Ideas from the work.
Articles, field guides and practitioner perspectives from the people who run our sessions and our own business on AI.
When AI built an insurance risk model
It produced a twelve-sheet model in fifteen minutes. Then a second AI model, given an underwriter's persona, found that its worst simulated year could not reach a total loss at its own biggest site. Both versions are on the page.
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Compound engineering: the hour that pays you back
An hour spent saving six minutes can look like a poor trade. Explore what happens when those savings repeat, spread across a team and build on each other.
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Live from the Lab
Half an hour at lunchtime, live from the AI Adoption Lab in Greenwich: one practical lesson on AI, what changed this week, and your questions.
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How to run a successful in-person AI workshop
The apps, the games and the one-off experiences: what running hundreds of in-person AI workshops has taught us about making a room actually work.
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How to run a successful AI webinar
How to run an AI webinar that respects your audience's time. Preparation, roles, technology, and demo lessons from thousands of sessions.
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Why the Claude Excel Add-In Could Be a Turning Point in AI Productivity
Claude inside Excel changes the game for enterprise AI adoption. What it means for teams already drowning in spreadsheets.
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AI Pilots: Why Organisations Keep Picking the Wrong Things
Most AI pilots fail because they’re chosen for the wrong reasons. How to pick projects that actually build momentum.
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The AI Adoption Ladder
Three levels of AI value: Value Capture, Value Compounding, and Value Creation. Most teams get stuck trying to do old processes faster.
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VibeOps - The Emerging AI-First Operating Model?
Beyond vibe coding. How AI-first operating models are reshaping how entire organisations work, not just developers.
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AI Fluency: Why Literacy Isn’t Enough
Fluency requires immersion, practice, and experimentation. The four competencies: Delegate, Describe, Discern, Diligence.
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Human-AI Systems
AI adoption isn’t about replacing humans or augmenting them. It’s about building systems where both are better together.
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How Unethical AI Won 2024
Exploring how AI is being misused, manipulated, and pushed to ethical limits. Understanding what’s happening behind the scenes.
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Celebrating Two Years of AI Accelerator
Two years since launch. What we’ve learned, what we’ve built, and where we’re heading next.
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Best of Royal Greenwich Business Awards 2024 - Winner!
AI Accelerator wins Best of Royal Greenwich at the 2024 Business Awards. Recognised for innovation and impact.
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AI Accelerator Applied AI Internship
Launching our applied AI internship programme. Building the next generation of AI practitioners through real client work.
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AI Language Models: A Brief History
From ELIZA to GPT-4. A visual timeline of the language models that brought us to the generative AI era.
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OpenAI Tasks: the agentic AI Trojan horse
OpenAI’s Tasks feature looks simple. It’s actually the quiet start of agentic AI going mainstream.
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Introducing the Enhanced AI Accelerator: Our Evolution Over the Year
How the AI Accelerator Experience evolved through 2024. New formats, deeper content, stronger outcomes.
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How AI Accelerated HeroSelf: Empowering Young Minds for a Brighter Future
Case study: how AI Accelerator helped HeroSelf build AI-powered tools to support young people’s mental wellbeing and personal development.
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Building a Wiki: How AI Transforms Knowledge Management
Five AI applications for wikis: rapid content creation, summarising complex info, keeping info updated, enabling quick answers, enhancing search.
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Launching the AI Use Case Deck
Physical card deck with 100+ AI use cases. A hands-on tool for workshops, brainstorming, and use case discovery sessions.
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The AI Accelerator Podcast Arrives
Launching our podcast. Practical AI conversations with the people building, training, and adopting AI in real organisations.
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Context Blocks: Better AI Output Without Sharing Secrets
Proprietary solution for consistent, business-aligned AI outputs without sharing sensitive data. Focused text segments that align AI with business needs.
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The World’s Most Powerful Prompt
Effective prompting depends on understanding how LLMs work. Giving AI ’time to think’ and assigning roles produces better results.
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Which AI? Our Interactive Flowchart
Decision tree helping users navigate AI tool selection. Updated regularly as the landscape changes.
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