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One of our members put a live website into the world this week. It monitors UK power station outages, pulls real data from Elexon's REMIT feed, turns the raw codes into actual site names, and tells you which plants are down and whether that was planned. It scores 83 on mobile and 92 on desktop...

Back in January, a UKBF member called @Byzantium put up a complaint that'll sound familiar to a lot of business owners. He does his own books in Excel, properly - a chart of accounts matching what his accountants use for filing, every transaction categorised, accruals and prepayments done...

Somewhere between the headlines promising AI will transform everything and the frustrated forum posts from people who've been let down by it, there's a more useful conversation to be had. Not "is AI good or bad?" but "what do you actually need to know before you start — or before you go...

It started with a comment about music. @JEREMY HAWKE , a courier business owner from Exeter and long-standing UKBF member, mentioned in passing that he'd been listening to something he enjoyed this week — only for his granddaughter to point out it was AI-generated. A small moment, easily...

Every few months on UK Business Forums, a thread appears that refuses to die. The "AI does have its uses" discussion — started back in February by long-standing moderator @fisicx — has now passed 112 replies. That doesn't happen by accident. It happens when a topic is genuinely unresolved, when...

I'll be upfront: this article was written with the assistance of an AI. The irony of asking Claude to write about AI and intellectual property is not lost on me, and I think it actually illustrates something important about where we all are right now. More on that at the end. The question...

There is no shortage of noise around artificial intelligence right now. Barely a week passes without a headline telling small business owners that AI will either transform their operations or make their skills redundant. The reality, as ever, is considerably more nuanced, and a lively discussion...