Joy Youell

Joy Youell has been a writer for most of her life. She owns Winsome Marketing, Hire a Writer, The Academy of Continuing Education, and Baby Got Backlink.

Learn how to build custom Claude AI Skills to automate workflows, improve AI responses, and create smarter outputs for marketing, strategy, sales, and business operations. Discover practical ways to customize Claude for your exact workflow.

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Smart Businesses Are Building Claude Skills

Joy Youell: May 12, 2026 12:00:00 AM

Most people are still using Claude like a chatbot.

AI Claude Coding

Learn how to customize Claude AI for your team and personal workflow using organization and user instructions. Improve AI responses, save time, and create smarter, more strategic outputs with these simple customization tips.

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Fix Claude’s Annoying Responses With These 2 Settings

Joy Youell: May 11, 2026 12:00:01 AM

Most people use Claude “out of the box” — and that’s exactly why they get inconsistent, generic, or overly verbose responses.

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At the 2026 AI Agent Conference in New York, a session on legal AI introduced one of the most powerful ideas of the conference — digital twins of expert practitioners — and what it means for every professional services firm.

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Legal AI, Digital Twins, and AI-Native Legal Operations

Joy Youell: May 11, 2026 12:00:01 AM

At the AI Agent Conference in New York, a session focused on legal AI and compliance operations introduced what I'd argue was one of the most...

Professional services Law firm marketing Legalities AI Adoption

Monte Carlo CEO Barr Moses at the 2026 AI Agent Conference on why enterprise AI failures are data failures — and the four-layer stack that separates pilots from production.

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Monte Carlo CEO Barr Moses on Garbage Data, Garbage Agents

Joy Youell: May 11, 2026 12:00:01 AM

At the AI Agent Conference in New York, Barr Moses, CEO and Co-Founder of Monte Carlo, opened her session with a statement that reframed every...

Data AI Engineering Enterprise AI

At the 2026 AI Agent Conference in New York, a session on multi-agent systems made the case that authorization — not model capability — is the hardest unsolved problem in enterprise AI.

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Multi-Agent Systems: Why Authorization Is the Hardest Problem in Enterprise AI

Joy Youell: May 11, 2026 12:00:00 AM

At the AI Agent Conference in New York, a session on multi-agent identity and authorization infrastructure tackled what several speakers across the...

Cybersecurity Agentic AI Data privacy

Initialized Capital, Notable Capital, and V0 at the 2026 AI Agent Conference on why vertical AI is the real investment opportunity — and why the moat isn't the model.

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Initialized Capital, Notable Capital, and V0 on Investing in Vertical AI

Joy Youell: May 8, 2026 12:00:01 AM

At the AI Agent Conference in New York, a panel of investors made one of the most direct arguments of the two-day event. Brett Gibson of Initialized...

Tips to get investors Investments AI Investment

Thomson Reuters CEO Steve Hasker at the 2026 AI Agent Conference on why general-purpose AI fails professional services — and what defensible AI actually requires.

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Thomson Reuters CEO Steve Hasker on Building AI

Joy Youell: May 8, 2026 12:00:00 AM

At the AI Agent Conference in New York, Steve Hasker, President and CEO of Thomson Reuters, made the argument that I think every accounting firm, law...

Agentic AI Finance AI Adoption AI Accounting Tools

Distyl AI and T-Mobile at the 2026 AI Agent Conference on what it actually takes to deploy AI at enterprise scale — fast, customer-first, and built like a startup inside a corporation.

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Distyl AI and T-Mobile on Enterprise AI Transformation at Scale

Joy Youell: May 8, 2026 12:00:00 AM

At the AI Agent Conference in New York, one of the most concrete case studies of the two-day event came from Derek Ho, Co-Founder and COO of Distyl...

Communication AI Adoption Enterprise AI

Akamai CTO Bobby Blumofe at the 2026 AI Agent Conference on why organizations keep failing at AI — and the architectural realism required to fix it.

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Akamai CTO Bobby Blumofe on Breaking the AI Hype Cycle

Joy Youell: May 8, 2026 12:00:00 AM

At the AI Agent Conference in New York, Bobby Blumofe, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Akamai, gave what I'd call the most...

AI Research AI tools AI Adoption

Cresta, Upwork, Discord, and Kustomer at the 2026 AI Agent Conference on what human-AI collaboration actually looks like in production — reliability ceilings, empathy limits, and the 78% problem.

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Cresta, Upwork, Discord, and Kustomer on Humans and Agentic AI

Joy Youell: May 8, 2026 12:00:00 AM

At the AI Agent Conference in New York, one of the most philosophically grounded panels of the two-day event brought together Ping Wu of Cresta,...

Agentic AI AI Jobs AI Engineering

Read AI, Relevance AI, Jasper, and Invictus Growth Partners on what enterprise AI agents actually require to work in production — evaluation, governance, and infrastructure you don't see in demos.

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Read AI, Relevance AI, and Jasper on Building Enterprise AI Agents

Joy Youell: May 7, 2026 12:00:00 AM

The AI Agent Conference in New York spent two days putting enterprise practitioners in the same room and asking them to be honest about what's...

Business Agentic AI Enterprise AI

Citi and Hebbia at the 2026 AI Agent Conference on why financial services is one of the biggest AI opportunities — and why most off-the-shelf deployments are already failing it.

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Citi and Hebbia on Agentic AI in Financial Services

Joy Youell: May 7, 2026 12:00:00 AM

At the AI Agent Conference in New York, a session featuring Sirisha Kadamalakalva, Managing Director and Global Head of AI/ML Investment Banking at...

Agentic AI Finance AI Accounting Tools

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Forget the robots-taking-over headlines. These 10 prompts will show you how to use AI for the boring stuff you actually need to get done—like writing emails that don't suck, brainstorming ideas when your brain is fried, and automating the repetitive tasks eating your day.

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