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Why Your Finance Team's Excel Files Are Sabotaging Your AI Success
While your competitors are throwing money at expensive AI tools, the smartest finance teams are gaining massive advantages with a free file format…
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Stephen Smith
The Finance Executive's Secret Weapon: How To Cut Monthly Report Time by 75% Using LLMs
A Former CFO's Proven Framework for AI-Powered Financial Analysis That Actually Works
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Stephen Smith
Two AI Reports Every Business Leader Must Read Now
Mary Meeker came out of semi-retirement to write one word 51 times in her new AI report: "UNPRECEDENTED." When the Queen of the Internet uses that word…
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May 2025

Why I Fired My Design Budget: Google Gemini's Canvas Just Changed Visual Storytelling
My lawyer friend just paid $3,500 for a timeline that Google Canvas would make for free in 10 minutes. I'm starting to think that law school doesn't…
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Stephen Smith
The AI Chess Match: Tech Giants Position for the Endgame
Plot twist: While everyone's arguing about ChatGPT vs Claude, Google quietly became the AI equivalent of that friend who shows up to poker night with a…
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Stephen Smith
Anthropic's Claude 4: A Game-Changer for Business, But Not Without Trade-offs
Breaking: AI achieves what no human programmer ever could—working 7 hours without checking Reddit. The future is here, and it has incredible focus.
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Stephen Smith
The AI Throne: How Google Dethroned Apple in the Intelligence Race
Apple Intelligence? More Like Apple Ignorance – Google Just Served Cupertino a Digital Beatdown
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Google I/O 2025: The Renaissance of Innovation and Why It Matters to Your Business
Google isn't just back in the AI race—it's lapping the competition in Gucci smart glasses. Meanwhile, my smart thermostat still thinks I'm home when…
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Stephen Smith
The Next Frontier: Key Insights from Eric Schmidt's Recent TED Talk on AI
The Under-hyped Revolution: Why Eric Schmidt Believes We're Still Not Taking AI Seriously Enough
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Fact-Checking in the o3 Era: Why OpenAI's Latest Model Is a Game Changer
o3: Because manually fact-checking your boss's PowerPoint slides is so 2024. Now AI can tell you which 'synergistic growth metrics' are actually just…
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Stephen Smith
Claude Enters the Deep Research Arena
My consulting clients used to pay me the big bucks to connect dots between obscure regulations – now Claude does it faster than I can expense my coffee.
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Beyond Basic Prompts: Understanding AI Platform Extensions and When to Use Them
My client asked me what GEMS, GPTs, and Artifacts were, and I realized we've reached Peak AI Buzzword Bingo. Turns out they're actually useful - here's…
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Stephen Smith
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