AI advisory
Who trains our staff to actually use it?
We do, on the tools you approved and with examples from your own work. Twenty minutes of real training changes adoption more than anything else in the budget, and it is the part most often skipped.
Answered by Ryan Sanders, Partnership Director
Before you pick an AI platform, ask the vendor one question in writing: is our data used to train your models, and for how long do you keep it?
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Brian, insurance agencyMore from the survey wallA licence is not a rollout
Handing out access with a link to the vendor's product tour is how a subscription becomes something you renew out of embarrassment. People do not fail to adopt these tools because they are difficult. They fail because nobody showed them a task from their own week being done a better way.
What the training covers
Which tools are approved here and which are not. What must never be pasted in. Three or four tasks from your actual business, done live. How to tell when the answer is wrong, which is the skill that matters most and the one vendors never teach. And who to ask when something is not covered.
Short, repeated, recorded
Twenty minutes, once, with a refresher a year later, recorded so new hires get the same thing. Clients on the advisory program also get a library of practical methods their staff can work through on their own time, kept current as the tools change.
The people already using it
Every office has two or three people quietly using AI well already. Find them and let them run the session. It works better than anything we could deliver, and it turns a policy from a restriction into permission.
Consumer AI tools send whatever you paste out of the building. Enterprise editions keep it in your tenant. The policy has to say which is which.
An AI policy in two pages TechnologyCopilot in a small office earns its keep on meeting notes and finding documents. It is not for numbers that have to be right.
What Copilot is good forPeople also ask
Which AI tools are our employees using right now?
Almost certainly more than leadership thinks. Between a staff survey, what is switched on by default in your tenant, and what your industry software has quietly added, we can establish a real starting point instead of an assumed clean one.
The full answerWhy are our technology costs going up if we are not using AI?
Because the security floor rose permanently, AI data centre demand is pushing up hardware, cloud and software pricing across the industry, and compliance now carries real documentation overhead. None of those require you to use AI.
The full answerWhat is AI advisory, and what do we actually get?
An assessment of where AI fits your business, which platforms are safe for your data, a written policy, training, and software when you need it. It runs as a program with a named advisor, not a one-off meeting, and a login to our advisory library comes with it.
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