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Guides

Practical guides on AI in business

18 detailed guides on adopting AI, prompting, automation and starting a business, plus a free 90-day growth plan. Written to be applied, not just read.

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Leading with AI14 min

AI for business leaders: understand, adopt and integrate it

A practical guide for owners and managers: what AI can and cannot do today, where to find the first opportunities, how to manage the risks and how to run a 90-day adoption plan.

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Prompting16 min

Prompting handbook 2027: write better AI prompts

A complete guide to writing prompts that give useful results: a simple structure, advanced techniques, common mistakes and examples by profession.

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Leading with AI12 min

A generative AI roadmap, step by step

How to adopt generative AI without spreading yourself too thin: diagnosis, first uses, tools, measuring results and scaling gradually.

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Prompting11 min

Prompts for Microsoft Copilot, by everyday task

A practical guide to using Copilot in daily work, with prompt structures for Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams and PowerPoint and reusable examples. Features depend on your licence and change often: check what your organisation has enabled.

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Automation13 min

Automate with Make: 25 practical use cases

How Make (formerly Integromat) works, 25 automation ideas by department and a method to build your first scenario.

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Automation13 min

Automate with n8n: 25 use cases and when to self-host

How n8n works as an alternative to Zapier and Make, 25 use cases by department and when self-hosting makes sense.

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Leading with AI12 min

Adopt AI in your organisation, step by step

A method for rolling out AI across a team: managing change, training, governing data and measuring real adoption.

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Leading with AI10 min

Augmented human capital: how AI is changing skills and jobs

Which skills gain value, how to train teams and how to rethink roles, without alarmism.

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Leading with AI11 min

The agentic enterprise: understanding autonomous AI agents

What AI agents are, how they differ from assistants, realistic use cases today, the risks and the supervision they need.

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Sectors10 min

AI-powered industry: use cases and transformation

An overview of AI in industry: predictive maintenance, quality control, logistics and the prerequisites before investing.

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Sectors10 min

AI in education and training: issues, uses and good practice

How AI changes teaching and vocational training: personalised paths, help for teachers, academic integrity and the supervision it needs.

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Starting a business12 min

Validate an AI business idea in 30 days

A four-week method to find out whether clients will pay for your service before you invest money or months of work.

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Starting a business11 min

Price an AI service without underselling

How to calculate a floor price, build three tiers and move from one-off projects to monthly subscriptions.

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Starting a business12 min

Find your first ten clients

Practical channels to win your first ten clients for an AI service: your network, local prospecting, LinkedIn, partnerships and referrals.

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Starting a business10 min

Using AI with client data: the basics

What a service provider should know before putting client or customer data into AI tools. General principles, not legal advice.

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Starting a business9 min

Mistakes that sink small AI businesses

The most common traps for beginners and how to avoid them.

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Starting a business8 min

Choose a legal status to sell services

How to think about the legal structure for a small service business, wherever you are. General information, not legal or tax advice.

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Starting a business12 min

Launch a business with AI in 2027: a practical guide

Choosing a business model, validating an idea, building a fast first version and executing week by week.

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The 90-day growth plan

One goal, a few actions, one indicator and one deliverable per week: diagnosis, offer and acquisition, then organisation and retention.

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