Had to make changes to my websites because of chatbots, If you run a chatbot on your website or your client's website you should watch this video below. Putting this consent screen in place is a smart move. Lately, these predatory law firms have been weaponizing old state wiretapping laws—like CIPA out in California or the tracking rules here in Florida—to troll small businesses running standard third-party chatbots. They try to claim you're 'intercepting' data without permission, but forcing them to click that button completely shuts that crap down.

Most people accept ChatGPT's first answer, tweak it a bit, and move on. The single biggest upgrade you can make is to stop treating the first draft as the answer and start treating it as something to be marked. Here's the move. You give ChatGPT the task, then you hand it a rubric, the same criteria you'd use to judge the work yourself, and you make it score its own draft against that rubric before you ever see it. Then it rewrites to fix its lowest scores. Say you're writing a cold email. Most people prompt: "Write a cold email to a marketing director offering our service." You get something generic. Instead, try this: "Write a cold outreach email to a marketing director. Then score your own draft from 1 to 10 on each of these: 1) does the first line earn the second, 2) is it about them not us, 3) is there one clear ask, 4) would a busy person read it in under 15 seconds. Show the scores, then rewrite to fix anything under 8." Now you're not hoping for a good email. You've told it what good looks like and made it run the editing pass you'd normally do yourself. Two things make this work. First, the rubric is where your expertise goes. You know what a good email, landing page, or proposal needs, so you encode it once. The model is far better at applying a clear standard than inventing one. Second, asking for scores forces it to actually evaluate instead of just rephrasing, and it will usually catch its own weakest spot before you have to. Save your favourite rubrics and reuse them. A good-email rubric, a good blog-intro rubric, a sales-call-summary rubric. Over time that's a quiet quality system running on every task. What's a task you'd want a rubric for? Tell me the task in the comments and I'll help you build the criteria.

A question I keep seeing from business owners here: should I build a Custom GPT, or is a good saved prompt enough? The honest answer is that most people reach for a Custom GPT too early, when a saved prompt would do the same job with a lot less faff. Here is the simple way to decide. Use a saved prompt when the task is a one-off shape you repeat. Things like "turn these notes into a follow-up email" or "summarise this article in five bullets". You paste the prompt, drop in your content, and you are done. Keep these in a notes file or a doc so you are not rewriting them from scratch every time. Build a Custom GPT when you need the same instructions, tone, and reference material applied again and again, especially if other people on your team will use it too. A Custom GPT lets you bake in the role, the rules, and any files it should always refer to. Good examples: a support assistant that already knows your refund policy, or one that writes in your brand voice every single time. Rough rule of thumb: if you would have to paste the same background into the chat more than a few times a week, it is worth turning into a Custom GPT. If not, a saved prompt is faster to set up and easier to tweak when you change your mind. What are you leaning on more right now, Custom GPTs or a prompt library?

I've been experimenting for the last three weeks with Wispr Flow and I have to be honest I don't think I could do without it now. As you can see from the attached screen shots, I use it a hell of a lot for writing prompts and I find it way better than either Claude's microphone or ChatGPT's microphone. It's particularly good at recognising technical words to do with hosting or domain names, things that normally would drive you crazy because after you've done speech-to-text you have to go back through and then edit it all correctly. As you can see from the attached screenshot it looks like I might be doing too much work and my poor friends don't get to hear from me too often. 😄 Anyway if you want to write detailed prompts extremely quickly and with minimal editing (I'm talking almost never), then I highly recommend trying out Wispr Flow. Cheers Jason

Most people use ChatGPT to generate ideas. That's the easy part. The more useful play is to use it as a second opinion on a decision you've already half-made. When you're about to raise a price, ship a new offer, or send a long email you're nervous about, you don't need more options. You need someone to poke holes in the one you've picked. ChatGPT is good at this if you set it up right. Here's the basic shape. Step 1. State the decision you've already made. Don't ask "what should I do", write out the choice in plain terms. "I'm planning to raise my price from $49 to $79 starting next month. Here's why…" Step 2. Give it the context. Customer base, recent feedback, what your competitors charge, why the timing feels right. Two or three short paragraphs is enough. Step 3. Ask it to argue against the decision. Try this line: "Argue against this decision as if you were a sceptical advisor who has seen plenty of similar plans fail. Be specific." That last word matters. Without "be specific" you get generic risk-talk. With it, you get the actual second opinion you came for. Step 4. Decide what to do with what comes back. Some of the pushback will be useless. Some of it will land. The point isn't to follow the AI's advice, it's to surface the angles you hadn't considered before you commit. This pattern earns its keep most on pricing changes, hiring decisions, big emails, and anything where you've already mostly made up your mind. The "give me 10 options" pattern is better suited to early-stage brainstorming. What's the next decision you'd run this on? Drop it below.