// AI Resource Hub
Everything I've built, organised so you can actually find it.
Field notes, prompt packs, guides and tools from inside live AI engagements. Not sure where to start? Pick a path below. Know what you want? Search the archive.
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New to AI at work
Start from zero. The handful of things worth knowing before you touch a tool, in the right order.
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Licences bought, nobody using them
The adoption playbook. Why teams stall on the human side, and the moves that get people actually using it.
Open the path → - 033 resources · ~155 min
Find free training that's good
The genuinely good, genuinely free training. Start with the two courses I curated, then a plan to turn them into real skill.
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- 2026.07.03DEEP-DIVE
Why I won't be using Fable 5, and why you shouldn't either
Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's most capable model and its most expensive. I repriced 3 billion tokens of my agent usage to see what the premium actually buys.
# News & analysis10 min → - 2026.07.01DEEP-DIVE
Claude Sonnet 5 review: what it gets right, and where it slips
A hands-on review of Claude Sonnet 5 against GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro and Sonnet 4.6: real work tasks, real outputs, and the error only the old model missed.
# News & analysis9 min → - 2026.06.26NEWS
US clears Anthropic's Mythos 5 for use by more than 100 agencies and companies
The US has cleared Anthropic to offer Claude Mythos 5 to more than 100 agencies and companies, partly reversing June's ban. Fable 5 stays restricted.
# News & analysis2 min → - 2026.06.26ANALYSIS
GLM 5.2 beat Claude at web design. The leaderboard is the least interesting thing about it.
GLM 5.2, a cheap open Chinese model, topped a design leaderboard and its CEO vowed to catch Anthropic by 2027. The real story is capable AI getting cheap, fast.
# News & analysis5 min → - 2026.06.25SKILL-GUIDE
How I keep track of dozens of conversations without taking a single note
The AI meeting-transcription workflow I use to turn dozens of calls into a searchable second brain: how the loop works, its limits, and how to set up your own.
# Using AI daily5 min → - 2026.06.23DEEP-DIVE
The AI RAM crisis: why the Steam Machine, phones and PCs cost more
A deep dive into the 2026 memory shortage: why the new Steam Machine, phones and PCs cost more, how AI data centres caused the RAM crisis, and when it eases.
# News & analysis10 min → - 2026.06.20SKILL-GUIDE
Free AI courses with a certificate: what's free in 2026
Not 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.
# Free training7 min → - 2026.06.20SKILL-GUIDE
Free 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.
# Free training9 min → - 2026.06.20SKILL-GUIDE
Free 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.
# Free training6 min → - 2026.06.20SKILL-GUIDE
Free 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.
# Free training6 min → - 2026.06.20ESSAY
How to get good at AI with free courses: a plan, not a list
Free 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.
# Free training6 min → - 2026.06.20SKILL-GUIDE
How to use AI at work: ten things worth doing, and how to do them well
How to use AI at work: the ten most useful jobs to hand it, how to do each well and safely, and the one habit that turns it into productivity, not workslop.
# Using AI daily4 min → - 2026.06.20NEWS
Half of London firms say their workforce lacks the skills for AI, survey finds
A Survation survey for BusinessLDN found half of London firms say their workforce lacks the skills for the age of AI, with significant gaps at a record high.
# News & analysis2 min → - 2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDE
How to use AI for meeting prep, notes and action items
How 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.
# Using AI daily4 min → - 2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDE
Using AI for spreadsheets: formulas and quick analysis
Learn 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.
# Using AI daily5 min → - 2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDE
Build a first-draft slide deck with AI
Learn 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.
# Using AI daily4 min → - 2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDE
How to draft customer and client replies with AI
Learn how to use Claude to draft accurate, on-tone customer replies and complaint responses, and build a reusable template library for common queries.
# Using AI daily5 min → - 2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDE
Get up to speed on any unfamiliar topic using AI
How 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.
# Using AI daily5 min → - 2026.06.19NEWS
AI is splitting the labour market into two paths, PwC report finds
PwC'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.
# News & analysis3 min → - 2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDE
Summarise long documents, email threads and meetings with AI
Use 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.
# Using AI daily4 min → - 2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDE
Turn messy notes into SOPs and process docs with AI
Learn 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.
# Using AI daily5 min → - 2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDE
How to use AI to pressure-test your ideas and decisions
Learn 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.
# Using AI daily5 min → - 2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDE
Write 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.
# Using AI daily5 min → - 2026.06.19SKILL-GUIDE
How to write and rewrite work emails with AI
Learn 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.
# Using AI daily4 min → - 2026.06.18SKILL-GUIDE
Claude Design's update is mostly about brand consistency
How 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.
# Using AI daily5 min → - 2026.06.16DEEP-DIVE
What Anthropic's 235,000-user AI study means for your rollout
A 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.
# News & analysis7 min → - 2026.06.14NEWS
UK commits £200m to AI adoption and skills at first summit
The 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.
# News & analysis2 min → - 2026.06.13NEWS
Anthropic disables Fable 5, Mythos 5 after US export order
Anthropic 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.
# News & analysis3 min → - 2026.06.13ESSAY
What twenty years in L&D brings to a 24-hour AI hackathon
I'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.
# Adoption & change2 min → - 2026.06.09COURSE
AI Agents: a beginner's course for managers and team leaders
A 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.
# Using AI daily81 min → - 2026.06.08NEWS
Microsoft's Seven New AI Models: What Leaders Need to Know
Microsoft 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.
# News & analysis6 min → - 2026.06.07COURSE
AI Fluency: a working course for managers and team leaders
A 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.
# Using AI daily68 min → - 2026.06.03TOOL
The Learning ROI Calculator
A calculator that turns your training costs and Kirkpatrick evaluation ratings into a defensible ROI figure for any learning programme, exportable as a PDF.
# Tools & promptsopen ↗ - 2026.06.03PROMPT-PACK
The AI Prompt Pack for Managers
60 ready-to-use AI prompts for managers, across the six jobs that fill the week: performance, planning, communication, decisions, projects and stakeholders.
# Tools & promptsopen ↗ - 2026.06.03TEMPLATE
The Workshop Facilitator Kit
An 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.
# Tools & promptsopen ↗ - 2026.05.14ANALYSIS
5 Organisational Competencies That Change How AI Gets Used
If AI capability is a design problem, what are you designing? Five organisational competencies that determine whether AI fluency compounds or concentrates.
# Adoption & change8 min → - 2026.05.07ANALYSIS
What It Takes to Build AI Capability in an Organisation
Training programmes alone don't build AI capability. The research points to the same answer: it's an organisational design problem, not a skills one.
# Adoption & change7 min → - 2026.05.05CASE-STUDY
Silver Cross: a career copilot for Learning at Work Week
How 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.
# Adoption & changeopen ↗ - 2026.04.25PROMPT-PACK
The Small Business AI Prompt Pack
Over 80 practical AI prompts for small business owners, covering the nine areas that eat your week: hiring, onboarding, operations, marketing and admin.
# Tools & promptsopen ↗ - 2026.04.21PROMPT-PACK
The L&D AI Prompt Pack
130 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.
# Tools & promptsopen ↗ - 2026.04.16SKILL-GUIDE
Your 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.
# Using AI daily9 min → - 2026.04.09SKILL-GUIDE
Vibe Coding for Non-Developers: Build a Working Prototype
Not 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.
# Using AI daily13 min → - 2026.04.02SKILL-GUIDE
What vibe coding looks like when you have a mortgage to pay
Not 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.
# Using AI daily13 min → - 2026.03.19TOOL
The Feedback Dilemma
An interactive scenario that lets managers practise giving difficult feedback and see where it goes wrong, built on the Situation, Behaviour, Impact model.
# Tools & promptsopen ↗ - 2026.02.03ANALYSIS
The UK Government's AI Skills Hub: a £4.1m miss
The 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.
# Free training3 min → - 2026.01.27ANALYSIS
Why Microsoft Copilot Rollouts Stall at 20% Adoption
Microsoft 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.
# Adoption & change4 min → - 2026.01.20ESSAY
T-Shaped Skills: How to Future-Proof Your Career for AI
Early-career workers in AI-exposed roles are already seeing double-digit declines. A practical guide to a T-shaped career that can survive automation.
# Adoption & change10 min → - 2026.01.15POST-MORTEM
I Let AI Agents Run My Business for Two Weeks
A 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.
# Adoption & change10 min → - 2026.01.13ANALYSIS
The Age of Agentic AI: What It Means for Your Job
The 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.
# News & analysis7 min → - 2026.01.08SKILL-GUIDE
How to Use AI to Set Better Team Goals with OKRs
AI 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.
# Adoption & change6 min → - 2026.01.06ANALYSIS
The Decline of the Knowledge Worker
White-collar roles that defined 'professional' careers for fifty years are now most exposed to AI disruption, while skilled trades boom. A structural shift.
# Adoption & change5 min → - 2025.12.18SKILL-GUIDE
How to Use AI to Process Your Annual Performance Review
Most people read their annual review for validation. Here is a Feedback Matrix and six AI prompts that turn vague performance feedback into self-knowledge.
# Adoption & change12 min → - 2025.12.14ESSAY
The Year I Thought I Knew How Change Worked
Twenty years teaching change management, then 2025 forced me to actually live it. What I learned the hard way about adaptation, uncertainty, and being useful.
# Adoption & change6 min → - 2025.12.11ESSAY
How 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.
# Using AI daily7 min → - 2025.11.25ESSAY
Career Optionality: How to Stop Depending on One Employer
Organizational resilience training teaches you to absorb your employer's decisions. This framework helps you build capability and independence to make your own.
# Adoption & change8 min → - 2025.11.20SKILL-GUIDE
Your AI Shadow: How to Make Behavioral Change Actually Stick
Most coaching investment disappears in the gap between a good session and doing things differently. Here is a prompt-based system to close that gap.
# Adoption & change13 min → - 2025.11.16ESSAY
How to Build Crappy Chatbots
We'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.
# Adoption & change7 min → - 2025.11.13SKILL-GUIDE
How to Make Your Best Work Visible to Leadership
Defensible 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.
# Adoption & change12 min → - 2025.11.11SKILL-GUIDE
The 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.
# Adoption & change8 min → - 2025.11.06ESSAY
Why Your Company Wants You to Be More Resilient
Resilience training shifts the cost of organizational change onto individuals. Here's what to do instead: map your dependencies and build a backup plan.
# Adoption & change4 min → - 2025.11.04ANALYSIS
We Could Use AI to Make Everyone a Genius
AI is being sold as augmentation. But amplification, making people capable of things they couldn't do before, is the harder question nobody's asking.
# News & analysis5 min → - 2025.10.31POST-MORTEM
10 Real-Life AI Horror Stories That Actually Happened
From a fabricated government report, ten real AI failures that happened in 2025, each revealing the same pattern: deploy first, ask questions later.
# Adoption & change6 min → - 2025.10.29ANALYSIS
Hands-On with Firebase Studio, Google's Vibe Coding Tool
I 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.
# News & analysis4 min → - 2025.10.27SKILL-GUIDE
How to Create a Personal Development Plan with ChatGPT
A 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.
# Using AI daily6 min → - 2025.10.23ANALYSIS
Can 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.
# Adoption & change5 min → - 2025.10.23SKILL-GUIDE
How to Use AI for Your Own Professional Development
AI is democratising the kind of strategic, personalised coaching once reserved for senior executives. Here's how to use it for your own career development.
# Adoption & change6 min →