Picture the scene. A client marches into their solicitor's office clutching twelve pages of "research" their chatbot produced at 2am, complete with three case citations that do not exist and a legal theory that would make a first year paralegal wince. The lawyer now has to read it, fact check it, gently explain why Article 47(b) is not real, and then do the actual legal work anyway. Welcome to the new billable hour: AI Homework Marking. The post that started it On a small b

Every business meeting makes noise. Record it and hand it to AI, and that noise turns into insight, a lighter note taking load, and maybe even a gentle nudge to stop saying "like" quite so much. The real cost of business meetings Knowledge workers sit through 15 to 31 meetings a week, and 71% of senior leaders admit most of them go nowhere. Nationally that works out at roughly 399 billion US dollars a year, about 24 billion lost person hours, and around 25,000 US dollars pe

Construction has never suffered from a shortage of information, if anything it suffers from the opposite. Every project generates a mountain of drawings, RFIs, site reports, emails, meeting minutes, change requests, programmes and compliance records. The challenge isn't creating documentation anymore. It's finding the right piece of information before it becomes tomorrow's problem. That's why most of the exciting headlines about AI miss the point. Construction doesn't nee

Q4 is here and it’s changing conversations (if it’s not, well it should be) Often experiments become business cases and the ideas that follow become budgets. Then the questions shifts from “what could AI Do?” to “What are we actually going to invest in?”. According to Deloitte’s 2026 financial trends research, 23% of finance leaders prioritising AI and advanced technology for FY2027. Meanwhile, 54% are involved in enterprise AI and technology, capital allocation, while

Most bid teams treat the RFP response as a paperwork exercise: assemble the boilerplate, answer every question, hit send. But evaluators don't read that way, and neither does revenue. Procurement research on how evaluators actually work shows a consistent pattern: reviewers sort proposals into a "keep reading" pile or a "reject" pile within the first pages, often the executive summary alone. Busy evaluators read only as much as they need to make that call. If your opening p

Scroll LinkedIn and you'll find plenty of neat four-step diagrams: Idea. Prototype. Integrate. Deploy They look great, it's easy to look at, digest and believe however, just aren't how AI transformation actually happens. What actually stands between an idea and something in production isn't a step. It's four much harder, much less photogenic things. None of them fit neatly into a box, and none of them are optional. The part most AI projects skip Most AI projects start with a

A new era of consultancy has arrived, powered by AI. On our latest engagement, the best design document we produced was never typed, it was spoken. We have just delivered a proof of value for a client operating in a complex, regulated construction environment: an agent that automates the monthly financial review of a major capital programme. Hundreds of live projects, a manual review taking days, and the projects that genuinely needed attention buried deep in spreadsheets. H

AI is now better than checking documents, contracts, proposals and other similar work than you and me. (Good. I never liked doing reviews anyway.) This AI advantage only increases at scale. It can deliver the same level of service 24/7 at a lower cost than you. How many times have you seen stuff leave your organisation and then been horrified to find out what was sent to your customer. Best case is a poor brand impact; worst case is commercial and legal risk. We've built an a

AI only re-uses things that are out there. It's not creative. It can't cope with the demands of a complex ideation process. The history of human creativity is stuffed with so much re-use, it's quite a comical view to adopt. From Bridget Jones's Diary, a copy of Jane Austen, to Roger Sanchez sampling one verse from a 70s song from legendary Toto, the world is full of slightly tweaked copies. There are only so many words, notes and pixel colour values. Creativity is not desirab