The tbdb.ai blog
Framework walk-throughs, build notes, and honest takes on which AI investments are worth it for a small to mid-sized company — and which are hype dressed up as strategy.
AI drafts read like everyone else's because they're built from everyone else's words. Here's the 30-minute edit pass that puts your specifics back in.
TechCrunch reported (Aug 2026) Circleback added a free notetaker tier alongside $14/mo plans. Here's the hour-per-week math for a 5-person shop.
Model leadership keeps moving. Keep prompts, data and workflows in your own hands so swapping AI vendors costs an afternoon, not a quarter.
Nobody knows where token prices go next. Here's how to cap AI spend, route boring jobs to cheap models, and know which workflows survive a 2x hike.
TechCrunch says free ChatGPT now covers unlimited text chats. Here's a 45-minute seat audit to decide which paid seats to keep and which to cancel.
Five questions to ask before you build any automation, so a broken workflow doesn't quietly stop invoicing your customers for three weeks.
Three cheap controls — an allowed-topic list, a price and promise blocklist, and a handoff trigger — that stop your support bot from inventing discounts.
Pull your call log, count the true misses, and price an AI answering setup against them — plus the three call types you should never hand to a bot.
YouTube, TikTok and Meta all label AI content as of July 2026. Here's the AI-draft, human-on-camera split we'd build, and what it costs in hours.
