https://thanksanderson.com/blog Practical writing on AI automation, governance, visibility, custom tools, and sales training. en-us Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:15:50 +0000 https://thanksanderson.com/blog/why-doesnt-the-ai-tool-work-like-the-demo https://thanksanderson.com/blog/why-doesnt-the-ai-tool-work-like-the-demo Because the demo is the ad. For a lot of AI tools sold to small businesses, the thing in the video isn't fully in the box. What I paid for, what I got, and the questions to ask before you pay. Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://thanksanderson.com/blog/why-is-reddit-in-ai-answers https://thanksanderson.com/blog/why-is-reddit-in-ai-answers Reddit holds a great many threads where someone asks a specific question and other people answer it from experience, and most business websites hold none. Why the famous 40% figure is wrong, how big Reddit really is in AI answers, and what to do about it. Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://thanksanderson.com/blog/what-should-i-automate-first https://thanksanderson.com/blog/what-should-i-automate-first Start with the task your team does the same way every week, where the steps already fit on one page and somebody waits on the result. How to find it in your own week, when to fix the process first, and when to build nothing. Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://thanksanderson.com/blog/find-out-whether-chatgpt-recommends-your-business https://thanksanderson.com/blog/find-out-whether-chatgpt-recommends-your-business Ask it, the way a customer would, and write down what comes back. How to run a rough check in an afternoon, the method we used on our own site, and where the rough version stops being useful. Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://thanksanderson.com/blog/why-business-automations-stop-working https://thanksanderson.com/blog/why-business-automations-stop-working Most automations that stop working do it because the business around them changed. What that looked like on one of ours, and four things to settle before you automate anything. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://thanksanderson.com/blog/what-breaks-when-you-swap-the-model https://thanksanderson.com/blog/what-breaks-when-you-swap-the-model Swapping the model under a working AI tool is a one-line change that can break more than half your calls. What actually goes wrong, and how to test a swap before it reaches anyone. Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://thanksanderson.com/blog/build-or-buy-custom-ai-tool https://thanksanderson.com/blog/build-or-buy-custom-ai-tool Buy when a product already does the job the way you work. Build when the job is specific to your business, the answers have to be exactly right, or the tool has to reach into systems you already run. Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://thanksanderson.com/blog/what-is-ai-visibility https://thanksanderson.com/blog/what-is-ai-visibility AI visibility is whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI answers name and cite your business when someone asks a question you should answer. Most businesses are invisible because their pages were written to rank for keywords, not to be quoted as an answer. Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000