<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Liz on the Web: Digital Strategy from Start to Scale]]></title><description><![CDATA[7-figure strategies for solopreneurs, startups, and digital marketer. Proven strategies to elevate your online business. Subscribe for insights on digital marketing, ai, sales, & scaling strategies to grow, increase revenue, & achieve sustainable success.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z7gh!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbb988818-0540-4f55-abe7-7c03caca268f_1080x1080.png</url><title>Liz on the Web: Digital Strategy from Start to Scale</title><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:37:41 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.lizontheweb.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Liz Elliott]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[lizontheweb@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[lizontheweb@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Liz Elliott 🕸️]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Liz Elliott 🕸️]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[lizontheweb@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[lizontheweb@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Liz Elliott 🕸️]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[One Person Empire Part 9: The Marketing Funnel Died in 2026. The 4-Part Framework That Made Me $100K in 27 Days.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Buyers wander now, they do not march down a funnel, so here is the 4-job Customer Path one person can run alone, plus the 3 funnel shapes still making real money in 2026.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/one-person-empire-part-9-the-marketing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/one-person-empire-part-9-the-marketing</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:51:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5073b143-0132-4a42-9afa-5288ff3f2524_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A stranger watches your Reel on a Tuesday night. She does not click your link. She does not follow you. She just leaves.</p><p>Two weeks later a friend mentions you in a group chat. She asks ChatGPT about you. It says nice things. She lurks on your page for a month without liking a single post. Then one Sunday she DMs you, asks two questions, and buys.</p><p>Your dashboard saw none of it. To your analytics, she came from nowhere.</p><p>That is how people buy in 2026.</p><p>The old funnel was a straight line. See an ad. Click. Land on a page. Buy. Marketers drew it as a tidy shape and sold a million courses about it. That line is broken now. Buyers wander. They loop. They vanish for weeks and come back warm. Watch it happen:</p><ul><li><p>She finds you in a short video but buys from an email three months later.</p></li><li><p>He hears your name on a podcast, asks an AI about you, and never clicks a link.</p></li><li><p>They read your comments for six weeks, then buy in the DMs in five minutes.</p></li></ul><p>Here is the rule: you cannot control the path anymore, so get good at the four jobs the path touches.</p><p>Most beginners try to control the path anyway. It goes badly:</p><ul><li><p>They copy a guru's 14-step funnel and drown in tools.</p></li><li><p>They post on five platforms and do all five badly.</p></li><li><p>They build landing pages for a year and never sell one thing.</p></li></ul><p>This article hands you the map instead. Four jobs. Three funnel shapes. One hour to draw yours. It is also the opening lesson of a complete build we finish over the next six parts.</p><h2>Who this is for</h2><ul><li><p>This is for you if you post and post but none of it turns into money.</p></li><li><p>This is for you if the word "funnel" makes your brain fog over.</p></li><li><p>This is for you if you are starting from zero and want to build in the right order.</p></li><li><p>This is for you if you have a small audience and no idea what to do with it.</p></li><li><p>This is for you if you bought a funnel course once and got buried under 12 tools.</p></li></ul><h2>The funnel is not a line anymore. It is a web.</h2><p>The receipts first, because this is not a hot take. It is measured.</p><p>Google stopped sending people to websites. SparkToro's June 2026 clickstream study found 68 out of every 100 US Google searches now end without a click to any website, up from about 60 in 2024. And when Google shows an AI answer at the top, which happens on more than 20 percent of searches, click rates drop by nearly 60 percent more.</p><p>The AI answer box is the new front door. HubSpot's 2026 State of Marketing report, built on 1,500+ marketers, found half of all consumers now use AI-powered search, and half of Google searches show an AI Overview. People talk to AI differently too. HubSpot measured the average ChatGPT prompt at 23 words. The average Google search is barely over 3. Long questions, real intent.</p><p>Shopping moved the same way. A 2026 Semrush survey of about 1,000 US shoppers found 77.6 percent used AI to help them shop in the past six months. But here is the twist. The most common amount people will let an AI spend for them is zero dollars. AI does the research. A human still presses buy.</p><p>The biggest part of the journey is invisible. A Forbes piece this year put roughly 70 percent of the buyer journey in dark channels: group chats, DMs, private Slacks, podcasts. A June 2026 dark-funnel report found attribution software credited web search with 78 percent of new customers, while those same buyers said only 12 percent of their journeys actually started there. The same report found 95 percent of business-to-business deals close with a seller who was already on the buyer's day-one list.</p><p>Even the funnel people quit the funnel. HubSpot, the company that taught the world the funnel, replaced it this year with a loop called Loop Marketing: Express, Tailor, Amplify, Evolve. Their data shows 52 percent of brands now run 5 to 8 channels at once because buyers no longer walk through one predictable door.</p><p>Scary? Only if you try to chase all of it. You will not. That is the whole point of this article.</p><h2>The four jobs (this is the whole game)</h2><p>Zoom out from the mess and every buyer journey, no matter how weird, touches the same four moments. I call this The Customer Path. It has four jobs:</p><ol><li><p><strong>GET SEEN.</strong> A stranger finds out you exist. Short video, search, a podcast, a friend's text, an AI answer.</p></li><li><p><strong>GET KEPT.</strong> You catch that attention somewhere you own before the algorithm eats it. For almost everyone, that means an email list.</p></li><li><p><strong>GET PAID.</strong> Trust turns into money through one clear offer at one clear price.</p></li><li><p><strong>GET REPEAT.</strong> The buyer comes back, buys again, or brings a friend.</p></li></ol><p>That is the whole funnel in 2026. Not 14 steps. Four jobs.</p><p>Big brands do these four jobs across 5 to 8 channels with whole teams. You are one person. Your version is smaller, and honestly better:</p><p>One channel. One capture. One offer. One loop.</p><p>One place where strangers find you. One way you keep them. One thing they can buy. One habit that repeats it every week. Complexity kills one-person businesses. Every extra tool, channel, and step is one more thing that breaks on a Tuesday when you are the only employee. The buyer's path can be a messy web. Your side of it must stay a straight, boring, four-box line.</p><p>Free readers, that map is yours to keep. The paid section below is the build.</p><h2>Why this works (and how I know)</h2><p>I made $100K in my first 27 days online with zero experience. I did not have a funnel diagram on my wall. I had these four jobs, and I did them in order. Since then the same jobs grew into 241K+ followers on Instagram and 100K+ readers on Substack. That is GET SEEN and GET KEPT running at scale. My first digital product did $30K. That is GET PAID. And I replaced a $10K a month team with AI, which is the only reason one person can run all four jobs at once without burning out.</p><p>I am not selling you a funnel course. I am doing this in public, and this series is the paper trail.</p><h2>What you get below</h2><p>Behind the paywall this stops being an idea and becomes a work session:</p><ul><li><p>The one-hour funnel map: six timed steps plus two copy-paste prompts that grade your funnel and hand you a 7-day fix for your emptiest box.</p></li><li><p>The 3 one-person funnel shapes: the Creator Path, the Conversation Path, and the Shelf Path, each with verified 2026 numbers, a real example, a pick-this-if test, and a starter prompt.</p></li><li><p>The tool stack with real 2026 prices, and the rule for when you are allowed to spend money on tools.</p></li><li><p>The weekly funnel habit: four numbers, 20 minutes, one fix a week, plus the one attribution question that beats paid software.</p></li><li><p>Seven copy-paste prompts total, all beginner-safe.</p></li></ul><p>And this article opens a complete build. Over the next six parts we construct the whole machine, one job at a time:</p><ul><li><p>Part 10: GET SEEN. Where attention actually lives in 2026, how to pick your one channel, and the 30-day sprint that fills the top of your funnel.</p></li><li><p>Part 11: Every way to make money on Instagram in 2026. A close-up on the single biggest GET SEEN channel, then how to stop renting that audience and start owning it.</p></li><li><p>Part 12: GET KEPT. Turning strangers into an email list you own.</p></li><li><p>Part 13: GET PAID. Your first offer and the price ladder.</p></li><li><p>Part 14: GET REPEAT. Turning one-time buyers into monthly money.</p></li><li><p>Part 15: The funnel math. The four numbers that show where yours leaks.</p></li></ul><p>Two of those parts serve the same job. Part 10 covers GET SEEN across every channel. Part 11 zooms all the way in on Instagram, the biggest GET SEEN channel of them all, because that is where most beginners start and most beginners get stuck.</p><p>Paid subscribers get the steps, prompts, numbers, and templates for all of it. Free readers get the headlines. If you were ever going to upgrade, this arc is the one to catch from the start.</p><p>Pen and paper out. Your map takes one hour, and it starts now.</p><p>The full walkthrough is below the paywall.</p><div><hr></div><p>Click the button, subscribe, and the locked section below opens right away. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 30: How AI Ran Someone's Mock Interview Until the Real One Felt Easy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Someone made AI play a tough hiring manager at midnight in their pajamas. When the real interview came, it felt easy. Here is the exact way to do it.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-30-how-ai-ran-b54</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-30-how-ai-ran-b54</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:13:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e4601c20-d5f4-4ff2-8a0f-dad405ce0fbe_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a new kind of B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. This time I want to show you something genius that AI did for someone else. A real person, a real job, a real win. Then I am going to hand you the exact steps so you can do the same thing.</p><p>I did not practice a job interview in my pajamas at midnight. But someone did. And what happened when they walked into the real thing is exactly what you would want.</p><p>Here is what happened.</p><p>Someone had a big interview coming up. Instead of reading a list of tips and calling it a night, they opened an AI and made it play the hiring manager. A tough one. They told AI to ask hard questions, push back on weak answers, and not go easy on them.</p><p>They did this at midnight. In their pajamas.</p><p>The real interview came a few days later. It felt easy. Because they had already done the hard version.</p><p>That is the whole story. And it costs nothing except the time you spend doing it.</p><h2>What prepping the old way costs you</h2><p>If you have ever prepped for a job interview the old way, you know how it goes.</p><p>You read a list of common questions. You think through your answers in your head. Maybe you say them out loud once in the shower. Then you walk into the real interview and your brain goes blank the second they ask something you did not expect.</p><p>Reading about interviews is not the same as doing one. You can know every tip in the world and still freeze in the room.</p><p>The only thing that fixes nerves is repetition. Doing the thing over and over until your brain stops treating it like a threat. But who has someone to practice with at midnight when the interview is tomorrow?</p><p>That is what AI is for.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a total beginner can copy it. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The prompt that turns AI into a tough interviewer for any job.</p></li><li><p>The follow-up prompt that makes it critique your answers honestly.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that helps you rebuild weak answers using a simple format.</p></li><li><p>The steps in order, plus the one rule that makes this actually work.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need interview experience. You do not need a career coach. You just need the job description and about 30 minutes.</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>There is one caveat that nobody talks about. AI defaults to praise. If you do not tell it to be a tough critic, it will tell you your answer was great even when it was not. You have to give it permission to push back. That is the single most important part of this whole thing. Without it, you are just getting a confidence boost from a machine that is too polite to help you.</p><p>I will show you exactly how to fix that.</p><p>Also: this is practice. AI does not know your real interviewer, your real company, or what they will actually ask. Treat it like a gym, not a guarantee.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 5 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>All the copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>The exact line that turns off AI's praise mode and makes it actually useful.</p></li><li><p>What to do after each practice round so you improve instead of just repeating yourself.</p></li><li><p>The mistakes that make this a waste of time, and how to skip them.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 30: How AI Ran Someone's Mock Interview Until the Real One Felt Easy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Someone made AI play a tough hiring manager at midnight in their pajamas. When the real interview came, it felt easy. Here is the exact way to do it.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-30-how-ai-ran-c30</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-30-how-ai-ran-c30</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:08:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e504c0fa-ebc4-43dd-ba65-3b25015191cf_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a new kind of B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. This time I want to show you something genius that AI did for someone else. A real person, a real job, a real win. Then I am going to hand you the exact steps so you can do the same thing.</p><p>I did not practice a job interview in my pajamas at midnight. But someone did. And what happened when they walked into the real thing is exactly what you would want.</p><p>Here is what happened.</p><p>Someone had a big interview coming up. Instead of reading a list of tips and calling it a night, they opened an AI and made it play the hiring manager. A tough one. They told AI to ask hard questions, push back on weak answers, and not go easy on them.</p><p>They did this at midnight. In their pajamas.</p><p>The real interview came a few days later. It felt easy. Because they had already done the hard version.</p><p>That is the whole story. And it costs nothing except the time you spend doing it.</p><h2>What prepping the old way costs you</h2><p>If you have ever prepped for a job interview the old way, you know how it goes.</p><p>You read a list of common questions. You think through your answers in your head. Maybe you say them out loud once in the shower. Then you walk into the real interview and your brain goes blank the second they ask something you did not expect.</p><p>Reading about interviews is not the same as doing one. You can know every tip in the world and still freeze in the room.</p><p>The only thing that fixes nerves is repetition. Doing the thing over and over until your brain stops treating it like a threat. But who has someone to practice with at midnight when the interview is tomorrow?</p><p>That is what AI is for.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a total beginner can copy it. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The prompt that turns AI into a tough interviewer for any job.</p></li><li><p>The follow-up prompt that makes it critique your answers honestly.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that helps you rebuild weak answers using a simple format.</p></li><li><p>The steps in order, plus the one rule that makes this actually work.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need interview experience. You do not need a career coach. You just need the job description and about 30 minutes.</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>There is one caveat that nobody talks about. AI defaults to praise. If you do not tell it to be a tough critic, it will tell you your answer was great even when it was not. You have to give it permission to push back. That is the single most important part of this whole thing. Without it, you are just getting a confidence boost from a machine that is too polite to help you.</p><p>I will show you exactly how to fix that.</p><p>Also: this is practice. AI does not know your real interviewer, your real company, or what they will actually ask. Treat it like a gym, not a guarantee.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 5 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>All the copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>The exact line that turns off AI's praise mode and makes it actually useful.</p></li><li><p>What to do after each practice round so you improve instead of just repeating yourself.</p></li><li><p>The mistakes that make this a waste of time, and how to skip them.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 30: How AI Ran Someone's Mock Interview Until the Real One Felt Easy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Someone made AI play a tough hiring manager at midnight in their pajamas. When the real interview came, it felt easy. Here is the exact way to do it.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-30-how-ai-ran</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-30-how-ai-ran</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:05:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e741e69f-9f08-4172-abcd-014dccb8b60d_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a new kind of B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. This time I want to show you something genius that AI did for someone else. A real person, a real job, a real win. Then I am going to hand you the exact steps so you can do the same thing.</p><p>I did not practice a job interview in my pajamas at midnight. But someone did. And what happened when they walked into the real thing is exactly what you would want.</p><p>Here is what happened.</p><p>Someone had a big interview coming up. Instead of reading a list of tips and calling it a night, they opened an AI and made it play the hiring manager. A tough one. They told AI to ask hard questions, push back on weak answers, and not go easy on them.</p><p>They did this at midnight. In their pajamas.</p><p>The real interview came a few days later. It felt easy. Because they had already done the hard version.</p><p>That is the whole story. And it costs nothing except the time you spend doing it.</p><h2>What prepping the old way costs you</h2><p>If you have ever prepped for a job interview the old way, you know how it goes.</p><p>You read a list of common questions. You think through your answers in your head. Maybe you say them out loud once in the shower. Then you walk into the real interview and your brain goes blank the second they ask something you did not expect.</p><p>Reading about interviews is not the same as doing one. You can know every tip in the world and still freeze in the room.</p><p>The only thing that fixes nerves is repetition. Doing the thing over and over until your brain stops treating it like a threat. But who has someone to practice with at midnight when the interview is tomorrow?</p><p>That is what AI is for.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a total beginner can copy it. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The prompt that turns AI into a tough interviewer for any job.</p></li><li><p>The follow-up prompt that makes it critique your answers honestly.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that helps you rebuild weak answers using a simple format.</p></li><li><p>The steps in order, plus the one rule that makes this actually work.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need interview experience. You do not need a career coach. You just need the job description and about 30 minutes.</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>There is one caveat that nobody talks about. AI defaults to praise. If you do not tell it to be a tough critic, it will tell you your answer was great even when it was not. You have to give it permission to push back. That is the single most important part of this whole thing. Without it, you are just getting a confidence boost from a machine that is too polite to help you.</p><p>I will show you exactly how to fix that.</p><p>Also: this is practice. AI does not know your real interviewer, your real company, or what they will actually ask. Treat it like a gym, not a guarantee.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 5 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>All the copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>The exact line that turns off AI's praise mode and makes it actually useful.</p></li><li><p>What to do after each practice round so you improve instead of just repeating yourself.</p></li><li><p>The mistakes that make this a waste of time, and how to skip them.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. If you have an interview coming up and you do not feel ready, this is the post that gets you there.</p><div><hr></div><p>The full walkthrough is below the paywall.</p><div><hr></div><p>Click the button, subscribe, and the locked section below opens right away. You get this article now.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.lizontheweb.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe to unlock this article now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.lizontheweb.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe to unlock this article now</span></a></p><div><hr></div>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 29: How Kira Wrote the HOA Reply That Shut Them Up]]></title><description><![CDATA[One homeowner got a vague HOA complaint. Kira helped turn panic into a clean, calm reply that made the board get specific.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-29-how-kira</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-29-how-kira</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:43:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cfdcb564-bbdd-4b76-ae0d-70fc821ca2ef_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the Genius kind of B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. In the Genius lane, I show you a smart way someone can use AI when a normal life problem turns into paperwork.</p><p>This one is about an HOA email.</p><p>Not a lawsuit. Not a dramatic neighbor war. Just one of those stiff little notes that can ruin your whole morning.</p><p>"Your property is not in compliance."</p><p>No photo.</p><p>No exact rule.</p><p>No clear fix.</p><p>Just the kind of message that makes a normal person want to either over-explain, apologize for everything, or fire back with a ten-paragraph rage email.</p><p>Kira did something better. She used AI to write a reply that stayed calm, asked for the exact rule, asked for proof, and gave the HOA less room to be vague.</p><p>That is the whole trick.</p><p>The reply did not beg. It did not threaten. It did not sound like a lawyer cosplay letter. It sounded like a person who had read the rules and wanted the board to do the same.</p><p>And that changed the tone fast.</p><h2>Why HOA emails make smart people spiral</h2><p>HOA emails are annoying because they often sound official even when they are not clear.</p><p>The words are formal. The deadline is short. The message hints that money might be involved. So your brain fills in the blanks.</p><p>You start thinking:</p><ul><li><p>Did I break a real rule?</p></li><li><p>Am I going to get fined?</p></li><li><p>Do I need to fix something today?</p></li><li><p>What if I say the wrong thing?</p></li></ul><p>That panic is what makes people send bad replies.</p><p>They admit fault before they know the rule. They explain too much. They give the board extra facts to pick apart. Or they get rude and make the board dig in.</p><p>AI is good here because it can slow the whole thing down.</p><p>It can pull the complaint apart. It can make a list of missing facts. It can draft a reply that is firm without being messy.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>Behind the paywall, I am giving you the exact way to do it.</p><p>You will get:</p><ul><li><p>The prompt that turns a vague HOA complaint into a clean issue list.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that checks the HOA rule without pretending to be a lawyer.</p></li><li><p>The reply template Kira used.</p></li><li><p>The version to send when the HOA gives you no photo or rule number.</p></li><li><p>The version to send when they threaten a fine.</p></li><li><p>The mistakes that make HOA replies worse.</p></li></ul><p>This is not legal advice. It is a way to make your first reply calmer, clearer, and harder to brush off.</p><h3>Quick safety note</h3><p>Do not paste private account numbers, gate codes, phone numbers, signatures, or full addresses into AI. Replace names with "HOMEOWNER" and "HOA." If the issue is serious, if a fine is already active, or if legal rights are involved, talk to a real local attorney.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 5-step workflow.</p></li><li><p>The exact prompts.</p></li><li><p>The calm reply template.</p></li><li><p>The escalation version.</p></li><li><p>The checklist to use before you send.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing gives you this exact post right now. If you have an HOA note sitting in your inbox, this gives you a cleaner first move.</p><p>The full walkthrough is below the paywall.</p><div><hr></div><p>Click the button, subscribe, and the locked section below opens right away. You get this article now.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.lizontheweb.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe to unlock this article now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.lizontheweb.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe to unlock this article now</span></a></p><div><hr></div>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 27: How AI Caught the Lease Clause That Would Have Cost Someone Thousands]]></title><description><![CDATA[Someone let AI read their lease before they signed. It found the buried clause their landlord was counting on them to miss. Here is the exact way to do it before you sign anything.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-27-how-ai-caught-bdd</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-27-how-ai-caught-bdd</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:00:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/822dc6f3-fd52-485f-a8ac-36f8eb504953_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a new kind of B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. This week I want to show you something genius that AI did for someone else. A real situation, a real find, a real win. Then I am going to hand you the exact steps so you can do the same thing.</p><p>I did not almost sign a lease with a trap in it. But someone did. And what their AI caught is the kind of thing that makes you glad you did not just flip to the signature line and sign.</p><p>Here is what happened.</p><p>Someone got a lease to sign. The usual move is to skim it, check the monthly price and the end date, and sign. This person did not do that. They copied the whole thing into an AI and asked it to read for problems.</p><p>The AI found a clause buried in the middle of the document. It was a rent escalation clause. Not the obvious kind that says "rent goes up 3% a year." The buried kind. The kind that let the landlord raise rent by any amount with just 30 days notice. Completely legal. Completely invisible to a normal skim.</p><p>That one clause could have cost thousands over the length of the lease.</p><p>They caught it before signing. They had something real to negotiate with, or a real reason to walk. Either way, they did not get stuck.</p><p>The team at Spellbook documented exactly this kind of scenario in their contract risk analysis guide. They show how AI can flag the parts of any contract that a normal person would gloss right over. (Link at the bottom.)</p><h2>What reading a lease the old way costs you</h2><p>Most people do one of two things with a lease. They skim it. Or they pay a lawyer a few hundred dollars to read it.</p><p>Skimming costs you when there is something sneaky on page 8. And the sneaky stuff is almost always on page 8.</p><p>Hiring a lawyer is the right call for big deals. But a lot of people renting apartments do not spend $300 to have someone check a one-year lease. So they sign. And then they find out six months in that there was a clause they never noticed.</p><p>AI does not replace a lawyer. But it reads every single word of that lease in about 30 seconds and tells you in plain English what looks weird. That is not nothing. That is actually a lot.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a complete beginner can copy it. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The exact way to prep your lease before you paste it into AI.</p></li><li><p>The copy-paste prompt that makes AI flag risky clauses.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that makes AI explain a suspicious clause in plain words.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that writes your follow-up questions for the landlord.</p></li><li><p>What AI cannot do here, so you know where the limits are.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need to know anything about contract law. That is the whole point.</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>I am not a lawyer, and neither is your AI. This is a way to spot things that might need a closer look, not a substitute for real legal advice. If something looks serious, talk to an actual lawyer before you sign. Also: always take your personal information off any document before you paste it anywhere. We will get to exactly how to do that.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 5 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>All 3 copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>What to say when you find something and need to push back with the landlord.</p></li><li><p>The exact mistakes that trip beginners up with this method.</p></li><li><p>What AI cannot catch, so you know exactly where the limits are.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. If you have a lease sitting in your email that you have not really read, this is the post that helps you actually read it.</p><p>The full walkthrough is below the paywall.</p><div><hr></div><p>Click the button, subscribe, and the locked section below opens right away. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 26: How AI Got 78% of Resume Users an Interview]]></title><description><![CDATA[People let AI rewrite their resume to beat the hiring bots, and most of them got called back. Here is the exact way to do it with your own resume.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-26-how-ai-got-31a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-26-how-ai-got-31a</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:56:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c27e81f3-2572-4e6c-b398-684eb2676ef6_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the Genius kind of B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. In these posts I show you something genius that AI did for other people. Real people, real job hunts, real callbacks. Then I hand you the exact steps so you can do the same thing.</p><p>I did not run this myself. I am not job hunting. But a big group of job seekers did, and the numbers they got back are worth your time.</p><p>Here is what happened.</p><p>A survey from ResumeBuilder asked job seekers who used ChatGPT to write or fix their resume how it went. Out of the people who used it, 78% got an interview. And 59% got hired.</p><p>That is real. The survey and the numbers are linked at the bottom.</p><p>Now here is the part nobody tells you. Most resumes never get read by a human first. They get read by a bot. It is called an applicant tracking system, or ATS. It scans your resume, hunts for the right words, and ranks you. If the words do not match the job, you get tossed before a person ever sees your name.</p><p>That is why good people get ghosted. Not because they are not good enough. Because the bot could not find the words it wanted.</p><p>You can fix that. You can make AI rewrite your resume to match the job and beat the bot.</p><h2>What doing this the old way costs you</h2><p>If you have ever job hunted by hand, you know the pain.</p><p>You send out the same resume to 40 jobs. You hear nothing back. You start to think something is wrong with you. You tweak a word here and there, but you are guessing. You do not know what the bot is looking for. You do not know which words got you cut.</p><p>That is the trap. The bot is silent. It never tells you why it said no. So you keep sending the same thing and keep getting the same nothing.</p><p>AI flips that. It reads the job post for you, finds the words that matter, and rewrites your resume to use them. In a few minutes. For free.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a total beginner can copy it. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The way to find the exact words the bot wants from any job post.</p></li><li><p>The copy-paste prompt that rewrites your resume to match that one job.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that checks your resume for the missing keywords.</p></li><li><p>The steps in order, plus the honesty rules so you do not lie on it.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need to know anything about resumes or hiring bots. That is the whole point. The AI knows it. You just have to ask the right way.</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>AI helps you say true things in a clearer way. It does not give you a license to make stuff up. Never add a job you did not have, a skill you do not have, or a number you cannot back up. If you get the interview, you have to be the person on the page. Use AI to fix how it reads, not to invent who you are. And always read the final resume yourself before you send it, so it sounds like a human and not a robot.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 4 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>All 3 copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>How to pull the right keywords out of any job post.</p></li><li><p>How to make AI rewrite for one job, not send the same thing to all of them.</p></li><li><p>The mistakes to avoid so you stay honest and still sound like you.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. If you have a resume that keeps getting ignored, this is the post that helps you find out why and fix it.</p><p>The full walkthrough is below the paywall.</p><div><hr></div><p>Click the button, subscribe, and the locked section below opens right away. You get this article now.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.lizontheweb.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe to unlock this article now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.lizontheweb.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe to unlock this article now</span></a></p><div><hr></div>
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Then I am going to hand you the exact steps so you can do the same thing.</p><p>I did not have a claim denied. But someone did. And what their AI did with that denial letter is the kind of thing more people need to know about.</p><p>Here is what happened.</p><p>A person sent a claim to their health insurance. The insurance said no. They got a denial letter, the kind that uses big words and makes you feel like the door is closed.</p><p>They did not just give up and pay. They took the denial letter and their insurance policy, the long boring document nobody reads, and they fed both into an AI. Then they asked the AI to write an appeal.</p><p>The AI read the denial. It read the policy. It found the exact spot in the policy that said the care should be covered. It wrote a clear medical-necessity appeal letter that pointed right at that language.</p><p>They sent it in. The denial was reversed.</p><p>That is real. There is a full guide on how to do this from Counterforce Health, and people have posted step-by-step walkthroughs about doing the same thing. (Links at the bottom.)</p><p>And here is the part nobody tells you. A lot of denials get overturned when people actually appeal. But most people never appeal. They see the word "denied," feel beat, and walk away.</p><p>You do not have to do that. You can make AI read the fine print and fight back for you.</p><h2>What appealing a denial the old way costs you</h2><p>If you have ever tried to appeal a denied claim by hand, you know how it feels.</p><p>You get a letter full of codes and words you do not understand. You do not know which rule they used to say no. You do not know what your own policy actually promises, because the policy is forty pages of tiny print. So you do not know what to even argue. You feel like you would have to be a lawyer to write back.</p><p>That is the trap. The denial is confusing on purpose, and your own policy is just as confusing. When you cannot understand either one, you cannot push back.</p><p>AI flips that. It reads both confusing things for you and shows you exactly where they owe you. Then it writes the letter.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a total beginner can copy it. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The exact info you need to gather before you start.</p></li><li><p>The copy-paste prompt that makes AI read your denial and your policy together.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that writes your appeal letter, pointing at the exact policy language.</p></li><li><p>The steps in order, plus the safety rules so you do not get this wrong.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need to know anything about insurance. That is the whole point. The AI reads the policy. You just have to ask the right way.</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>I am not a doctor or a lawyer, and neither is your AI. This is a way to understand your denial and write a clear appeal. Always check anything important with a real person before you send it. This works best for clean-cut denials, like care your policy clearly covers. If your case is complicated, get a human expert.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 5 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>Both copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>Exactly what to pull off your denial letter and your policy.</p></li><li><p>How to find the appeal deadline and the address to send it to.</p></li><li><p>The mistakes to avoid so you stay safe and honest.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 27: How AI Caught the Lease Clause That Would Have Cost Someone Thousands]]></title><description><![CDATA[Someone let AI read their lease before they signed. It found the buried clause their landlord was counting on them to miss. Here is the exact way to do it before you sign anything.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-27-how-ai-caught-d19</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-27-how-ai-caught-d19</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:49:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/70d47940-0b98-4a23-8382-d6e16eafde76_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a new kind of B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. This week I want to show you something genius that AI did for someone else. A real situation, a real find, a real win. Then I am going to hand you the exact steps so you can do the same thing.</p><p>I did not almost sign a lease with a trap in it. But someone did. And what their AI caught is the kind of thing that makes you glad you did not just flip to the signature line and sign.</p><p>Here is what happened.</p><p>Someone got a lease to sign. The usual move is to skim it, check the monthly price and the end date, and sign. This person did not do that. They copied the whole thing into an AI and asked it to read for problems.</p><p>The AI found a clause buried in the middle of the document. It was a rent escalation clause. Not the obvious kind that says "rent goes up 3% a year." The buried kind. The kind that let the landlord raise rent by any amount with just 30 days notice. Completely legal. Completely invisible to a normal skim.</p><p>That one clause could have cost thousands over the length of the lease.</p><p>They caught it before signing. They had something real to negotiate with, or a real reason to walk. Either way, they did not get stuck.</p><p>The team at Spellbook documented exactly this kind of scenario in their contract risk analysis guide. They show how AI can flag the parts of any contract that a normal person would gloss right over. (Link at the bottom.)</p><h2>What reading a lease the old way costs you</h2><p>Most people do one of two things with a lease. They skim it. Or they pay a lawyer a few hundred dollars to read it.</p><p>Skimming costs you when there is something sneaky on page 8. And the sneaky stuff is almost always on page 8.</p><p>Hiring a lawyer is the right call for big deals. But a lot of people renting apartments do not spend $300 to have someone check a one-year lease. So they sign. And then they find out six months in that there was a clause they never noticed.</p><p>AI does not replace a lawyer. But it reads every single word of that lease in about 30 seconds and tells you in plain English what looks weird. That is not nothing. That is actually a lot.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a complete beginner can copy it. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The exact way to prep your lease before you paste it into AI.</p></li><li><p>The copy-paste prompt that makes AI flag risky clauses.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that makes AI explain a suspicious clause in plain words.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that writes your follow-up questions for the landlord.</p></li><li><p>What AI cannot do here, so you know where the limits are.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need to know anything about contract law. That is the whole point.</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>I am not a lawyer, and neither is your AI. This is a way to spot things that might need a closer look, not a substitute for real legal advice. If something looks serious, talk to an actual lawyer before you sign. Also: always take your personal information off any document before you paste it anywhere. We will get to exactly how to do that.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 5 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>All 3 copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>What to say when you find something and need to push back with the landlord.</p></li><li><p>The exact mistakes that trip beginners up with this method.</p></li><li><p>What AI cannot catch, so you know exactly where the limits are.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. If you have a lease sitting in your email that you have not really read, this is the post that helps you actually read it.</p><p>The full walkthrough is below the paywall.</p><div><hr></div><p>Click the button, subscribe, and the locked section below opens right away. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 22: How AI Got a Student's Parking Ticket Thrown Out]]></title><description><![CDATA[A student told AI why their parking ticket was wrong, and the AI wrote the appeal. The fine got revoked. Here is the exact way to do it with any wrongful ticket.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-22-how-ai-got-5d9</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-22-how-ai-got-5d9</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:49:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3f7f9f42-f40e-45ca-8a78-42a4a5174be9_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is another Genius B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. In these Genius ones I show you something smart that AI did for someone else. A real person, a real win. Then I hand you the exact steps so you can do the same thing.</p><p>I did not get this parking ticket. Someone else did. A student over in the UK. But what they did with their AI is so simple that you are going to want to keep it in your back pocket.</p><p>Here is what happened.</p><p>A student named Millie got a parking ticket they felt was not fair. Instead of just paying it, they opened ChatGPT and told it why the ticket was wrong. The AI took that and wrote a proper, formal appeal letter. The student sent it in.</p><p>The fine got revoked. Gone. They did not pay it.</p><p>That is real. It was written up by CBS News. (Link at the bottom.)</p><p>And here is the part that matters for you. Most people do not fight a parking ticket, even when they are right. They look at the amount, sigh, and just pay it to make it go away. The letter feels too hard to write. The words feel too official. So they hand over money they did not owe.</p><p>You do not have to do that. You can make AI write the letter for you.</p><h2>What fighting a ticket the old way costs you</h2><p>If you have ever tried to appeal a ticket by hand, you know how it goes.</p><p>You stare at a blank page. You do not know what to say. You do not know the right words to sound serious instead of whiny. You worry you will say the wrong thing and make it worse. So you give up and pay.</p><p>That is the trap. The appeal feels harder than the fine. So most people just pay, even when the ticket is plain wrong.</p><p>AI flips that. It takes your side of the story and turns it into a clean, polite, formal letter in about a minute. The kind of letter that gets read and taken seriously.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a total beginner can copy it. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The exact way to figure out if your ticket is actually wrong.</p></li><li><p>The copy-paste prompt that turns your story into a formal appeal.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that makes the letter stronger and more polite.</p></li><li><p>The steps in order, plus the safety rules so you do not mess it up.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need to know anything about parking law or how to write official letters. That is the whole point. The AI handles the words. You just feed it the truth.</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>I am not a lawyer, and neither is your AI. This only works on tickets that are genuinely wrong, like a sign that was hidden, a meter that was broken, or a permit you actually had. Do not fight a ticket you truly earned. And outcomes are different in every city and country, so a win for that student does not promise a win for you. This gets you a strong letter. It does not promise the result.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 4 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>Both copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>The exact info to gather before you write a word.</p></li><li><p>How to send the appeal and what to do if they say no the first time.</p></li><li><p>The mistakes to avoid so you stay honest and do not waste your shot.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. If you have a ticket sitting on your kitchen counter that you have been dreading, this is the post that helps you fight it.</p><p>The full walkthrough is below the paywall.</p><div><hr></div><p>Click the button, subscribe, and the locked section below opens right away. You get this article now.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.lizontheweb.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe to unlock this article now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.lizontheweb.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe to unlock this article now</span></a></p><div><hr></div>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 26: How AI Got 78% of Resume Users an Interview]]></title><description><![CDATA[People let AI rewrite their resume to beat the hiring bots, and most of them got called back. Here is the exact way to do it with your own resume.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-26-how-ai-got-fdc</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-26-how-ai-got-fdc</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:48:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/99263cb8-9578-490c-97c0-d38070f37b09_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the Genius kind of B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. In these posts I show you something genius that AI did for other people. Real people, real job hunts, real callbacks. Then I hand you the exact steps so you can do the same thing.</p><p>I did not run this myself. I am not job hunting. But a big group of job seekers did, and the numbers they got back are worth your time.</p><p>Here is what happened.</p><p>A survey from ResumeBuilder asked job seekers who used ChatGPT to write or fix their resume how it went. Out of the people who used it, 78% got an interview. And 59% got hired.</p><p>That is real. The survey and the numbers are linked at the bottom.</p><p>Now here is the part nobody tells you. Most resumes never get read by a human first. They get read by a bot. It is called an applicant tracking system, or ATS. It scans your resume, hunts for the right words, and ranks you. If the words do not match the job, you get tossed before a person ever sees your name.</p><p>That is why good people get ghosted. Not because they are not good enough. Because the bot could not find the words it wanted.</p><p>You can fix that. You can make AI rewrite your resume to match the job and beat the bot.</p><h2>What doing this the old way costs you</h2><p>If you have ever job hunted by hand, you know the pain.</p><p>You send out the same resume to 40 jobs. You hear nothing back. You start to think something is wrong with you. You tweak a word here and there, but you are guessing. You do not know what the bot is looking for. You do not know which words got you cut.</p><p>That is the trap. The bot is silent. It never tells you why it said no. So you keep sending the same thing and keep getting the same nothing.</p><p>AI flips that. It reads the job post for you, finds the words that matter, and rewrites your resume to use them. In a few minutes. For free.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a total beginner can copy it. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The way to find the exact words the bot wants from any job post.</p></li><li><p>The copy-paste prompt that rewrites your resume to match that one job.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that checks your resume for the missing keywords.</p></li><li><p>The steps in order, plus the honesty rules so you do not lie on it.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need to know anything about resumes or hiring bots. That is the whole point. The AI knows it. You just have to ask the right way.</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>AI helps you say true things in a clearer way. It does not give you a license to make stuff up. Never add a job you did not have, a skill you do not have, or a number you cannot back up. If you get the interview, you have to be the person on the page. Use AI to fix how it reads, not to invent who you are. And always read the final resume yourself before you send it, so it sounds like a human and not a robot.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 4 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>All 3 copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>How to pull the right keywords out of any job post.</p></li><li><p>How to make AI rewrite for one job, not send the same thing to all of them.</p></li><li><p>The mistakes to avoid so you stay honest and still sound like you.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. If you have a resume that keeps getting ignored, this is the post that helps you find out why and fix it.</p><p>The full walkthrough is below the paywall.</p><div><hr></div><p>Click the button, subscribe, and the locked section below opens right away. You get this article now.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.lizontheweb.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe to unlock this article now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.lizontheweb.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe to unlock this article now</span></a></p><div><hr></div>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 23: How AI Found Someone $22K in a Salary Talk]]></title><description><![CDATA[A stranger pasted their job offer into AI, and it wrote the counter that got them about $22,000 more. Here is the exact way to do it with your own offer.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-23-how-ai-found-d76</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-23-how-ai-found-d76</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:45:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/648f45a1-932b-4dff-b2d6-9977592b1913_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the Genius kind of B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. In the Genius lane I show you something smart that AI did for someone else. A real person, a real offer, a real win. Then I hand you the exact steps so you can do the same thing.</p><p>I did not get a job offer and gain $22,000. But someone did. And the way they did it is so simple it kind of hurts.</p><p>Here is what happened.</p><p>A person got a job offer. The pay was fine. Most people would have said yes and moved on. Instead they pasted the offer into ChatGPT and asked it to help them push back the smart way. The AI wrote a counter that talked about the value they bring, not just "I want more money." It even wrote the email for them.</p><p>They sent it. They ended up with about $22,000 more than the first offer. Money they almost left on the table.</p><p>That is real. It was written up by AOL and MoneyLion. (Link at the bottom.)</p><p>And here is the part nobody tells you. A lot of people never counter at all. They get the offer, they feel lucky, they say yes fast. The company expects you to ask for more. They often leave room for it on purpose. When you do not ask, that room just stays in their pocket instead of yours.</p><p>You do not have to do that. You can make AI write the ask for you.</p><h2>What saying yes the old way costs you</h2><p>If you have ever gotten an offer, you know the feeling.</p><p>Your heart races. You are scared that if you ask for more, they will pull the whole thing. So you do not ask. You just say yes, fast, before they change their mind.</p><p>That fear is the trap. Companies know most people are too nervous to push back. So the first number is almost never their best number. It is their hopeful number.</p><p>When you cannot find the words to counter, you cannot get the raise that was sitting right there.</p><p>AI flips that. It writes the words for you, calm and professional, in a couple of minutes. You do not have to be brave or smooth. You just have to send it.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a total beginner can copy it. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The exact way to get AI to write a value-framed counter, not a whiny "I want more."</p></li><li><p>The copy-paste prompt that builds your counter-offer.</p></li><li><p>The copy-paste prompt that turns it into a clean email you can send.</p></li><li><p>The steps in order, plus the safety rules so you do not blow up the offer.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need to be a great writer or a tough negotiator. That is the whole point. The AI handles the words. You just have to ask the right way and hit send.</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>This only works if you have a real offer in your hand. Do not counter a job you have not been offered yet. And results vary a lot. The person in the story gained about $22,000, but your number depends on the role, the company, and the market. Some companies have no room to move. AI gives you a strong, polite ask. It does not promise a yes.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 4 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>Both copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>The exact info to feed the AI so the counter sounds like a pro.</p></li><li><p>How to send it without sounding greedy or scaring them off.</p></li><li><p>The mistakes to avoid so you do not lose the offer.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. If you have an offer sitting in your inbox that you are scared to answer, this is the post that helps you answer it the smart way.</p><p>The full walkthrough is below the paywall.</p><div><hr></div><p>Click the button, subscribe, and the locked section below opens right away. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 25: How AI Spotted the Pattern a Patient's Doctors Missed]]></title><description><![CDATA[A person fed years of symptoms and lab results into AI, and it connected the dots their doctors had missed. A real doctor then confirmed it. Here is how to use AI to bring better questions to your own doctor.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-25-how-ai-spotted-3d2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-25-how-ai-spotted-3d2</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:41:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8269955f-80a5-42aa-bb2b-dd0161c487ed_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the Genius kind of B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. In these Genius posts I show you something smart that AI did for someone else. A real person, a real story, a real win. Then I hand you the exact steps so you can do a safe version of it yourself.</p><p>I want to be very clear before we go one inch further, because this one is about health.</p><p><strong>This is not about getting a diagnosis from a robot. It is about getting better QUESTIONS to bring to a real doctor.</strong> AI is not your doctor. It can be wrong. It cannot examine you. Nothing here replaces a real visit with a real human who went to medical school. Read that line again. I am going to repeat it a few times on purpose, because it matters more than anything else in this post.</p><p>Okay. Here is what happened.</p><p>A person had been sick for years. They had a pile of symptoms that did not seem to connect, and a stack of lab results from different visits. Their doctors had looked at things one at a time and had not landed on an answer. So this person took years of their own symptoms and their own lab numbers and pasted them into an AI. They asked one simple thing: what could explain all of this together?</p><p>The AI looked at everything at once. It noticed a pattern across the symptoms and the labs that pointed at one possible cause (a gene issue called MTHFR). It was a thread their doctors had not pulled on. The person took that idea to a real doctor, who looked into it and confirmed it.</p><p>That is the part that matters. The AI did not diagnose them. It gave them a better question. A real doctor did the actual confirming. (Link to the story at the bottom.)</p><p>And here is the thing nobody tells you. Doctors are rushed. They often see your problems one visit at a time, not all together. They almost never have your whole history laid out in front of them in one view. So a pattern that only shows up when you line everything up can get missed. Not because anyone is bad at their job. Because the system gives them ten minutes and a tired brain.</p><p>You can do the lining-up part yourself. With AI helping. To walk in with a sharper question.</p><h2>What doing this the old way costs you</h2><p>If you have ever been the sick person nobody can figure out, you know the loop.</p><p>You go to a visit. You try to remember every symptom while a busy person looks at the clock. You mention three things, forget two, and the doctor focuses on one. You leave with a guess, or a shrug, or "let's wait and see." Next visit is months later with a different doctor who does not have the full picture. Nothing ever gets connected because nobody is looking at all of it at once.</p><p>That is the trap. Your story is spread across years and across people. So the pattern never shows up.</p><p>AI is good at exactly that one job. It can hold your whole messy history in view at the same time and say, "hey, these things tend to go together, ask about this." It does not diagnose you. It hands you a smarter question to bring to a human.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a total beginner can copy it safely. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The exact way to gather your symptoms and labs so AI can actually use them.</p></li><li><p>The copy-paste prompt that makes AI look for patterns across everything.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that turns those patterns into questions for your doctor.</p></li><li><p>The steps in order, plus the hard safety rules so you do not hurt yourself with this.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need to know anything about medicine. That is the whole point. You are not trying to be the doctor. You are trying to walk into the doctor's office with a better question than "I just feel off."</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>I am not a doctor, and your AI is for sure not a doctor. This is a way to get better QUESTIONS to ask a real one, nothing more. AI can be confident and wrong. It can scare you over nothing, or miss something real. Never start, stop, or change any medicine, test, or treatment based on what an AI says. Always confirm everything with a real doctor before you act. And take your personal info off anything before you paste it. We will cover that.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 5 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>Both copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>Exactly what to gather, and what to leave out.</p></li><li><p>How to turn the AI's output into a short list of questions for your visit.</p></li><li><p>The do-not-do list, so you stay safe and do not panic over a robot's guess.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 24: How AI Won an Insurance Appeal After a Denial]]></title><description><![CDATA[A stranger had a claim denied, fed the denial letter and their policy to AI, and the AI wrote an appeal that got it reversed. Here is the exact way to do it.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-24-how-ai-won-a85</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-24-how-ai-won-a85</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:41:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ece8ad12-934d-4196-86e2-e91f195eeade_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the Genius kind of B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. Today I want to show you something genius that AI did for someone else. A real person, a real denial, a real win. Then I am going to hand you the exact steps so you can do the same thing.</p><p>I did not have a claim denied. But someone did. And what their AI did with that denial letter is the kind of thing more people need to know about.</p><p>Here is what happened.</p><p>A person sent a claim to their health insurance. The insurance said no. They got a denial letter, the kind that uses big words and makes you feel like the door is closed.</p><p>They did not just give up and pay. They took the denial letter and their insurance policy, the long boring document nobody reads, and they fed both into an AI. Then they asked the AI to write an appeal.</p><p>The AI read the denial. It read the policy. It found the exact spot in the policy that said the care should be covered. It wrote a clear medical-necessity appeal letter that pointed right at that language.</p><p>They sent it in. The denial was reversed.</p><p>That is real. There is a full guide on how to do this from Counterforce Health, and people have posted step-by-step walkthroughs about doing the same thing. (Links at the bottom.)</p><p>And here is the part nobody tells you. A lot of denials get overturned when people actually appeal. But most people never appeal. They see the word "denied," feel beat, and walk away.</p><p>You do not have to do that. You can make AI read the fine print and fight back for you.</p><h2>What appealing a denial the old way costs you</h2><p>If you have ever tried to appeal a denied claim by hand, you know how it feels.</p><p>You get a letter full of codes and words you do not understand. You do not know which rule they used to say no. You do not know what your own policy actually promises, because the policy is forty pages of tiny print. So you do not know what to even argue. You feel like you would have to be a lawyer to write back.</p><p>That is the trap. The denial is confusing on purpose, and your own policy is just as confusing. When you cannot understand either one, you cannot push back.</p><p>AI flips that. It reads both confusing things for you and shows you exactly where they owe you. Then it writes the letter.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a total beginner can copy it. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The exact info you need to gather before you start.</p></li><li><p>The copy-paste prompt that makes AI read your denial and your policy together.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that writes your appeal letter, pointing at the exact policy language.</p></li><li><p>The steps in order, plus the safety rules so you do not get this wrong.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need to know anything about insurance. That is the whole point. The AI reads the policy. You just have to ask the right way.</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>I am not a doctor or a lawyer, and neither is your AI. This is a way to understand your denial and write a clear appeal. Always check anything important with a real person before you send it. This works best for clean-cut denials, like care your policy clearly covers. If your case is complicated, get a human expert.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 5 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>Both copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>Exactly what to pull off your denial letter and your policy.</p></li><li><p>How to find the appeal deadline and the address to send it to.</p></li><li><p>The mistakes to avoid so you stay safe and honest.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 22: How AI Got a Student's Parking Ticket Thrown Out]]></title><description><![CDATA[A student told AI why their parking ticket was wrong, and the AI wrote the appeal. The fine got revoked. Here is the exact way to do it with any wrongful ticket.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-22-how-ai-got-190</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-22-how-ai-got-190</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:40:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/54d7bdd9-0399-437b-b2c2-86fa985e30b0_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is another Genius B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. In these Genius ones I show you something smart that AI did for someone else. A real person, a real win. Then I hand you the exact steps so you can do the same thing.</p><p>I did not get this parking ticket. Someone else did. A student over in the UK. But what they did with their AI is so simple that you are going to want to keep it in your back pocket.</p><p>Here is what happened.</p><p>A student named Millie got a parking ticket they felt was not fair. Instead of just paying it, they opened ChatGPT and told it why the ticket was wrong. The AI took that and wrote a proper, formal appeal letter. The student sent it in.</p><p>The fine got revoked. Gone. They did not pay it.</p><p>That is real. It was written up by CBS News. (Link at the bottom.)</p><p>And here is the part that matters for you. Most people do not fight a parking ticket, even when they are right. They look at the amount, sigh, and just pay it to make it go away. The letter feels too hard to write. The words feel too official. So they hand over money they did not owe.</p><p>You do not have to do that. You can make AI write the letter for you.</p><h2>What fighting a ticket the old way costs you</h2><p>If you have ever tried to appeal a ticket by hand, you know how it goes.</p><p>You stare at a blank page. You do not know what to say. You do not know the right words to sound serious instead of whiny. You worry you will say the wrong thing and make it worse. So you give up and pay.</p><p>That is the trap. The appeal feels harder than the fine. So most people just pay, even when the ticket is plain wrong.</p><p>AI flips that. It takes your side of the story and turns it into a clean, polite, formal letter in about a minute. The kind of letter that gets read and taken seriously.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a total beginner can copy it. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The exact way to figure out if your ticket is actually wrong.</p></li><li><p>The copy-paste prompt that turns your story into a formal appeal.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that makes the letter stronger and more polite.</p></li><li><p>The steps in order, plus the safety rules so you do not mess it up.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need to know anything about parking law or how to write official letters. That is the whole point. The AI handles the words. You just feed it the truth.</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>I am not a lawyer, and neither is your AI. This only works on tickets that are genuinely wrong, like a sign that was hidden, a meter that was broken, or a permit you actually had. Do not fight a ticket you truly earned. And outcomes are different in every city and country, so a win for that student does not promise a win for you. This gets you a strong letter. It does not promise the result.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 4 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>Both copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>The exact info to gather before you write a word.</p></li><li><p>How to send the appeal and what to do if they say no the first time.</p></li><li><p>The mistakes to avoid so you stay honest and do not waste your shot.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. If you have a ticket sitting on your kitchen counter that you have been dreading, this is the post that helps you fight it.</p><p>The full walkthrough is below the paywall.</p><div><hr></div><p>Click the button, subscribe, and the locked section below opens right away. You get this article now.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.lizontheweb.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe to unlock this article now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.lizontheweb.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe to unlock this article now</span></a></p><div><hr></div>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 27: How AI Caught the Lease Clause That Would Have Cost Someone Thousands]]></title><description><![CDATA[Someone let AI read their lease before they signed. It found the buried clause their landlord was counting on them to miss. Here is the exact way to do it before you sign anything.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-27-how-ai-caught</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-27-how-ai-caught</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:39:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c8ce86ae-73bf-4af1-90c8-95aa7ba87927_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a new kind of B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. This week I want to show you something genius that AI did for someone else. A real situation, a real find, a real win. Then I am going to hand you the exact steps so you can do the same thing.</p><p>I did not almost sign a lease with a trap in it. But someone did. And what their AI caught is the kind of thing that makes you glad you did not just flip to the signature line and sign.</p><p>Here is what happened.</p><p>Someone got a lease to sign. The usual move is to skim it, check the monthly price and the end date, and sign. This person did not do that. They copied the whole thing into an AI and asked it to read for problems.</p><p>The AI found a clause buried in the middle of the document. It was a rent escalation clause. Not the obvious kind that says "rent goes up 3% a year." The buried kind. The kind that let the landlord raise rent by any amount with just 30 days notice. Completely legal. Completely invisible to a normal skim.</p><p>That one clause could have cost thousands over the length of the lease.</p><p>They caught it before signing. They had something real to negotiate with, or a real reason to walk. Either way, they did not get stuck.</p><p>The team at Spellbook documented exactly this kind of scenario in their contract risk analysis guide. They show how AI can flag the parts of any contract that a normal person would gloss right over. (Link at the bottom.)</p><h2>What reading a lease the old way costs you</h2><p>Most people do one of two things with a lease. They skim it. Or they pay a lawyer a few hundred dollars to read it.</p><p>Skimming costs you when there is something sneaky on page 8. And the sneaky stuff is almost always on page 8.</p><p>Hiring a lawyer is the right call for big deals. But a lot of people renting apartments do not spend $300 to have someone check a one-year lease. So they sign. And then they find out six months in that there was a clause they never noticed.</p><p>AI does not replace a lawyer. But it reads every single word of that lease in about 30 seconds and tells you in plain English what looks weird. That is not nothing. That is actually a lot.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a complete beginner can copy it. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The exact way to prep your lease before you paste it into AI.</p></li><li><p>The copy-paste prompt that makes AI flag risky clauses.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that makes AI explain a suspicious clause in plain words.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that writes your follow-up questions for the landlord.</p></li><li><p>What AI cannot do here, so you know where the limits are.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need to know anything about contract law. That is the whole point.</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>I am not a lawyer, and neither is your AI. This is a way to spot things that might need a closer look, not a substitute for real legal advice. If something looks serious, talk to an actual lawyer before you sign. Also: always take your personal information off any document before you paste it anywhere. We will get to exactly how to do that.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 5 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>All 3 copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>What to say when you find something and need to push back with the landlord.</p></li><li><p>The exact mistakes that trip beginners up with this method.</p></li><li><p>What AI cannot catch, so you know exactly where the limits are.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. If you have a lease sitting in your email that you have not really read, this is the post that helps you actually read it.</p><p>The full walkthrough is below the paywall.</p><div><hr></div><p>Click the button, subscribe, and the locked section below opens right away. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 26: How AI Got 78% of Resume Users an Interview]]></title><description><![CDATA[People let AI rewrite their resume to beat the hiring bots, and most of them got called back. Here is the exact way to do it with your own resume.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-26-how-ai-got</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-26-how-ai-got</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:39:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/391f64d1-2cba-4f12-9f56-ec8787fedba8_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the Genius kind of B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. In these posts I show you something genius that AI did for other people. Real people, real job hunts, real callbacks. Then I hand you the exact steps so you can do the same thing.</p><p>I did not run this myself. I am not job hunting. But a big group of job seekers did, and the numbers they got back are worth your time.</p><p>Here is what happened.</p><p>A survey from ResumeBuilder asked job seekers who used ChatGPT to write or fix their resume how it went. Out of the people who used it, 78% got an interview. And 59% got hired.</p><p>That is real. The survey and the numbers are linked at the bottom.</p><p>Now here is the part nobody tells you. Most resumes never get read by a human first. They get read by a bot. It is called an applicant tracking system, or ATS. It scans your resume, hunts for the right words, and ranks you. If the words do not match the job, you get tossed before a person ever sees your name.</p><p>That is why good people get ghosted. Not because they are not good enough. Because the bot could not find the words it wanted.</p><p>You can fix that. You can make AI rewrite your resume to match the job and beat the bot.</p><h2>What doing this the old way costs you</h2><p>If you have ever job hunted by hand, you know the pain.</p><p>You send out the same resume to 40 jobs. You hear nothing back. You start to think something is wrong with you. You tweak a word here and there, but you are guessing. You do not know what the bot is looking for. You do not know which words got you cut.</p><p>That is the trap. The bot is silent. It never tells you why it said no. So you keep sending the same thing and keep getting the same nothing.</p><p>AI flips that. It reads the job post for you, finds the words that matter, and rewrites your resume to use them. In a few minutes. For free.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a total beginner can copy it. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The way to find the exact words the bot wants from any job post.</p></li><li><p>The copy-paste prompt that rewrites your resume to match that one job.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that checks your resume for the missing keywords.</p></li><li><p>The steps in order, plus the honesty rules so you do not lie on it.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need to know anything about resumes or hiring bots. That is the whole point. The AI knows it. You just have to ask the right way.</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>AI helps you say true things in a clearer way. It does not give you a license to make stuff up. Never add a job you did not have, a skill you do not have, or a number you cannot back up. If you get the interview, you have to be the person on the page. Use AI to fix how it reads, not to invent who you are. And always read the final resume yourself before you send it, so it sounds like a human and not a robot.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 4 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>All 3 copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>How to pull the right keywords out of any job post.</p></li><li><p>How to make AI rewrite for one job, not send the same thing to all of them.</p></li><li><p>The mistakes to avoid so you stay honest and still sound like you.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. If you have a resume that keeps getting ignored, this is the post that helps you find out why and fix it.</p><p>The full walkthrough is below the paywall.</p><div><hr></div><p>Click the button, subscribe, and the locked section below opens right away. You get this article now.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.lizontheweb.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe to unlock this article now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.lizontheweb.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe to unlock this article now</span></a></p><div><hr></div>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 24: How AI Won an Insurance Appeal After a Denial]]></title><description><![CDATA[A stranger had a claim denied, fed the denial letter and their policy to AI, and the AI wrote an appeal that got it reversed. Here is the exact way to do it.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-24-how-ai-won</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-24-how-ai-won</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:38:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2048ceec-bdaf-43ca-9f54-ca6eba44a5c5_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the Genius kind of B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. Today I want to show you something genius that AI did for someone else. A real person, a real denial, a real win. Then I am going to hand you the exact steps so you can do the same thing.</p><p>I did not have a claim denied. But someone did. And what their AI did with that denial letter is the kind of thing more people need to know about.</p><p>Here is what happened.</p><p>A person sent a claim to their health insurance. The insurance said no. They got a denial letter, the kind that uses big words and makes you feel like the door is closed.</p><p>They did not just give up and pay. They took the denial letter and their insurance policy, the long boring document nobody reads, and they fed both into an AI. Then they asked the AI to write an appeal.</p><p>The AI read the denial. It read the policy. It found the exact spot in the policy that said the care should be covered. It wrote a clear medical-necessity appeal letter that pointed right at that language.</p><p>They sent it in. The denial was reversed.</p><p>That is real. There is a full guide on how to do this from Counterforce Health, and people have posted step-by-step walkthroughs about doing the same thing. (Links at the bottom.)</p><p>And here is the part nobody tells you. A lot of denials get overturned when people actually appeal. But most people never appeal. They see the word "denied," feel beat, and walk away.</p><p>You do not have to do that. You can make AI read the fine print and fight back for you.</p><h2>What appealing a denial the old way costs you</h2><p>If you have ever tried to appeal a denied claim by hand, you know how it feels.</p><p>You get a letter full of codes and words you do not understand. You do not know which rule they used to say no. You do not know what your own policy actually promises, because the policy is forty pages of tiny print. So you do not know what to even argue. You feel like you would have to be a lawyer to write back.</p><p>That is the trap. The denial is confusing on purpose, and your own policy is just as confusing. When you cannot understand either one, you cannot push back.</p><p>AI flips that. It reads both confusing things for you and shows you exactly where they owe you. Then it writes the letter.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a total beginner can copy it. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The exact info you need to gather before you start.</p></li><li><p>The copy-paste prompt that makes AI read your denial and your policy together.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that writes your appeal letter, pointing at the exact policy language.</p></li><li><p>The steps in order, plus the safety rules so you do not get this wrong.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need to know anything about insurance. That is the whole point. The AI reads the policy. You just have to ask the right way.</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>I am not a doctor or a lawyer, and neither is your AI. This is a way to understand your denial and write a clear appeal. Always check anything important with a real person before you send it. This works best for clean-cut denials, like care your policy clearly covers. If your case is complicated, get a human expert.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 5 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>Both copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>Exactly what to pull off your denial letter and your policy.</p></li><li><p>How to find the appeal deadline and the address to send it to.</p></li><li><p>The mistakes to avoid so you stay safe and honest.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 25: How AI Spotted the Pattern a Patient's Doctors Missed]]></title><description><![CDATA[A person fed years of symptoms and lab results into AI, and it connected the dots their doctors had missed. A real doctor then confirmed it. Here is how to use AI to bring better questions to your own doctor.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-25-how-ai-spotted</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-25-how-ai-spotted</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:38:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f8cd00de-9384-4427-81b5-f49c21260a52_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the Genius kind of B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. In these Genius posts I show you something smart that AI did for someone else. A real person, a real story, a real win. Then I hand you the exact steps so you can do a safe version of it yourself.</p><p>I want to be very clear before we go one inch further, because this one is about health.</p><p><strong>This is not about getting a diagnosis from a robot. It is about getting better QUESTIONS to bring to a real doctor.</strong> AI is not your doctor. It can be wrong. It cannot examine you. Nothing here replaces a real visit with a real human who went to medical school. Read that line again. I am going to repeat it a few times on purpose, because it matters more than anything else in this post.</p><p>Okay. Here is what happened.</p><p>A person had been sick for years. They had a pile of symptoms that did not seem to connect, and a stack of lab results from different visits. Their doctors had looked at things one at a time and had not landed on an answer. So this person took years of their own symptoms and their own lab numbers and pasted them into an AI. They asked one simple thing: what could explain all of this together?</p><p>The AI looked at everything at once. It noticed a pattern across the symptoms and the labs that pointed at one possible cause (a gene issue called MTHFR). It was a thread their doctors had not pulled on. The person took that idea to a real doctor, who looked into it and confirmed it.</p><p>That is the part that matters. The AI did not diagnose them. It gave them a better question. A real doctor did the actual confirming. (Link to the story at the bottom.)</p><p>And here is the thing nobody tells you. Doctors are rushed. They often see your problems one visit at a time, not all together. They almost never have your whole history laid out in front of them in one view. So a pattern that only shows up when you line everything up can get missed. Not because anyone is bad at their job. Because the system gives them ten minutes and a tired brain.</p><p>You can do the lining-up part yourself. With AI helping. To walk in with a sharper question.</p><h2>What doing this the old way costs you</h2><p>If you have ever been the sick person nobody can figure out, you know the loop.</p><p>You go to a visit. You try to remember every symptom while a busy person looks at the clock. You mention three things, forget two, and the doctor focuses on one. You leave with a guess, or a shrug, or "let's wait and see." Next visit is months later with a different doctor who does not have the full picture. Nothing ever gets connected because nobody is looking at all of it at once.</p><p>That is the trap. Your story is spread across years and across people. So the pattern never shows up.</p><p>AI is good at exactly that one job. It can hold your whole messy history in view at the same time and say, "hey, these things tend to go together, ask about this." It does not diagnose you. It hands you a smarter question to bring to a human.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a total beginner can copy it safely. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The exact way to gather your symptoms and labs so AI can actually use them.</p></li><li><p>The copy-paste prompt that makes AI look for patterns across everything.</p></li><li><p>The prompt that turns those patterns into questions for your doctor.</p></li><li><p>The steps in order, plus the hard safety rules so you do not hurt yourself with this.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need to know anything about medicine. That is the whole point. You are not trying to be the doctor. You are trying to walk into the doctor's office with a better question than "I just feel off."</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>I am not a doctor, and your AI is for sure not a doctor. This is a way to get better QUESTIONS to ask a real one, nothing more. AI can be confident and wrong. It can scare you over nothing, or miss something real. Never start, stop, or change any medicine, test, or treatment based on what an AI says. Always confirm everything with a real doctor before you act. And take your personal info off anything before you paste it. We will cover that.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 5 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>Both copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>Exactly what to gather, and what to leave out.</p></li><li><p>How to turn the AI's output into a short list of questions for your visit.</p></li><li><p>The do-not-do list, so you stay safe and do not panic over a robot's guess.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius B*tchwork - Part 23: How AI Found Someone $22K in a Salary Talk]]></title><description><![CDATA[A stranger pasted their job offer into AI, and it wrote the counter that got them about $22,000 more. Here is the exact way to do it with your own offer.]]></description><link>https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-23-how-ai-found</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.lizontheweb.com/p/genius-btchwork-part-23-how-ai-found</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:37:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9b5b0a4e-162a-4ab1-b3fe-668f6be4c666_1456x816.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the Genius kind of B*tchwork post.</p><p>Most weeks I show you the boring work my own AI did for me. In the Genius lane I show you something smart that AI did for someone else. A real person, a real offer, a real win. Then I hand you the exact steps so you can do the same thing.</p><p>I did not get a job offer and gain $22,000. But someone did. And the way they did it is so simple it kind of hurts.</p><p>Here is what happened.</p><p>A person got a job offer. The pay was fine. Most people would have said yes and moved on. Instead they pasted the offer into ChatGPT and asked it to help them push back the smart way. The AI wrote a counter that talked about the value they bring, not just "I want more money." It even wrote the email for them.</p><p>They sent it. They ended up with about $22,000 more than the first offer. Money they almost left on the table.</p><p>That is real. It was written up by AOL and MoneyLion. (Link at the bottom.)</p><p>And here is the part nobody tells you. A lot of people never counter at all. They get the offer, they feel lucky, they say yes fast. The company expects you to ask for more. They often leave room for it on purpose. When you do not ask, that room just stays in their pocket instead of yours.</p><p>You do not have to do that. You can make AI write the ask for you.</p><h2>What saying yes the old way costs you</h2><p>If you have ever gotten an offer, you know the feeling.</p><p>Your heart races. You are scared that if you ask for more, they will pull the whole thing. So you do not ask. You just say yes, fast, before they change their mind.</p><p>That fear is the trap. Companies know most people are too nervous to push back. So the first number is almost never their best number. It is their hopeful number.</p><p>When you cannot find the words to counter, you cannot get the raise that was sitting right there.</p><p>AI flips that. It writes the words for you, calm and professional, in a couple of minutes. You do not have to be brave or smooth. You just have to send it.</p><h2>What you get in this one</h2><p>I broke the whole thing down so a total beginner can copy it. By the end of this post you will have:</p><ul><li><p>The exact way to get AI to write a value-framed counter, not a whiny "I want more."</p></li><li><p>The copy-paste prompt that builds your counter-offer.</p></li><li><p>The copy-paste prompt that turns it into a clean email you can send.</p></li><li><p>The steps in order, plus the safety rules so you do not blow up the offer.</p></li></ul><p>You do not need to be a great writer or a tough negotiator. That is the whole point. The AI handles the words. You just have to ask the right way and hit send.</p><h3>Quick and honest note before we start</h3><p>This only works if you have a real offer in your hand. Do not counter a job you have not been offered yet. And results vary a lot. The person in the story gained about $22,000, but your number depends on the role, the company, and the market. Some companies have no room to move. AI gives you a strong, polite ask. It does not promise a yes.</p><p><strong>Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 4 steps in order, start to finish.</p></li><li><p>Both copy-paste prompts, ready to use.</p></li><li><p>The exact info to feed the AI so the counter sounds like a pro.</p></li><li><p>How to send it without sounding greedy or scaring them off.</p></li><li><p>The mistakes to avoid so you do not lose the offer.</p></li></ul><p>Subscribing unlocks the rest of this exact post right now, not just future ones. If you have an offer sitting in your inbox that you are scared to answer, this is the post that helps you answer it the smart way.</p><p>The full walkthrough is below the paywall.</p><div><hr></div><p>Click the button, subscribe, and the locked section below opens right away. 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