How's it going, Reader?

Maybe you know this feeling. 🤔

You spent three weeks building a launch, writing the emails, designing the sales page, maybe even putting money behind ads. You ran the whole plan past ChatGPT, and it told you the idea was strong and helped you build every piece.

Then cart open day came, and you sat there refreshing your sales dashboard and watching nothing happen. ☹️

The worst part isn’t the money, although that stings.

It’s the small voice afterward asking what’s wrong with you.

You did everything right and followed every step, so you start wondering whether you’re just not cut out for this.

You pull back, second-guess every idea, and spend the next month spinning your wheels instead of selling.

I’ve watched this happen to so many smart, hardworking business owners, and it’s the reason I recorded this week’s podcast episode.

Honestly, it was tough to get through this episode without breaking down because I'm so passionate about making sure AI honestly helps business owners through my work with SAGE.

Most of us are using AI in place of the help we can’t afford to hire.

There’s no VA, coach, or business partner to say “wait, are you sure?” before we spend the money.

It’s just us and the AI at ten o’clock at night, and we trust what it tells us.

So I tested whether that trust is earned four times in a series of controlled experiments.

I ran 630 AI answers, and plain Claude (without SAGE) said yes to about one in six weak business plans- 18% on average, but one experiment result was 40%! - the exciting ones like four launches in a month or daily promo emails for 60 days.

It never warned that the plan might not work.

It just cheered.

That flop may never have been your fault.

You may have been given a confident yes when you needed an honest “here’s what could go wrong.”

With SAGE added to Claude, it was only 1.1% on average! 🙌

In the episode, I share a ten-second prompt you can paste into any AI today so you get the truth before you spend a dime.

I also shared one of the experiments that came close to the average result publicly on my GitHub!

Imagine walking into your next launch knowing the plan has already been pressure-tested, instead of hoping and refreshing.

​Check out my podcast here!​

It’s about nine minutes, perfect for your coffee break or the school pickup line.

New Podcast Out - Can You Trust AI for Business Advice? I Tested 630 Answers (ChatGPT & Claude for Small Business)

Can you trust AI for business advice? I tested 630 answers from Claude to see whether AI tells small business owners the truth about their plans or just cheers them on. Here’s what I found, and the simple prompt that makes ChatGPT or Claude give you more honest answers.

More small business owners than ever are using AI in place of hiring a VA, a marketing consultant, or a business coach. That means more people are acting on AI advice with no one to double-check it. As part of my application to the Anthropic Residency, a research program focused on making AI safer and more trustworthy, I ran a series of controlled experiments to measure how often AI acts like a yes-man with business owners.

In this video:

• Why AI sometimes acts like a yes-man (AI sycophancy explained simply)
• The business plans where AI is most likely to tell you what you want to hear
• My 630-answer experiment and the results
• How SAGE and her weekly Learning Loop ground advice in your real business results
• A copy-and-paste prompt for more honest AI business advice

​Listen and/or read the transcript of my podcast episode here!​

Other places:

• ​Apple Podcasts​
• ​Spotify​
• ​Amazon Music​
• ​YouTube​

Let me know if you have any questions.

Becky

P.S. I’m going even deeper at my free workshop on Monday, November 30 at 2 pm Central, where I’ll show you how to set up AI so it tells you the truth instead of what you want to hear.

​Save your free seat here.