
AI Model Guide
Which AI model to pick, how hard to let it think, when to escalate, and how to stop paying for tokens you do not need. Claude and ChatGPT, every fact checked against the vendor's pages.
Updated Tue / 2026-10-06 / 4:55 AM CT
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Economically relevant tools and resources for business owners, forums, chapters and curious people. Many of them are free.

Which AI model to pick, how hard to let it think, when to escalate, and how to stop paying for tokens you do not need. Claude and ChatGPT, every fact checked against the vendor's pages.

A deck of conversation questions for skipping small talk, on the web and as a free iPhone and iPad app.

Curated five-minute briefs that get you conversant in a topic fast, as a free iPhone and iPad app.

Enter a few facts about your business and see what it might be worth, what you would take for it, and the five moves that close most of the gap. The math stays in your browser.

Paste a job's duties and get a written read on whether you would love it and be good at it, using the six Working Genius types, plus questions to ask before you say yes.

The six numbers an agency owner should decide from, with the advice on top and the math underneath. Try your own numbers or the sample agency.

The standing instructions that made working with an AI efficient: model checks, token reports, delegation triage, verification. Copy any of them.