£3.7bn Lost to Missed Calls: Should a UK Small Business Hire an AI Receptionist?
£3.7 billion. That is what BT says UK small businesses lose in revenue every year because nobody picked up the phone. Whether or not…
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5x Cheaper: What OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol and dots Mean for a UK Small Business
OpenAI’s new GPT-6.1 Sol costs a fifth of what its flagship model costs, and OpenAI says it gets close to the same results on…
900,000 Installs Later: What UK Small Businesses Should Do Before Connecting AI to Their Books
900,000. That is how many times Anthropic’s Claude for Small Business plugin has been installed since May, according to Forbes’ report on the latest…
70% Abandon AI That Forgets Them: How We Set Up Claude Projects So Ours Doesn’t
70% of people have walked away from an AI chat mid-conversation because it did not remember something they had already told it. That is…
AI Scam Reports Are Up 395%. The Typo Test Won’t Save You.
Reports of AI-linked fraud in the UK rose 395% in a single year. That is nearly five times as many, and the reason is…
Six Questions to Ask Before You Buy Any AI Tool
We get shown a lot of AI tools. Founders forward us the ones that caught their eye, vendors pitch us directly, and almost every…
OpenAI Just Halved Its AI Prices. Here’s Why Your Software Bill Won’t Follow.
On Tuesday OpenAI cut the price of its API roughly in half. We watched the announcement expecting it to translate straight into cheaper AI…
44% of UK Small Businesses Know About Agentic AI. Only 5% Use It
Everyone has heard of agentic AI. Almost nobody is using it. New research from the Small Business Institute and Accio, surveying 1,000 UK small…
UK AI Use Has Tripled. Most Businesses Still Only Use One Tool.
If you run a small business, you need to see this. UK businesses have tripled their use of AI in under three years, and…
AI Is Already Shopping For Your Customers: What UK Small Businesses Need to Do Before Christmas
AI is already shopping for your customers If you sell anything, online or on the high street, you need to see this before Christmas…
Companies House ID Verification Is Live. So Are the Scammers Copying It.
Every director of a UK company now has a legal deadline attached to their own identity, and most have never heard of it. Companies…
A Third of UK Firms Already Use ‘Bossware’. The Government Just Opened a Consultation on It.
If you run a small business, you need to see this: the government has opened a consultation on the AI tools that watch your…
