Find the expensive bit
Identify where the team is losing time, confidence, or momentum.
How do I use AI without losing the plot?
The practical loop I use to find friction, make messy thinking visible, explore options, prototype questions and bring people in earlier.
I use AI to reduce the cost of exploration, so I can test more routes, surface edge cases, and give teams something useful to react to sooner. The important bit is keeping enough friction to ask what the work is meant to teach us.
Identify where the team is losing time, confidence, or momentum.
AI helps me explore before committing, not commit without reflection.
A prototype is only useful when everyone understands what it is testing.
Ethics, accessibility, product context, and final judgement stay with the human team.
AI should remove unnecessary effort, not the judgement, debate and care that make the work good.