Practical guides, client stories, and a business-first view of AI. Written by Prashant Agarwal.
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AI DevelopmentsThree things changed in the last six weeks that reach a non-technical leader. The default model behind everyday ChatGPT chats was replaced. New Claude models began watermarking their…
AI DevelopmentsTwo vendors shipped new models in the first two weeks of September. None of it changes the answer for a founder with one laptop and no IT department. Pick the problem first, then pick…
AI DevelopmentsA term from software engineering reached business writing this year. Loop engineering means designing the repeating cycle a piece of work runs through, rather than typing a fresh…
AI DevelopmentsAnthropic published research in January 2026 drawn from two million conversations. It puts a figure on the saving that every AI ad promises you. A task a person would do alone in about…
DecisionsFour kinds of operator should not book a discovery call with me. Someone who wants a certificate for the file. Someone who believes only their team needs training. Someone who wants the…
Choosing a CoachTwo questions hide inside this choice. One is whether you need a view on AI you can defend in a board meeting. The other is whether you need to get something out of your own files by…
Choosing a CoachRead an executive AI program brochure the way you would read a vendor proposal. Not for the faculty list. For three numbers: hours with your hands on a keyboard, hours spent on material…
PerspectivesNo customer has ever asked me which program I completed. They ask for the proposal, and they ask how fast it came. Your credibility as a founder sits in the work they can see. If a…
AI EssentialsTwo different things travel under the name AI coaching. One builds your view on AI adoption so you can hold a room, a board, a policy discussion. The other sits with you on your own…
Choosing a CoachMost AI trainers selling to founders in India are real businesses doing real teaching, so the answer to the legitimacy question is usually yes. That is not the answer you need. Four…
Client StoriesPicking launch markets is a ranking job. The prompt library entry reads: score and rank Nutraverde's launch markets on acceptability, price point, CAC, and regulatory friction. Four…
PerspectivesThe belief is that 23 weeks at a good business school will make you hands-on with AI. It will not, and it is not sold as that. A long program builds strategy fluency, and the strong ones…
Practical GuidesSix tasks below, all from a functional head's desk, all runnable before your next monthly review. Each one takes work you already do, hands the typing to ChatGPT, and ends with a check…
Choosing a CoachRead an AI workshop landing page with one habit. Every line goes into one of three buckets. Checkable, which means a buyer can confirm it before paying. Self-reported, which means only…
Practical GuidesBy the end of this you will have one scheduled prompt that reads your mailbox each morning and hands back a numbered list of decisions you owe. Setup is one sitting at your desk. The…
PerspectivesLearning AI is not a syllabus problem. The skill that decides whether any of this is useful to your business is the ability to look at an output and tell that one line in it is wrong.…
Choosing a CoachA first AI session should leave two things in your hands. A workspace set up the way you work, and one problem from your business picked to run through it. Most first sessions leave…
AI EssentialsAgentic AI arrives in your inbox as one word covering three different things. Chat, where you hold every step. Workflow, where you fixed the steps in advance. Agent, where the order of…
DecisionsAsk one question about the task: will it exist again next week. One-off builds are worth hiring out. Anything that repeats every week is judgment work, and judgment is the part of a…
Client StoriesA recurring deck has two halves. The data half and the slide half. Run them as two separate jobs and both get better. The prompt in my library does exactly that: a 30-day closing value…
PerspectivesA free masterclass costs nothing at checkout and takes the only evening you had this week. The honest way to read one is as a live sales call with slides. That is the business model…
Practical GuidesBy the end of this you have one written brief for your Monday management report, saved once and used again every week. The first pass takes about an hour. After that it is a paste and a…
Practical GuidesThree documents decide whether a paid AI program is worth your money. A list of what you leave each session holding. A written format for how the sessions actually run. Two references…
PerspectivesA certificate in AI changes your profile. It does not change how you are heard in a review meeting. Nobody senior is waiting to see your completion line. What a room notices is the…
AI EssentialsModule 1 of A.D.A.P.T. AI Coaching, called AI Essentials, is five sessions of 90 minutes, run one to one, four to eight days apart, about a month end to end. Every session runs on your…
Practical GuidesFive workflows below. Each one takes a task you already repeat, hands the typing to ChatGPT, and ends with a check you run yourself. The check is the part nobody can skip for you. Pick…
Choosing a CoachAn AI accelerator is worth the money if something you can open and use is running in your business the week after it ends. Nothing else in the sales material settles it. Four tests…
Client StoriesA travel operator writes the same two documents all year. A one-page brief on a destination and its meetings and conferences potential, then a proposal for the enquiry that follows. The…
AI EssentialsA context window is the amount of text a chat can hold in view at one time. Your typed messages, the replies, and any file you paste all sit inside it. Once the conversation outgrows…
PerspectivesI don't recommend AI courses to business owners any more. In 2023 I took every one I could find. Most were useless to me, and the reason was not my discipline or yours. A course teaches…
Practical GuidesFifteen minutes on a first call will tell you whether the sessions run on your business or on a slide deck. Four questions do the work. Ask what you will have running when the first…
Practical GuidesOne afternoon is enough to build an assistant that answers the ten questions customers ask you before they buy. It runs on your own answers, in your own words, with the price list left…
PerspectivesThe standard advice for a senior leader is to build the right mental model before touching the tool. Read about how AI works, then use it. That order is backwards. The mental model forms…
AI EssentialsChatGPT is reliable at four jobs inside a small company. It drafts from a brief you already hold. It reads your own documents. It does structured research against criteria you set, and…
DecisionsOne question separates the three. Do you want to be doing this work yourself in six months, or do you want it done? If you want it done, hire a consultant. If you want to know enough to…
Choosing a CoachOne question decides this. What work do you want to be able to do by yourself first thing Monday morning? Write that in one sentence and the choice stops being about prestige. Below is a…
Client StoriesGoing blank in front of ChatGPT is normal for a founder who knows the business cold. One client wrote about exactly that. What changed was a method. Pick one live problem, write a brief…
Practical GuidesOne sitting of about an hour gives you a Claude Project that holds your function's standing documents and runs one recurring task. You pick the task first, load four or five files, write…
DecisionsLearn it yourself first. Your signature is on the output, so your judgment is the thing that has to improve first. Train the team before that and you have people producing work you…
PerspectivesThe first decision is which piece of your own work you want off your desk this month. Pick the task that costs you the most hours, then test whether AI can carry part of it. The…
Practical GuidesSeven questions separate a seller who will change how you work from one who will fill your calendar. All seven are about your business, not about their curriculum. Ask them on the first…
AI EssentialsLearning AI, for a senior leader, means learning to brief a tool well, check what comes back, and fit the good output into work that already runs. It is not coding. The skill is judgment…
Practical GuidesYou can score five candidate countries yourself in an afternoon. What you need is a set of criteria you chose, one written brief, and a table you can defend in front of a partner. Parts…
AI EssentialsA hallucination is a confident wrong answer. The format is right, the arithmetic ties, and one input inside it was never true. This is the normal failure mode of ChatGPT, not a rare…
PerspectivesAsk ChatGPT how to learn AI and you get a 90-day plan. Week 1 fundamentals, week 2 prompting, week 3 tools, week 4 a project. It looks responsible. It is also the reason the plan sits in…
Choosing a CoachJudge an AI coaching service by what is still running in your business the day after it ends. Five tests. Something nameable gets built in every session. The work runs on your own files.…
Client StoriesAn exporter needed to rank three new export markets. No agency brief, no commissioned study. The criteria came from him, five of them, and the tool did the reading and the scoring. The…
PerspectivesYou want to learn AI without an audience. You are senior, and senior people do not practice in front of the people they appraise. That instinct is correct. It is also the condition under…
Practical GuidesYou will end this with a one page brief you can dictate in under two minutes and reuse every month. The shape of the request decides what comes back. Grammar has nothing to do with it.…
AI EssentialsA.D.A.P.T. AI Coaching is one to one AI coaching for senior operators, founded in July 2024 and run by me, Prashant Agarwal. It is not a course. It is not a cohort. There is no video…