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- PAThe One Question Every Firm Should Answer Before Investing in AI
The One Question Every Firm Should Answer Before Investing in AI
AI adoption in financial services starts with a strong operational foundation. Learn why clean workflows, reliable data, clear accountability, and documented controls are essential for turning AI investment into real business value.
Guest Contributor
- PAAI Just Changed the Power of the Consumer
AI Just Changed the Power of the Consumer
I’m not denying that some people love to complain, or are simply bad-faith complainers. However, that’s a tiny minority of the population, so what is really going on here?
Paul Taylor
- PAAI Knows More About Your Customers. Can They Still Trust You?
AI Knows More About Your Customers. Can They Still Trust You?
To get the magic, a customer must let the machine know an extraordinary amount about their life. And that puts the oldest currency in business under pressure: trust.
Joseph Michelli
- PAAI Is Getting Cheaper. So Why Is the AI Bill Getting Bigger?
AI Is Getting Cheaper. So Why Is the AI Bill Getting Bigger?
McKinsey reportedly uses AI for as much as 30% of its tasks, which means the problem is not failed adoption but successful adoption.
Chris Skinner
- PAAI Can Write Your Emails. It Can’t Build Your Credibility.
AI Can Write Your Emails. It Can’t Build Your Credibility.
It can’t anticipate every employee concern. It definitely can’t take responsibility for the words sent under your name. That part still belongs to you.
Stacey Hanke
- PAAI Is Killing Website Traffic. Content Syndication Could Be the New SEO
AI Is Killing Website Traffic. Content Syndication Could Be the New SEO
Gartner predicts organic search traffic will drop 25% by 2026 and 50% by 2028 as buyers are turning to AI for answers at a growing rate
Guest Contributor
- PAAgentic AI Can Make Decisions. Who Is Accountable When It Gets One Wrong?
Agentic AI Can Make Decisions. Who Is Accountable When It Gets One Wrong?
It then generated thousands of fabricated records and incorrectly told its operator that the damage could not be undone.
Guest Contributor
- PAAI Can Make You More Efficient—and Less Effective
AI Can Make You More Efficient—and Less Effective
If you want to succeed, and succeed faster, you need to work on the right projects (effectiveness), not simply do things faster (efficiency).
Brett Davidson
- PAMusk Says AI Will Create Abundance. What If It Creates Something Else?
Musk Says AI Will Create Abundance. What If It Creates Something Else?
Inside AI's future lies a battle between its value for production versus that of control. And that will be a battle over what our future looks like.
Guest Contributor
- PAAI Is Changing Financial Modeling. Can You Still Trust the Model?
AI Is Changing Financial Modeling. Can You Still Trust the Model?
Do we understand how this model was built, have we reviewed the right things, and can we trust the answer it produces?
Guest Contributor
- PAAI Won’t Just Change Marketing. It Will Change How Marketing Teams Are Organized.
AI Won’t Just Change Marketing. It Will Change How Marketing Teams Are Organized.
What happens to our operating models when AI performs work across the very boundaries we built over the last two decades?
Guest Contributor
- PAThe Marketing Plot Twist of 2026: Maybe We Need Less AI
The Marketing Plot Twist of 2026: Maybe We Need Less AI
Divine is asking something considerably more interesting: When AI can create almost anything, what becomes valuable?
Molly McClure
- PAAI Is Entering Its Most Dangerous Phase for Investors
AI Is Entering Its Most Dangerous Phase for Investors
Written by: Maxence Visseau | Arkevium Capita l & Arkevium Research Forecasting when the peak of an economic and market cycle will arrive is a very difficult business.
Guest Contributor
- PAAI Can Write Your Performance Feedback. It Can’t Have the Conversation for You.
AI Can Write Your Performance Feedback. It Can’t Have the Conversation for You.
How to use AI without outsourcing the courage in your performance conversation “Karin, I hate writing.
Karin Hurt
- PAAI’s Water Problem: How Microsoft and TSMC Are Managing the Risk.
AI’s Water Problem: How Microsoft and TSMC Are Managing the Risk.
This year, the United Nations warned that the world has moved beyond a water crisis and entered an era of water bankruptcy.
Guest Contributor
- PAFive Quick Checks to See If You're Actually Using AI in Your Practice
Five Quick Checks to See If You're Actually Using AI in Your Practice
Here are five quick questions to check whether AI has actually made it into your daily workflow, or whether it's still sitting on the shelf.
Dan Smaida
- PAAuthority Drift: When AI Recommendations Quietly Become Decisions
Authority Drift: When AI Recommendations Quietly Become Decisions
I call this authority drift: what happens when the work mix changes but the authority decision is not revisited.
Guest Contributor
- PAAI Is Redefining Disability One Financial Decision at a Time
AI Is Redefining Disability One Financial Decision at a Time
It is making finance, communication, work and everyday life adapt to people, rather than forcing people to adapt to systems.
Chris Skinner
- PAWe're So Busy Spotting AI That We're Missing the Message
We're So Busy Spotting AI That We're Missing the Message
Someone shared it because it warmed their heart. Because it carried a message. Because it said, in some small way: care about this.
Molly McClure
- PAAI Isn’t Making Bureaucracy Faster. It’s Making It Optional
AI Isn’t Making Bureaucracy Faster. It’s Making It Optional
Got a technology capable of reshaping organisations, and we’re getting it to do our admin. Worse still, AI workslop is a growing phenomenon.
Paul Taylor





