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Free tools built on the methods I advise on: an AI readiness check, a technology risk snapshot, a strategy check, a Cyber Resilience Act readiness check, a technical leadership check, and a way to ask my writing a question.
Each of these is something I built to use in my own work, and to show the methods I advise on in practice. They are free, they take minutes, and your answers stay in your browser unless you ask for the optional AI-written briefing or an emailed result. Each one ends with the service it feeds into, so you can see the next step whether or not it involves me.
See where your organisation stands on the five levels of AI value, with an optional AI-written briefing.
For leadership teams in engineering and product companies.
Start → Free · 10 to 12 minutesTechnology Risk SnapshotWeighing up a technology company? Answer from what it has shown you and get the risks and the questions to put to it before the next meeting.
For investors, lenders, acquirers and boards.
Start → Free · 8 to 10 minutesStrategic Deficit CheckGrowth slowing for reasons nobody can explain, decisions that follow the competition, leaders who describe the direction differently? Find out which tells are present and what treats the cause.
For leadership teams of technology and product companies. Best taken separately and compared.
Start → Free · 8 to 10 minutesCRA Readiness CheckMake connected products? See where you stand against the eight Cyber Resilience Act obligations, with the first step for every gap, in the order that takes longest.
For product, engineering and leadership teams selling into the EU or the UK.
Start → Free · about 10 minutesTechnical Leadership CheckThinking you need a CTO? Find out which technical leadership job your company actually needs, and whether to fill it now, part-time, as an interim, or not yet.
For founders, chief executives and boards of technology and product companies.
Start → Ask · BetaAsk my writingAsk a question about technology, AI or leadership and get an answer grounded in my published writing, with links to the articles it came from.
For anyone who wants my view before booking a call.
Ask a question →For your own AI assistant
All of the writing and the assessments are also available to an MCP-capable assistant through a free, read-only MCP server: search and read the articles, and score an assessment with the same rules the site uses.
Coming next
A range estimator that shows the spread of outcomes for a decision with uncertain costs or timescales, and a "do you need a CTO yet" check. If either would be useful to you now, say so and I will move it up the list.
Under the bonnet, all of these run on one engine: questions, scoring rules, flags and recommendations are content, versioned and tested, and the AI only ever writes a narrative about a result the rules have already computed. I wrote about why that matters in Guardrails: autonomy is earned.
Tell me what you are trying to decide, or where you feel stuck.
I will suggest the smallest useful first step. Based in Leeds, working in the UK and internationally, on site or remote.
Not ready to talk? Try one of the free tools, or ask a question and get an answer drawn from my published writing: a quick way to see how I approach problems like yours.