Are AI Models Actually Getting Worse in 2026?

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Most of the time when someone says AI models are getting worse, they’re remembering the old version as smarter than it actually was. The recent complaints about Anthropic’s Claude 4.7, though, have some real teeth to them. At TJ Digital, we run every client’s Brand Ambassador through Claude. So when our team started noticing regressions […]

How to Prepare Your Business for AI in 20

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The best way to prepare your business for AI is to start collecting and organizing three types of data right now: call transcripts, standard operating procedures, and any guidance or advice your team produces. No matter how capable AI models become, they will always need accurate, detailed information about your specific business to produce anything […]

How to Structure Your Business for 2028

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Structure your business for 2028 by designing every workflow for AI from the ground up. Then identify where humans uniquely add value and concentrate your best people there. That single mental shift separates businesses that will compound over the next few years from those that get outpaced by AI-native competitors. At TJ Digital, we built […]

Why Ranking in AI Search Is So Easy Right Now

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Ranking in AI search is easier than ranking in traditional Google has been for years, and the main reason is simple: almost no one is tracking it. At TJ Digital, we treat AI search visibility as the north star metric for every campaign, and we run daily prompt tracking and citation analysis across ChatGPT, Google […]

How AI Is Reducing Team Sizes in 2026

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AI is reducing team sizes by letting one person carry workflows that used to need five or six. With strong documentation and AI skills built around the work, two or three people can now do what teams of specialists used to do, and they spend most of their time on what humans do best, like […]

Why Your Business Blog Isn’t Working in 2026

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Your business blog isn’t generating traffic in 2026 for one of three reasons. You’re targeting search terms nobody types into Google, your titles don’t match what people are actually searching for, or your articles aren’t formatted in a way that Google and AI can read. At TJ Digital, we track around 4,000 AI prompts per […]

AI News This Week (May 2026): xAI, Anthropic, and Google’s Big Moves

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Three big AI stories broke this week: We pay close attention to this stuff at TJ Digital because it directly affects how we help our clients show up in AI search. Why Is xAI Leasing Colossus-1 to Anthropic? xAI is renting out its Colossus-1 supercomputer to Anthropic because SpaceX is already using Colossus-2 and Colossus-1 […]

Which Business Directories Matter for AI Search in 2026?

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Most businesses only need to focus on one to three business directories to drive their AI search visibility, not the dozens that traditional SEO advice still recommends. For most industries, only about 12 directories ever get cited by AI, and only a handful drive the majority of citations for any given business. Which directories matter […]

Does Yelp Matter for AI Search? What Local Businesses Should Know in 2026

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Yelp matters more for local businesses in 2026 than it has in years, and the reason is AI search. At TJ Digital, we track AI citations across roughly 50 industries, and Yelp is consistently the most cited directory when someone asks ChatGPT, Google’s AI Mode, or Perplexity for a local service recommendation. Yelp shows up […]