Bryan Leasure, founder of BrainRoad AI, helps business owners implement AI strategies that grow revenue. He brings 30 years of IT experience and a bias for implementation—real budgets, real constraints, and systems your team can keep running.
Chinese AI startup Moonshot released software that coordinates 100 automated helpers simultaneously—completing tasks 4.5x faster at half the cost of American alternatives. Here's what small businesses need to know about the Agent Swarm capability and its real-world limitations.
Your customers can tell when AI wrote your content—and they're tuning out. 52% report reduced engagement with suspected AI content. The fix isn't avoiding AI. It's the Voice Amplifier approach: AI for structure, human for soul. Here's exactly how to protect your voice while doubling your output.
A new research paper claims AI agents can't handle complex tasks reliably. Meanwhile, 80% of enterprise AI projects never leave the pilot stage. But 5% of companies are seeing 5x revenue gains. Here's what separates them.
Autonomous AI agents like Clawdbot need full system access—shell, browser, email—to be useful. That same access makes them attack surfaces. Here's the isolation playbook every business owner needs before deploying AI that can actually do things.
70% of US small businesses are solo-operated. Most automate the wrong things first. Here's the priority order that actually moves revenue—starting with the task that gives you a 21x conversion advantage.
GitHub released the Copilot SDK, letting developers embed the same AI agent runtime powering Copilot CLI into any application. Four languages supported, authentication via existing Copilot subscription. The agent infrastructure problem just got solved.
ClawdBot is an open-source AI assistant that lives in your messaging apps—Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage, Discord. It remembers context, messages you proactively, and costs $10-$200/month. Here's what it actually does and where it falls apart.
Apple is replacing Siri with a ChatGPT-style chatbot powered by Google Gemini, launching September 2026. For business owners, this means rising customer expectations, shifting voice search patterns, and a platform update affecting 2 billion devices. Here's what to do before it hits.
The three frontier AI models aren't a ladder—they're a Venn diagram. Gemini 3 ingests massive documents. ChatGPT 5.2 produces polished deliverables. Claude Opus 4.5 handles complex reasoning. Stop picking 'the best' and start matching shapes to surfaces.
Claude Co-Work gives non-technical users the same AI agent that powers Claude Code—through a simple folder-based interface. Half of Anthropic's sales team already uses it weekly. Here's how to set it up and what to expect from this research preview.
Anthropic shipped Claude Cowork—a desktop AI agent that organizes files, converts documents, and browses the web. Built by 4 engineers in 10 days. WIRED says it's the first AI agent that 'actually works.' Now available for $20/month on Mac.
AI agents are finally production-ready—not the demo versions, the ones that handle real chaos. 88% of executives are increasing AI budgets for agentic AI in 2026. Here's your practical game plan: four agent types that work, where deployments fail, and a 30-day sprint to your first pilot.
