The AI-Powered Business
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A field investigation into what happens when you try to build, automate and run a company with AI — tested claim by claim against named, checkable evidence: Klarna, Air Canada, Anthropic’s Project Vend, and the studies behind the headlines. Kindle eBook · 153 pages · Free with Kindle Unlimited.
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The idea
Somewhere between “AI is impressive” and “AI sometimes fails” sits the only question that actually matters for a small business: where can you depend on it, and where does the apparent convenience simply move the cost somewhere else — into checking, correction, customer complaints, or your own judgment, later and more expensively.
The AI-Powered Business does not argue that AI is good or bad. It tests specific, named claims — one business function at a time — against the available evidence. The pattern that emerges across fifteen chapters isn’t about whether AI works. It’s about where a business’s verification effort should actually go.
From evidence to practice
Match verification effort to risk
The Air Canada chatbot ruling and the fabricated citations in Mata v. Avianca show the same pattern: a wrong answer inside a customer promise or a legal filing is expensive. A mislabelled expense usually isn’t.
Autonomy has a ceiling, for now
Anthropic’s Project Vend put an AI in charge of a real vending machine, with a budget and no human sign-off. It researched suppliers competently — and still lost money to a plausible-sounding customer story.
The boring work pays quietly
A 2025 survey of accounting professionals found firms using AI for routine work saved an average of 18 hours per employee, per month — mostly from client emails and summaries, not the accounting itself.
What’s inside
Fifteen chapters, plus an introduction and conclusion. Every claim traced to a named, checkable source.
- Introduction
- 01 Can One Person Really Build a Billion-Dollar Business?
- 02 The Numbers Don’t Agree
- 03 The Solo Operator’s Toolkit
- 04 What the Success Stories Don’t Show You
- 05 Where the Time Actually Goes
- 06 Can AI Run Itself?
- 07 Can AI Get You Found and Get You Paid?
- 08 The Co-Pilot Effect
- 09 The Boring Work
- 10 Can AI Think for You?
- 11 Who Pays When AI Is Wrong?
- 12 What AI Still Can’t Do
- 13 The Human Cost
- 14 The Verification Habit
- 15 Building to Last
- Conclusion: What the Bet Actually Proved
Who it’s for
Solo operators and small business owners who already use AI tools and want a straight answer about where to trust them — not another pitch for how AI will change everything, and not a dismissal of what it already does well.