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AI field guides for business

Practical guides on AI readiness, governance, the EU AI Act, security, and shipping, plus plain-spoken guides to the major AI assistants. Read them right here, or get the deep-dive PDFs by email.

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Which AI should you use?

A practical comparison of the major AI assistants and model families (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, the Copilots, and the open-weight models Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, and Qwen): what each is best at, what they cost, and how to choose.

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Long-form PDFs on AI readiness and prompt engineering. Read the excerpt here, and we'll email you the full guide.

Audit & Consulting · For teams · 12 min

AI Readiness Self-Audit

A 12-question audit covering data, security, ops, and product. Score yourself before you spend a dollar on AI.

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Build & Run · For you · 18 min

Prompt Engineering: First Principles

Stop copy-pasting tricks. Learn the four levers that make prompts actually work, and when to pull each.

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Training · For teams · 16 min

The EU AI Act: A Field Guide

What the EU AI Act actually requires, in plain language. Risk tiers, who's on the hook, and the deadlines that matter.

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Training · For teams · 14 min

AI Governance Starter Kit

The minimum governance to let your team use AI safely without drowning in policy: an acceptable-use policy, a RACI, and a use-case register.

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Audit & Consulting · For teams · 15 min

AI Use-Case Prioritization Playbook

Stop chasing the shiniest demo. A scoring framework to find the AI use case that's actually worth building first.

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Build & Run · For teams · 17 min

Production AI Security Checklist

The security checklist to clear before an AI feature touches real users: injection, data handling, tool guardrails, and logging.

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Build & Run · For you · 19 min

Ship Your First AI Feature

An end-to-end walkthrough from idea to shipped AI feature (scoping, prompt, evals, guardrails, and launch) without the hype.

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Build & Run · For teams · 18 min

Running AI in Production: A Handbook

Keeping an AI feature healthy after launch: monitoring, online evals, incident response, and handing the keys to the owning team.

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These guides get one person up to speed. When you want a whole team brought to a measured standard, with governance and the EU AI Act, that is the Training offer.

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AI guides for business · SDEN