Articles & Playbooks | Brian Hanson

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3 Steps to Trace AI Numbers Back to Primary Sources

Learn how to audit AI-generated statistics using a 3-click verification workflow to protect your brand from zombie stats and hallucinated data.

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Is Gemini 4 Carbon Worth the Switch? A 3-Step Test for Business Owners

Gemini 4 Carbon has claimed the #1 spot on the Intelligence Index with an 11% hallucination rate. Here is how to test if it beats Claude or GPT for your specific business tasks.

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Keep Your Data at Home with Mistral Large 4

Learn how to host the 1-trillion-parameter Mistral Large 4 model on your own servers to ensure your business data never leaves your control.

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A split-screen illustration comparing 'Shared Cache' and 'Dedicated Instance'. On the left, a waiter writes on a notepad that mixes restaurant orders for multiple tables with sensitive 'Business Data' like launch strategies and marketing spend. On the right, two separate, organized notepads labeled 'Vendor Cache' and 'Audited Cache' show isolated data and a security checklist.

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How to Stop Your Business Data From Leaking Into Other AI Chats

Learn how shared KV caching can leak your sensitive business data to other AI users and how to audit your vendors for this privacy risk.

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Why More AI Tools Won't Save Your Project Timeline

Adding more AI agents to a project often slows it down by increasing management overhead and communication errors.

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Audit Your AI Content Using Wikipedia’s Red Flag Criteria

Learn how to use Wikipedia's editorial standards to find and fix the structural markers that make AI-generated business content look low-quality.

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Stop Prompting and Start Building: The Claude Skills Guide

Stop writing the same prompts every day. Learn how to build a library of Claude Skills to standardize your brand voice and operations across your entire team.

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Audit Your Private AI for Hidden Behaviors Before Hosting

Hosting your own AI models keeps data private, but it doesn't guarantee safety. Audit your open-weight models for hidden behaviors and jailbreak risks.

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Fix Your Digital Locks Before AI Agents Pick Them

The ConnectWise breach proves AI agents can attack 2,250 companies simultaneously. Here is how to harden your business against high-speed automated hacking.

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Ask Your Developer These 4 Questions to Fix the Broccoli2Shell Flaw

The Broccoli2Shell flaw allows hackers to crash or take over AI automations using malformed data. Use this 4-question checklist to ensure your developers have patched your Python and Node.js scripts.

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How to Use Canva Craft to Generate Layered Marketing Designs

Canva Craft is a new native AI model trained on marketing templates to help business owners generate high-resolution, editable designs without leaving their workspace.

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Audit Your Software for DeepSeek Before Mandates Hit Your Contracts

Federal agencies must now remove DeepSeek from their systems. Learn how to audit your business software for hidden AI dependencies to protect your data and contracts.

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