Pollinger AI

Name: Pollinger AI
Address: Cardiff, GB
Telephone: +442920789139

Making AI Simple, Practical and Powerful. http://pollinger.ai Making AI Simple, Practical, and Powerful for Your Business.

Pollinger AI provides expert AI training and consultancy for small businesses, helping you harness tools like ChatGPT and Copilot to boost productivity and growth. Our approach is clear, friendly, and practical - no jargon, just actionable strategies that empower your team to succeed with AI. Feel free to reach out via phone/WhatsApp at 029 2078 9139 or email me at [email protected]

04/09/2026

One month to go!

One month from today I take on the Cardiff Half Marathon on Sunday 4 October, raising money for a cause that means a lot to me, Age Connects Cardiff & the Vale.

The challenge is set:

🏃 13.1 miles
⏱️ Sub 1:33 targe
🫴 £500 to raise

I’m proud to volunteer with Age Connects and have seen
first-hand the difference their work makes to older people across our community, particularly those experiencing loneliness and isolation.

So while I’ll be chasing a PB on race day, the more important
target is that £500.

One month of training, whatever the weather! and fundraising to go.

If you’d like to support me, even a few pounds will help make a difference.

Please sponsor me here:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/jonathan-pollinger-2026

And if you can’t donate, a share of this post would be hugely appreciated.

Thank you!

JP

Pic from Bute Park early this morning.

04/09/2026

Before you close the laptop this Friday, ask AI one useful question:

What did I actually achieve this week?

Busy weeks have a habit of hiding their own progress. We remember the jobs still open, while the problems solved, decisions made and people helped blur into the background.

Try this prompt:

“Review everything you can access from my work this week, including meetings, chats, emails, documents and tasks.

Identify my five to seven strongest wins. Prioritise outcomes and meaningful progress over activity.

For each win, show the evidence and explain why it mattered. Separate completed achievements from work still progressing, and include quieter wins such as decisions made, relationships strengthened or problems prevented.

Flag anything you couldn’t access. Be encouraging but honest, and don’t invent or exaggerate.

Finish with what I should give myself credit for and three pieces of momentum to carry into next week.”

Those guardrails matter. Without them, AI can mistake activity for achievement or turn a conversation into a completed result.

Used well, it becomes a mirror for the valuable work that can disappear into the week.

Try it before you log off. Your week may have gone better than it felt.

What win had you almost forgotten?

04/09/2026

📣 An email arrives. ChatGPT can now use that event to prepare the next piece of work.

OpenAI has added event-triggered scheduled tasks to ChatGPT Work. On eligible plans, a task can start when a supported event occurs in Gmail, Slack or GitHub, rather than waiting for a fixed time.

Imagine a client emails to rearrange a meeting. ChatGPT could:

• identify the relevant message
• check your connected calendar
• prepare two or three alternative times
• draft a reply for you to approve

That final point matters.

This is closer to what many people mean by an AI agent: not a chatbot waiting for another prompt, but an assistant that notices a useful change and prepares the next step.

For a small business, sensible starting points could include drafting a response to a new enquiry, creating a follow-up checklist or summarising feedback posted in a Slack channel.

My advice is to start with repetitive, low-risk work. Keep a human approval step before anything is sent, published or changed.

The hard part probably won’t be the technology. It’ll be deciding how much you trust an assistant to do on your behalf.

If you’d like help identifying one safe, useful event-triggered workflow for your business, send me a message.

OpenAI guide: https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/automations

03/09/2026

23% of target raised and we're over the £100 mark.

£115 raised towards my £500 target for Age Connects Cardiff & the Vale.

A huge thank you to everyone who has donated so far.

I’m running the Cardiff Half Marathon on Sunday 4 October, raising money for Age Connects, where I’m proud to volunteer.

Next milestone… £200!

If anyone would like to help me get there, even a few pounds would mean a lot.

Sponsor me here 👇 https://www.justgiving.com/page/jonathan-pollinger-2026

Thank you!

JP

02/09/2026

📣 You can now advertise on ChatGPT in the UK.

OpenAI has launched an advertising pilot, with ads appearing on the Free and Go plans.

The ads are clearly labelled and kept separate from ChatGPT’s answers. OpenAI also says advertisers cannot see users’ conversations and advertising does not influence the answers people receive.

I’ve set up a trial ad myself, so let me know if you spot it!

This matters because people increasingly use AI to compare products, research suppliers and make purchasing decisions.

But I wouldn’t rush into ChatGPT advertising just yet.

Before paying for visibility, make sure AI tools can understand your business organically:

• Are your services explained clearly?
• Do you answer the questions customers actually ask?
• Is your business information consistent across the web?
• Do you have credible reviews and useful case studies?
• Is your offer genuinely clear and convincing?

Advertising can increase visibility. It can’t make a confusing business look trustworthy.

My AI and SEO Readiness Report examines how well your website is understood by search engines and AI tools, then gives you practical recommendations for improving it.

It costs £275. If you’d like more details, send me a message with “AI READY”.

02/09/2026

One of the most interesting things about AI isn’t the jobs it removes.

It’s the jobs it changes.

In Nashville, Lyft’s Flexdrive operation is opening an 80,000 sq ft facility to support Waymo robotaxis — cleaning them, charging them, inspecting them and keeping them on the road.

It will employ around 70 people.

And here’s the bit that caught my attention: roughly half are former Lyft drivers.

That’s a fascinating glimpse of what automation can look like in practice.

The driving may be automated, but the surrounding operation certainly isn’t.

Robotaxis can apparently cover around 100,000 miles a year, creating a constant need for charging, cleaning, maintenance, inspection and fleet management.

So the job doesn’t necessarily disappear.

It moves.

Driver → fleet technician.
Driving → monitoring.
Operating the vehicle → operating the system around it.

We’ll undoubtedly see some roles lost through AI and automation. Pretending otherwise isn’t helpful.

But this is why I’m wary of headlines that reduce the future of work to “AI will take our jobs.”

A better question for businesses — and for individuals — might be:

Which tasks will disappear, which will remain, and what new work will appear around the technology?

That feels like a much more useful conversation.

31/08/2026

AI training that stops at “here are some prompts” is already out of date.

A new UK Government-backed initiative in Barnsley caught my attention because it focuses on something much more useful: turning AI skills into real outcomes.

Two schemes are being introduced:

🔹 A six-month AI Career Launchpad, linked to a Level 4 apprenticeship and paid work placements.

🔹 A Getting Job Ready with AI pilot, helping people use AI practically for job searches, CVs, applications and interview preparation.

What I like about this is the emphasis.

It isn’t really about teaching people “AI”.

It’s about teaching them how to use AI to achieve something.

That distinction matters just as much inside organisations.

Good AI training should start with questions such as:

👉 What are you trying to do faster or better?
👉 Where is repetitive work consuming people’s time?
👉 What decisions still need human judgement?
👉 How will we know the training has actually worked?

Then you introduce ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude or Gemini as tools for achieving those outcomes — not as the objective of the training itself.

There’s another interesting element too: the completed Career Launchpad curriculum is intended to be made available to other colleges and training providers.

If that works well, Barnsley could provide a useful model for moving AI skills training away from generic awareness and towards practical capability, confidence and measurable results.

More details from the UK Government:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/barnsley-residents-to-get-practical-ai-training-to-help-them-find-work-and-build-future-careers

For businesses, I’d apply exactly the same principle.

Don’t start by asking “How do we train everyone on AI?”

Start with:

“What do we want people to be able to do better after the training?”

That usually leads to a much more valuable programme.

28/08/2026

If a competitor could copy your AI-written post, swap the logo and publish it unchanged, the post is too generic.

Before publishing, run this four-part check:

1. Is there a real observation or example?
2. Is there a clear opinion?
3. Is the advice specific enough to use?
4. Does it sound like a person, not a brochure?

Useful editing prompt:

“Highlight every line that could have been written by any business. Replace those lines with specific, plain-English wording. Keep my opinion and examples. Remove hype, clichés and invented detail.”

AI can produce the first draft and help with the editing.

You still supply the judgement, lived experience and taste.

That is the part people remember.

27/08/2026

AI assistants can be very agreeable.

That is pleasant. It is not always useful.

Before committing to an idea, ask AI to push back:

“Act as a constructive sceptic. Identify:

• The assumptions I am making
• The strongest argument against this idea
• What could cause it to fail
• What evidence is missing
• The cheapest safe test I could run before committing

Do not disagree for effect. Focus on material risks.”

Then make the decision yourself.

This is one of the better uses of AI. It does not replace judgement. It makes your judgement work harder.

I’ve included this and six other practical techniques here:
https://www.pollinger.ai/blog/use-ai-to-get-better-at-using-ai

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