AI Insights for North Shore Firms

Practical guides on AI workflow automation for insurance agencies, law firms, and financial advisors.

Anthropic offices and the Mythos disclosure, Fortune, March 2026
Cybersecurity

What Anthropic's Mythos Disclosure Means for Evanston Law Firms and Their Clients

Anthropic is withholding a model that can autonomously exploit zero-days. For an Evanston firm holding M&A and IP files, the disclosure is a forcing function.

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Anthropic's Agent Skills documentation imagery, showing the unified skills and slash command system in Claude
AI & Finance

How a Glencoe Wealth Advisor Can Build an AI Playbook With Claude Skills

Anthropic's 2026 Skills system turned slash commands into reusable playbooks. A small RIA can finally write down its workflows as code.

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Anthropic's official diagram comparing Claude Code sub-agents to agent teams
AI & Finance

How Highland Park Wealth Advisors Can Run Ten Claude Sub-Agents in Parallel Instead of One at a Time

Claude Code sub-agents spawn 10 workers per parallel batch. For an RIA on Green Bay Road, Monday-morning prep is the obvious first use case.

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Anthropic Claude Agent SDK promotional image, used for editorial coverage
AI & Finance

How Lake Forest Private Equity Firms Can Use the Claude Agent SDK to Build Their Own Deal Team

Anthropic's Agent SDK has matured into a production toolkit. For a two-partner Lake Forest shop, that changes who has to be on the org chart.

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Anthropic Claude Managed Agents architecture diagram from the April 8, 2026 launch announcement
AI & Law

How a Wilmette Law Firm Could Use Claude Managed Agents for Discovery, Conflict Checks, and Deal Diligence

Anthropic's new cloud-hosted agent service finally lets the long-running work of a law office, discovery review, conflict checks, deal diligence, survive a disconnect.

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Claude Opus 4.7 official announcement image from Anthropic, April 16, 2026
AI & Finance

How Winnetka ETA Operators Can Use Claude Opus 4.7 to Grow Revenue After Closing

Anthropic's flagship model shipped April 16. For entrepreneurs who just acquired a small business through ETA, it changes the math on the first 90 days.

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Before and after showing a wealth advisor scaling their practice with Claude AI
AI & Finance

How Wealth Advisors Can Use Claude to Do More Without Hiring

Your next hire doesn't need a Series 65. Here's how wealth advisors are using Claude to handle the work that's keeping them from growing.

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Before and after comparison showing ChatGPT memories transferring to Claude
AI Tools

How to Transfer Your Memory from ChatGPT to Claude

Your AI knows you. Switching shouldn't mean starting over. Here's how to move your memory from ChatGPT to Claude in under 5 minutes.

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Michael Pavlovskyi speaking at Lake Forest College
AI & Hiring

What I Told Lake Forest College Students About AI — And Why It Matters for Your Firm

The same AI shift reshaping hiring is coming for professional services. Here's what I told Lake Forest College students — and why it matters for your firm.

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Michael Pavlovskyi networking at a professional event
Operations

5 Hiring Lessons That Changed How I Think About Business Efficiency

What hiring taught me about screening, filtering, and automation — and how the same principles apply to running a more efficient firm.

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Michael Pavlovskyi networking at the Behavioral Health Tech conference
AI Strategy

What Healthcare Fraud Detection Taught Me About Building AI That Actually Works

Lessons from building AI fraud detection in healthcare — and why the same principles matter when automating professional services firms.

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Michael Pavlovskyi at Techstars Los Angeles Accelerator
Industry

No Hype, Just Building: What LA Tech Week Taught Me About Real AI

After attending a16z's LA Tech Week, here's what separates real AI from the hype — and what North Shore business owners should know.

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Industry conference and tech event
AI & Compliance

Inside the Fight Against Healthcare Fraud — And What It Means for Your Industry

From the NHCAA conference in Nashville: how AI-powered fraud detection is transforming healthcare — and why the same principles apply to your industry.

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