Retail & events
An event proposal still takes three days, with AI
ChatGPT drafts what to write. Sourcing the rentals and laying it out in Canva is still two to three days of manual work per large event.
Galina Fendikevich
Founder and Editor
Retail & events
What Sintra does for a small business marketing budget
Luisa Ramirez was quoted roughly $800 to $1,000 for two carousels. She now runs the marketing herself on a $37-a-month tool, and reports 20,000 followers.
Retail & events
The AI stack behind a two-owner NYC shop
ChatGPT, Sintra and Canva, split between two co-owners by job rather than by preference. What each one does at Charcuterie by Bohemian Picnics.
Retail & events
A small business owner used ChatGPT instead of a financial planner
Sara Rojas put every balance, APR and target into ChatGPT and got a payoff order back in five minutes. She reports it replaced hiring a planner.
Retail & events
How an event planner prices flower arrangements with ChatGPT
A wholesale catalogue of thousands of flowers used to mean hours on the floor. Sara Rojas now sends a screenshot and gets stem counts inside a budget.
Retail & events
Ten minutes to one: answering inquiries with ChatGPT
Sara Rojas cut each customer inquiry from about ten minutes to under a minute with ChatGPT, and stopped paying someone to help with the inbox.
Creative
S2E1: AI should have killed his career. He's making $1M a year instead
Swipe File owner and 20-year copywriter Neville Medhora on how AI killed his main business, made a dormant side project his primary revenue, and why he runs it all on a $20 ChatGPT subscription.
Creative
A copywriter's most valuable AI use is images, not words
Neville Medhora writes for a living and does not use AI to write. He uses it for the part of his job that was always hardest — and has a specific method for not getting generic output.
Creative
Editing an AI first draft produces worse work than starting cold
Neville Medhora finds that editing AI output produces a different and lesser piece than writing from scratch — because the draft anchors the structure before he has had his own idea.
Creative
Did AI kill SEO for small publishers?
Neville Medhora ranked number one for a term and watched the traffic and the course sales that depended on it decline. What actually changed, and what still works.
Creative
Their newsletters went fully AI and readers stopped opening them
Neville Medhora's consulting clients automated their email end to end and open rates fell. His diagnosis, the rule he thinks governs reader tolerance, and what he did to his own newsletter in response.
Creative
Best AI connector platforms for small businesses
Four platforms that plug your existing business tools into an AI assistant — what each is best at, and the buying rule that comes from an operator who abandoned one in two weeks.