The New Playbook for Scaling Business Operations with AI & Automation

Here’s a shocking number – 76% of scaling businesses hit a growth ceiling within their first five years. The reason? Their operations simply can’t keep up. You’re probably familiar with the struggles. Your team drowns in repetitive tasks. Costs keep climbing. Every new customer adds more complexity to your operations. And finding skilled people? That’s […]

What AI Can and Cannot Do

From Financial to Public Services there are limits to what AI can and will ever be able to do Shiny and New Imagine walking into your dream home. The rooms are light and spacious, the finishings to your taste and you hurry to make an offer. Once you move in, however, you discover that the […]

How Businesses Actually Use AI

Dreams and Reality The classic movie 2001: A Space Odyssey predicted colonisation of space, alien artifacts and a self-aware computer by the dawn of the 21st century. Even experts such as the story’s creator, Arthur C. Clarke, may see the direction of travel but not the speed. Film entertainment is one thing, but are blogs, […]

How to decide what to use AI to do

If your business has written processes then they can be automated. Humans Are Easily Impressed Today’s AI is human intelligence on an artificial substrate and real artificial intelligence will be different. So says Danny Hillis, who pioneered parallel computers at a time when science said they were impossible. Today they are the engine of cloud […]

How to get the best out of LLMs

Effective prompting for free and early stage LLM models N.B. this article does not apply to best practice for using reasoning models such as OpenAI o1 and o3, which have step-by-step logic built into them. OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has the goal of quadrupling users to over 1 billion in 2025. To do this […]

5 AI and Automation Trends Businesses Must Watch in 2025

Mid-sized manufacturing plants lose an average of $50,000 per hour during unplanned downtime. Financial institutions process thousands of transactions daily, each carrying potential fraud risks. Construction projects regularly exceed budgets by 20% due to poor risk assessment.  These challenges hurt the bottom line but are seen as the costs of being in business. AI and […]

What are AI Agents? Types, benefits, and how to implement them for your business.

Businesses are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to stay competitive. According to Gartner, 86% of CEOs and Senior Business Executives said they would use AI to help maintain or grow their company’s revenue.  This ends the debate about the effectiveness of artificial intelligence for business. AI is almost as necessary as the internet for […]