Rise and Shine: Your Daily Dose Of Business Tech Inspiration

What happens when a subcontractor feeds your client data into an AI tool without telling you? Shadow IT has always been a risk, but AI tools have made it significantly more serious.

In this episode, Charly covers:

✅Why subcontractors using free-tier AI tools on client data is a growing problem
✅How the Australian Privacy Act makes you responsible for data your third parties handle
✅The difference between using AI as a reference and handing over actual business data
✅Practical steps to add AI usage clauses to your subcontractor agreements

The fix is not to ban AI. It is to ask the right questions, set clear boundaries and make AI usage part of your regular business conversations.

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If you have unused themes sitting in your WordPress dashboard, you have left a door unlocked that you did not even know was there. Unused themes are not just taking up space - they can be a genuine security risk.

In this episode, Charly walks you through:

✅ Why unused WordPress themes are a security concern, even if they are not active
✅ How to find and delete unused themes from the WordPress admin dashboard
✅ What to check before deleting - including child themes and parent theme dependencies
✅ Why you should always back up your site before making changes

It is a simple cleanup task that reduces the number of touch points on your website and helps keep malicious actors out.

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Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Are you using AI tools in your business without a proper review process? Amazon recently learned the hard way what happens when you incentivise speed over safety.

In this episode, Charly covers:

✅ The Cobra Effect - how incentives designed to solve a problem can make it worse
✅ How Amazon's push for AI-assisted coding led to major outages across live systems
✅ Why change control and review processes are non-negotiable, even with AI
✅ How to apply the same lessons to your own business, whether you are writing code, content or proposals

The lesson is not that AI is dangerous. The lesson is that the boring stuff - review processes, sign-offs and change control - is what keeps the wheels on.

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Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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AI agents are being marketed to small businesses as the ultimate productivity hack - but what happens when they go rogue? When a Meta AI safety director gave an AI agent access to her email with clear instructions not to take action, it ignored her and bulk deleted hundreds of messages. She could not even stop it from her phone.

In this episode, Charly covers:

✅ The difference between AI chatbots and AI agents - and why it matters for your business
✅ How context window limitations can cause AI tools to forget your safety instructions entirely
✅ The principle of least privilege and why broad permissions are a recipe for disaster
✅ Practical steps to protect your business before connecting any AI tool to your systems

Treat AI tools like a brand new employee on their first day - supervise, check the work, and limit access until trust is earned. The boring fundamentals still win.

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Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Is your website actually fast - or just fast enough on your desktop? Google PageSpeed Insights measures what really matters for your search rankings, and the results might surprise you.

In this episode, Charly covers:

✅ Where to find Google PageSpeed Insights and how to run a test on any website
✅ How to read the results - what the metrics like FCP, LCP and Speed Index actually mean
✅ Why mobile scores are often much lower than desktop - and why Google cares more about mobile
✅ Quick wins you can action right away - from caching scripts to removing unused CSS and JavaScript
✅ How to prioritise fixes so you spend your time and money where it counts

If your site is running slow, this episode helps you work out exactly where to focus your efforts for the biggest improvement.

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Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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