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How an AI brain learns your judgement

An AI brain holds how you judge, and you decide what goes into it. How we build one, how it stays right and why it outlasts any model.

Longer read · Building · 26 September 2026 · 5 min readRead the idea

An AI system gets better at your work when every correction is kept with its reason

How do I make an AI system learn from our corrections over time?

Quick tip · Building · 24 September 2026Read the answer

People should decide what reaches the outside world, what cannot be undone and what sets the standard

What decisions should humans still make when AI can do most of the work?

Quick tip · For leaders · 21 September 2026Read the answer

Keep a company's judgement when senior people leave by recording its decisions and the reasons behind them

How do I stop my company's knowledge and judgement leaving when senior people leave?

Quick tip · For leaders · 18 September 2026Read the answer

Expertise becomes more valuable as AI improves, because judgement is the part AI cannot supply

Will AI make expertise less valuable in the future economy?

Quick tip · For leaders · 15 September 2026Read the answer

An AI brain starts from what your business already knows. A general assistant starts from zero every time

What does an AI brain do for a leadership team that a general AI assistant cannot?

Quick tip · Using AI · 12 September 2026Read the answer

Adtech can't compete on the model any more. Here's what is left to defend

How do adtech companies compete once AI can build targeting models without them?

Quick tip · Business choices · 8 September 2026Read the answer

An AI decision tool earns trust by holding your judgement, not by passing an audit

How do I evaluate whether an AI decision tool is trustworthy enough for my leadership team?

Quick tip · For leaders · 5 September 2026Read the answer

An AI center of excellence without an engineering budget is a governance function, not a team

How to build an AI center of excellence without a dedicated engineering budget?

Quick tip · Building · 1 September 2026Read the answer

Total addressable revenue for AI products in publishing: calculate it from your P&L, not a market report

How do I calculate the total addressable revenue opportunity for AI products in publishing?

Quick tip · Business choices · 26 August 2026Read the answer

The start cost: why good AI work gets deferred

Good ideas often stall because starting them takes too much effort. The right AI context can lower that cost.

Longer read · Building · 12 March 2026 · 4 min readRead the idea

Put AI inside clear business rules

A practical way to show what AI is for, what it may decide, how the work is checked and who owns the final call.

Longer read · For leaders · 15 January 2025 · 5 min readRead the idea

Use AI to see more without losing your taste

AI can widen the field. Your experience, judgement and taste still decide which idea deserves to move.

Longer read · For leaders · 15 January 2025 · 4 min readRead the idea

Four ways leaders can work better with AI

A practical way to use AI for first drafts, better checks, repeatable work and harder decisions.

Longer read · Using AI · 2 January 2025 · 4 min readRead the idea

Why practice changes more than a training day

Training can create interest. Practice with real work is what turns that interest into a useful habit.

Longer read · Building · 1 January 2025 · 4 min readRead the idea

Find the AI work already happening in your team

A calm way to learn what people use, protect what matters and keep the experiments that are genuinely useful.

Longer read · Business choices · 28 December 2024 · 4 min readRead the idea

How to tell whether AI work is paying back

A practical way to measure time returned, work improved and what that time makes possible next.

Longer read · Building · 25 December 2024 · 4 min readRead the idea

From one-off AI help to systems you can reuse

Simple AI help is useful. The larger gain comes when your context and standards make the next piece of work better too.

Longer read · Using AI · 20 December 2024 · 4 min readRead the idea

How to test an AI vendor before you commit

Five checks that turn a polished demo into a clearer product, data and contract decision.

Longer read · Business choices · 15 December 2024 · 5 min readRead the idea

A useful first 30 days of building with AI

A practical month for choosing real work, testing a small number of systems and keeping the evidence.

Longer read · Building · 10 December 2024 · 5 min readRead the idea

How an executive team can learn AI together

A practical way to build shared judgement around AI by working on one real decision together.

Longer read · For leaders · 5 December 2024 · 4 min readRead the idea