# /init.news

> Practical AI automation, business growth, and discovery guides for owners wearing too many hats. Clear decisions, useful tools, and source-checked methods from /init.

Source-checked public guides for owners, builders and creative studios. Each Markdown note includes its canonical HTML address, publication and revision dates, AI-assisted authorship and inspected sources. Experiments are labelled; unknown results remain unknown.

## Start here
- [Editorial method](https://init.news/about.md): How sources, revisions and AI assistance are disclosed.
- [Content index](https://init.news/index.json): Structured answers, questions, dates, source links and related guides.
- [Complete public text](https://init.news/llms-full.txt): Full current articles with evidence and limitations.
- [Formats and reading routes](https://init.news/discovery/): Human-readable guide to the public formats.

## Run the business
- [Three people sent feedback. Which version are you building?](https://init.news/notes/client-feedback-approved-change-list.md): Turn scattered comments into a short, agreed list of changes. Use AI for sorting and drafting while the client keeps the decision. Updated 2026-10-22.
- [The client said yes. Why can’t the work start?](https://init.news/notes/client-onboarding-ready-to-start.md): Stop chasing the same missing brief, assets, and approvals. Give each new project a clear readiness check before adding another automation tool. Updated 2026-10-13.
- [Start with the job you keep doing twice.](https://init.news/notes/first-business-automation-bottleneck.md): Find one repeated job, count the time it really takes, and test a smaller way to do it. A practical worksheet for owners who already have enough tools. Updated 2026-10-09.
- [Give every enquiry a next step. Keep a human on the reply.](https://init.news/notes/lead-follow-up-human-review.md): A simple enquiry-to-draft workflow for busy owners: clear permission, one contact record, a useful reply, and a stop rule when the conversation changes. Updated 2026-10-09.
- [Did that automation actually give you time back?](https://init.news/notes/owner-automation-weekly-scorecard.md): A five-day test for owners doing sales, delivery, and admin: count the review time, catch the expensive mistakes, and decide what deserves another week. Updated 2026-10-09.

## Optional
- [RSS](https://init.news/feed.xml): Publication and revision feed.
- [Sitemap](https://init.news/sitemap.xml): Canonical public HTML pages.

This reading map provides navigation. It does not establish indexing, citations or a ranking benefit.