Why I love AI
Growing up without it
For me, it was always about the fact that when I grew up I didn’t have any money. As a child we were quite poor actually. And when I went through school, the education wasn’t tailored to me. I’m pretty sure I’ve got ADHD to be honest. The traditional way of learning never worked for me.
We couldn’t afford tutors or expensive coaches or anything like that. Luckily for kids now, YouTube is there, which does make a difference — but even then it doesn’t coach you, support you, or tailor things to you.
I never went to college, never went to university. I had to heavily rely on other people’s generosity to learn things. Most of my learning and skills came from being on the job, wanting to learn things to be better at my job. Luckily lots of people helped, whether that was practical skills or technical skills.
Finding AI
The beauty now with AI, and what I love about it, is that everybody has access to a personal mentor. The opportunity to give everybody in an organisation a mentor that can help them on a day-to-day basis, in a safe and secure environment, means something special to me. It’s the thing I wish I had growing up — and now I can give it to others.
As a leader, there was never one big way I could help every person in the business. But suddenly with AI, I could. That’s why this is more than a tool for me — it’s become my mission. It has fundamentally changed everything for me and given me a way to help people in a way I never could before.
Everyday AI
I use AI about 8–9 hours a day. I don’t type anymore — I talk to it. That’s why we put microphones into every agent, and why we made sharing easy.
I use it for everything, across work and life:
Dictating voice notes in the car.
Translating training programs.
Making silly videos to wind colleagues up or get my metaphors across.
Writing a risotto recipe.
Summarising meetings.
Helping our carer write notes so she can spend more time caring.
Supporting my golf coach to build tailored coaching agents.
The Big Moments
But the real magic is in the bigger moments.
Using AI to write the appeal letter that helped my mum get healthcare funding for motor neurone disease - spoiler we now have full time care
Helping my wife Laura put together the grant proposal that funded her Japanese head spa bed in the salon - we had 15 minutes before we missed the deadline
Creating specialist tutors for my daughter with SEN, tailored to the way she learns and thinks - spoiler she is flying
Even helping me plan a fundraising row, breaking down all the details into something I could actually manage - Spolier I did it (wish AI had recommended against it)
These are things that would have been impossible for me before. Now they’re possible. That’s why I love it.
What it means
It’s in all these everyday and big moments that I realise why AI matters so much to me. It helps me, it helps my family, it helps my team, and it helps me help others. That’s everything to me.
And it’s also about the people I’ve worked alongside. Being an AI enabler has given me incredible relationships all over the world — people thanking me for showing them how to do something they never thought they could.
I’ve also been lucky enough to do all this as part of a kind of three-person crew:
Louis Georgiou — my best friend now, a phenomenal developer with a heart of gold.
Holly Brace — the rock of our team; heart, soul, cares about everyone, goes the extra mile.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a friendship/work relationship quite like this in my life. I want to work with those two till the end.