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Switching from WordPress to EmDash
Wes Bos moved 307 posts and 6.7 GB of photos off a $600-a-year host. Here’s what that means if your Amarillo site is still on WordPress.
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AI that fits real work. Automations that survive the week. Workflow ideas you can steal. Written for the 806.
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- AI
What can a lawn guy even do with an AI agent?
How a service-truck owner can use an AI agent on Messenger or SMS: mid-route replies, booking, day-of texts, and payment links without a second app.
- AI
AI agents for small business in Amarillo: Grok Bot, Muse, and Hermes
How Grok Bot, Muse, and Hermes each handle the same Monday leaks (inbox backlog, unpaid invoices, a messy schedule) and where that work lives in an Amarillo shop.
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Why we’re done building WordPress sites
WordPress taught the internet to publish. EmDash is the next shop for that job: you still edit pages, plugins still add tricks, and a plugin no longer gets the keys to the building.
- AI
Two clocks: Fermi, TensorWave, and the job your shop still has this week
Fermi leased Project Matador capacity to TensorWave for AI training and inference. Delivery starts in 2027. That is not a reason to wait on the missed call you will get this afternoon.
- Workflows
AI-assisted drafting on a short leash: a concrete automation walkthrough
The 4-step pattern applied to post-job handoffs, where AI proposes the next actions and a human still has to approve every one before anything ships.
- Workflows
The text-thread payment nudge: a concrete automation walkthrough
The 4-step pattern from the last post, applied end-to-end to the problem every field business knows: open invoices that need a human nudge before they become a phone call.
- Case Study
Generation Wellness: custom site, clinical automation, one reusable stack
How a wellness clinic traded template constraints and manual lab exports for a Payload CMS site on Cloudflare and a DrChrono automation layer that keeps compounding.
- Technology
Field notes: technology for the Panhandle
Why we're writing about AI, automations, and workflows from Amarillo—and what to expect in this feed.
- Workflows
From manual steps to automation (without losing the plot)
A simple pattern for turning a recurring business process into something a computer can run—or at least nudge—reliably.
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