☕ What’s inside this month’s Espresso AI Newsletter?


Hello Reader,

This month's issue of Espresso AI hits inboxes on Thursday - and it’s the kind of issue worth reading properly, even if you think you've already got your AI set up.
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Martha shares more about the tools she's actually using in her own business right now, plus something that changed under the hood of Claude last month that's worth knowing about.
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Here's what paid subscribers are getting:

  1. What Martha would actually do in the first half hour of setting up Claude or ChatGPT from scratch - a good one to help any client who needs a bit of hand-holding.
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  2. Every response Claude generates now carries an invisible watermark. Martha explains what it actually does, why some people have cancelled over it, and what she thinks about it.
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  3. How Claude turned a client's plain PDF questionnaire into an on-brand, print-ready document in around 10 minutes flat.
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  4. Two small Canva features worth five minutes of your time, including one that finally solved a client's headache.
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  5. What Martha learned by cloning a client's voice for teaching videos, and the family safety habit it prompted her to set up at home.
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  6. Three real bits of work AI helped with this month.

Everything I’ve mentioned is only available to Espresso AI subscribers.

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Best wishes,
Holly x

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