One thing worth your time

Free Ai training, already paid for

The government runs a free training offer called AI Skills Boost, open to any UK adult and focused right now on smaller firms, where Ai use lags behind bigger organisations. The courses are built by Google, Microsoft and Amazon among others, and checked against a national skills benchmark. They run from twenty minutes to a day. Pick one that matches a job you actually do. There is a badge at the end if you want one.

→ The AI Skills Hub

One prompt to try

Tell customers your prices are going up

A price rise is the message owners rewrite five times and still send late. The wording is the hard part, not the decision. Give the Ai the facts and let it hold the tone.

Write a short note telling my customers my prices are going up.
I run [type of business]. Prices go from [old price] to [new price] on [date].
The reason, in plain terms: [reason]. Most have been with me [how long].
Tone: warm, straight, no apology and no waffle. Under 150 words.
Then give me two lines to say if someone pushes back.

Send it early. A date people can plan for lands better than a surprise.

One thing to ignore

Letting an Ai browser loose in your accounts

The pitch of the moment is a browser that does the job for you: book the travel, fill the form, chase the order. Reading and summarising, fine. Signed into your bank or your email, no. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre said last December that these attacks, where instructions hidden inside a web page hijack your Ai, may never be fully fixed. Do the clicking yourself.