AI roadmap
Stop buying AI tools before you know the job
The average small business we meet is paying for four AI subscriptions and using one. The problem is not the tools. It is buying them without a job in mind.
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Scott-Ashley Whiteley
CEO, Blott
Scott-Ashley runs Blott. He spends most of his week with owners who have no IT department and no time for experiments, working out which job an agent should take first, what it is worth, and where the answer is not to automate at all. He writes here about the decisions that come before the build: where AI pays back, what an agent should never be trusted to do on its own, and why most tools get bought before anyone has named the job.
Articles by Scott-Ashley
AI roadmap
Where AI pays back first in a small business (and where it does not)
The jobs worth automating are rarely the visible ones. A simple way to score every repeatable task in the business by hours, pounds and risk, before you buy anything.
7 min readScott-Ashley Whiteley
Guardrails
Four things an AI agent should never do without asking
An agent that acts on your behalf is a new member of staff. The same rules apply: clear limits, supervision, and a record of everything it did.
5 min readScott-Ashley Whiteley