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The AGMM library: AI for every part of your business

The AGMM library is free, practical guidance on AI for UK businesses, written by the team at an AI consultancy that builds the systems it writes about. Read 38 guides, take 7 short courses from first steps to running AI across a team, or use tools that work in your browser. No account, no paywall.

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What is agentic AI?New
Software that acts in your systems to reach a goal. How it works, what it costs and a safe first pilot.
Write a better prompt
Most poor AI answers come from how you asked. A plain method for getting a usable first draft, with examples to adapt.
Find your first process
A practical method to find the manual process that costs the most, prove the baseline and choose a controlled first automation.

15 min readEnterprise AINew
What governed AI workflows look like in a UK firm, who signs them off and what to put in place first.
AI safety rulesNew
Microsoft wants the UK to lead on global AI safety rules. What was said and what it could mean for a business that uses AI.
AI tools that matter
The five tool categories worth examining, how to test one against a real job and the buying traps to avoid.
Build an AI roadmap
Four steps to a roadmap a board can approve, with UK costs read in September 2026 and the four ways roadmaps fail.
After the deal
M&A software helps close a deal; post-acquisition systems make two businesses run as one. What to buy, what to build, where AI fits.
Why pilots stall
What the 95 per cent figure measures, the four failures behind a stalled pilot and the checks that catch them.

Quoting software
What each type of quoting software does for a UK contractor, what the vendors publish and how to choose between them.
AI for customer replies
What to automate in customer replies, what to keep a person on and how to pick a model that stays on script.
Outgrown your CRM?
Six signs it is time to move, the three-year bill at published list prices and a test to run before you decide.

Physical AINew
AI built into machines that sense, decide and move: how it works, what it costs and where it pays on a warehouse or factory floor.
Audit, then automate
Five questions that decide whether a process is worth automating, a thirty-minute mapping method and the arithmetic.
Five first automations
Five automations worth testing first: what each does, the tools to examine and what to check before switching one on.
What automation costs
Published UK bands, what moves the number, the costs that arrive after go-live and when it is not worth doing.

AI for the numbers
Where AI helps with spreadsheets and figures, where it gets numbers wrong without saying so and how to check its working.
Control AI costs
How a sensible per-seat tool becomes a line nobody can explain, and three habits that keep the bill in hand.
What AI costs
Published UK bands, the four phases a build passes through, what we charge and the costs that never reach the proposal.
Automation ROI
A defensible return calculation from your measured baseline, the implementation cost and a controlled test.

One-page AI policy
A plain template to copy and adapt: what AI is fine for, what it must never touch and who signs it off.
Win over the sceptics
Why staff resist AI, why a mandate backfires and how to turn doubters into users by saving them an hour.
Roll AI out to a team
From one person using AI to a whole team using it well: shared tools, ground rules, data safety and cost control.

11 min readAI cyber riskNew
The UK minister warns an AI breach is likely. What happened, how agents slip their limits and what a business should do.
What is rogue AI?New
An AI system acting outside its limits: how it happens, what it costs a UK business and four controls that keep it on the leash.
AI and UK GDPR
UK GDPR, the EU AI Act and the tools your team already uses: what you must get right and what you can stop worrying about.
Is your data safe?
What happens to what you type into an AI tool, where the real risks are and the simple habits that keep you safe.
Protect customer data
Automation moves customer data between tools overnight. How to set it up so it stays safe, in steps a non-technical owner can follow.
What never to paste
A plain checklist of what to keep out of ChatGPT and Claude, and the simple trick that gets you the help without the risk.

4 min readAI for research
What handles a long report well, when you need live web search and how to catch a made-up fact before a client does.
Inside our AI brain
A first-hand account of running a business on a persistent knowledge base: what we write down and what it changed.
RAG or fine-tuning?
What prompting, retrieval and fine-tuning each do, why fine-tuning is rarely the first move and the order to work in.
RAG, plainly
Retrieval means the AI reads your documents before it answers. What that fixes and when a business needs it.
Why AI needs a brain
Generic AI gives generic answers because it has never met your business. What context and memory change.

What is a coding agent?New
An AI tool that writes and tests code. For firms that commission software it means more code, slower reviews and new questions.
Custom or off the shelf
An eight-factor test for one process, a three-year sum at published list prices and the hybrid answer that usually wins.
What custom costs
Published UK price bands, the six things that move the cost, how to compare two quotes and what AGMM charges.

What should I automate first?
Pick your industry and the jobs that eat your week. It ranks the automations worth setting up first, each with a rough payback and a how-to.
AI prompt builder
Turn your task, audience, tone, format and one example into a clear, copy-ready prompt for ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Built live as you type.

Automate your operations
Nine parts that take real jobs off the team: invoice chasing, missed calls, repeat emails, booking and connecting your tools.
Build one automation, start to finish
Eight hands-on parts that build a new-starter onboarding automation from nothing to live, tested before it touches anyone.
Choosing your first AI tool
A practical way to pick, trial and settle on the first AI tool that earns its place, instead of arguing about which is best.
Build an AI-ready business: give your AI a brain
Nine parts on writing the business down so the answers come from your reality, not a guess.
AI for Business: zero to confident
Eight short parts that take a manager from unsure to confident: what AI is, where it helps, where it fails and how to use it safely.
Writing prompts that work
Eight parts that take your team from one-line requests to briefs that get a usable answer first time.
Safety and privacy for AI at work
Five parts that turn data safety from a nagging doubt into a habit: what to keep out, what UK GDPR asks and a one-page policy.

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Start with the bottleneck

Make the next hour count.

Three practical ways to find where time, money or revenue is getting stuck.

Best place to start7 min guide

Which one of these is you?

I am new to AI and want to understand it

Start from nothing. Fifteen minutes to your first useful answer, and no jargon on the way there.

6 resourcesStart here

Open the New to AI path

I want to use AI in my job this week

You already type into it. This is how to get back something worth sending, and how to pick the right tool for the job.

26 resourcesEverything rated intermediate

Open the Choosing your tools path

I run a business and want AI in the business

Past dabbling. Systems, staff, and the parts you cannot afford to get wrong.

6 resourcesOperations and delivery

Open the Ready to automate path

Start here, course 01 of 07

AI for Business: zero to confident

Eight short parts that take a manager from unsure to confident with AI: what it is, where it helps, where it fails, and how to use it safely. Free.

8 parts60 minManagers and directors new to AI who want a solid grounding

Open the course All seven courses, free

Choose a route. See every step.

A guide answers one question. A path answers what to do first, second, third.

Two short guides, a course, a quick check.

New to AI

Best if Managers and directors new to AI who want a solid grounding

4 steps · about 97 minutes, start to finish

Ready to automate

Best if Operations leads in mid-sized businesses who are ready to move from curious to doing, with no developer needed

4 steps · about 99 minutes, start to finish

Choosing your tools

Best if Teams that have not picked an AI tool yet, or picked one and are not sure it was right

4 steps · about 78 minutes, start to finish

Running AI safely

Best if Teams already using AI, or about to, who want it done without the data worry

4 steps · about 63 minutes, start to finish

The six answers people ask us for first.

If you read nothing else here, read these six.

These are the six we are asked for most often, not the six we rate highest. Everything else is in the index below.

Reference you come back to.

Three shelves you come back to, and never finished.3 references

Seen an unfamiliar AI job title in an advert? Read the plain-English guide to the role.

GlossaryAI jargon in plain EnglishEvery term worth knowing, what it means, and whether you need to care.Open glossary ComparisonWhich AI model for which jobClaude, GPT, Gemini and open models compared. Best for, speed, cost bands and free tiers. Dated, no hype.Open comparison DirectoryTools that are worth itA curated shortlist of AI and automation tools, with the reason each one made the list.Open directory

Two ways to find your best next move.

Both routes are live and useful, and neither asks for an email.

All free tools and resources

Interactive assessmentAvailable nowAI Readiness AssessmentWhere the business stands on process, data and people, scored against what an AI build would need, with the first move named.No email or download needed Interactive plannerAvailable nowAutomation idea finderChoose the jobs slowing your team down and get a ranked shortlist of sensible first automations.No email or download needed

Do it with us

Bring the process you suspect is costing the most

A free 30-minute fit call tests whether it is specific enough to audit; the business-wide AI Constraint Audit finds constraints, weak points and chances to save or earn serious money, for £2,000 over 14 days.

Fit call: Free, 30 minutes
Audit: £2,000, 14 days
Sessions: Three sixty-minute working sessions
You keep: Four outputs, whatever you decide next

Book the free 30-minute fit call What the audit produces

Output 1 of 4

The constraint map

A business-wide view of where capacity, cash and decisions are held up.

Yours to keep

Output 2 of 4

The AI opportunity map

The viable opportunities, the dependencies underneath them and where a person must remain in control.

Yours to keep

Output 3 of 4

The economic cases

Upside, cost, assumptions and risk for every opportunity worth considering.

Yours to keep

Output 4 of 4

The ranked next step

A prioritised investment order and a custom proposal for the highest-value justified scope.

Yours to keep

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Make the next hour count.

How to write a prompt that actually works

What should you automate first?

What should never go into an AI tool?

Which one of these is you?

AI for Business: zero to confident

Choose a route. See every step.

The six answers people ask us for first.

Today's AI tip

Reference you come back to.

Two ways to find your best next move.

Bring the process you suspect is costing the most

The constraint map

The AI opportunity map

The economic cases

The ranked next step