The blog
Longer pieces on AI and on building the systems your work needs. Some are short stories, some are arguments, one or two you can drag around.
Everything has to sit with the team
Work has to sit with a team that is genuinely capable of delivering it. In AI that second half keeps getting skipped, which is why sign off stalls rather than lands.
CRIT: a four-part prompt worth stealing
A dead-simple prompting framework built from Context, Role, Interview and Task, with the one tweak that keeps it accurate, a real worked example (drafting a retainer), and the peer-review step I wouldn’t skip.
How companies are actually using AI
Findings from a month of candid, anonymised conversations with senior and founder-level people about how they really adopt and govern AI. Where adoption actually is, what they make of regulation, and the quieter question of handing off judgment. Read it here or download the two-pager.
It's a staffing decision: The Consultants - A Short Story
Why you shouldn't just throw the biggest model at every task, told through a consulting engagement.
What Makes a Good Business in the Age of AI
An interactive board you can drag around. The gates an idea has to pass before it is worth building (interest, expertise, the fast loop, validation, build-out) and the loops back when it fails one.
What Does Agent Ready Mean?
If 'become agent ready' is in your business plan, start by treating an agent like a new hire — and asking whether you have the information in place to onboard it.
I solved my ski trip problem in a day with Claude Code (sort of)
Going from 'this is annoying' to working product in under a day.
The Employee that doesn't want your job (sort of): The Intern - A Short Story (Part 2)
Your non-judgmental intern who's always there when you need a refresher (no stupid questions here).
It’s your management style: The Intern - A Short Story
Why it isn't the AI's fault you're getting bad results, told as a short story.
Activation Energy
What do you think is possible to build with free AI tools? A holiday planning simulation.
The Contextualised Search Engine
How Gen AI has changed the way we search for information.
"What do I know that it doesn’t?"
The only thing you need to think about when using Generative AI tools.
Why you're not getting the most out of your interactions with AI
Bridging the communication gap.
The Two Types of Miscommunications
A Fundamental Misalignment and The Communication Gap.