Resources

Practical tools, minus the jargon.

Free, hands-on resources to help small and medium-sized businesses adopt AI and modern technology with confidence — and without needing an in-house IT team.

Free tool · AI governance

Build your own AI policy

The ICO publishes the AI policy it holds its own staff to. It runs to 30 pages and most of it will not apply to you. Answer thirteen plain questions and build the version that does, with a note on what each clause actually commits you to.

Build your policy

Framework · Prompting

CRIT, a four-part prompt worth stealing

Context, Role, Interview, Task. The simplest prompting framework worth having, including the one line most people add that quietly makes answers worse, a real worked example drafting a retainer, and the review step to finish.

Read the framework

Explainer · Understanding AI

What AI thinking actually means

Everyone says the AI is thinking about it, and almost nobody stops to ask what that means. Here is what is actually happening before it answers you, why a longer think gives you a better answer but not a true one, and why it is not a control you can put in front of a regulator.

Read the explainer

Findings · AI Chat series

How companies are actually using AI

A month of candid, anonymised conversations with senior and founder-level people about how they really adopt and govern AI — where adoption actually is, what they make of regulation, and the quieter question of handing off judgment. Read it here or download the two-pager.

Read the findings

Guide + free self-check

AI Management Essentials

The UK government's AI governance framework, explained in plain English — its 10 stages and what they mean for a smaller business — plus a free interactive self-check that scores you and gives tailored next steps.

Explore the guide

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