What AI agents, automation and changing skills mean for jobs and teams in small and medium-sized businesses.
6 articles on AI and the Future of Work, with research, practical frameworks and lessons from working with businesses.
AI saves your people time, but saved time is not money in a drawer. It slips back into the same work unless you choose where it goes. The Dividend Decision gives you four destinations and a way to pick one per job.
Buyers and their advisers now ask about AI in due diligence: tools, rules, data and whether gains last. Here is a six-page Sale-Ready File an owner can write this week, with sources dated and the limits of the evidence stated.
When someone resigns, the first question is whether AI can cover the seat. The evidence says AI is reshaping roles faster than it removes them. Use the Backfill Test: four questions to answer in writing before you refill, redesign or close the role.
Headcount stays flat when a team starts using AI, so nobody thinks the job changed. This guide gives you the Core and Margin Rule and a one-hour role review sheet you can copy for every role in your business.
AI now does much of the work trainees used to learn on, and entry-level hiring is falling fastest where AI is most capable. Here is why most small businesses should keep hiring juniors, and how to rebuild the role around the job AI cannot do.
AI agents act rather than advise: they send, book and update on your behalf. Here is what that changes for a small business, where the pitch outruns the evidence, and a simple test for deciding which errands an agent can take and which must stay with people.
