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6 new- 10-min readNewWhat AI changes about a director’s dutySection 180 after ASIC v Bekier. What the Federal Court said about directors using AI on board papers, and why the business judgment rule may not save you.Open
- 9-min readNewModern leadership in the age of AIBoard oversight of AI already sits inside directors’ existing duties. What changes about leading, and the four questions to ask at your next meeting.Open
- 5-min toolAI Policy BuilderAnswer a few questions and download a completed, board-ready AI policy.Open
- ToolkitAI Words to AvoidThe working list of words that make writing sound machine-made, with a paste-ready prompt block.Open
- Case studyFour people, two hours, four business-ready outputs in WintonEvery participant left with a working business asset worth a combined $15,000-plus in commercial equivalents.Open
- SampleInside the Workshop GuidebookA look inside the 100-plus page plain-English guidebook every workshop participant takes home.Open
New to this? Start here
5 items- 5-min readWhere to start with AI: the honest first step for Australian businessesThe honest first step is not buying a tool. See what is already in use, pick one real task and write one page of rules.Open
- 2-min toolAI Readiness CheckA two-minute check that shows what you have, what you need and what to do first.Open
- 4-min readWhat’s the difference between automation and AI?Automation is a rules engine; AI is a probability engine. What each does best and how to tell which job you have.Open
- ReferenceAI GlossaryPlain-language definitions for the AI terms your board and team actually meet.Open
- 5-min readChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or Gemini: which one fits your businessYour software stack decides, not the leaderboard. The fit test for the four major platforms.Open
Put AI to work this week
5 items- 6-min readAI tools that give you time back: five jobs to hand over this weekAustralian workers using AI well get back two to six hours a week. The five jobs to hand over first.Open
- 6-min readAI prompts for small business: how to ask so the answer is worth havingThe four-part ask, three before-and-afters and copy-paste starting points for small business.Open
- 15-min guideHow to make your AI sound like you, not a press releaseSet up ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or Gemini to write in your voice. One prompt, nine questions, about 15 minutes per tool.Open
- ToolkitAI Words to AvoidThe working list of words that make writing sound machine-made, with a paste-ready prompt block.Open
- 6-min readHow to introduce AI to your team without the eye-rollsMost AI rollouts fail in the room, not the platform. The three moves that decide whether AI lands with a team.Open
Greater Springfield Chamber
Cautious to confident. Three hours.
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5 items- 5-min toolAI Policy BuilderAnswer a few questions and download a completed, board-ready AI policy.Open
- 6-min readWhat is AI governance? A plain answer for Australian businessesWho decides, who checks and who answers when AI touches your business. What it covers and where GIST fits.Open
- 7-min readHow to write an AI policy for your businessAn AI policy is one to two pages answering six questions. What goes in each section and the mistakes that sink most policies.Open
- 6-min readYour people are already using AI: what shadow AI means for your businessShadow AI is your team using tools nobody approved. Why bans fail and the amnesty conversation that works.Open
- FrameworkGIST AI FrameworkThe four-step sequence for safe AI adoption: Guardrails, Intent, Strategy, Practical Training.Open
Seen in the real world
5 items- Case studyHow 68 Roma business owners left with AI tools that fit the way they work39 organisations, 74% already using AI. One walked out with a month of marketing built live and 30 hours a month back.Open
- Case studyHow EWPA aligned 10 people on AI before turning on Microsoft CopilotA full-day boardroom strategy session. Three foundation documents delivered, and within hours the team was acting.Open
- Case study72% of salon leaders had no idea about the Privacy Act deadline. This keynote changed that.305 salon industry leaders at the AHC Leadership Summit. A compliance blind spot turned into a Monday plan.Open
- Case studyHow a two-hour AI workshop produced $11,500 in outputs for WA gymnastics clubs100% of participants left with takeaways they could use. 100% asked for more training.Open
- Case studyFour people, two hours, four business-ready outputs in WintonEvery participant left with a working business asset worth a combined $15,000-plus in commercial equivalents.Open
The frameworks, Tracy’s own
4 items- FrameworkGIST AI FrameworkThe four-step sequence for safe AI adoption: Guardrails, Intent, Strategy, Practical Training.Open
- FrameworkHUMAN FrameworkA five-level map of who owns AI accountability at every level of your organisation.Open
- FrameworkREIMAGINE FrameworkThe nine-step change methodology from Tracy’s book AI & U: Reimagine Business.Open
- ManifestoThe Augmented WorkforceTracy’s manifesto on the future of work. Human-led. AI-leveraged.Open
Everything, if you would rather dig
The whole library.
- 2-min toolAI Readiness CheckA two-minute check that shows what you have, what you need and what to do first.Open
- 5-min toolAI Policy BuilderAnswer a few questions and download a completed, board-ready AI policy.Open
- FrameworkGIST AI FrameworkThe four-step sequence for safe AI adoption: Guardrails, Intent, Strategy, Practical Training.Open
- FrameworkHUMAN FrameworkA five-level map of who owns AI accountability at every level of your organisation.Open
- FrameworkREIMAGINE FrameworkThe nine-step change methodology from Tracy’s book AI & U: Reimagine Business.Open
- ReferenceAI GlossaryPlain-language definitions for the AI terms your board and team actually meet.Open
- ToolkitAI Words to AvoidThe working list of words that make writing sound machine-made, with a paste-ready prompt block.Open
- ManifestoThe Augmented WorkforceTracy’s manifesto on the future of work. Human-led. AI-leveraged.Open
- SampleInside the Workshop GuidebookA look inside the 100-plus page plain-English guidebook every workshop participant takes home.Open
- GuidePersonalise ChatGPTSet up ChatGPT to write in your voice. One prompt, about 15 minutes.Open
- GuidePersonalise ClaudeSet up Claude to write in your voice, with the right instructions in the right place.Open
- GuidePersonalise CopilotSet up Microsoft Copilot to write in your voice across your work tools.Open
- GuidePersonalise GeminiSet up Gemini to write in your voice using saved info.Open
- 15-min guideHow to make your AI sound like you, not a press releaseSet up ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or Gemini to write in your voice. One prompt, nine questions, about 15 minutes per tool.Open
- 10-min readNewWhat AI changes about a director’s dutySection 180 after ASIC v Bekier. What the Federal Court said about directors using AI on board papers, and why the business judgment rule may not save you.Open
- 9-min readNewModern leadership in the age of AIBoard oversight of AI already sits inside directors’ existing duties. What changes about leading, and the four questions to ask at your next meeting.Open
- 6-min readWhat is AI governance? A plain answer for Australian businessesWho decides, who checks and who answers when AI touches your business. What it covers and where GIST fits.Open
- 7-min readHow to write an AI policy for your businessAn AI policy is one to two pages answering six questions. What goes in each section and the mistakes that sink most policies.Open
- 6-min readYour people are already using AI: what shadow AI means for your businessShadow AI is your team using tools nobody approved. Why bans fail and the amnesty conversation that works.Open
- 5-min readWhere to start with AI: the honest first step for Australian businessesThe honest first step is not buying a tool. See what is already in use, pick one real task and write one page of rules.Open
- 4-min readWhat’s the difference between automation and AI?Automation is a rules engine; AI is a probability engine. What each does best and how to tell which job you have.Open
- 6-min readAI tools that give you time back: five jobs to hand over this weekAustralian workers using AI well get back two to six hours a week. The five jobs to hand over first.Open
- 6-min readAI prompts for small business: how to ask so the answer is worth havingThe four-part ask, three before-and-afters and copy-paste starting points for small business.Open
- 5-min readChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or Gemini: which one fits your businessYour software stack decides, not the leaderboard. The fit test for the four major platforms.Open
- 6-min readHow to introduce AI to your team without the eye-rollsMost AI rollouts fail in the room, not the platform. The three moves that decide whether AI lands with a team.Open
- 5-min readHow to choose an AI speaker for your conference or member eventThe five questions that sort real AI speakers from slide-deck tourists, plus current Australian fee ranges.Open
- 5-min readAI advisor or AI coach: what your business actually needsAn AI coach builds your personal capability. An AI advisor builds your organisation’s. How to tell which you need.Open
- StoryArt, culture and AI walk into a galleryAI & U: Reimagine Business launched at Red Hill Art Gallery. Forty people, original art and a real conversation about AI.Open
- Case study72% of salon leaders had no idea about the Privacy Act deadline. This keynote changed that.305 salon industry leaders at the AHC Leadership Summit. A compliance blind spot turned into a Monday plan.Open
- Case studyThree real business tools built live in one three-hour Longreach workshopA quoting assistant, a roofing take-off and a home concept brief, built in the room by the businesses that own them.Open
- Case studyFour people, two hours, four business-ready outputs in WintonEvery participant left with a working business asset worth a combined $15,000-plus in commercial equivalents.Open
- Case studyThe AI keynote and workshop rated 4.8 out of 5 at the Western Downs Business SummitA 45-minute keynote and 90-minute workshop became the highest-rated session at the 2026 summit in Chinchilla.Open
- Case studyPractical AI reaches one in every 89 small businesses in BarcaldineSeven owner-operators across 53,383 square kilometres. In a region where 98.4% of businesses are small, proportion beats volume.Open
- Case studyHow 68 Roma business owners left with AI tools that fit the way they work39 organisations, 74% already using AI. One walked out with a month of marketing built live and 30 hours a month back.Open
- Case study40 small businesses. Three AI platforms. Three hours from cautious to confident.Slido sentiment shifted from worried and unsure to confident and inspired, with take-home setups for every platform.Open
- Case studyHow EWPA aligned 10 people on AI before turning on Microsoft CopilotA full-day boardroom strategy session. Three foundation documents delivered, and within hours the team was acting.Open
- Case studyAI Ready: four workshops lifted confidence for 92% of Western Downs small business ownersFour events across one week in Miles QLD. 39 small businesses, 92% confidence lift.Open
- Case studyHow a two-hour AI workshop produced $11,500 in outputs for WA gymnastics clubs100% of participants left with takeaways they could use. 100% asked for more training.Open
- Case studyThey arrived asking what AI is. They left talking about guardrails.25 cane growers, agronomists and regulators in Mackay. An attendee turned it into two pages of unsolicited editorial in their own industry magazine.Open
New this month
New guides, as they land.
Tracy adds new practical AI guides, tools and case studies here often. Pop in your email and the new ones come to you.
Questions people ask
Practical AI, answered.
What is practical AI?
Practical AI is using everyday AI tools to do real work: writing, admin, planning, customer replies. No coding, no hype. The focus is what you can do on Monday morning.
Where do I start with AI in my business?
Start with the free AI Readiness Check. It shows what you have, what you need and what to do first, in about two minutes. From there the shelves point you to the next step.
Are these resources free?
Yes. Every guide, tool, framework and case study here is free. The tools that ask for an email send the result straight to your inbox.
Do you have an AI policy template?
The AI Policy Builder is the better version of a template. Answer a few questions and it hands you a finished, board-ready AI policy you can download, not a blank page to fill in.
Who is Tracy Sheen?
Tracy Sheen CSP is an AI strategist, keynote speaker and two-time award-winning author, known as Australia’s practical AI guide. Human-led. AI-leveraged.
Can Tracy speak at our event or work with our team?
Yes. Tracy delivers keynotes, workshops and boardroom sessions across Australia and internationally. Start on the Speaking page or get in touch.
Want this shaped around your organisation?
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