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Terry M. Lee | AI Simplified

AI Simplified is a weekly newsletter by Terry M. Lee — entrepreneur, AI strategist, and founder of QueenGeek LLC. Each issue is one honest story from inside a real business: a workflow that changed, a tool that actually worked, a decision and what happened next. No theory. No prompt lists. Just the practical, unfiltered version of what it looks like to build a leaner, smarter business with AI. Written for entrepreneurs, coaches, and consultants who are serious about making AI work for the life they actually want to live.

My AI Team org chart — Me, Deanna as Chief of Staff, and five directors
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Claude Is My Silent Business Partner — Here's How That Actually Works

Terry M. Lee · AI Simplified Issue No. 04 This week's story Claude Is My Silent Business Partner — Here's How That Actually Works Hi Reader, Six months ago, I was running two businesses by myself and another as a wish in the back of my head. Not "by myself" in the founder-brag sense — actually by myself. I was the strategist, the copywriter, the bookkeeper, the launch planner, the tech support person, and the one answering emails at 11pm, all in the same day, all in one brain. If you've ever...

Terry M. Lee · AI Simplified Issue No. 006 This week's story I Asked Claude to Add Two Nav Links. It Found Four Things Wrong With My Site. Hi Reader, Yesterday I opened a chat with Claude with the smallest possible ask: add two links to my website's nav menu. A "Community" link to my Substack, and a "Demos/Video Tips" link to my YouTube. Two-minute job. I wasn't looking for anything else. The Ask That's it. That's the whole request. Add two nav links so people could actually find my community...

Full product mockup: tumbler, tote, mousepad, phone case, sweatshirt, and composition book, all built from the same logo

Terry M. Lee · AI Simplified Issue No. 005 This week's story I Said Yes to a Favor. AI Turned It Into Five Products. Hi Reader, This week's biggest AI win didn't come from a client project or a product launch. It came from a favor. A friend asked me to design a composition book cover for her job. Air Force themed. Blue, white, and gold. One design that had to represent four different departments — front desk, supply, housekeeping, and maintenance. I'm not a Canva expert. Left to my own tools,...

$20 Book Keeper Image

Terry M. Lee · AI Simplified Issue No. 03 This week's story My Bookkeeper Costs $20/Month, Never Sleeps, and Never Takes a Vacation Hi Reader, As a solopreneur or business owner, do you do your own bookkeeping? Do you hire it out? What if your AI Team Mate — bookkeeper and financial advisor in one — could just do it for you? I've told Claude — more than once — that I am not a bookkeeper and I don't want to become one. Reconciling accounts is exactly the kind of task I'd normally hand off to...

I've been paying for a tool I outgrew

Terry M. Lee · AI Simplified Issue No. 02 This week's story I've been paying for a tool I outgrew. I just didn't know it until I stopped using it. Hi Reader, I switched from ActiveCampaign to Kit last week, mid-session, almost on a whim. I'd been on AC long enough to know every menu, every workaround, every quirk. That familiarity felt like loyalty. It wasn't. It was inertia. But the real story isn't the switch — it's what my workflow looks like now that I'm on the other side of it. How This...

I was using AI to Build the wrong business

Terry M. Lee · AI Simplified Issue No. 01 · July 18, 2026 This week's story I was using AI to build the wrong business faster. Hi Reader, A few months ago, I was more productive than I'd ever been in my life. AI had changed everything about how I worked. Drafts that used to take me half a day were done in an hour. Research I would have put off for a week was finished before lunch. I was building faster, outputting more, keeping up with things I'd always let slide. And I was building toward...