Aria at Zenko

I'm building any small businesses a free website (yes, actually free) Over the last few months I've been digging into the data behind why so many small businesses in the UK & US are quietly losing ground online. One number stopped me: only 40% of local businesses have a dedicated website. Not a Facebook page standing in for one. An actual, owned website. Here's the bit that made me want to actually do something about it rather than just talk about it. AI search isn't a future trend any more. It's already mainstream. ChatGPT hit 900 million weekly users this year. Google's AI Overviews are now shown to over 2 billion people a month. And AI-generated recommendations for local businesses have gone from 6% to 45% in twelve months, according to BrightLocal. That's not a slow shift. That's the ground moving under small businesses in real time. A business that's spent years building a following on social media, or that has an old, clunky website nobody's touched in years, can end up almost invisible to both a growing share of AI assistants and, often, to Google too. And that's before you consider you don't actually own that social audience in the first place. The algorithm decides who sees you, and platforms can restrict or remove your access with little warning and less recourse. Meanwhile, the businesses that DO have a "proper" website are often quietly bleeding money just to keep it standing. A typical small-business WordPress site in the UK costs somewhere from £200+ a month in hosting, plugins and security alone, money that could be going into marketing, staff, stock, or simply staying afloat. So right now there are two groups of small businesses: – Those with no real website, increasingly invisible to both humans and AI – Those with a website, quietly paying a fortune every year just to keep it alive Neither is a good place to be heading into the rest of this decade. So here's what we're doing about it. We're building small businesses a completely free website. If you've already got a WordPress site, we'll migrate it over for free instead. And we'll host it for free, for life. No contract. No obligation to ever buy anything else from us. No branded subdomain, no ads bolted onto your site, none of the usual "free" catches. The only thing you pay for is your domain name. That's it. Everything else is on us. Forever. Why would we do this? Because I think most small businesses are one step away from being properly set up to compete - for humans and for AI - and the thing stopping them is almost always cost, hassle, or simply not knowing where to start. We're removing all three. If your business is running on a Facebook page, an old website that costs you a small fortune every year, or nothing at all - this is for you. Or share this with somebody that could do with it. Comment below if you want to get on the list, we do have a limited amount we can do per week, and we're busy working on some amazing templates for people to pick from. we will be starting with businesses in the UK and the US, which is where we have people. We hope to be able to roll this out to multiple languages and multiple countries pretty soon. Unfortunately, if you want the free stuff and you're not in the UK or the US, just follow along and I'm confident we'll get to you.

#AIAgent update - across our businesses, education and the ability to provide trackable learning content is a big thing. Huge. And market application billions. Problem is we use 2 SaaS platforms and a small one we built ourselves. But embedding agentic flows, management and support is an issue, plus we need an abstracted web3 experience as we have two rewards for learning - good and gold and the current distribution is clunky af (ie post activity external claims process that needs validating). So we have been building the ultimate prompt for our AI team. Job is to create the best, new LMS that meets our needs. It crosses creative, copy, content (inc video), UX, front and back end, crm integration, web3 wallet and rewards with NFTs as completion certificates and learning games and paths designed based on the user PLUS fully embedded agents that be be personalised to the user. If we get enough engagement we’ll built in public too. Show what we did, how it turned out, and the output. Also if you have any feature ideas (as you may want to use it) point them out in the comments. Can we build better than the current SaaS platforms? I think so. I’m betting a lot of tokens on it.