Jay Janes

I help UK business owners put AI to work

Choose a useful task, try AI on your own work and find out whether it helps. I advise owners and managers on the tools, costs and people involved.

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What would make AI useful to your business?

Start with something you want to improve. It might be turning meeting notes into follow-up emails, finding answers in your documents or preparing a first draft of a report. The useful question is what the whole task would look like with AI involved.

I help you work through those decisions through my consultancy, Reformat Labs. The articles here include prompts, examples and questions you can use yourself.

Read about my background and approach

What needs to improve?

Name the task and the problem. Is it slow, inconsistent or difficult to keep up with?

Why use AI for it?

Compare it with a template, a search tool or a simpler change to the way you work.

What information will it need?

Find the source material and check whether you can use it in the proposed service.

Who can check the result?

Involve someone who knows the work and can spot a plausible but wrong answer.

What will it really cost?

Count preparation, subscriptions and checking time as well as the time the tool might save.

Will the team use it?

Find out whether it fits the working day and what support people would need.

Working together

Advisory, workshops and speaking

Advisory

Work through a decision about AI: where to start, which options to consider, what a trial would cost and what would justify continuing.

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Workshops

Bring the people doing the work into the discussion. Explore possible uses, examine examples and identify the questions a trial needs to answer.

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Speaking

Talks and discussions for business audiences about AI costs, staff concerns, useful prompts and lessons from trying it on everyday work.

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Reformat LabsI run Reformat Labs, an AI consultancy that helps businesses choose and implement AI tools.

Articles

Examples and advice you can use

All articles

AI in businessOperationsTurn meeting notes into actions people can followFollow one meeting about a supplier price rise from rough notes to a checked action list. See where AI sorts the work and where people confirm owners and dates.16 Oct 2026 · 5 min read SecurityOperationsKeep track of your team’s AI accountsA simple account list and a joiner-and-leaver checklist help you see which AI tools the business pays for and who controls access.26 Sept 2026 · 2 min read AI in businessOperationsFind out why an AI trial failedUse the failed example to distinguish missing information, weak instructions and a poor fit for the task before deciding what to change.25 Sept 2026 · 3 min read

Contact

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Considering AI for a task in your business? Tell me what takes too long, causes problems or needs to improve.

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For advice or a workshop, describe the work and your question. For a talk or podcast, send the audience, subject and date.