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AI in practice
Copilot, Claude, agents and MCP, tried on real work rather than demos.
Do You Need an AI Policy? A One-Page Template for a Small Business
Yes, and it can fit on one page. Your staff are almost certainly using AI tools at work already, so the policy's job is to give them a safe, approved way to do it: which tools, what never goes in, who checks the output, and who owns the page. Here's a ten-section template with wording you can adopt, and a two-week plan to roll it out.
Data Decoded Manchester: one slide, six systems, 100% live demo
My first Data Decoded. One slide, then a fully live demo: Claude built a board-level Power BI report across six systems through Tugger.
Is Microsoft 365 Copilot Worth It for a Business Your Size?
Microsoft 365 Copilot is worth it for the people who spend their day in Outlook, Teams, Word and Excel, once your file sharing and permissions are tidy. It isn't worth buying for everyone at once. Start with the free Copilot Chat, license your heaviest users on Copilot Business (£16.10 per user per month paid yearly, ex VAT, as of September 2026), and measure before you buy more.
ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot: Which Should Your Business Pay For?
If your business runs on Microsoft 365, start with Copilot: it works inside your files and respects the permissions you already have. If it doesn't, ChatGPT Business and Claude Team are strong general assistants at similar prices. Either way, buy a business plan, never a personal one, and check what your data looks like before you trust its answers.
What Makes a Power BI Model AI-Ready?
Copilot answers from your model's definitions, not from your data. If your tables are called Query1 and you have four measures that all mean revenue, AI will answer confidently and wrongly. Getting ready is mostly naming, descriptions and deciding what things mean.
I raced an AI in Budapest, and it fell over on colour
Shift+Enter Summit, 4 September, Budapest. I built a dashboard live in 45 minutes while an AI built one from the same brief on the same clock. It got the numbers right and the reading wrong.
Should You Replace Power BI with an AI-Built Dashboard?
A CEO sees an AI-built dashboard, calls it stunning, and asks why you still pay for Power BI. It happened on r/PowerBI this week and it is coming to a meeting near you. What the demo is not showing, when a web app genuinely wins, and what to say in that meeting.
Top Tools for Power Platform Professionals in 2026
A practical 2026 list of Power Platform tools worth knowing across Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Dynamics 365, Copilot Studio, learning resources and AI.
I Asked AI for a Website. It Built a Cathedral.
When Claude Fable dropped, everyone built the same landing page. I asked it for a living cathedral instead — where the floor is data quality, the pillars are revenue, and your decisions crack the foundations while you watch. Here's what it built, what broke, and why the idea still matters more than the tool.
Power BI Is Becoming an AI Job, One Announcement at a Time
Five Power BI and Fabric announcements landed in one week. Taken together, they reveal a job shifting from building reports to directing agents, governing semantic layers, and knowing when the confident answer is wrong.
Three Tools, One Question: Which AI Actually Does Your Job?
The big three AI generalists aren't competing to be best — they've split the map. Claude for careful building, GPT for the broadest toolbox, Gemini for mountains of context. Here's what I actually reach for in mid-2026, where each one falls flat, and the niche players worth knowing. Don't marry a model. Marry the job.
Building a Power BI report without opening Desktop
I built a three-page Power BI report through Claude Code, Figma MCP, powerbi-modeling-mcp, and pbi-cli without opening Desktop until validation. This is the honest pipeline and the twelve things that went wrong.
How I Built a LinkedIn Analytics Dashboard with Claude Code (and Open-Sourced It)
LinkedIn gives you 90 days of analytics. I wanted more. So I built a dashboard that combines the official export with an Apify scrape to show content format performance, day-of-week patterns, post quadrants, and full audience demographics — then open-sourced it as a Claude Code skill.
Is Your Power BI Data Ready for Copilot? Ask It Thirty Questions First
Copilot does not fix a semantic model, it inherits one. Thirty real business questions with verified answers turns AI readiness from an opinion into a pass rate you can watch move, and surfaces the capacity cost before the bill does.
My AI Adoption Was Immediate. Except in Power BI.
I was an early AI adopter everywhere — except in Power BI, my actual job. Here's why AI can read your data, but still can't tell you why the numbers are wrong.
SaaS Is Dead for Small Businesses but Surging for Enterprises
Vibe coding isn't replacing enterprise software — it's filling the gap for small businesses who can't afford £8k ticketing systems. Here's why the distinction matters.
Steal My Website
Fork it. Clone it. Break it. Make it yours. Here's how I built my site and how you can steal it.
Claude Code Has Changed My Life
Claude Code, creativity, speed, and the reality of turning ideas into production in hours, not months.