Most small-town entrepreneurs wear 12 hats a day. Owner, marketer, bookkeeper, customer service rep, and sometimes janitor. AI can’t clean the floors, but it can help you sell more without adding hours to your plate. Here’s how the smartest outlaws are doing it:

Content Creation & Editing – Blog posts, captions, ad copy, newsletters, and grammar checks without burning hours.

It’s essentially the Swiss Army knife of business tools—minus the corkscrew.

Faster Qutoes for Service Businesses

A Montana contractor uses AI to draft job estimates. Instead of spending an hour writing, he drops the job details into ChatGPT and gets a professional draft that he can tweak and send in minutes. More quotes = more chances to land work.

ChatGPT is like having a digital assistant that never sleeps. Whether you need help writing emails, brainstorming ad copy, or generating new business ideas, it works fast and adapts to your style.

Outlaw tip: Try using ChatGPT to reword your sales pitch in different tones. Friendly, professional, and persuasive - then pick the one that best fits your customers.

Tech never sleeps—and neither does ChatGPT. Here’s the latest round of updates shaking up how people (and businesses like yours) will be using it:

👨‍👩‍👧 Parental Controls

Parents can now link to teen accounts and set “quiet hours,” disable memory, voice, and image generation, and opt out of data training. Translation: AI just got a bedtime.

🛒 Instant Checkout + Agentic Commerce

Buying things inside ChatGPT is no longer sci-fi. They’ve partnered with Etsy first, Shopify’s massive network is next. One tap. Paid. Done. AI even ranks sellers by price, stock, and quality. Goodbye comparison shopping, hello impulse buys.

📲 ChatGPT Pulse (preview)

Pro users on iOS/Android now get daily AI briefings. ChatGPT researches overnight, cross-checks with your chat history, memory, and apps (Calendar, Gmail, etc.), then delivers a personalized “morning brief.” Basically: your unpaid intern just got promoted.

⚠️ Service Notice

Compliance API ingestion is running behind. If you’re in the weeds with compliance reporting, expect some lag until the system catches up.

The Takeaway:

ChatGPT is no longer just a chat tool—it’s quietly turning into a productivity hub, a shopping mall, and your nosy assistant. The question is…are you ready to let it run that much of your day?

Free Prompt Drop💸

You know I don’t waste time with theory or “guru wisdom.” I hand you the weapons that actually cut through the noise. This one’s free—straight from the Outlaw Marketing vault.

It’s a plug-and-play prompt built to sharpen your ideas, get better outputs, and put you ahead of the herd sleepwalking their way through AI. No gatekeeping, no fluff. Just a tool that works.

Take it, run it, break the rules with it. That’s what we do here.

Act as an expert in [SPECIFIC FIELD OR DISCIPLINE].  

You are deeply knowledgeable about [RELEVANT BACKGROUND CONTEXT THAT MATTERS TO THE USER’S GOAL].  

My objective is [CLEARLY STATED GOAL OR OUTCOME]. What steps, strategies, or insights would you recommend to accomplish this?  

If anything is unclear or you need additional details to improve your response, please ask me for clarification.

Shopify Launches AI “Sidekick” for Store Owners
Shopify’s new Sidekick AI helps small businesses write product descriptions, answer customer questions, and even suggest promotions.

👉 Read more here

Why it matters for you: Even if you don’t run a Shopify store, this shows where the wind is blowing — AI assistants are coming to every platform small businesses use. You’ll soon have built-in help without needing to hire.

This week’s outlaw challenge: If you had an “AI ranch hand” for your business, what’s the first job you’d hand off?
Hit reply and tell me — I’ll feature the best answers (with solutions) in next week’s digest.