What’s the one difference that means some UK businesses get significantly more from their AI investments?

In this conversation, Richard Nicholas is joined by Shivani Gupta, Senior Policy Adviser for AI and the Digital Economy at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). With daily access to Whitehall and the businesses the CBI represents, she brings the findings of the CBI's AI skills report - and a reality check the headlines rarely give you.

 The biggest blockers aren't technical but rather human: poor data quality, governance gaps, and a cultural shift most boards haven't made yet.

An insight that lands with particular force. AI won't take your job, but it will take the tasks that teach you how to do it. That has real consequences for early careers, onboarding, and how organisations build expertise when routine work disappears.

 With only 39% of UK businesses use AI in a meaningful way, Shivani's advice to business leaders is direct. Don't wait for perfect conditions - they're not coming. Start small, involve your people early, and invest in skills alongside the technology.

 Essential listening for business leaders and anyone navigating AI strategy, workforce transformation, and responsible adoption.

What if your legal team could deliver core work ten times faster without sacrificing quality?

 In this conversation, Richard Nicholas and Steve Cunningham of Simple Academy reveal how "you plus AI" transforms everyday legal tasks into structured, high-quality outputs through practical workflows rather than magic buttons.

 Discover the AI performance matrix that maps your work into clear competencies and repeatable workflows. Learn how to assign AI the heavy cognitive lifting whilst you retain judgement and legal responsibility. The result? Consistent quality, faster cycles, and more time for strategy.

 Drawing on his experience, Steve challenges the "turkey problem" - the dangerous belief that tomorrow will resemble yesterday and demonstrates why AI can handle far more than summaries. He maps a critical market shift called AI insourcing: as cognitive power becomes abundant, organisations will pull routine work in-house. The lawyers who thrive will run end-to-end workflows and translate business goals into reliable, AI-accelerated processes.

 Ready to move from curiosity to capability?  Join Richard and Steve as they look at how to deal with the “turkey problem” for in house lawyers. 

What if your board meetings had a relentless, unbiased memory that asked the questions everyone else missed? In this conversation with Richard Nicholas (AI lawyer at Browne Jacobson), Non-Executive Director and Educator Shirley Chowdry reveals a practical, five-pillar framework for governing AI that transforms the boardroom from minute-taking to strategic thinking. 

Shirley shows how AI can become a live thinking partner that raises decision quality whilst maintaining control over risk, ethics, and accountability. From deploying grounded models that evaluate meetings and challenge groupthink to rethinking core business models, she demonstrates where the real edge lies—not just in efficiency, but in revisiting your value proposition itself.

Drawing on extensive governance experience, Shirley offers concrete guidance on the essentials most organisations overlook: AI's environmental footprint, workforce reskilling as a board-level priority, data lineage and decision audit trails, and practical steps for managing data sovereignty and model concentration risk. Her two-track approach equips both management and directors with AI tools that sharpen debate, ensure auditability, and keep humans firmly in the loop—delivering boards that think bigger, act faster, and earn trust in the age of AI.