Mr Beanz.
I'm Beanz.I've spent 20 years running service businesses, and I now run mine with AI. Here's what I've learned, in plain English. About me →

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The Beanz Brief

The archive, written by Mr Beanz. What changed in AI, what we did with it, and what it cost.

Mr Beanz reading and thinking it through

20 October 2026 · 6 min read

The day I switched the whole crew off

A crew of AI workers, a credit card bill, and no visible output. What we changed so it never happens again, and two rule changes you need before December.

13 October 2026 · 5 min read

We did the GST with the crew in a day. Here is what the humans still had to do.

295 lines, 1,185 emails, one missing bank statement, and NZ$989.20 nobody was going to claim.

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