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AI & Technology

Practical AI implementation and digital transformation for SMEs

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The Room Doesn't Resolve It Anymore

Half-day workshops with 45 people used to need to accomplish everything in the room. They don't anymore - and that changes how you should design them. This post makes the case for a new division of labour: the room surfaces contested decisions, social accountability, and tacit knowledge that AI can't manufacture. AI handles the sequencing logic, dependency modelling, and delivery planning that used to consume the best hours of the day. But the handoff only works if you design the session - before anyone walks in - to produce artefacts AI can reason over, not just summarise.

27 May12 min
AI & Technology

I Built an AI That Thinks Like Me. Here's the Gap I Had to Architect For

Most AI assistants regurgitate content. This one reasons through problems the way I do. The four-node pipeline that makes intelligent mimicry possible.

6 May8 min
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I'm Not Using AI To Work Faster. I'm Using It To Be In Five Places At Once.

Most people are chasing speed. I'm building something different - an agentic version of myself that runs my frameworks, thinks the way I think, and just told me what it wants to learn next. That's when I knew this wasn't a tool anymore.

20 Apr7 min
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Business & M&AAI & TechnologyLeadership & Growth

You're Not Building an AI Advantage. You're Building Someone Else's.

The platform is a commodity; your data is the fuel. Stop renting an AI advantage and start building a moat. If your data trains a general model, you're just funding a competitor’s future.

29 Mar7 min
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The Developer Built It While I Was Still Reading The Approval Docs

Before you automate a process with AI, ask if the process should exist at all. Most organizations are just making their bloat faster and more expensive.

25 Mar4 min
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AI & TechnologyBusiness & M&ALeadership & Growth

I've Been Watching Businesses Become Zombie Corporations. Here's How to Tell If Yours Is Next.

Stop building "Zombie Corps." Automation looks elite on paper until you've hollowed out the human judgment that catches churn before it hits the P&L. If you can't explain the "why," you're just dying.

25 Mar7 min
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AI & Technology

How I Built, Broke, and Rebuilt My Own AI Three Times

Most AI projects fail because they optimise for speed first. I built mine for accuracy. Here's what I learned from three architectures.

23 Mar6 min
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AI & Technology

My Sunday Self Would Be Embarrassed Watching My Monday Self Work

I added three tasks to my backlog yesterday while making coffee. Hands-free. Voice command. Done before the kettle boiled. At work, I spent 15 minutes manually creating one Jira ticket.

3 Mar4 min
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AI & Technology

AI Made Us More Productive, So Why Are We Drowning in Reports?

We automated the work. Then we automated the reporting. Then we automated the analysis. Now someone has to read all of it. This is the efficiency trap nobody's talking about.

19 Feb4 min