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The AI Resource Hub. Everything I've built, in one place.

Field notes, prompt packs, assessments and tools from inside live AI engagements. Search the archive, or filter by kind.

2026.06.20SKILL-GUIDEFree AI courses with a certificate: what's free in 2026Not every 'free AI certificate' is free. A 2026 comparison of which AI courses certify you for free, which charge, and what it's worth to employers.7 min →
2026.06.20SKILL-GUIDEFree AI training in 2026: what's actually free (UK)A verified guide to free AI training in the UK for 2026: which courses are genuinely free, which give a free certificate, and where the trial traps hide.9 min →
2026.06.20SKILL-GUIDEFree AI training for charities and non-profits (UK, 2026)Free AI training built specifically for UK charities: what exists, what it covers, and how to make it stick without turning it into a project.6 min →
2026.06.20SKILL-GUIDEFree AI training from the UK government: is it any good?Free AI training from the UK government in 2026: the AI Skills Boost, the Skills Hub and Skills Bootcamps, who can access them, and whether they're worth it.6 min →
2026.06.20ESSAYHow to get good at AI with free courses: a plan, not a listFree AI training is everywhere. What's harder to find is a sequence that turns it into real, usable skill. Here's a concrete plan that works, mostly for free.6 min →
2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDEHow to use AI for meeting prep, notes and action itemsHow to use Claude or Copilot to draft a meeting agenda up front and turn a raw transcript into decisions, action items with owners and a follow-up email.4 min →
2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDEUsing AI for spreadsheets: formulas and quick analysisLearn how to use AI to write and explain Excel and Google Sheets formulas, clean messy data, and get quick analysis without having to remember every function.5 min →
2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDEBuild a first-draft slide deck with AILearn how to use AI to structure a slide deck narrative, write slide content, and generate talking points, so you can go from document to draft deck in minutes.4 min →
2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDEHow to draft customer and client replies with AILearn how to use Claude to draft accurate, on-tone customer replies and complaint responses, and build a reusable template library for common queries.5 min →
2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDEGet up to speed on any unfamiliar topic using AIHow to use AI to get up to speed on a new subject fast: pitch the question at the right level, build from orientation to nuance, and verify what you're told.5 min →
2026.06.19NEWSAI is splitting the labour market into two paths, PwC report findsPwC's 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer, from a billion job adverts, finds AI splitting the labour market in two and raising demand and pay for human skills.3 min →
2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDESummarise long documents, email threads and meetings with AIUse AI to pull decisions, action items and open questions out of long documents, email threads and meeting transcripts, and verify the output before you act.4 min →
2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDETurn messy notes into SOPs and process docs with AILearn how to use Claude to turn brain dumps, Slack threads and meeting transcripts into clear, structured SOPs and process docs your team can actually follow.5 min →
2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDEHow to use AI to pressure-test your ideas and decisionsLearn how to use Claude as a thinking partner to stress-test plans, find blind spots, and red-team the assumptions behind a decision before you commit to it.5 min →
2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDEWrite and debug scripts with AI (without being a developer)How to use AI to write, explain and debug PowerShell, Python, SQL and regex scripts for routine sysadmin and ops tasks, without knowing the syntax by heart.5 min →
2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDEHow to write and rewrite work emails with AILearn how to use Claude or Copilot to draft, rewrite and fix the tone of work emails, including the awkward ones, without it sounding like a chatbot wrote it.4 min →
2026.06.18SKILL-GUIDENEWSClaude Design's update is mostly about brand consistencyHow to use the June 2026 Claude Design update to keep your work on brand: design-system imports, a real design-to-code handoff, and lower token usage.5 min →
2026.06.16DEEP-DIVEWhat Anthropic's 235,000-user AI study means for your rolloutA detailed read of Anthropic's study of 235,000 Claude Code users, turned into concrete steps for a CEO: what to spend on, how to scale it, how to keep it safe.7 min →
2026.06.14NEWSUK commits £200m to AI adoption and skills at first summitThe UK government has committed more than £200m to AI adoption and skills at its first AI Adoption Summit, aiming to become the G7's fastest AI adopter.2 min →
2026.06.13NEWSAnthropic disables Fable 5, Mythos 5 after US export orderAnthropic has disabled its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all customers after a US export-control order barred access by foreign nationals.2 min →
2026.06.13ESSAYWhat twenty years in L&D brings to a 24-hour AI hackathonI've joined Hack-Nation's 6th Global AI Hackathon in July. Why an L&D background is an advantage in a room of engineers, and what I'm going there to learn.2 min →
2026.06.09COURSEAI Agents: a beginner's course for managers and team leadersA short, free course on AI agents and agentic AI for managers and team leaders: the clearest beginner explainers from IBM, with my notes on what each one means at work.81 min →
2026.06.08NEWSMicrosoft's Seven New AI Models: What Leaders Need to KnowMicrosoft just launched seven of its own AI models, from a frontier-class reasoner to a tiny coding model. Here's what it actually means for decision-makers.6 min →
2026.06.07COURSEAI Fluency: a working course for managers and team leadersA practical, video-led walk through Anthropic's AI Fluency framework, the four D's, with my take on what each one means for a team that has to use this on Monday.68 min →
2026.06.03TOOLThe Learning ROI CalculatorA calculator that turns your training costs and Kirkpatrick evaluation ratings into a defensible ROI figure for any learning programme, exportable as a PDF.open ↗
2026.06.03PROMPT-PACKThe AI Prompt Pack for Managers60 ready-to-use AI prompts for managers, across the six jobs that fill the week: performance, planning, communication, decisions, projects and stakeholders.open ↗
2026.06.03TEMPLATEThe Workshop Facilitator KitAn agenda generator and template kit for running workshops that work: pick the type, length and group size, and get a structured plan you can export and use.open ↗
2026.05.14ESSAY5 Organisational Competencies That Change How AI Gets UsedIf AI capability is a design problem, what are you designing? Five organisational competencies that determine whether AI fluency compounds or concentrates.8 min →
2026.05.07ESSAYWhat It Takes to Build AI Capability in an OrganisationTraining programmes alone don't build AI capability. The research points to the same answer: it's an organisational design problem, not a skills one.7 min →
2026.05.05CASE-STUDYSilver Cross: a career copilot for Learning at Work WeekHow I turned a generic Learn Copilot session for Silver Cross into a hands-on hour where every person built their own AI career development plan.open ↗
2026.04.25PROMPT-PACKThe Small Business AI Prompt PackOver 80 practical AI prompts for small business owners, covering the nine areas that eat your week: hiring, onboarding, operations, marketing and admin.open ↗
2026.04.21PROMPT-PACKThe L&D AI Prompt Pack130 prompts for learning and development teams who want to use AI well, organised around the 13 jobs L&D really does, from needs analysis to evaluation.open ↗
2026.04.16SKILL-GUIDEYour employees are already vibe coding. Now what?Your staff are shipping live apps without IT knowing. Security specialist Kit Barker explains what organisations should do before the blast radius expands.9 min →
2026.04.09SKILL-GUIDEVibe Coding for Non-Developers: Build a Working PrototypeNot where to start with AI tools: a practical answer to what you actually do when you've got something in your head and want to find out whether it's possible.13 min →
2026.04.02SKILL-GUIDEWhat vibe coding looks like when you have a mortgage to payNot the polished YouTube version. The version where you're 17,000 lines of code deep, six weeks in, not entirely sure this isn't a complete waste of time.13 min →
2026.03.19TOOLThe Feedback DilemmaAn interactive scenario that lets managers practise giving difficult feedback and see where it goes wrong, built on the Situation, Behaviour, Impact model.open ↗
2026.02.03ESSAYThe UK Government's AI Skills Hub: a £4.1m missThe UK Government's £4.1m AI Skills Hub mistakes a course library for capability. A review of where it fails, and what actually builds AI skills: practice, sequencing, design.3 min →
2026.01.27ESSAYWhy Microsoft Copilot Rollouts Stall at 20% AdoptionMicrosoft Copilot rollouts keep stalling near 20% adoption. The pattern is predictable, and it is not the tech: the missing piece is the adoption system around the tool.4 min →
2026.01.20ESSAYT-Shaped Skills: How to Future-Proof Your Career for AIEarly-career workers in AI-exposed roles are already seeing double-digit declines. A practical guide to a T-shaped career that can survive automation.10 min →
2026.01.15POST-MORTEMI Let AI Agents Run My Business for Two WeeksA hands-on review of an agentic AI platform across a consultancy. The gap between the promise of autonomous AI teams and what the technology can do.10 min →
2026.01.13ESSAYThe Age of Agentic AI: What It Means for Your JobThe shift from generative AI to agentic AI is moving technology from the passenger seat to the driver's seat. What that means for jobs and careers in 2026.7 min →
2026.01.08SKILL-GUIDEHow to Use AI to Set Better Team Goals with OKRsAI is great at generating goal ideas and terrible at helping you choose. Here is a process for using the OKR framework to turn AI chaos into a working strategy.6 min →
2026.01.06ESSAYThe Decline of the Knowledge WorkerWhite-collar roles that defined 'professional' careers for fifty years are now most exposed to AI disruption, while skilled trades boom. A structural shift.5 min →
2025.12.18SKILL-GUIDEHow to Use AI to Process Your Annual Performance ReviewMost people read their annual review for validation. Here is a Feedback Matrix and six AI prompts that turn vague performance feedback into self-knowledge.12 min →
2025.12.14ESSAYThe Year I Thought I Knew How Change WorkedTwenty years teaching change management, then 2025 forced me to actually live it. What I learned the hard way about adaptation, uncertainty, and being useful.6 min →
2025.12.11ESSAYHow I Make $500 an Hour Writing (And How You Can Too)I invoiced $520 for a 2,600-word article last week. Total time: under an hour. Here is the system that makes it possible, and why expertise is the whole point.7 min →
2025.11.25ESSAYCareer Optionality: How to Stop Depending on One EmployerOrganizational resilience training teaches you to absorb your employer's decisions. This framework helps you build capability and independence to make your own.8 min →
2025.11.20SKILL-GUIDEYour AI Shadow: How to Make Behavioral Change Actually StickMost coaching investment disappears in the gap between a good session and doing things differently. Here is a prompt-based system to close that gap.13 min →
2025.11.16ESSAYHow to Build Crappy ChatbotsWe're not failing at AI adoption because the tools are wrong. We're using them to make broken systems run faster. That's a different problem entirely.7 min →
2025.11.13SKILL-GUIDEHow to Make Your Best Work Visible to LeadershipDefensible capabilities only protect you if the right people know you have them. Here is a system for making your most valuable work visible before it matters.12 min →
2025.11.11SKILL-GUIDEThe AI Resilience Audit: Which Parts of Your Job Are Safe?A three-axis framework to assess which of your capabilities are genuinely safe from automation and which are already being evaluated for replacement.8 min →
2025.11.06ESSAYWhy Your Company Wants You to Be More ResilientResilience training shifts the cost of organizational change onto individuals. Here's what to do instead: map your dependencies and build a backup plan.4 min →
2025.11.04ESSAYWe Could Use AI to Make Everyone a GeniusAI is being sold as augmentation. But amplification, making people capable of things they couldn't do before, is the harder question nobody's asking.5 min →
2025.10.31POST-MORTEM10 Real-Life AI Horror Stories That Actually HappenedFrom a fabricated government report, ten real AI failures that happened in 2025, each revealing the same pattern: deploy first, ask questions later.6 min →
2025.10.29ESSAYHands-On with Firebase Studio, Google's Vibe Coding ToolI used Firebase Studio to build a storyboard generator mapped to Rise 360 blocks. What I learned says a lot about how to get useful output from AI coding tools.4 min →
2025.10.27SKILL-GUIDEHow to Create a Personal Development Plan with ChatGPTA step-by-step process for building a real, market-aligned 6-month PDP using ChatGPT: from job market research through gap analysis to a progress tracker.6 min →
2025.10.23ESSAYCan AI Make HR More Human?AI is already inside HR operations across the UK. The opportunity: using automation to free people professionals for the work that actually matters.5 min →
2025.10.23SKILL-GUIDEHow to Use AI for Your Own Professional DevelopmentAI is democratising the kind of strategic, personalised coaching once reserved for senior executives. Here's how to use it for your own career development.6 min →