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AI deep research usually hands you 3,000 words you won't read, with citations nobody checks, and runs the most expensive model for the whole job. So I built an open-source skill for Claude Code and Codex that searches three providers, labels every claim, and delivers a short brief with a separate evidence file.
The format you hand to AI, and the format you ask it to make, changes how much work it does. Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDF files cost far more tokens than plain text. A few simple habits cut your usage, your bill and your energy footprint.
The new AI Check is a free assessment for anyone starting with AI or stuck with it, whether that's you on your own or a whole business. It tries to help first, with consultancy as one route if you want more support.
We built a free, five-minute check that tells a business where it stands with AI, what stood out in its answers, and what to do next. This is an honest account of what it does, what it doesn't, and why it will sometimes tell you AI isn't the answer.
The newest Claude models are capable and exhausting to read in equal measure. Two pieces of copy and paste text, a global ASD-STE100 rule and a set of anti-slop directives, strip the waffle out and save tokens while they do it.
There is no shortage of AI training out there, but most of it is either priced like a luxury, too basic, or too advanced. Prompting Path is our answer: a friendly, self-paced course that works like a couch to 5K for AI, with Days 0 to 8 free and the rest a one-off payment.
AI can produce three polished drafts of anything in seconds. What it cannot do is tell you which one is right for this client, this history, this relationship. That call is becoming the real skill of the AI era, and workplace AI training rarely touches it.
For most of our careers, professional development had a finish line: get the qualification, learn the system, master the workflow, then coast on it for years. AI is nudging that finish line further into the distance every few months. Keeping up is tricky.
The gap between the lightest and heaviest AI models is not 15 percent, it is five to ten times the processing and energy for the same question. Reaching for the most powerful model every time is the most common and most expensive mistake people make. It is also a responsible AI decision hiding in plain sight.
The 2026 World Cup is 48 teams, 104 fixtures, and three host nations. My teenage son wanted to follow it properly. I make things with AI for a living. So we built a tracker. This is how we did it, what surprised us, and what it felt like to watch the opener on a site we had made ourselves.
Claude Code and Codex are wired to one model by default, and switching normally means editing JSON, TOML and environment variables by hand. So we built a small menu-bar app that does it in one click. Here is what it does, how it works, and why lowering the cost of switching matters more than it looks.
Everyone's worried about robots taking jobs or a rogue superintelligence. But the genuinely disruptive changes are already happening, more quietly and much closer to home. A lecture by Princeton sociologist Zeynep Tufekci at King's College London made that case compellingly.
People assume an AI advisor must run a vast, exotic stack of tools. Ours is small, it changes constantly, and most of what passes through it gets dropped. We built a live Cowork dashboard to make that honest, and the thinking behind it matters more than the dashboard.
Most people using Claude Cowork are quietly burning tokens they don't need to. This is a practical guide to the habits, settings, and advanced moves that make a real difference, without turning AI into a full-time job to manage.
A relaxed walk through the stack and workflow behind futureformed.io. Claude, Cowork, GitHub, Vercel, Buttondown, Substack and a Next.js codebase wired together so the site can be updated in plain English. Honest on the trade-offs and on when DIY is the wrong call.
Most of us have no idea how much energy our AI usage consumes. AI Wattch is a browser extension that makes that invisible impact visible, in real time, without sending your data anywhere. It is a small tool with a genuinely useful nudge built in.
AI chatbots were the first budget line most organisations noticed. Agents will be the next, and this one will be harder to manage. When agentic workflows spread across a business, cost stops being a fixed subscription and becomes something you have to actively govern.
Most AI tools are built for capability, not efficiency. GreenPT is a rare exception: a purpose-built AI platform that runs on renewable energy, uses models optimised to consume 20-30% less energy than standard LLMs, and is honest about its footprint. It deserves more attention than it's getting.
Most businesses have a continuity plan for power outages, key people leaving, and server failures. But how many have a plan for the day their preferred AI provider goes down, hikes prices, or changes direction? That gap is becoming a real problem.
Running too many AI pilots with no clear success criteria is quietly killing your AI strategy. Here's why you should run multiple cheap experiments, but kill them fast and hard if they don't deliver.
Thinking about migrating from ChatGPT to Claude? It takes about 30 to 60 minutes, spread across a day or two. This is a step-by-step guide to exporting your history, extracting your context, and importing it into Claude so you pick up where you left off.
Every organisation is buying AI tools. Far fewer are thinking about who (or what) is going to coordinate them. The AI orchestrator is the most important role in modern AI adoption, and most businesses haven't got one.
Most businesses focus on which AI tools to buy and how much they'll save. But the real question, what would your people do with their time if AI handled the boring stuff, is being left unanswered. The time dividend is real, but only valuable if you're deliberate about where it goes.
Handing out AI subscriptions isn't AI transformation. It's procurement. The distinction matters enormously. AI is reshaping how decisions get made and how work gets done, and the companies that treat it as an app to bolt on will end up exactly where they started.
The UK government's new AI Skills Hub offers hundreds of learning modules, but the sheer volume can be paralysing. The real key to AI education is simpler than you think: start by using it, then find structured support to go further.
By the time leadership has decided it's time to think seriously about AI, the staff have already started. Studies put the proportion of employees using unsanctioned AI tools at 20–30%. The instinct is to treat this as a governance problem. That instinct misses the signal.
Some AI pilots succeed. Most AI programmes don't. The gap between them is rarely in the technology. It's in whether the people who need to use it actually do. This is a change management failure, and it is remarkably common.
When someone comes to us for help with their AI strategy, the first question we ask is a simple one: what problem are you trying to solve? The answer tells us almost everything we need to know, including, sometimes, that AI isn't the right answer at all.
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AI transparency: The articles on this page are written by Liam D. Each post includes its own disclosure where relevant.
