Ten copy-paste ChatGPT prompts I use weekly for freelance cold outreach — plus the response rate I track for each, and the one prompt that doubled my replies.
$20 Cursor vs $15 Windsurf, both running the same MVP build. After 60 days the answer wasn’t the cheaper one — and it wasn’t even close.
OpenAI’s April 2026 post-mortem reveals how GPT-5 personality training can drift undetected—and what solo consultants should do about it.
Two $100 AI tiers, one decision. The five real differences I’d weigh before swapping my Plus and Pro stack.
Five AI tools, five jobs, one B2B SaaS proposal — the stack I actually pay for in 2026 and the order I run them in.
Claude Code vs Cursor — six months of side-by-side use on solo consultant work. I have paid Claude Code at $20/month and Cursor Pro at $20/month, used them daily across three to five client projects in parallel, and kept a running log of which one I opened first. The first three months I treated them … Read more
A client emailed me a 6-page discovery doc on Tuesday afternoon. I had a draft brief due Wednesday morning. The first decision I had to make wasn’t what to write — it was which AI I’d open first. Notion AI vs ChatGPT — that was the actual question. I pay for both. I’ve been paying … Read more
A news brief from a solo operator’s seat — what the April 27 partnership rewrite actually changes for the people paying $20–$200 a month, not the boardroom. In this post TL;DR What the OpenAI Microsoft deal actually changed First-party products stay on Azure 3 things that actually move for a freelance stack What does NOT … Read more
The three specific automations that justified my Cursor subscription — with the exact prompts I used and the mistakes that wasted my first attempts. Content mode: Tested Two months ago I wrote about setting up Cursor as a non-developer freelancer. Since then, three scripts have survived into weekly use. Together they save me roughly two … Read more
Content mode: Informed — Field Report. I haven’t personally tested GPT-5.5 against Claude Code yet — this is what the public benchmarks and pricing pages say before I commit to a paid month of side-by-side use. I haven’t used this yet, but here’s what the data shows. OpenAI released GPT-5.5 yesterday (April 23, 2026), and … Read more
I watched a colleague type a sentence into her laptop and watch 380 mis-named photo files rename themselves in under a minute. I’m not a developer. She isn’t either. I’d been planning to batch-rename the exact same kind of folder for a client that afternoon, and I’d budgeted three hours for it in Finder. That’s … Read more
I used to count my pitch prep in browser tabs. Twenty-two felt normal. Company site, three competitor sites, a couple of industry reports, two or three LinkedIn pages, the founder’s podcast episode I half-remembered, a press release someone mentioned in a Slack DM. Most of those tabs were open for 30 seconds and closed without … Read more