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Guides.

Long, practical pieces from real project work. Pick the one closest to your business.

For professional services.

Where the hours go in a firm, and what to change first. For managing partners, practice heads and operational leaders.

  1. The Claude-Enabled Law Firm Legal Due diligence, contract analysis, legal research and knowledge management. What changes when a firm sets AI up properly. A lawyer seated in his office in St. Louis, surrounded by glass-fronted cases of law books
  2. The Claude-Enabled Accountancy Firm Accountancy Client communication, research support, tax planning and compliance workflows. Where the biggest gains are. An accountant's office in the 1910s, a woman at a typewriter and a man working at a tall ledger desk
  3. The Claude-Enabled Recruitment Firm Recruitment Screening, outreach, matching and interview prep. How high-volume intake gets handled so recruiters spend their time on people. Job seekers standing at a desk in the Oulu employment office in 1931, a clerk writing in the files
  4. The Claude-Enabled Training Provider Training Content creation, learner support, assessment and course design, built into how a provider delivers. A young apprentice operating a lathe in a high school machine shop in 1917
  5. The Claude-Enabled Awarding Organisation Awarding bodies Assessment support, quality assurance, centre liaison and evidence management, inside the regulation. Candidates seated at numbered examination desks in Oulu in 1932, their teacher standing behind
  6. Where Senior Time Goes Strategy Find the production work eating partner and senior time, fix it in three phases, and decide where AI fits after that. A row of time-keeping stations in a works yard in 1911, each marked with the job numbers for piece work and the pipe shop
  7. How to Value a Business in the UK Operations EBITDA multiples by sector, the adjustments buyers really make, and the five operating changes that move your multiple. An engraving from 1750 of a diamond cutters' workshop, the cutters at their polishing wheels while two visitors look on

For founders and operators.

For founder-led businesses and lean operators building companies with more leverage per person and higher margins.

  1. What a Fractional COO Actually Does Operations What the role covers week to week, what it costs in the UK in 2026, and how to tell whether your business is ready for one. Two signalmen working a long bank of levers in the Auckland station signal box in 1953, the track diagram and a clock above them
  2. Do You Need an AI Automation Agency? Hiring Agencies, an in-house hire or a fractional operator: what each costs a business under £5M, and what you can set up yourself in a week. A 19th century engraving of a Jacquard loom mechanism seen from front and back, with its chain of punched cards
  3. The Lean Business Playbook Playbook You do not need a bigger team. You need better systems. Higher margins, more autonomy and fewer moving parts. A Thames spritsail barge under full sail on the Medway at Rochester, the castle behind, before 1920
  4. Build a Website With Claude Working with Claude From nothing to a live, fast, well-structured website, without an agency and without a page builder. The newspaper composing room of Hufvudstadsbladet in 1927, with typesetters at their machines
  5. How to Get the Most from Claude Working with Claude Tokens, context windows and usage limits, for operators who use Claude for real work rather than demos. An early brass taximeter with a Frei flag, mounted beside the lamp of a vintage motor cab

Tools and resources.

Stack breakdowns, diagnostics and free tools, from the systems I run myself.

  1. The Lean Operator's Stack Tools Start with the problem, then pick the tool. What I use for thinking, automation, data and websites, and what it costs. A 19th century engraver's working set of hammers, gravers, files and callipers laid out in neat rows
  2. UK AI Exposure Free tool Every UK occupation sized by employment and shaded by AI exposure. Find a role, see which tasks change, and how to rebuild the work.

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