Hey, I'm Tony · Issue 01
Most AI courses teach concepts. I show you the real problem I solved. How I thought about it, what I asked for, what I tried, what failed, what worked. So you copy the workflow and the thinking.
Tony — at his desk, building & sharing
The whole idea
You can read about prompt engineering for a year and still freeze on Monday morning. The hard part isn't the tools. It's knowing what to ask for. Most people don't.
That's why each case study has two layers: the workflow that solved the problem, and the thinking behind it. Why I made the choices I did, and the questions I asked myself before touching a single prompt. Take a “simple” login page: do you need social login? Password reset? Magic link? 2FA? Most briefs skip this. Mine don't.
That's how I learn AI. That's how I share it.
Featured case studies
Each case study walks you through one real business problem, the thinking that scoped it, and the exact AI workflow that solved it. The messy reality: the questions I asked, what I tried, what failed, the final fix. Not the polished textbook version.
Commission Calculator Case Study
A real estate agency spent 2 weeks each month manually calculating commissions in Excel, with errors they didn't even know about. Here's exactly how AI turned it into one click.
Pet Store POS Case Study
A 14-branch pet store chain needed POS, booking, grooming, and boarding management. Built from scanning handwritten notes and Excel files.
Shopify & Web Case Study
A will-writing company needed a website. Without AI, the quote was 1 year. With AI and the right person, 1 week. The exact process, step by step.
Multi-Agent Chatbot Case Study
Different customer types need different responses. How to build AI chatbots that understand context and route conversations intelligently.
Learn together
AI is moving fast. Working through case studies with other business owners (asking questions, sharing what you tried) beats studying alone. The community is small but growing. Come help shape it.
Stuck on a workflow or want to know why I made a choice? Drop a question right under the lesson. I read every one.
Share what you're building. Compare notes with other SME owners using AI. Find someone tackling the same problem.
Real answers from people doing the work. No paid coaches, no scripted responses. Just owners helping owners.
Where the case studies come from
Each case study is a problem I actually had to solve, across different industries and types of work. Different problems force different AI techniques. You see the full range, not just one playbook applied everywhere.
E-commerce
Product copy, customer service replies, demand forecasting. The daily grind of running an online brand, compressed into AI workflows.
Real estate
Commission calculations, listings, contract handling. Where the famous 'two weeks of Excel to seconds' case study came from.
Fitness studio
Studio operations, member retention, social content. AI behind almost every customer touchpoint without it feeling robotic.
Education
This site. Built using the same AI workflows I share. The daily Radar? Auto-generated by AI overnight. Meta, but real.
Cross-border trading
Product sourcing, pricing, listing copy, support tickets. How AI lets one person run an operation that used to need three.
Always exploring
Every new problem is a fresh case study. I write up what works. I write up what fails. Both teach you something.
AI Business Radar · Updated daily
No paywalls
I'm building this for solopreneurs and small business owners who actually want to use AI in their work. Everything here is free. Come learn together.
Common questions
Solopreneurs and small/medium business owners who want to actually use AI in their day-to-day work, not just read about it. If you run a business, employ a few people (or none), and feel like AI could help but you don't know where to start, this is for you.
Most courses teach concepts. I show you exactly how a real problem gets solved with AI, start to finish. Watching one case study and copying the workflow is faster than studying a syllabus and trying to figure out where to apply it. Most people learn faster by example anyway.
Honestly, that's most people. It's the real reason AI projects stall. Each case study spends as much time on what I asked for and why as on the workflow itself. Take a 'simple' login page: do you need social login? Password reset? Magic link? 2FA? Most people don't know to ask. By the third or fourth case study, you'll start spotting the questions you should be asking about your own business before you even open ChatGPT.
Yes. Every case study, every blog post, every Radar update. All free. No tiers, no paywalls, no 'unlock the rest' upsells.
No. The case studies are for business owners, not engineers. If you can use email and a spreadsheet, you can follow along. I'll walk through the exact tools and prompts I used.
Malaysia. But the case studies and lessons apply to anyone running a small business. The AI tools and workflows don't care about geography.
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