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Straight answers about AI and automation for small businesses. The same stuff I teach in my classes, written down. No hype, no jargon, and I'll tell you when automation isn't worth it.
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One login now opens the whole house
AI connectors are genuinely great, and they quietly turn one password into the key to everything. Two boring habits fix it.
Read itScrape, Fake, Deliver: how AI phishing actually works
AI scams follow a three-step routine, and your old smoke detector for spotting them is dead. Here's what still works.
Read itSmall isn't safe. Small is cheap.
The most dangerous sentence in small business security is "I'm too small to matter." Here's the actual math attackers use.
Read itSecure from what?
Everyone asks if AI is secure. Almost nobody can say what they're afraid of. Naming the monster is most of the work.
Read itIs AI good or bad? Wrong question.
The question every business owner asks me first, and why it's the wrong one to start with.
Read itEvery question in the room was about security
I taught two classes on AI for Wyoming small businesses. By the end of the first one, almost every question was about the same thing.
Read itNew contract with CLA Architecture
IronForge is now working with Chet Lockard, AIA and the CLA Architecture team to bring AI into their daily operations.
Read itThe LCBA Luncheon is a wrap
I taught a sold-out room about AI in modern business for the Laramie Chamber Business Alliance. Here's how it went.
Read itA new contract with L&H Industrial, and the story behind the shirt
Announcing a new contract with L&H Industrial, and the story of a website I built that wasn't good enough, so I rebuilt it for free.
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