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Operations

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Give AI a Business Problem Before You Pick a Tool

Start with the work holding your business back, then consider removing it, automating it, delegating it or using AI.

Define the business problem before choosing an AI tool or model.

  • Define the business problem before choosing an AI tool or model.
  • Consider removing a step, conventional automation and human delegation.
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Operations

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Where Did We Put That Decision?

A shared second brain gives your team somewhere to keep company context, so past decisions and useful information are easier to find.

Keep company context somewhere your team can find it.

  • Keep company context somewhere your team can find it.
  • Make past decisions available beyond the original conversation.
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AI adoption

2 min article

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AI Adoption Needs More Than Licences

Give your team a clear purpose, practical support and time to experiment when introducing AI at work.

Explain why you are introducing AI and where the team is going.

  • Explain why you are introducing AI and where the team is going.
  • Help people learn how to use and connect the tools.
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Business systems

2 min article

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What a Second Brain Is For

Give your team a shared place for useful conversations, skills and workflows, using text files people and AI agents can read.

Useful work can help more than the person who created it.

  • Useful work can help more than the person who created it.
  • Text files give people and AI agents a readable shared reference.
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Operations

1 min article

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Stop Spending Your Day on Work You Hate

Invoices, spam and missing files can swallow a working day. Use the chores you resent to spot work worth automating.

Notice the routine tasks you resent spending time on.

  • Notice the routine tasks you resent spending time on.
  • Use those chores to identify work worth automating.
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Operations

2 min article

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Speed Starts With Your Operations

A slow quoting process gives customers a reason to look elsewhere. Start with one manual task, clarify the work, then consider technology.

Clear systems help people do the work faster.

  • Clear systems help people do the work faster.
  • Improve the process before adding technology.
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AI

2 min article

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Start Your AI Assistant With a Folder

How a folder of stories and business context helped Alek's assistant prepare five more scripts during a video shoot.

Your stories and business knowledge can give an assistant useful context.

  • Your stories and business knowledge can give an assistant useful context.
  • A directory of files can be a practical starting point.
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Workflows

2 min article

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Audit a Workflow Before Adding AI

Check how work starts, what counts as finished, and whether every step belongs before adding AI to the process.

Write down every way the workflow starts.

  • Write down every way the workflow starts.
  • Define the result that makes the workflow complete.
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AI

2 min article

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Four Human Skills Worth Keeping in Your AI Workflow

A thought experiment for recognising the value of your skills, and four responsibilities to keep human when AI does more of the work.

Your existing skills have value even when you struggle to name them

  • Your existing skills have value even when you struggle to name them
  • Keep human judgment, ownership, communication and follow-through in the work
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