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The procedure that lives in one person's head: writing SOPs with AI
Every small business has a job that stops when one person goes on leave. Writing it down was never hard because of the writing.
4 minute readGetting startedAnswering customer emails with AI without sounding like a form letter
Customers can tell. Not because a tool drafted the reply, but because it answers a question they didn't ask, in a voice nobody at your business uses.
4 minute readGetting startedBefore it leaves the building: how to check an AI draft in five minutes
The draft reads well. That is precisely the problem: fluent and correct are different properties, and the tools are much better at the first.
4 minute readPrivacy & policyAutomated decisions and your privacy policy: what changes on 10 December 2026
It's a disclosure rule, not a ban. But it asks a question most small businesses can't yet answer: where in the business is software deciding things about people?
5 minute readPrivacy & policyAI note-takers in client meetings: what to settle before you switch one on
The note-taker is the AI feature most businesses switch on without deciding to — and it's the one that sits in the room with your clients.
4 minute readPrivacy & policyA one-page AI policy your team will actually follow
Long policies fail in a specific way: people read the first line, infer the rest, and get the inference wrong.
3 minute readToolsThe team that saves nothing relearns everything
Every team that gets lasting value from AI has setups. Every team that got nothing has a folder of clever prompts nobody opens.
3 minute readGetting startedHow to pick the one job to fix first
Everyone wants to know where to start. The answer is one job, and it's rarely the one that irritates you most.
4 minute readIndustry notesSales and property management should not be in the same AI session
Agents are already using AI personally. Property managers are drowning in a different kind of writing. One session can't serve both.
3 minute readIndustry notes"My client data is confidential" — and where an accounting practice's hours actually go
The objection arrives in the first thirty seconds of every conversation with a practice principal. It's answerable, and the answer changes what the engagement looks like.
4 minute readIndustry notesIn regulated work, the question isn't "does this help" — it's "how exposed am I"
Efficiency is not what a practice principal or an NDIS director is buying. Certainty about exposure is.
4 minute readGetting startedThe training that didn't stick: five reasons a good session changes nothing
A room full of enthusiastic people is not a result. Here's what separates a session that changes a job from one that changes a mood.
4 minute readIndustry notesThe report that keeps the contract: writing jobs done at 10pm by the person who owns the business
Nobody in a cleaning or maintenance business is searching for AI training. They are, however, writing tenders on a Sunday.
4 minute readToolsWhich tool for which job: a rule of thumb built to survive the next model release
Learn the shape of the job and the tool choice makes itself. Learn this month's feature list and you'll relearn it in March.
4 minute readGetting startedThe first ninety minutes: what to teach a team before anything else
There's an order to this, and prompts are not first. Here's what ninety minutes should actually contain.
4 minute readPrivacy & policyFree tier, paid tier: why the same AI tool gives two different answers about your data
Most arguments about which AI tool is safer are really arguments about which account someone signed up for.
4 minute readPrivacy & policyYour team is already using AI. Here's how to find out without starting a witch hunt
The question isn't whether anyone is using it. It's whether you'll ever find out, and that depends entirely on how you ask.
4 minute readReading rather than enquiring? That's the idea.
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