ScaleAround is launching two online AI courses. Leading Through AI is a one-day, CPD-certified programme for senior leaders on governing AI and leading people through the change. Practical Prompt Engineering is a 3-hour course for anyone who uses AI tools at work and wants consis
Most businesses cannot tell you whether their AI spend is working, and the surveys say so plainly. PwC's latest survey of 4,454 chief executives found 56% had seen neither revenue growth nor cost savings from AI in the past year. McKinsey's 2026 research found only 29% of executi
An AI agent is software that reads the web and acts on it. It shortlists suppliers, drafts the comparison, books the call. More of your customers use one every month, often without saying so. Getting ready means making your business readable and trustworthy to software, not only
Most owners I speak to carry the same worry, usually quietly. If AI can do the work, what happens to my people, and what happens to me. Here is the honest answer for a small or mid-sized firm. AI is far more likely to change what your team does each day than to empty your office.
Leading a team through AI is mostly a leadership job, with a thin layer of technology on top. The tools are the easy part. What changes is how you set direction, how you judge work you did not do yourself, and how you keep people confident while their jobs shift under them. Get t
Most of what gets called prompt engineering is a handful of habits, and leaders need them more than engineers do. You are the one asking the tool for the analysis, the draft, the summary, the plan. If the question is sloppy, the answer is confident and wrong. These five habits fi
An AI agent is software that does a multi-step task on its own, rather than answering one question and stopping. It reads the inbox, pulls the figures, drafts the reply, updates the system, and asks a person only when it is unsure. For a small or mid-sized business the real savin