From Excel to AI: Upgrading Your Data Analysis Workflow
I used to live in Excel. For years my day was a ritual of VLOOKUPs, endless filters, and the occasional pivot-table miracle. Then a messy dataset and a looming deadline pushed me into the arms of AI tools — and my workflow hasn’t been the same. In this post I walk you through that jump: […]
The CFO’s Guide to AI: Strategic Implementation and ROI
When I first sat across from our head of IT and they casually mentioned a pilot that used generative models to clean invoices, I admit I bristled. I’d been burned by shiny pilots that never delivered cash value. Over the next 18 months I led a small cross-functional effort to test AI on accounts payable, […]
Lever vs. Greenhouse vs. Workable: AI Recruiting Software Compared
I still remember the first time I accidentally posted the wrong job listing — thank you, confusing ATS UI — and vowed never to suffer another clumsy hiring workflow. That experience sent me down the rabbit hole of ATS options. In this piece I compare Lever, Greenhouse, and Workable from a real-world, recruiter-first perspective. I’ll […]
Productboard vs. Aha! vs. Pendo: AI Product Management Tools Compared
I remember the time I stitched together feedback spreadsheets, an analytics tool, and a messy Notion board just to prepare a roadmap. That was before AI features started appearing in Productboard, Aha!, and Pendo. In this piece I’ll walk you through what I tested, what surprised me, and how I’d choose for different teams. Expect […]
How We Increased Content Output by 300% Using AI (Without Losing Quality)
I remember stepping into a packed conference room last April and overhearing two engineers debate whether AI was still ‘hype’ or finally useful. That day stuck with me, and it’s why I wrote this roundup. In first person, I’ll walk you through the most significant April updates from OpenAI, Google and Microsoft — highlighting the […]
April AI Roundup: Major Updates from OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft
I remember sipping bad conference coffee while a panelist joked that AI news now moves faster than my email inbox. In April, that felt truer than ever. Between a major Microsoft–OpenAI recapitalization, product pushes across Microsoft and Google, and OpenAI’s pivot toward audio, I kept a running list on my phone. This post is that […]
Building an AI-Powered Sales Playbook That Actually Works
I remember the first time I watched an AI suggest the exact sentence that moved a stalled deal forward — my skepticism turned into curiosity. In this post I walk you through a pragmatic, slightly messy roadmap I’ve used (and adapted) to create AI-powered sales playbooks that actually work: from unified signals and agentic outreach […]
Slack vs. Microsoft Teams vs. Discord: AI Collaboration Features
I remember the first time my team tried to run a product sprint across three time zones — we ended up juggling Slack threads, a Teams calendar, and a Discord voice room. That chaotic week sparked my curiosity: how do these platforms really compare when AI is in the mix? In this post I walk […]
25 AI Prompts Business Professionals Should Bookmark
I still remember the first time I used a single, sharp prompt and watched an hour of meandering brainstorming collapse into a crisp three-item action list. That day I started collecting prompts — not the generic kind, but ones tuned for clarity, constraints and business outcomes. In this post I share the 25 prompts I […]
Using AI to Analyze Customer Feedback at Scale
I still remember a late-night email thread where our small product team missed a recurring user pain because we only sampled feedback. That mistake pushed me to experiment with AI-driven analysis. Over the next few months I set up pipelines, tuned sentiment models, and—surprisingly—found patterns humans had overlooked. In this post I’ll walk you through […]