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Field notes on conversational AI, compliance, and turning website visitors into customers.

Legal & Compliance

Client Intake Without UPL: A 2026 Compliance Playbook for Firms

The bar stopped asking whether lawyers use AI and started asking how they supervise it. Here is the 2026 compliance standard for a firm's website, line…

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Healthcare & Medical

PHI, the Privacy Rule & Your Website: A 2026 HIPAA Playbook

A healthcare assistant touches protected health information, the practice of medicine, and anti-discrimination law in a single conversation. Here is the 2026 standard.

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Real Estate & Property

Fair Housing & RESPA Online: A 2026 Playbook for Brokerages

Fair housing law does not care that a machine said it. Here is the 2026 standard for an AI assistant that can sell homes without steering…

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Insurance

The 2026 Agency Playbook for a Website That Won’t Trigger E&O

Regulators stopped asking whether your agency uses AI and started asking how you govern it. Here is the 2026 compliance standard, line by line.

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Financial Services

Your Website Quoted a Rate. Now Comes the Fair-Lending Problem.

A mortgage chatbot quoted a rate and a monthly payment in two sentences. That single reply crossed two federal lines, and the lender owns both.

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Financial Services

The Howey Problem With What Your Website Says About Tokens

A crypto chatbot told a buyer it looked like a solid entry point. That one helpful line can forfeit a safe harbor and pull a token…

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Financial Services

When Your Website Makes a Recommendation You Can’t Defend

A chatbot told a prospect to put 60% in index funds. That is investment advice without suitability analysis. The SEC has something to say about it.

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Insurance

The E&O Exposure Hiding on Your Agency’s Website

A website assistant told a visitor their water damage 'should be covered.' It had no policy in front of it, no producer license, and no authority.…

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47 Visitors. 3 Ready to Buy. Do You Know Which?

Your website had 47 visitors this week. Three were ready to buy. Fred knows which three because Fred had the conversation.

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Your AI Chatbot Will Say Anything. Fred Can’t.

Chatbots are instructed not to go off-topic. Instructions get forgotten, ignored, worked around. Fred is built so he cannot.

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