Digital and AI transformation consultancy Daemon today announced the launch of its pioneering AI-First Squad, a specialist team set to challenge and transform the software development lifecycle. This initiative goes beyond integrating AI tools by introducing an evolution in how technology solutions are conceived, built, and deployed, aiming to deliver efficiencies and significant value for clients. The AI-First Squad addresses the common challenge businesses face: moving beyond incremental gains and navigating AI-related hype. Daemon’s new offering establishes a dedicated expert team combining industry-leading digital engineering practices with generative AI (GenAI) tooling and experimental methodologies. The squad will implement proven “AI-first”…
Author: Greg Robinson
Meet Tiger Lily Beck and Demi Smith, the founders of Flex and The City, which launched just over a year ago. Both in their mid-twenties and hailing from Hertfordshire, these young entrepreneurs have been lifelong friends who suddenly realised they could create a business together once they understood each other’s professions. Fiona Scott chatted with them about their ‘great idea’ and how it’s going. What is Flex and The City? Tiger Lily: It’s a new digital hub for professionals in the flex industry – so it’s all connected to the flexible workspace sector. We are also a press and media platform…
One rarely meets someone with a remarkable career trajectory—such as starting as a delivery driver and later becoming Managing Director of the same company. Paul Day did just that, beginning his journey at Filestream Ltd as a van driver and, over the course of 25 years, working his way up to become Managing Director. This progression provides Paul with unique insights when engaging with fellow entrepreneurs, business owners, and employees. His experience transitioning from employee to employer has equipped him with valuable knowledge and understanding that resonates with those working in Britain’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Paul’s down-to-earth and…
Rob Boland, Interim-COO, pirkx The world has moved on – employee benefits need to move on too The world of work has fundamentally changed over the past decade. People have more choice in who they work for, how they work and where they work. Most critically, people want to work for a business that looks after them as individuals and shows them they are cared for beyond simply being a ‘cog in the machine’. They want to know that there is support for them as they try to make the best of their lives, in and out of the workplace.…
A team of experts has come together to disrupt the expensive and complex social care. system by launching an ‘app’ to bring care homes/providers and carers together using AI. AgoraStaff, a temporary staffing app for the social care sector, is the brainchild of Richard Williams-Pears, a longtime Cornwall councillor and former mayor of St Austell, who witnessed firsthand the rising costs and inefficiencies in social care. He teamed up with his wife Jolene, AgoraStaff’s Director of Outstanding Compliance, who has an extensive background in operating theatres, and Janet Shreeve, who brings hands-on care sector experience from running Shreeve Care Services,…
Whatever the device you are using a subscription can be activated in seconds with a few clicks. Hence, it’s astonishing that cancelling that same service can sometimes feel like navigating a maze. For UK consumers and businesses alike, a frustrating reality persists: while signing up is seamless and fully digital, cancelling often isn’t — and legally, it doesn’t have to be. Despite the UK’s growing digital economy and consumer expectations for frictionless service, many websites still require customers to pick up the phone and call a customer service line to cancel their subscription. Some even limit these cancellation windows to inconvenient office…
Leadership mentor and entrepreneur Gary Parsons is using Face Equality Week (13-17 May) and Mental Health Awareness Week (13-19 May) to spotlight a subject close to his heart – the mental health of leaders. For too long, the mental health conversation in business has focused solely on employees. Gary is breaking that silence. As someone who built a multi award-winning, seven-figure business while battling the hidden effects of facial paralysis, he knows first-hand the cost of ignoring your own wellbeing at the top. Gary, 41, from Derbyshire, developed Bell’s Palsy as a teenager and has lived with permanent facial paralysis…
Project Brains, a UK-based startup connecting fractional specialists with businesses to solve specific business challenges, has launched ProdigyPB, an AI-driven job description platform. The platform allows users to accurately identify specific recruitment needs through business problem definition and create precise, engaging and bias-free job descriptions in a matter of seconds. ProdigyPB moves beyond traditional recruitment methods by using advanced AI technology to help businesses precisely identify hiring requirements and quickly match talent to clearly defined business outcomes. The interactive platform allows businesses to uncover and communicate their exact talent needs clearly and quickly. Unlike traditional job descriptions that often miss…
Craig Rickman answers six key questions to help freelancers and businesses owners save enough for their golden years. Being your own boss, whether you freelance or employ others, has clear and obvious appeal. You have the freedom and flexibility to live your working life on your terms, something that many of us crave, and (to some degree) can control how much you earn. That said, not only is working for yourself hard graft but there’s lots of uncertainty. You also miss out on valuable financial benefits enjoyed by your employed counterparts, notably company pension contributions, which means the responsibility of…
Manchester, England – Workplace dangers aren’t confined to a galaxy far, far away. From Death Star design flaws to poor stormtrooper performance and lack of proper PPE, workplace challenges span galaxies. Ahead of Star Wars Day (May the fourth be with you…), BrightHR have crunched the numbers on the various HR and health breaches that the Empire enacts upon the Death Star, comparing them to real world HR and health & safety stats. Alan Price, CEO of BrightHR says “Our research reveals that while 1.2 million lives were lost to reactor flaws, as a result of bad planning and a…