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Issue 01 of The Leak Report is out.
Most AI advice aimed at small businesses is written for companies that do not look like yours. It assumes a data team, a backlog of clean records, and someone whose job is to own the rollout.
In a 5–50 person service business, the person evaluating AI is usually also the person quoting jobs, chasing payment, and covering for whoever is on leave. That is not a smaller version of an enterprise problem. It is a different problem.
Inside: the four workflows that quietly leak money, the one distinction that decides whether a project works, four tests a first project has to pass, and what it costs — published, because a quote request wastes your time.
It is deliberately unexciting. The most valuable thing in these pages is a test that sends some projects back.
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