ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks: Automate Your Weekly Reports
Cartoon Nick has a rule: if you do something every Monday, a machine should do it by Sunday night. ChatGPT quietly made that a lot easier at the end of August. Scheduled tasks can now be triggered by webhooks from Gmail, Slack, and GitHub, accounts without a paid plan...Cheap AI Models Are Here: Cut Your AI Bill Without Downgrading
Friday, so Cartoon Nick is talking money. Specifically, the money most people are lighting on fire by using the most expensive AI model for every single task. Here is what changed in the last two weeks. Z.ai released GLM-5.3 Flash, an MIT-licensed open model at...AI Agents for Small Business: What to Delegate in 2026
Cartoon Nick wants to clear something up, because the word “agent” is everywhere right now and half the people using it mean something different. An AI chatbot answers a question. An AI agent does a job. It remembers context, works across multiple steps,...AI Video Ads for Small Business: Genjutsu and Ad Multiplier
Cartoon Nick has been living in Higgsfield this week, and the new stuff is worth a post on its own. Quick primer for the uninitiated: Higgsfield is the AI video platform we use to produce ads for clients without a camera, a crew, or a Tuesday afternoon lost to...How to Use AI for Local SEO: 2 Prompts That Actually Work
Cartoon Nick got a message this week that said “I asked ChatGPT to do my SEO and nothing happened.” Well, yeah. You asked it to do SEO. That is like walking into Home Depot and asking for “house.” AI is very good at local SEO when you hand it...Claude Prompt Tips: Stop Burning Tokens on Long Chats
Cartoon Nick is back, and this week he is annoyed. Not at you. At the way most people talk to AI. You know the move: ask a question, get an answer, ask a follow-up, get another answer, then 40 messages later you are wondering why the AI forgot what you were even...
GPT-6 Astra Explained: What OpenAI’s New Model Means for Small Business
OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra yesterday, September 3, and within about six hours my inbox had four versions of the same question: “Do I need this?” Short answer: probably not this week. Longer answer: this is the first OpenAI release in a while where the...Your Customers Are Asking AI About Your Business. Here Is What It Says.
Last week a client called me confused. A customer told him they found his shop by asking ChatGPT for a recommendation. He had never heard of anyone doing that, and he had no idea what the answer said about him. That is the part most small business owners are missing...
