This week in AI, and how to check if AI can find your business

Ask AI What Your Buyers Ask. Find Out If It Names You.

Seven stories you can act on, then a real site: the AI check, the fixes, and the dashboard that watches it.

Fri Oct 30, 2026 · Olga Pearson and Chris Pearson

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News · Oct 26, 2026

Anthropic filed to go public. Claude wrote over 90% of its September code.

FOR YOUPick one workflow you’d hand to AI first. Write down what it costs you today, so you can tell if it paid.

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News · Oct 27 and 28, 2026

One Anthropic team stopped giving coding interviews

FOR YOUIf the test of your skill is going away, show what you built: the project, the result, and how AI got you there.

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News · Oct 26, 2026

Microsoft offered voluntary buyouts. About 60,000 people are eligible.

FOR YOUWrite down the three things you do that AI can’t do yet.

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News · Oct 26 and 29, 2026

OpenAI’s new model uses a computer for you at half the price. Then it doubled Pro limits.

FOR YOUIf cost kept you from trying an agent on your busywork, check that reason again this week.

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News · Oct 28, 2026

Chrome can fill out forms from your Gmail, once you turn it on

FOR YOUDecide before you click yes. Try it on the form you fill out every week. Shared computer? Leave it off.

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News · Oct 27, 2026

Claude drafted a drug filing in four hours. By hand it takes about three months.

FOR YOUGive AI your last good document as the example. Ask for a first draft by lunch.

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News · Oct 28, 2026

Claude for teams now shows what AI costs and what it’s worth

FOR YOUKnow what you spend on AI each month and what you get back.

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The deep dive · can AI find you?

Your next buyer may ask ChatGPT before they ask Google.

GEO is the check: can AI find your site, read it and quote it?

FOR YOUAsk one AI the question your best buyer asks. Is your business named?

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The proof · aibusinessplays.com

A free daily site of real AI plays from small business owners

The resultLabeled self-reported
Who did itWith a link to their original post
The stepsAnd a prompt to copy
Built onPageMotor, with two AI helpers

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The GEO audit · what it checks

Eight checks

1 Crawl accessrobots.txt, llms.txt, sitemap
2 No JavaScriptCan an AI read the page as plain HTML?
3 TitlesTitles, meta descriptions, share tags
4 SchemaArticle, Person, HowTo, Breadcrumb, Organization
5 QuotableAnswer first, with source credit
6 SpeedSpeed, internal links, categories
7 VisitorsWho sends visitors, which AI crawlers visit
8 Questions15 buyer questions asked to AI: Yes, Maybe or No

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The baseline · Oct 25, 2026

2 of 15 buyer questions won

2 Yes
2 Maybe
11 No
“Best X” questions: 0 of 7

Both wins were brand questions. Other use-case sites owned every “best library” answer.

FOR YOUFive buyer questions. Four AIs. Mark Yes or No.

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What the audit found

Full to a person. Empty to an AI.

Home page: 121 words, zero plays

The cards needed JavaScript. Most AI crawlers don’t run it.

Schema: 3 out of 10

The author pointed to a person who did not exist.

llms.txt: boilerplate

It never said what the site was.

Sitemap dates: all bumped at once

Search engines learn to ignore dates like that.

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What changed · Oct 25 to 26

The fixes

For AI readersNewest plays printed in the page. Article, Person and HowTo schema. Real sitemap dates. A new llms.txt.
For trust“Picked and checked by Olga Pearson” on every play.
For questionsA FAQ page and 11 industry hubs.
For searchGoogle Search Console and Bing set up, sitemap submitted.
Still openGetting onto the “best AI use case” roundups.

FOR YOUOpen your best page with JavaScript off. If the words vanish, AI can’t read them either.

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The dashboard · one Stats tab

Every number has a source and a schedule

Growth funnelReal visitors, signups, PageMotor clicks · live
Real visitorsCounted after 3 seconds in a real browser, no cookies · live
Audit fixesWhat’s done, what’s open · when a fix lands
Google + BingFrom Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools · daily 6:30 AM
AI platformsCopilot and Gemini rows · daily 6:30 AM
AI answer testWhich AI services cite us · Sundays

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What watching caught

About half the “page views” were WordPress scanner bots.

So the dashboard stopped counting raw hits and started counting real visitors.

FOR YOUBefore you trust a number, ask where it comes from and how often it updates.

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Who does the watching

Two bots, one brain

Grok BotFinds, checks and publishes plays. Newsletter, search stats, audits.

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The shared brain

Read first, every session

the rules
open tasks
a dated log line per change

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ClaudeBuilds and fixes code, plugins, dashboard, schema.

Olga approves.

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How nobody breaks the site

Three safety rules

Dry run first

Every write is tested before it runs.

Check for newer work

A fingerprint check stops one bot overwriting the other.

Rollback copy

Saved before every batch of changes.

Watching caught one: saves said OK while the live pages kept the old text. Now every save re-reads the page and says if it failed.

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What moved so far · early

“How are roofers and contractors using AI to get more leads?”

GrokCited the site first (the TruChoice Roofing play)
ChatGPTNo
ClaudeNo
PerplexityNo

First run, Oct 26. Full re-check Nov 24, same 15 questions.

FOR YOURepeat your questions every Sunday. One No is not a verdict. Watch the pattern.

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Copy this Monday

Three things to set up this week

1 CheckFive buyer questions, four AIs, Yes or No, every Sunday.
2 One notebookYour AI helpers share one notes file and an inbox. Both read it first.
3 RollbackSave a copy before every change, so yes is a small decision.

Free daily plays: aibusinessplays.com

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