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⏰ Last chance: Claude for Small Business: A Hands-On Implementation Workshop is tomorrow! ​

Spend two hours turning your biggest time suck into a working Claude skill. No technical background needed, just your own real workflow to work from. Wednesday, August 26 at 11am ET.

🎣 Phishing emails aren't the amateur hour they used to be.

As attacks increasingly come from AI agents rather than people, this piece traces the shift from scam emails to AI-generated lures that research your company, map your team, and hold a real conversation, personalized at a scale no human attacker could match. The uncomfortable takeaway for small teams: "watch for bad grammar" stopped being reliable advice a while ago.

⚖️ The FTC is putting "personalized pricing" on notice.

​A new proposed enforcement policy would require any business that charges different customers different prices based on their data to clearly disclose that it's happening, the basis for it, and which data drives it, or risk running afoul of federal law. If your business uses any AI pricing tool, even to send different offers or discounts to different customers, this is worth a look before the 30-day comment period closes.

🔗 A pre-built AI setup for the exact way small businesses operate.

​Claude for Small Business is a plugin with 15 ready-made workflows, such as payroll planning and invoice chasing, that connects directly to tools you likely already use, including QuickBooks, HubSpot, PayPal, and Google Workspace. It's included with a standard Claude Pro subscription, and anything outside its native connectors can still be accessed via Zapier, so it's worth a look if you want Claude to do real work in your tools rather than just answer questions about them.

🤝 Small teams are starting to run CRM work that used to need a whole ops department.

​HubSpot's new Agent CLI lets businesses schedule routine reporting and bulk data cleanup to run on its own, with one company consolidating 504 support tickets into 155 organized records in about a day. It's a solid example of the pattern worth watching for in your own stack: repetitive, rule-based work is increasingly something you assign rather than something you do.

💡 What running a business with almost no staff actually looks like in practice.

This piece walks through seven AI tools solo founders are stacking to handle research, content, follow-up, and even building simple apps without writing code, each taking over a specific part of the workload. Even if you're not running solo, it's a useful gut-check for spotting which of your own repetitive tasks could quietly become something AI just handles.

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