For one-person businesses
Plain-English verdicts on new AI tools.
Each week we tell a busy solopreneur to ADOPT, TRY, or SKIP. We check the price on the vendor's site, the hours it might save, and what you give up to use it.
How a verdict gets made
Three questions, in the same order every week. If we don't know, we say so.
- 01
The price
What the company actually charges, copied from its own site, with the date we checked it.
- 02
The time
Hours you might get back. These are our estimates, never a vendor's promise presented as a fact.
- 03
The catch
Privacy, lock-in, and whether a brand-new company should touch your books or your customer list.
Latest issue · October 20, 2026
Issue 1: Five new AI tools, three verdicts, zero hype
A free AI front desk, Gemini's new small-business hub, and two tools we'd leave alone for now.
1 ADOPT2 TRY2 SKIP
- DeskeeHandle customer supportTRY
- Gemini small-business toolsMake content fasterADOPT
- Singulate StudioWrite my sales emailsTRY
- YourAILedgerBookkeeping / adminSKIP
- IrisGo for SolopreneursBookkeeping / adminSKIP
The tools, in one list
Every product we've called ADOPT, TRY, or SKIP, with the job it does and the price we checked. Search it by name, job, verdict, or whether it is free.
Know a tool we should judge?
Send the name and the job it claims to do. If it is new, and a one-person business would actually use it, it goes in the queue.
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One labeled note, set apart from the verdicts. Paying does not buy ADOPT, TRY, or SKIP.