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No-Code CAIO is for managers, SMB owners, and nonprofit leaders trying to move AI from interesting demos into useful workflows.

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No-Code CAIO countdown edition six, Eighty Hours of Work, Ninety Minutes
Countdown · 6 to go July 14, 2026

Eighty Hours of Work. Ninety Minutes.

Seven AI agents did what I figure was eighty to a hundred hours of work in about ninety minutes. The week the models would not sit still, and the boring setup that keeps your business running when one of them disappears.

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Countdown · 6 to go July 14, 2026

Eighty Hours of Work. Ninety Minutes.

Seven AI agents did what I figure was eighty to a hundred hours of work in about ninety minutes, and the boring setup that keeps your business running when one model disappears.

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Edition 002 June 15, 2026

Don't Marry the Model

What the overnight shutdown of Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 teaches every business that quietly runs on a single AI model.

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