Ask ChatGPT what your distributorship does. With nothing grounded on you, it doesn't hedge, it describes the nearest well-documented competitor as you. Duane Forrester calls it silent analogy. What fills the gap is the page you own: Ten Speed found product and capability pages drew about 24% of evaluation-stage citations against ~4% for Reddit, YouTube and forums combined, their own client set, one snapshot, and citations aren't clicks. Now you can check the other end: Google finished rolling out its generative AI performance reports worldwide on August 31, free in Search Console, impressions only. Write your own capability page then go look.
How many buyers saw your website inside an AI Overview last month? As of August 31, you can check. Google finished rolling its generative AI performance reports out worldwide, closing a phased release begun in June: impressions from AI Overviews, AI Mode and generative AI in Discover, split by page, country and date. It's impressions only for now, no clicks, no queries but it helps, you at least learn how the machines are quoting you.
How many hours of recorded sales calls are sitting in your Zoom account (or in Google or Microsoft) right now, doing nothing? Encore AI has a name for the alternative: interaction mining. Read the calls, emails, messages and CRM records together, figure out which questions and explanations moved deals forward, then turn those patterns into playbooks. One mode coaches a rep live mid-conversation, the other runs the interaction end to end as an agent. Pull twenty successful deals and twenty unsuccessful ones, feed the transcripts to the model you already pay for, and ask what the winners said that the losers didn't. That's a sales training doc your top rep will never find time to write!
Ask skucast is an AI built on 350+ skucast episodes. Bring it a question about sales growth, building a team, supplier relationships, or time management, and it answers in plain language, citing the exact episode behind each point so you can hear the full conversation. Type your question or call and talk it through; the voice sounds exactly like Bobby. Every answer draws only on what guests have said on the show. Free, no signup. Promo pros, the whole skucast guest roster is ready for your questions.
You bought the seats. Half your team still opens Claude or ChatGPT, asks something vague, gets mush, and concludes AI doesn't work. Claude Academy is free, with a course called AI Fluency for Small Businesses. Don't browse it like Netflix: finish one, build a real workflow. Then steal intent.md from Anthropic's AI-native SDLC playbook, the note you'd leave a smart coworker taking over tomorrow: outcome, non-negotiables, a concrete definition of done. BTW, the future of training is this: Every is cloning its own coworkers. KateBench is a copyeditor skill built from 30,000+ historical edits by one editor. Your version: capture your teams work. Capturing and training the model is the new apprenticeship!
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra last week, and the part that matters is that it can finally work your screen. Give it a browser and it finds the right button, types in the right box, and moves through a task without losing the plot: on OpenAI's own testing it clicks the correct thing about nine times out of ten, up from roughly seven with the last model, and finishes in half the time. It also got better at the documents you send: proposals, spreadsheets, presentation templates that follow your format instead of inventing one, and it handles you changing your mind halfway through, which is how real work goes. It's live now in ChatGPT for Plus, Pro, Business and Team accounts. We tested it all weekend on visual projects, it's def a superior leap.
🌐 BrowserOS neo is a free browser for agents like Claude Code and Codex, signed into your logins so they can work inside supplier portals for you.
🤝 Salesforce moved its CRM inside Claude: Claudeforce keeps the data and permissions in Salesforce and hands the clicking to the AI.
📱 LightReel indexes about 10,000 new TikToks a day so you can search hooks and formats that are already working.
📊 McKinsey's State of AI in 2026: 80% say AI lifted their productivity, 37% see it move EBIT.
🎙️ Gemini 3.5 Transcribe turns call audio into clean, formatted notes with speakers labelled and filler removed, in 85+ languages.
📰 Google Discover now takes instructions in plain language on what to show you, and remembers them.
🧠 Claude's memory now carries across chat and Cowork and updates live as you talk.
⚖️ Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a frontier model built for one profession. Is this the future of frontier models + verticals?
🔮 Sam Altman told TIME that OpenAI expects an internal model by end of 2026 that meets his own definition of AGI.
📞 Ask skucast takes your question by text or phone call and answers with nine years of skucast behind it. Have you tried it?
🎓 CSU Live runs September 10, 1–3 PM ET, free for commonsku customers. Roadmap, product team Q&A, and an AI breakout with Bobby.