Health & wellness
Forty-five minutes of disclosure, and then no report at all
A client finished a forty-five-minute AI health assessment and got silence. What broke, what it cost, and five checks before you ship one.
Galina Fendikevich
Founder and Editor
Restaurants
The $30,000 mistake AI could not warn her about
Dr. Nikki Siso asked AI how to open a restaurant. It found the forms but not the order, and the sequencing error cost a month and $30,000.
M&A advisory
Five AI workflows running inside a small M&A brokerage
The five AI workflows running inside The Magnolia Firm, the tools Christine McDannell names for each, and the four to five days the first one took.
Public relations
The $20,000 tool a comms team now builds for itself
Social listening platforms charged agencies around $20,000 a year. Sam Polstein now builds client dashboards himself with virtually no coding experience.
Hospitality
The biggest AI opportunity in hospitality is on the investment side
Sofiane Ghorbel argues AI pays for hotel owners and investors, not guests, because the transaction and market data already exists at scale.
Yacht charter
The AI that reached this yacht brokerage came bundled
Anchor Croatia evaluated no translation tools. It used the one already in the inbox. What that tells founders selling into small operating businesses.
Construction
Four jobs construction firms are actually giving AI
Vendor pricing once meant calling 5 to 10 suppliers. Annija Eizenarma names the construction workflows where AI is working now, and one that isn't yet.
Health & wellness
Test your own AI tool by telling it to be five difficult clients
Dr. Nikki Siso told Claude to role-play five uncooperative clients and run her assessment. It found the bugs she used to need a developer for.
Restaurants
How a non-developer built a fifteen-skill assessment system in Claude
Dr. Nikki Siso started with one Claude skill, hit a depth limit, and split it into eight, then fifteen. Nobody sold her that architecture.
M&A advisory
How The Magnolia Firm cut payroll by 83% on a $100 subscription
Christine McDannell cut payroll 83% at her M&A brokerage and prices what Claude does for her at $40,000 a month of labour on a $100 subscription.
Public relations
What Sam Polstein keeps in a folder called good writing
Sam Polstein puts AI output quality at 90% decided before the prompt. What is in his context library, why it is markdown, and why he owns the files.
Hospitality
Five hotel jobs AI is already doing, and the one it keeps failing
Sofiane Ghorbel reports revenue management, forecasting, marketing, sentiment and operations running on AI in luxury hotels. The concierge desk is not.