I decided to give Claude a try, since my wife has been raving about it. And it did a charitable job putting together a sightseeing itinerary for my fall vacation (although it somehow thought I was looking at 2025 dates and didn’t think about whether or not the attractions it recommended were actually open on the days it proposed), and it put together a nice primer on fraud, which is an area I’ve had some interest in…

So, I decided to ask it to look at the site and make 3 recommendations to spiff it up.

Recommendation #1 was to edit the “About” and “The Mr. Sanctions Difference” pages to get to the point about who I am and what I intended the site to be. Done.

Recommendation #2 is to add more short commentary to posts – why a particular piece of news matters to us. I’m not sure I have the bandwidth to do this on every post – I may have a weekly roundup instead. After all, this is a labor of love that I fit in around a 10+ hour workday, the dog and my family life.

But something tells me I can tell my AI agents to do some research for me and put regulatory changes in context – not just when I notice something odd, like SECO’s late designation release or the change to the OFAC Russia-related General License that removed the prior expiration date rather than extending it. More on that later.

Recommendation #3 is the most interesting: Create a place for people new to the site to get acclimated to the cold water in the pool without having to jump in feet first. That will take some thought… but not a terrible idea.

Of course, this also reminded me I ought to update the Industry Events Calendar and review the other resource pages… no rest for the compliant, much less the wicked, right?