Are you prepared for AI in 2026? This week we are taking stock. We will look at the foundations firms laid in 2025, so you can see where you are solid, where you have gaps, and what needs attention before the next wave of AI lands.

In 2025, most of the work was about foundations:

• Aligning leaders so they pull in the same direction

• Selecting secure AI tools

• Creating and updating AI policies

Now, in 2026, those foundations meet the next phase: AI agents, smarter workflows, and tools that can act inside your systems.

Welcome to the new year!

I am so ready for AI in 2026, because this is the year AI stops sitting in a separate chat window and really takes over some tasks and does them for us.

We are this much closer to AI employees that can take over entire tasks.

In 2025 we laid the foundations. We selected our tools, created policies, trained our teams, and built an AI‑literate workforce.

Now those people are asking a new question:

When will it do my tax return for me? When will it annotate the contract for me? When will it prepare the case?

Why you need to understand AI Agents and AI Employees?

First, so you can implement what is ready.

Second, so that when people try to sell you AI agents or AI employees, you can tell whether they are offering something genuinely valuable or something you could build yourself in one prompt.

There are three gaps between today’s technology and AI Agents that can actually do the work for you.

We need to understand where each one is at, and what we can do today:

Today I'm giving you a holiday gift. Because it’s the holidays and because it's summer here in Australia, that makes me extra happy.

It's a gift I gave myself a few months ago, and now I want to give it to you.

The gift? The superpower to create your own accountability tracker.

So you can design the best way for you to make those New Year resolutions really come true.

I'm not selling you an app. I'm showing you how I built mine so you can build yours.

AI can now do maths, not because it is getting better at predicting the next number, like it predicts text, but because it's become a reasoning layer that knows when to use tools.

This weekend I wasted half an hour redoing work I'd already finished—all because I didn't ask AI for what I really wanted.

Would you like to see great prompts used by different professionals in multiple industries, written by the best and most experienced people on the planet?

OpenAI just released a list of over 200 of those, with the entire prompt and all the attachments and how they were used.

It’s NOT a "list of 200 prompts you must use today". I don’t like those at all!

It is an insightful database to dig into, start a conversation and get inspired.s

Sometimes platforms offer two features that look identical, and we're left wondering which one to use. The answer isn't in the launch announcement.

It's in watching which feature gets the developers love: that is: upgrades, improvements, new capabilities

Every so often, I have one of those admin-type tasks I just don’t want to do myself.

Things like copying and pasting data. Updating details. Keeping track of long lists.

It feels like AI should be able to do it for me.

And well, some apps are starting to do just that for us.

Today I show you Notion AI.

Everyone talks about agents all the time and it sounds very advanced and very complex, but really it can be very simple.

In this video, you’ll see how to create your first SharePoint agent. I demo it with an agent that can discuss company policies, then I give some examples of what else you can use it for.

Today we will look at some great updates coming out of ChatGPT that you’ll want to know about.

Next week we will give love to Microsoft users, looking at SharePoint Agents.

In today's video, you’ll see how ChatGPT now lets you share projects, connect company knowledge, and take action for you in the new browser, Atlas.

Today we’re one step closer to AI that truly sits on our devices, can see everything we’re doing, and can chat with us about it.

No more screenshots, no more uploads, no need to give it context.

It just lives with us.

This is where we’re going.

AI comes to our world rather than us having to go to it.

In the video, I share Microsoft’s new capability called Copilot Vision.

Licence options for AI apps are confusing.

Mostly because of questions around security of our data.

Let’s tidy it up, at least for now, until it changes again 😃.

We will focus on Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT. The free, the paid, and the 'included in your Microsoft account'.

We all know that the more context we give AI, the better the responses are going to be.

But it’s a lot of effort to start explaining everything.

Sometimes we just need something done quickly, so we give less context, and we compromise our result.

In the video, I show how to make this process a lot easier.

The magic is called context blocks. I'll show you how I use them and, how I easily create them.

Today, you’ll see how to take great AI use cases and make it into a simple tool or agent that anyone in your team can use.

We will look at options in ChatGPT and in Microsoft Copilot.

We will also look at the process I like going through to implement this with your team.

Today I want to open the door and invite you into the amazing world of AI App Builders, AI that builds apps for us.

I’m not doing this because I think we should all start building apps — I don’t think that at all.

I’m doing it because I want you to know what’s possible, have awareness of what’s going on, and have that moment of 'wow, I made an app and it worked!'.

I also want you to understand what people are offering when they sell or develop an app for you, and what tools they have so that you know what’s at their disposal.

Let’s go!

In the video, I open the door and show the amazing world of AI app builders.

It’s time to get started with browsers that take over and do things for us.

They are moving from Early Adopter to Early Majority territory.

So you should give them a go.

In the video, I show two: agent mode in ChatGPT and Comet from Perplexity.

I have a very clear preference between the two.

Today we have something that is a little less directly work-related, but still, we should all be aware of. It’s about where AI image generation and image editing are at right now.

We have some big updates from Microsoft Copilot.

Copilot tends to be a bit behind ChatGPT in terms of capabilities, so it is pretty exciting to get so many new features released for us users.

If you are a Copilot user, you will love these new options.

If you are a ChatGPT user, you'll enjoy seeing how excited we are about things you've had for ages 😄, lucky you.

But hey - we get them baked into our Microsoft environment, so now we can do things like: Hey Copilot, every morning, brief me on my meetings for the day.

Or - every afternoon, let me know what is still outstanding in my email.

Pretty cool. Let's jump in.

We've talked about AI agents.

These are AI that can actually do things for us, not just talk about things with us. And this is becoming the norm now.

Today I want to show you one of the things that we do for the first time and life will never be the same.

I can imagine a day when our children ask: Why is it called a browser? And we will explain that they used to just browse. Not do anything. And the kids will ask: Really? What was that good for?

This era has just begun and the first major player is Comet, a browser by Perplexity, the company that makes the AI-powered search and answer engine also called Perplexity.