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09/09/2026

Claude changed a setting this week, and I changed it straight back.

If you use Claude Cowork you probably saw the little notification:

"New tasks now run in the cloud."

It sounds really helpful.

Your computer can be off and your scheduled tasks keep running.

You can start something at your desk and pick it up later on your phone.

But here's the part that's really important to understand.

Cloud tasks work with the files saved to your Claude account.

Anthropic's own help page says it straight out: they can't be tied to a folder on your computer.

So the more of your tasks and their files that live in the cloud, the more of your business lives on one company's servers.

Remember the great ChatGPT to Claude migration.

All that memory and context locked inside a ChatGPT chat, and you pretty much had to start from scratch if you migrated.

The folder system I've built solves that problem.

Now my whole business runs from organised folders on my computer.

Claude Cowork works in them.

ChatGPT Work can also be pointed at the exact same files, and any new AI that comes along can work with them too.

I want to stay in control of my files on my own computer.

Now to be fair, if you work mostly from your phone and nothing you run needs the files on your computer, the cloud option might genuinely work for you.

But you should be able to make the choice yourself, and not end up with a default setting you missed.

I've added a screenshot showing exactly where the setting lives.

Go to Settings>Cowork>Only on this computer - and toggle it on

So tell me, did you see the notification? And which way did you go, cloud or computer?

07/09/2026

The Aligned AI Summit is nearly here 🎉

Join 30+ Online Business owners (including myself) for 'over the shoulder' looks at how they're using AI workflows in their businesses.

This is not another information session its real workflows built for real online businesses.

The Summit runs from 8th-11th September and is FREE to register

🔗 to register in the first comment

06/09/2026

THIS IS ONE SUMMIT YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS OUT ON!

The absolute best way to learn how to use AI in your own business is to see what others are doing and implement it yourself.

I have learnt so much from watch other people and in the Aligned AI Summit you have 35 chances to do just that.

It's FREE to register - Each presentation is available for 48 hours - There is an amazing VIP upgrade

I'll put the 🔗 in the first comment

25/08/2026

I'm one of the 17.

Kate Kordsmeier pulled together 17 online entrepreneurs who run their businesses with Claude and asked each of us to contribute a real system we use.

The skills, workflows and automations doing the work behind the scenes.

It's called This Is How We Claude.

I contributed my Digital Footprint Audit, the skill I use to check whether someone's online presence is telling one consistent story.

It searches your whole digital footprint, flags broken links and outdated bios, and hands you a prioritised fix-it list.

One of my clients ran it and it came back to tell her all her blog links were broken (they broke during a migration) which she hadn't realised.

It then also helped her fix every single one of them 🤯

You run it, you get answers.

And that's just one of 17.

Course creators, coaches, service providers, all sharing the systems they'd normally keep to themselves.

If you've been wondering what people actually DO with Claude beyond chatting to it, this is the closest you'll get to looking over 17 shoulders at once.

The guide is free and I've shared the 🔗 below

18/08/2026

There's one thing I really battle to do...

Give myself 'permission' to step away from my desk.

And it's the craziest thing really, but I have it inside of me that sitting in front of my computer is the only way to actually work...

Yet I have so many examples of when this is just not the case.

Some of my best ideas come when I'm out walking the dogs.

And being on the trails on my bike often brings the greatest clarity on challenges I'm trying to navigate.

So I've made it an intentional habit to step away from my computer as often as I can.

There is a slight problem with all of this though. You see, being a midlife entrepreneur comes with some tricky little challenges...

While I might get these flashes of inspiration and amazing ideas out on the trails, they can also disappear from my brain by the time I get home 🤣

So I've developed a neat little Claude trick (works with ChatGPT too).

As the ideas come in, I quickly chat them into the Claude mobile app, and ask for them to be transferred to my story bank.

Then when I get home, all I have to do is call them up, and my great idea is right there waiting to be implemented.

So now the ideas make it home even when my memory doesn't!

So I'd love to know where do your best ideas show up?

Out walking, in the shower, driving? And how do you make sure they don't disappear as quickly as they arrive 🤔🤣

28/07/2026

There's a tab in your ChatGPT you probably haven't opened yet, and it's a good one.
ChatGPT users just got the ability to build skills inside their accounts about 3 weeks ago when they rolled out ChatGPT Work.

If you don't know what a skill is, it's a set of instructions you write once so the AI does the thing your way, every single time you ask for it.

Not a prompt you paste in but a process it follows each time.

Claude has had skills since October 2025, so for nine months, if you were working in ChatGPT you were watching this from the outside.

You'd hear people talking about the skills they'd built and there was nothing you could go and build in your own account.

That's changed, and many people hav'nt noticed yet.

Here's where to find yours 👉

👉 open ChatGPT on desktop

👉 Go to plugins in the sidebar

👉 You'll see the plugins and skills toggle at the top

👉 Hit the +, then either create your skill or upload a skill

One thing I couldn't work out. I can't find any way to upload a skill from the app, only from the desktop version.

But once it's in there you can use it in the app just fine, you call it in with the @ sign and the list will come up below for you to choose.

It's still rolling out to paid accounts so check if you have it.

Screenshots below so you can see exactly what I'm looking at.

Have you found skills in your ChatGPT yet?

22/07/2026

I'd LOVE your honest opinion!

When you get handed a lead magnet that's a long PDF to read and fill in...

Do you ever actually do it? 🤔

One of my AI Business Builders members asked AI for a lead magnet idea, and it handed her back a 7 page checklist.

She looked at it and thought, "I'd never complete this, so I can't expect anyone else to."

So she asked for something fun and interactive instead.

Something people would actually want to work with.

What she got back was an interactive oracle card meaning generator, built by just describing what she wanted, in plain English, inside Claude.

That one tool brought her 101 new subscribers 🎉

So I asked her if she'd run a training on it for the other members and she said YES!

Then I asked if we could open it up to the public and again she said YES, so come watch her build one live.

The free training is happening on Monday 27 July, on building interactive tools with AI. No code, no tech background needed.

5am EST | 7pm AEST | 10am UK | 11am SAST.

Gillian's over in New Zealand, so, it's early for a lot of you, but if you register I'll make sure you get the replay!

We're covering:

👉 Turning a lead magnet nobody fills in into one people actually use
👉 Dashboards, checklists and trackers you build once and reuse for your own business
👉 Branded interactive resources for your clients or community that look like you hired a developer

There's live Q&A too.

🔗 in the first comment to save your seat

13/07/2026

Have you heard?

ChatGPT launched ChatGPT Work, and the talk everywhere is that it's as good as Claude Cowork...only cheaper!!

So naturally the questions I'm getting asked is...am I switching?

And the answer is simply No.

Remember when everyone moved from ChatGPT to Claude because of Cowork?

Now there's all this talk about moving back again.

But here's what the last 4 years with AI have showed me.

Whatever big feature one platform brings out, the others catch up, often within weeks, but sometimes it takes a few months.

The AI race is that competitive.

So the feature is never the thing to build your business on.

Your context is.

I'm sure you've heard people talking about building a second brain?

Well that is what context literally is...

It's what your business does and who it's for.

Your offers. Your voice and the way you write.

Your audience. Every project you're working on.

Even what your AI has learnt about how you think and communicate.

With features like Cowork and now ChatGPT work all of this context no longer needs to live on their platforms.

Mine lives in files on my own computer, with a backup set in Notion.

If Claude closed its doors tomorrow, yes I'd lose a little bit of memory.

But I'd plug my second brain into another AI and carry on.

All my context, all my projects, everything I've built, still mine.

So there is no need to hop platforms, choose a platform and build with it but build off it.

I'm breaking down the three types of context I build with in this week's email, so if your AI output is still sounding generic and you want to understand the different context layers, I'll drop the 🔗 in the first comment and you can jump on the list in time for Wednesday's one.

08/07/2026

Things are happening in the AI world 👀
Anthropic and OpenAI are battling it out as they release their most powerful models

If you woke up this morning thinking you'd be going back to using Opus or Sonnet in your Claude account - look again because Fable has been extended for another few days until July 12th

And you may be wondering where the Claude Cowork and Chat toggles have gone, well they moved overnight into your chat area.

Meanwhile OpenAI says their new GPT 5.6 models are launching publicly tomorrow:

☀️ Sol - their next generation frontier model
🌍 Terra - a balanced model for efficient, everyday work
🌙 Luna - a fast and affordable model for high-volume work

What does any of this mean for you?

It means that if you have a task you've been battling with, trying a new more powerful model may be the solution you're looking for

Or it may mean absolutely nothing for you.

Because if the model you're already using is doing the job, keep going.

A new model launch doesn't change what's already working in your business.

The only real difference between this week and last week? People like me have homework to do 🤣

I'll be trying the new models as they land, so you don't have to.

So tell me, is there one task AI keeps getting wrong for you no matter what you try?

Drop it in the comments let's see if we can help!

07/07/2026

Well, today's the day 👋

Fable 5 leaves our accounts today at midnight PST

(Unless Anthropic surprises us again. They've done it once already 🙏)

If you missed the saga: Fable is Anthropic's most powerful Claude model yet.

It launched a few weeks ago, got shut down 72 hours later, came back last week, and from tomorrow it will be available only via the API

But don't worry Claude just goes back to the models you already know + sonnet 5 which launched amidst all the Fable drama.

For me I don't really run hectically complicated processes in my business so wasn't really sure what to use it for.

Then I saw a post that basically said this creator had given Fable one of his offers and asked it to turn it into a 20K/m offer without taking on new 1:1 clients

It had a prompt with it so I thought I'd try it for fun

So I gave it my SetUp Claude Cowork for me offer and asked it to do the same thing...

And this was basically its answer...

You could take this offer and do XYZ but why limit yourself to just this offer...

Me: interesting tell me more

Over the last 4 months you have built out a complete system, one that every online business owner needs - that's where the real value lies 😮

I've never been a 60 000 Ft thinker, I think I'm around 30 000 Ft at the most.

I can build out a funnel from start to finish but I often find it difficult to see how everything in my business moves in the same direction.

But AI is incredibly good at it and Fable mirrored the system I had been building right back at me.

Needless to say I've spent the last 5 days building it all out and am sad its going to be behind the API when I wake up tomorrow

So tell me did you build anything you're really excited about while Fable was in your account?

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