What actually works, what does not, and what to leave alone for now. Every figure here has its source named, and most posts contain something that cost me something to admit.
AI in construction, for firms with twelve people rather than twelve sites. What the ONS numbers say, the job we tried to automate and stopped, and what works.
Read it →AI for small business, without the sales pitch. Why UK adoption figures disagree, what firms your size really get from it, and the first job worth trying.
Read it →AI for accountants in a small UK practice. What it genuinely speeds up, what it costs, what stays with a qualified human, and where to start on Monday.
Read it →When to hire an AI agent development company, and when off the shelf tools will do more for less. What a good build looks like and what it costs to own.
Read it →An independent look at AI receptionists for UK small businesses. Real costs, GDPR, which trades benefit, and how to work out whether you need one at all.
Read it →Marketing automation advice written for firms of one to fifty people, not enterprise marketing teams. UK costs, what to automate first, and where enquiries die.
Read it →How to buy from an AI automation agency without wasting money. Why big AI projects get abandoned, and three questions to ask on the first call.
Read it →What a business automation consultant does, what it costs in the UK, when to hire one, and the jobs a good one will talk you out of automating.
Read it →AI sales training is mostly not about AI. What the BCG study shows about who gains most from these tools, and what sales teams actually need shown.
Read it →The AI risk in a small business is usually something somebody pasted. Three things worth doing, and why banning the tools makes the exposure worse.
Read it →Half of what looks like an AI job is a software problem from 2019. Where workflow automation genuinely helps, and how to check your own tools first.
Read it →You are probably already paying for Power Automate inside Microsoft 365. What it is good at, what it is not, and a twenty minute check worth doing.
Read it →Business process automation starts by writing the process down. Why software is rarely the constraint, and the one hour exercise to do before you buy.
Read it →What actually happens in an AI consultation, why most of the first hour is not about AI, and how far behind UK small businesses genuinely are.
Read it →A free 45 minute diagnostic. Tell me what is slowing you down and I will tell you honestly whether AI helps.
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