You already pay for Google Workspace. Most of it sits unused. This is how I make it do the admin, one small system at a time.
I tracked my time by hand for months. The log said email took forty minutes a morning. It was wrong, and the gap between what I wrote down and what my day turned into was the most useful number in my business. Here’s the three-day audit that finds yours.
You pay for Business Standard. Gemini is included. So why does half of it look switched off? The full setting chain, in order, with the places Google’s own documentation sends you looking for a button that does not exist on your plan.
I knew my clients’ kids’ names once. From memory. But that’s not a system, and it stopped scaling. Here’s the client management system I built inside Google Sheets instead of buying another CRM.
One client. Six places their information lives — before we ever talk. Here’s how I built a Gemini Notebook and Gem system so I can ask “Where am I at with this client?” and get one real answer, pulled from every source at once.
There’s a split second, right when I open my task list, where I brace for it. Fifteen items, all the same size, all yelling at the same time. Here’s the Google Tasks system that sorts everything by type of work first, so I stop re-deciding what matters forty times a day.
I used to spend the first half of every discovery call catching up. Then I built a Google Workspace Studio system that nurtures leads, teases a Quick Win, and gets me walking into every call already knowing where to start.
Two and a half days. Snacks handed in silence. A script that worked and a document that made my eyes bleed. This is what happens when hyperfocus meets a tool built for people who hyperfocus.
I talk to my phone in the car more than I talk to most people. Not calls — voice memos, half-formed ideas I need to sort out later. That “later” used to take almost as long as the idea itself. Then Skills showed up inside Workspace Studio, and the part I was doing by hand got written down once. Now it just knows.
I published this post in July and told you to set your custom instructions. That advice was right. It was also incomplete. There are four ways to give Gemini context inside Business Standard, and most of them arrived after I hit publish.
You went to buy one Google plan and ended up with fourteen tabs and a headache. I get it. This decoder puts every AI plan — personal and business — side by side, so you can pick the right one without the guesswork.
Your Drive is full of things you’ve already figured out — you just can’t find them when you need them. Here’s how Gemini Notebook turns that mess into a Second Brain you can actually talk to.
Every day, solopreneurs paste client data into a personal AI account without thinking twice. Here’s what your Business Standard account already protects, what it doesn’t, and why Bill C-36 just raised the stakes.
I burned through my Google Flow credits before my coffee got cold, then went digging into what Business Standard subscribers actually get. Here’s the walkthrough: what Gemini Omni is, what it costs you, the security trade-off nobody mentions, and exactly how to build your own AI avatar, step by step.
Google Calendar Booking Pages is one of the most overlooked features in Google Workspace. Here’s everything it can do — and the one limitation that still sends me to TidyCal.
Already paying for Google Workspace? You already have a free CRM. Build it in Google Sheets with Gemini — no subscription, no new software, your data travels with you.
Google Chat isn’t just for teams anymore. With the rollout of Workspace Intelligence in 2026, solopreneurs can find files, draft emails, manage their calendar, and manage their daily logistics — without opening a single other app. Here’s what changed, and how to set it up.
Every Gemini AI feature inside Gmail, tested and documented with screenshots. Written for solopreneurs on Google Workspace in 2026.
The truth about Google Workspace security for solopreneurs. And how I access client accounts without ever asking for your password. Let me ask you something. If you hired a contractor to renovate your kitchen, would you hand them your debit card and your PIN? Of...
Your Google Workspace subscription renews every month. Quietly. Reliably. And if you’re a solopreneur, it’s currently doing about 20% of what it’s capable of. You’re paying for a Ferrari, but you’re using it like a golf cart. That’s not a dig. It’s an opportunity. And...
had a Google Drive problem. Almost 20 years of digital clutter, dropped files, and “I’ll file it later” promises. In 2026, Gemini cleaned it up in an afternoon. Here’s exactly how — with screenshots and copy-paste prompts.
