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Plain answers on AI, search and operations, each one shown with the data and the method behind it.
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Latest
guide AI search optimization: what it is, what is measured, and where to startAI search and visibility · updated 2026-10-16 · 11 min study AI visibility tool pricing across 36 tools: one check costs a median $0.0205, a 71.1x spreadresearch · n = 36 · free dataset radar Meta says AI ad-ranking models lifted app ad conversions 9.6% in Q3 2026the wire · 2026-10-28 · 2 sources blog Companies replacing workers with AI: what the record shows, company by company (2026)analysis · 2026-10-27 blog Is AI tutoring better than human tutoring? What the randomized trials measured (2026)analysis · 2026-10-26 blog Will AI replace accountants? What the measured record shows (2026)analysis · 2026-10-25 case file Flycatcher v. Affable Avenue (S.D.N.Y.): a lawyer's repeated AI-fabricated citations cost his client the case by default judgment, then cost him $38,877.59 in feescase file · 2026-10-20
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Guides by topic
AI search and visibility 6 guides How ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews choose what to cite, measured on real sites, and what a company can do about it. AI in operations 3 guides AI agents and automation doing real work: who builds them, what they cost, what the deploying companies report, and what breaks. Process and operations 2 guides Process design and operational work, with or without AI: mapping, documenting and improving a process before anyone automates it. AI accountability 3 guides When AI goes wrong on the public record: court sanctions, regulators’ orders, walk-backs and claims that did not hold up.
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How TIN works
guides
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research
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case files
Claims against the record.
A case file checks someone else's public claim against primary sources, archives them, and shows what held.