AI use, double last year's figure. The split I use: AI behind the scenes, human judgment on the surface.

AI Strategy • 5 min read
🔍 AEO & GEO

How to Get Cited by AI Search: AEO and GEO

A top-10 Google ranking once earned a citation 67% of the time. Now it is closer to 38%. The five-step AEO and GEO playbook I use to get clients quoted by AI.

AEO & GEO • 6 min read
💰 AI Agents

What an AI Agent Actually Costs a Small Business in 2026

The subscription is the smallest line item. Here is the real all-in cost once you add integration, monitoring, training data, and rework.

April 28, 2026 • 5 min read
📈 AI Strategy

The AI ROI Paradox: 88% Use AI, Only 29% See Results

Most businesses have adopted AI. Far fewer can point to a result. Here is where the value leaks out, and how to close the gap.

AI Strategy • 6 min read
🔥 AI Strategy

The AI Productivity Trap: Why Your Team Is More Burned Out, Not Less

AI was supposed to lighten the load. For many teams it added a new one. What the productivity trap looks like, and how to avoid it.

AI Strategy • 6 min read
🎯 AI Strategy

What Nonprofits Actually Need From an AI Consultant

Most nonprofits get sold the wrong thing. Here is what genuinely moves the needle for mission-driven teams on a real budget.

AI Strategy • 5 min read
💻 AI Agents

I Gave an AI Agent Full Computer Access. Here Is How It Helps.

What changes when an AI agent can actually use the computer, and where it helps small businesses and nonprofits the most.

AI Agents • 6 min read
📊 AI Tools & Strategy

I've Built on Claude for a Year. February's Numbers Don't Surprise Me.

A year of building on Claude, and why the recent surge in adoption tracks exactly with what practitioners already felt.

AI Tools • 5 min read
🤖 AI Agents

I Replaced My Website's Contact Form With an AI Agent

What happened when I swapped a static contact form for an AI agent that talks to visitors, qualifies, and routes in real time.

AI Agents • 5 min read