Plain-English guides to business automation and AI tools for UK small businesses, including pricing breakdowns and advice on when not to spend. Issues cover why automating bad processes fails, how AI assistants compare, and what automation platforms really cost.
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Josh Wickes writes practical, first-person accounts of building AI agents and automations, including a Teams knowledge agent, an automated briefing, and an auditable Codex memory system. Readers get design decisions, failure modes and the reasoning behind them.
Praxis CTO publishes multi-part series on technology leadership, currently covering how to find and automate toil with AI and how to oversee AI agents using management frameworks. Readers get structured, practical methods for deciding where AI should be applied and how much autonomy to give it.
A practitioner's build-in-public newsletter about running AI agents with human approval gates, drawing on the author's banking OTP background, and about managing Claude usage limits. Issues include real screenshots, concrete workflows and honest accounts of mistakes and reader feedback.
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