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Reliable AI automation, self-hosted stacks, the token tax, and getting cited by AI search. Real receipts, no slop.
2026-06-14
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The token tax is real: why I self-host my AI stack
Subsidized AI pricing is ending. Autonomous agents burn 5-30x the tokens of a chat call, and the bill is coming due. Here's the math that made me self-host.
2026-06-14Schema markup won't get you cited by AI. Here's what does
Schema is hygiene, not a GEO strategy. What actually gets you cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews is entity consistency and sourced direct answers.
2026-06-14Which automations actually mattered? $800K+ later
$800K+ across 50+ automations. The wins weren't the flashy AI demos. They were the boring, deterministic ones that produced zero missed invoices.