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Practical guides

Practical guides.

Step-by-step methods you can follow in your own business.

Each one was tested on real work before it was published.

  1. 01AI alone isn’t enough. It stands on four pillars.

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AI alone isn’t enough. It stands on four pillars.

Data, process, training and change management. A look at each one, on one of your own processes, before you count on AI.

Read the guide: AI alone isn’t enough. It stands on four pillars.

You leave with

4 pillars

to look at before you count on AI

A two-page worksheet: your four pillars rated on one real process, and the one to shore up first.

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Test one task before automating it.

Practical guide · In progress

Pick one recurring frustration, try a small change, and count the checking and corrections too. Keep what makes the whole job easier.

What it will include: a one-page trial sheet for how the task works today, the change you’re trying, what you noticed, the exceptions and what you decided.

Thinking of automating a task? Ask me how I’d test it first. Ask a question 

Where the guides come from

Start with a field note.

Field notes share what happened in real work. Practical guides will turn a useful method into steps you can try in your own business.

All field notes 

A good question is a place to start

How did this become your full-time job?

The chasing, the checking, the keeping-it-all-in-your-head. Probably not what you had in mind when you started. Let’s see what we can take off your plate.

  1. 1Write a few lines.A few words are enough to start. You don’t need a finished brief.
  2. 2I read it and reply personally by email.
  3. 3We find a time to talk from there.We agree on length and price before starting.

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