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Guides help you understand a subject, make a decision or follow a process. Start with business guidance or choose Technical deep dives for implementation references. Articles share experience, opinions and analysis.

  1. Guide 1 · Getting started · 14 min read How to use ChatGPT for your business: 5 jobs to try this week Use ChatGPT to match enquiries, act on meeting notes, fix spreadsheets, answer support questions and turn a case study into content. Includes reusable prompts.
  2. Guide 2 · Costs and buying · 9 min read What should a small business spend on AI tools? Compare AI tools for Irish small businesses, build a sensible monthly budget and weigh subscriptions and automation against the staff hours they could free up.
  3. Guide 3 · Search and AI visibility · 10 min read Why doesn't my business show up when someone asks ChatGPT? Why ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Copilot leave some small businesses out of their answers: 6 causes you can check and a 15-minute self-check.
  4. Guide 4 · Search and AI visibility · 10 min read What an AEO audit checks for Irish businesses An AEO audit for businesses in Ireland checks crawl access, business facts and assistant answers, leaving a dated baseline and a clear list of fixes.
  5. Guide 5 · Getting started · 7 min read AI skills for small businesses: examples and setup Save your process as an AI skill, then run it with a URL or file. See a business analysis example, ChatGPT and Claude guidance, and free business templates.
  6. Guide 6 · Getting started · 22 min read Turn AI meeting notes into follow-ups, tasks and CRM updates Connect AI meeting notes to your CRM, correct the record with an LLM and prepare useful follow-ups, tasks and updates, with prompts and a skill template.
  7. Guide 7 · By sector · 6 min read Client document chasing for Irish accountants See how an Irish accountancy practice can track partial records, avoid stale reminders and test a document-chasing workflow with a copyable checklist.
  8. Guide 8 · Getting started · 6 min read Your business does not need more AI. It needs one useful workflow. AI implementation for SMEs starts with one useful workflow, clear boundaries and human approval. A practical guide to choosing the right first project.
  9. Guide 9 · Technical deep dives · 9 min read The agentic acronym map: what actually matters in 2026 MCP, A2A, AP2, KYA, ATP, AGNTCY. The protocols showing up in every AI conversation, explained without hype or vendor framing.
  10. Guide 10 · Technical deep dives · 15 min read Implementing a production multi-agent orchestrator: patterns and contracts An implementation reference for the routing, state, contracts, observability and recovery patterns that keep multi-agent orchestrators reliable.
  11. Guide 11 · Getting started · 8 min read What to automate first: how we rank operational opportunities Most teams pick the wrong first automation. The ranking we use: leverage, frequency, tractability and reversibility, and why the loudest pain misleads.
  12. Guide 12 · Technical deep dives · 10 min read How to ship a multi-agent system that survives contact with production Six disciplines that decide whether a multi-agent system survives production, and the two failure modes you only see once it is live.

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