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Building The Organisational Brain

Everyone's wondering whether they picked the right AI tool or whether their people are good enough at prompting. The real question is whether AI knows enough about your organisation to be useful regardless of which tool you pick. For almost everyone I'm speaking to, the answer is no.

Mar 27, 2026

Why I Chose a CRM I Could Talk To

Does this tool have an AI connector? Can I configure it programmatically? These aren't on most people's checklists yet. They should be. I set up my entire CRM in two sessions — concept to configured and populated — and the experience changed how I think about choosing technology.

Mar 17, 2026

Before You Prompt, Let AI Ask the Questions

Most people waste entire chat threads correcting AI's wrong assumptions because they give directives without context—flip the pattern by asking the model what it needs to know first, and you'll spend less time fixing and more time thinking.

Feb 20, 2026

Helping Dad With Excel Turned Into Building an App

My father needed help with a wine spreadsheet. Just under a week later, he had a production web app with photo recognition and recipe generation — not because I planned it, but because one experiment kept leading to the next.

Feb 20, 2026

AI Requires Governance by Design, Not Policy

Organisations are trying to write AI policies before they understand what they're governing. You can't regulate chatbot access into safety — we've spent decades designing systems around human error, and AI is no different. Build AI into specific workflows where governance is structural, not instructional. Design the constraints into the system instead of expecting perfect behavior.

Feb 15, 2026

AI Is Growing Up Fast. Luckily, You're Not As Behind As You Think.

The gap between imagination and execution just collapsed—AI went from annoying assistant to 10x capability amplifier—but most people are still debating whether it's useful while others are already building.

Feb 14, 2026