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.
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.
Compare them all →Claude
Anthropic's assistant, known for careful reasoning, strong writing, and the best end-to-end coding experience of the major chatbots.
Read the guide →OpenAI · 9 minChatGPT
OpenAI's assistant and the most widely used chatbot, a generalist with the broadest feature set: voice, image generation, web browsing, data analysis, and custom GPTs.
Read the guide →Google · 8 minGemini
Google's AI assistant, natively multimodal, with the largest context window of the major models and deep integration across Search, Workspace, and Android.
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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.
AI Readiness Self-Audit
A 12-question audit covering data, security, ops, and product. Score yourself before you spend a dollar on AI.
Read excerpt + get PDF →Build & Run · For you · 18 minPrompt Engineering: First Principles
Stop copy-pasting tricks. Learn the four levers that make prompts actually work, and when to pull each.
Read excerpt + get PDF →Training · For teams · 16 minThe 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.
Read excerpt + get PDF →Training · For teams · 14 minAI 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.
Read excerpt + get PDF →Audit & Consulting · For teams · 15 minAI Use-Case Prioritization Playbook
Stop chasing the shiniest demo. A scoring framework to find the AI use case that's actually worth building first.
Read excerpt + get PDF →Build & Run · For teams · 17 minProduction AI Security Checklist
The security checklist to clear before an AI feature touches real users: injection, data handling, tool guardrails, and logging.
Read excerpt + get PDF →Build & Run · For you · 19 minShip Your First AI Feature
An end-to-end walkthrough from idea to shipped AI feature (scoping, prompt, evals, guardrails, and launch) without the hype.
Read excerpt + get PDF →Build & Run · For teams · 18 minRunning 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.
Read excerpt + get PDF →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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