# Useful AI. Real business questions.

> Insights. Ideas, practical explanations and business stories for owners working out where AI fits.

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## Latest articles

- [Claude Now Messages You First. What UK Small Businesses Can Do Before It Arrives](https://kaizenaiconsulting.com/claude-duet-messages-you-first-uk/) (22 October 2026): Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, an AI assistant that comes to you with what needs attention and asks before it acts. It is US-only for now. We set out three…
- [Chinese AI Models Cost Up to 17x Less. UK Firms Should Check This First](https://kaizenaiconsulting.com/open-weight-ai-models-cost-uk-data-catch/) (21 October 2026): Open-weight AI models such as DeepSeek are listed at roughly 7 to 17 times less per token than Claude Sonnet 5. Cheaper does not mean safer for UK firms, because…
- [ChatGPT Ads Start From £15 a Day in the UK. Should a Small Business Try Them?](https://kaizenaiconsulting.com/chatgpt-ads-15-a-day-uk-small-business/) (20 October 2026): ChatGPT now sells adverts to UK businesses, reportedly from a £15 minimum daily budget. Early click rates look low next to search, so we would treat it as a capped…
- [ChatGPT Can Now Fill In Forms From Your Open Chrome Tabs. Check This First.](https://kaizenaiconsulting.com/chatgpt-chrome-tabs-fill-forms-check-first/) (19 October 2026): ChatGPT's Chrome extension can now read your open tabs and, in Work mode, fill in forms and send messages with your permission. Handy for admin, risky if it sits inside…
- [ChatGPT Now Builds Slide Decks Your Team Can Edit Together. Here Is What to Test First](https://kaizenaiconsulting.com/chatgpt-slides-small-business-decks/) (17 October 2026): ChatGPT can now build a slide deck from a conversation, and your team can edit it together. We cover what it does, the catch on who can use it, and…
- [We Automated Our Own Daily Posting for About £58 a Month](https://kaizenaiconsulting.com/automated-our-own-content-routine/) (16 October 2026): We run our own daily content routine for about £58 a month in tools. It researches, drafts and builds each post, then waits for a person to approve it. It…
- [Claude Can Build Your Quote Calculator. Here Are 5 Tools to Ask It For](https://kaizenaiconsulting.com/claude-build-quote-calculator-business-tools/) (15 October 2026): Claude can build working calculators, forms and charts inside the chat. We list five tools a small business can ask for first, from a quote calculator to a 12-week cash…
- [Only 23% of UK Small Firms Check the AI They Build. Do You?](https://kaizenaiconsulting.com/uk-small-firms-ai-review-gap/) (14 October 2026): Only 23% of UK small businesses that build their own AI tools formally review them, the lowest of four countries in Pax8's new survey. Our four-step checklist takes an afternoon…
- [Connect Your AI to Your Business Tools, But Check These 5 Things First](https://kaizenaiconsulting.com/connect-ai-business-tools-mcp-checklist/) (12 October 2026): MCP lets Claude and ChatGPT plug into your calendar, files and accounts. It is useful, but a public registry census counted 21,643 servers and the NSA says adoption has outpaced…
- [Claude Haiku 5.5 Is Up to 90% Cheaper. Here Is the Catch.](https://kaizenaiconsulting.com/claude-haiku-5-5-cheaper-catch/) (11 October 2026): Claude Haiku 5.5 launched on 7 October at up to 90% less than Haiku 4.5. The cheap rate only covers prompts under 100,000 tokens, and the new tokenizer counts about…
- [A Third of UK Firms Use AI, but Only 1 in 10 of Them Use It a Lot](https://kaizenaiconsulting.com/uk-ai-adoption-wide-not-deep-ons/) (10 October 2026): A third of UK firms with ten or more staff now use AI, but the ONS says only 10% of those use it extensively. Here is what the figures show…
- [53% of British CIOs Have Watched an AI Agent Break Company Policy. Here Is What a Small Business Should Do First](https://kaizenaiconsulting.com/ai-agents-going-rogue-uk-openai-astra/) (6 October 2026): 53% of British CIOs have watched an AI agent break company policy and hurt the business or a customer. The global average in the same survey is 31%. Last week…