I take notes on pretty much everything I do in Notion, whether it’s a client strategy session or a Tuesday call with my mum. Who needs a journal, right?
This week I asked Claude to go through all of it and give me a rundown of what actually happened.
Turns out that’s a pretty good way to see your own week clearly. Here’s what showed up.
I paused a business, and it felt like winning
My co-founder and I decided to put Quiet Upgrade, the ed-tech side project we’d been building, on indefinite hold.
We had real interest when we originally did outreach, but the execution never caught up to the enthusiasm, and we’d been circling different visions of what the thing was even for.
We talked it through and called what it was: not a failure, an accomplishment. We’re keeping the weekly call going as informal peer mentoring instead of forcing a business out of it. And cancelling the extra weekday meetings freed up time that I immediately used to get back to writing for myself instead of only showing up for client work. (Or taking a break. Ha!)
If you’re an SMB owner sitting on a project that’s costing you more energy than it’s returning, you can do the same. Pausing something on purpose is a decision, not a defeat.
The client work that actually paid the bills
A big chunk of the week went to a client whose coaching business I handle content and strategy for. We dug into a real differentiation problem: with over a hundred thousand coaches out there globally, “I’m a coach who helps neurodivergent women” doesn’t cut it anymore. She needs a sharp, ownable buying moment, so we’re working through a named method and a proof-of-experience angle instead of another generic offer page.
Fixing the AI content detection false positive
We also hit a small, very 2026 problem: the AI-generated tag. I tested a couple of tools this week to show a human wrote it, because it did; a human just used AI to help. If you’re publishing anywhere with an AI detector bolted on, this is worth knowing about before it happens to you.
Separately, I sat down with my mastermind group and admitted something a lot of us doing client work don’t say out loud: I’ve lost track of which AI tool built which piece of which client project. Claude did this, ChatGPT did that, and six months from now I won’t remember which. That’s officially becoming a blog post of its own, because if I’m losing the thread, you probably are too.
And there’s a nonprofit client whose website needs a full rebuild, mostly because edits over time and text-heavy flyer images have rendered the entire homepage fairly useless. Free advice for literally anyone reading this: if the important information on your site lives inside a JPEG, it doesn’t exist to Google, and it barely exists to your visitors either. Imagine trying to read a crowded flyer on your phone? Oof!!
What I’m learning out loud
I sat in on a few AI-focused sessions this week, partly for my day job and partly because I can’t help myself.
One workshop framed AI agents as actual teammates rather than a chat window you type into, complete with a named “org chart” of assistants each doing a specific job. The number that stuck with me from that session: the presenter claimed under one percent of AI users are working at that agent level, while the vast majority are still doing basic back-and-forth chat. Take it as one person’s read on where the field is, not gospel, but it matches what I see when I talk to small business owners who think AI means typing a question into a box.
I also sat through a methodology session on how to structure an AI readiness assessment for a business, which is close enough to my own consulting work that I was taking more notes than usual. The short version: talk to leadership first, ask about where work actually slows down and repeats, and build trust before you ask anyone to admit their job involves a lot of copying and pasting.
And in a completely different room, someone walked through three techniques for thinking more clearly under pressure: slow down before you weigh in on anything that matters, get curious instead of defensive when someone disagrees with you, and argue against the strongest version of the other side’s point, not the weakest one. None of that is AI-specific. All of it is useful.
The non-work part
Not everything in my Notion is client strategy and workshop notes. I took a PTO day, won bar trivia with my daughter, and spent an evening quick-pickling vegetables because apparently that’s my current hobby. Small, ordinary, worth mentioning, because the “AI Auntie” behind this business is also just a person having a normal week.
That’s the recap. Client fires put out, one business laid to rest on purpose, a stack of things I’m still chewing on, and a trivia win. Same as most weeks, honestly, just with the recap pulled straight from my own notes instead of my memory.
It’s nice to have this stuff documented. I’ll probably keep it up.