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New Kowalah Docs are live

Kowalah Docs are launched and help CIOs and IT leaders to quickly get set up with Kowalah and understand the templates and frameworks that are supported.

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AI 101 Guide [new content]

Here’s a 20 page guide to help you get started with using AI for work.

It includes some product suggestions, ways to think about the work that you do, and some of my learnings from writing effective prompts.

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AI Job Interview Task

Ability to use AI to accelerate and improve their human work should be a default hiring criteria moving forward.

Here’s a simple task you can add to your in person interviews to uncover the candidates who think AI-first.

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Claude 3.7 Sonnet [New Launch]

Claude 3.7 Sonnet dropped and for developers this is one of the biggest leaps forward for their ‘preferred’ coding partner.

Also arriving - Github integration to bring your code into Claude, and Claude Code to bring Claude to your code.

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AI Development Guide [free download]

There has never been a better time to start building your own tools and applications - even if you have no development experience.

In this free guide I walk you through the process of getting started and bringing your first proof of concept to life.

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Don’t put AI in everything you build

As you think through the opportunities for AI to improve the productivity and effectiveness of your teams, don’t fall into the trap of trying to embed AI in every solution.

In many scenarios AI can be the path, but not the destination as you build new tools and applications for your teams.

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ChatGPT and Claude 101 videos

I’m launching a new series of 101 videos that give you a beginner’s guide to using ChatGPT, Claude and NotebookLM.

Ideal for a light business user that wants to learn more about how to use the tools and ensure you have the correct licence and security in place.

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Prompt Hackathon [Facilitator Guide]

Grab this facilitator guide which will help you to run your own prompt hackathons in your company.

Give your people the inspiration and a safe space to learn and test their ideas, before watching AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT become dependable co-workers for your people.

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ChatGPT Tasks - New Launch

ChatGPT Tasks just launched - and they allow you to schedule prompts to run in the future.

In this article I show you a couple of examples with a live video demo.

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AI Inspiration Briefings

AI Inspiration Briefings are 60 minute live sessions designed to inspire and embed AI thinking in your business teams.

Using publicly available tools we’ll walk through live examples to push the boundaries of how your people use tools like ChatGPT and Claude in their daily work.

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Should you build with AI frameworks?

AI frameworks abstract you away from the underlying LLMs which can seem like a faster way to start building more complex AI workflows and agentic systems.

In this article I highlight what OpenAI and Anthropic recommend when it comes to considering your approach.

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RevOpsCharlie is now charliecowan.ai

As more of my work focuses on helping companies adopt AI across their organisation, today I’m renaming RevOpsCharlie to charliecowan.ai.

In this article I explain the reasons and introduce the AI Adoption Accelerator, a 12 week program to help you win with AI in 2025.

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Kowalah - Buy Better

Kowalah helps buying groups to run a great buying process, to pick the right technology vendor and to reduce the fear of messing up.

In this post I walk you through the problems Kowalah solves for buying groups and give a quick demo of the product.

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6Sense Buyer Experience Report 2024

The 6Sense Buyer Experience Report surveyed over 2500 buyers and will make you rethink how you approach your go to market strategy.

In this post I pull out some of the key stats and suggest ways to revisit your top of funnel activities.

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AI, sand castles and company building

AI is like the incoming tide, advancing on the SaaS sandcastle you’ve built on the beach.

Now’s the time, if you haven’t already, to consider what a post-SaaS business looks like, removing the UI and just giving your customers the answers to their questions.

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Glean - The Work AI Platform

Glean provides a horizontal AI platform for your employees - providing centralised access to knowledge, data and processes across all of your enterprise systems.

In this article I take a look at the platform and when how you can determine if its valuable for your organisation.

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OpenAI - Finance Use Cases

The finance team is one of the slowest adopters of AI in many organisations.

In a recent webinar the Financial Controller at OpenAI walked through specific examples of how their team are using AI to accelerate and improve their work.

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