Hi, I’m Catherine Thairu — AI Agent & Automation Expert I’m currently building my professional portfolio and looking to create 5 in-depth case studies that showcase how AI agents can transform businesses. I specialize in marketing automation and AI agent systems, combining marketing strategy with advanced automation to help brands increase leads, streamline customer engagement, and scale effortlessly. If you’d like me to build custom AI agents for your business (lead generation, customer support, or marketing workflows) in exchange for a detailed case study, I’d love to collaborate with you. Let’s create something powerful together — you get the automation, and I get the results documented as a portfolio case study.

Hi everyone, have another tool for you. You may have been looking for ways to automate repetitive tasks without learning complex automation tools, so thought you might want to know about Zapier AI. For those of you who don't know what Zapier is, it is an "automation platform", which is basically fancy for saying it connects two pieces of software together (for example, google sheets and gmail). I'm not going to post another generic tutorial, but what I wanted to share is just describe your workflow like 'when i get an email with an invoice, save it to google drive and add to my spreadsheet' and Zapier AI builds it. Just describe your workflow in plain English (like 'save email attachments to Google Drive'), and Zapier AI will build the automation for you - no technical knowledge required. Hope this helps!

Everyone expected the next big leap in AI to be smarter chat models… instead it was image editing Nano Banana blew up because it solved the one thing every creator struggled with: clean, controlled edits without breaking the image It can: - swap objects without distortion - fix colours without ruining lighting - keep faces consistent - edit clothes, backgrounds and details perfectly No re-generating. No losing the original. No weird hands It made visual creation accessible, even for people with zero design skills—so naturally millions adopted it in weeks. In your opinion… is Nano Banana just the start, or will editing become the main use of AI for most people?

It’s not to “save time” Many AI Agencies don’t offer the outcomes business owners want… And they're left wondering why their calendars are empty. So let me explain: Business owners are not dreaming of ‘saving time’ or having an extra ‘10-20 hours a week’ They’re dreaming of what that time UNLOCKS for them. Why do they want to ‘streamline operations’ to ‘save time’? → They want to grow the business - not maintain it. → They want to work ON the business - not IN it. → They want to focus on bigger objectives - not admin tasks. So… offer these outcomes instead of ‘save time’. Because that’s what your AI solution unlocks.

Please see an update for me this morning in the comments. This disaster is going to make me a much better founder. I got up at 3:45 AM today to begin rebuilding my company. Original post follows: I’m standing here writing this in tears, and I want to give a very sobering warning to anyone who is considering upgrading from ChatGPT plus to a business Team’s account on ChatGPT. There is a a glitch that was unknown to me before I started this process, but is apparently well known in the open AI developer community that all of your data is deleted when you migrate it and you can’t get it back. Everything I’ve been building for months is just …. Gone. Other than what I had saved and backed up in my personal files, my entire ChatGPT history has been zeroed out, and it really hurts because this was like my external brain for both home and my business that I’m building. Open AI acknowledged that their company documentation failed to include a warning that all of my personal data would be deleted and everything that I have been working on since day one in my accounts has been deleted, and there’s nothing I can do to get it back even though I followed their exact instructions on merging my personal and business accounts, to the letter. I just paid $618 to upgrade my account to two seats on a business plan and merged the data from my personal account to my business plan. Within a minute or two of that transaction going through as I was following the step-by-step worksheet that ChatGPT itself printed out for me. My accounts froze, and I had to log out. I logged back in everything was blank. When I used my previous emails that I had my accounts tied to to log back in ChatGPT opened free tier accounts using my business email that I just paid $618 to open my business account on. I’ve escalated this to ChatGPT Support and they were extremely unhelpful. Basically they said sorry it’s a known issue and there’s nothing we can do. I was planning on shipping a product today using the ChatGPT business plan because it offers a secure link so that I’m not sending out raw proprietary JSON code.