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Burnout, Backlogs and Bother: How Smart IPs Are Using AI to Breathe Again
1. The Problem: Too Much to Do, Too Few People to Do It Let’s be honest – being an Insolvency Practitioner in 2025 is a bit like juggling flaming swords while riding a unicycle on a tightrope… in a wind tunnel. The pressures are real, the stakes are high, and the margin for error is…
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AI is Coming for Your Job – And That’s a Good Thing (If You’re Ready)
Let’s start with a question: How do you feel about AI? Excited? Nervous? Terrified? Dismissive? Be honest. Do you think it’s all hype? A passing trend? Or are you watching it creep closer, wondering when it will touch your work, your career, even your daily life? Here’s the thing: AI isn’t coming – it’s already…
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The Three-Part Rule: How to Split Every Task Between You and AI
Introduction: Why You Need a System If you’re using AI (or thinking about using it), you’re already ahead of the curve. But are you using it wisely? Or are you drowning in inefficiency, either clinging to tasks AI could handle or, worse, blindly trusting AI without proper oversight? Here’s the golden rule: split every task…
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AI in Insolvency: Friend, Foe, or the Future?
Ethan Mollick, in his book Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI – by the wway a book we wholeheartedly recommend to you – offers a compelling challenge: “You should try inviting AI to help you in everything you do, barring legal or ethical barriers. As you experiment, you may find that AI help can be…
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Generative AI: Your Next Superstar Employee
Would you sack your best employee for making 2 mistakes a year? No? So why do you measure the success of AI on the same basis?
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Appearance on an ICAEW Video
There is a message I regularly send to accountants, insolvency practitioners and other advisors who provide services to businesses. That is… ‘AI is Here, and It’s Not Here to Replace You – It’s Here to Empower You‘ The world of artificial intelligence can feel overwhelming at times, but the truth is AI will not replace…
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What can we learn from Little Joe about generative ai?
As a grandad to a (near) 3 year old, I’m a bit of a fan of Nick Cope. Friday afternoons around Midday I’m normally driving, trying to give my grandson the full hour’s sleep he needs to avoid being crotchety. I have Spotify on, and up among our favourites is Nick Cope. Songs like ‘A…
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The Inflection Point for Insolvency Practitioners: Why Change Can’t Wait
In 1996, Andrew Grove published ‘Only the Paranoid Survive’ at a pivotal moment for global business: the dawn of the internet era. Grove’s insights into ‘strategic inflection points’ – times when external forces fundamentally reshape industries – were prescient then and are still vital today. His message was clear: companies that don’t embrace major shifts…
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How VAi Can Help Solve the Overtrading Crisis in Insolvency Practices
Insolvency practices across the UK are struggling with overtrading. Increased demand for insolvency services, combined with a shortage of experienced insolvency practitioners (IPs), has led many firms to take on more cases than they can manage effectively. This results in inexperienced staff handling complex cases, relying on checklists rather than informed judgment. It’s a risky…
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The 90s Were Wrong About the Internet, and They’re Wrong About AI
Ah, the 1990s. A time of dial-up modems, floppy disks, and that one friend who would argue that The Matrix was a documentary. But perhaps the most striking thing about the late 90s wasn’t the fashion (although, let’s be honest, we’re all trying to forget some of those outfits). No, what really stands out now…
