
AI Strategy & Ways of Working
Ananya Rao
Freelance content strategist, helping brands turn AI curiosity into systems their whole team can run.
Covers AI Strategy · Ways of Working · Team Adoption · Productivity · AI Training · Future of Work · Change Management
Ananya is fascinated by the gap between owning AI tools and actually using them well. Most teams sit in that gap, and she writes the playbooks that get them out of it.
She works with brands who want AI to be more than a few people quietly using ChatGPT. Her writing turns scattered experiments into shared habits, with the training, guardrails and routines that make them stick.
Calm, structured and relentlessly practical, she believes the best AI strategy is the one your team will still be following in six months.
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Latest from Ananya
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A Five-Person Team, AI, and Hours of Work Turned Into Minutes
A small team built an AI tool that cut a grower's admin from three or four hours to about forty-five minutes. The lesson for any Australian small business is in how it was done, not what it farmed.
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OpenAI Just Made Free Courses to Get Your Team Using AI Well
On 12 June, OpenAI added three free courses to its Academy that take a team from basic prompting to letting AI run multi-step work on its own. For a small business deciding how to adopt AI, it is the cheapest training you will find.
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Satya Nadella Says the Firm That Owns Its Learning Loop Wins. Here Is How Small Businesses Get There.
Satya Nadella's new essay argues the firms that thrive in the AI economy will own a learning loop, not rent a model. We agree, and here is what that actually means for an Australian small business.
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The Most Powerful AI Model Was Switched Off Overnight. Build for That.
Three days after Anthropic launched Fable 5, a US government directive forced it offline for everyone. The lesson for small business is not about Claude. It is about never betting the shop on a single AI tool.
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