Plain-English guides for UK trades, shops and small firms: which AI tools are worth paying for, how to keep your website safe, and simple automations that save hours.
Plain-English guides to AI, website security and automation for UK small businesses
Outlook, Teams and Copilot went down for almost 24 hours on 12 to 13 November. Here's what happened in plain English, what to check now that it's back, and how to be ready for next time.
The November Microsoft 365 outage left firms without email for most of a day. Here's how to prepare: free fallbacks, Cloudflare Email Routing as an emergency switch (pros and cons), and how to automate the prep with Microsoft, Cloudflare and Google APIs.
Critical flaws in PHP, the software behind most small business websites, were fixed on 21 October and are now being exploited. Here's what it means in plain English, and the three things to do this week.
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OpenAI's general-purpose assistant for writing, research, analysis and everyday business tasks
Anthropic's assistant with strong reasoning, long-document handling and coding ability
Google's multimodal assistant, built into Gmail, Docs and the rest of Google Workspace
AI-first code editor that can plan, write and refactor code across a whole project
Open-source workflow automation with built-in AI agent nodes; self-host or use the cloud
Realistic AI voices and conversational voice agents for phone and web
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