# Losing clients to AI, and how to gain them back, with Suzanne Bowness Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/grammar-girl-for-writers-and-language-lovers-159700/losing-clients-to-ai-and-how-to-gain-them-back-with-suzanne-bowness Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/grammar-girl-for-writers-and-language-lovers-159700/losing-clients-to-ai-and-how-to-gain-them-back-with-suzanne-bowness.md Podcast: [Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/grammar-girl-for-writers-and-language-lovers-159700) Published: 2026-04-09T09:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/grammar-girl/episodes/1175 Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/69c1476c007cdcf83fc0964b/e/69d03199d2e95f5131f34311/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grammar-girl-for-writers-and-language-lovers-159700/episodes/losing-clients-to-ai-and-how-to-gain-them-back-with-suzanne-bowness Duration seconds: 712 ## Resource 1175. In this bonus segment, which originally aired last October for Grammarpaloozians, we look at how AI is disrupting the freelance writing industry with author Suzanne Bowness. She shares her strategy for experimenting with different AI tools and the importance of being "conversant" in them for clients. We also look at the challenge of losing clients to AI but gaining new ones who were dissatisfied with the machine-generated text. Find Suzanne on her website,  Codeword Communications . Get the book, " Feisty Freelancer. " 🔗  Join the Grammar Girl Patreon. 🔗  Share your familect recording in  Speakpipe   or by leaving a voicemail at   833-214-GIRL (833-214-4475) 🔗  Watch my  LinkedIn Learning writing courses . 🔗  Subscribe to the  newsletter . 🔗  Take  our advertising survey .  🔗  Get the edited transcript on QuickandDirtyTips.com . 🔗  Get  Grammar Girl books .  | HOST: Mignon Fogarty | Grammar Girl is part of  the Quick and Dirty Tips podcast network . Audio Engineer: Dan Feierabend Director of Podcast: Holly Hutchings Advertising Operations Specialist: Morgan Christianson Marketing and Video: Nat Hoopes, Rebekah Sebastian Podcast Associate: Maram Elnagheeb | Theme music by  Catherine Rannus . | Grammar Girl Social Media:  YouTube .  TikTok .  Facebook .  Threads .  Instagram .  LinkedIn .  Mastodon .  Bluesky . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grammar-girl-for-writers-and-language-lovers-159700/episodes/losing-clients-to-ai-and-how-to-gain-them-back-with-suzanne-bowness/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/grammar-girl-for-writers-and-language-lovers-159700/losing-clients-to-ai-and-how-to-gain-them-back-with-suzanne-bowness.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.