# HumanSpark.ai - llms-full.txt
# AI consulting and training for organisations adopting AI across their teams.
# Based in the west of Ireland. "Fewer late nights, not fewer humans."
# Founded by Alastair McDermott in 2007.

## About
- /about/ : About Alastair McDermott, AI consultant and author of The Human-First AI Series. Helps businesses figure out where AI fits, prove it works fast, and hand it off so the team owns it.
- /values/ : HumanSpark mission, vision and values. The guiding principles behind our human-first approach to AI adoption.

## Services
- /services/ : Overview of AI consulting and training services for businesses. We diagnose where AI fits, build working tools, train the team, and hand everything off.
- /adopt/ : AI adoption for a defined leadership cohort, function or business unit. I diagnose where AI belongs, prove it in real workflows, train the team, and hand off ownership - and part of the fee can follow the result, measured against operating metrics agreed up front. This works at any size of organisation when the scope is clear. My lane is adoption, not infrastructure: no enterprise model development, cloud architecture, DevOps, or company-wide rollouts - those belong with your platform partner. Scoped on a free Focus Call.
- /training/ : AI training programmes for business teams, commissioned by IRDG Innovation Skillnet. Four programmes: AI Foundations, Beyond the Basics, Team AI Adoption, and Strategic AI for Leaders. Practical skills your team uses the next day, not theory.
- /co-builder/ : 90-minute AI tool building session. Bring your expertise, leave with a working custom AI tool built on your content, frameworks, and workflows. Includes 30-day support. Scoped on a free Focus Call.
- /speaking/ : Keynotes, workshops and panel discussions for business audiences. Topics: AI for business leaders, practical AI adoption, AI risk and governance. Formats from a 30-60 minute keynote to a multi-day workshop.

## Books
- /books/ : The Human-First AI Series - four practical guides for business leaders who want to use AI without losing what makes them good at their work. Published by Authority Press.
- /books/use-ai-stay-human/ : Use AI, Stay Human - the survival guide for consultants, coaches, and advisors who sell expertise and want to use AI strategically without commoditising their work. Second Edition.
- /books/ai-pilot-handbook/ : The AI Pilot Handbook - a practical field manual for directors and project leads running their first AI pilot. Covers RATES candidate scoring, Verification Tax ROI measurement, and a 30-day Scale/Kill/Pivot playbook.
- /books/hello-im-new-here/ : Hello, I'm New Here! - teaches you to build four simple portable markdown files (the Core Four: Who, What, How, Why) that give any AI tool personal context from the first message.
- /books/beginners-guide-to-ai/ : An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Using AI - a practical starter kit for using AI at work with no technical background needed. Covers fundamentals, clear prompting, and building reliable workflows. Third Edition.

## Frameworks and Tools
- /rates/ : The RATES framework for scoring AI pilot candidates. Five factors, each scored 0-2: Repetitive, Annoying, Time-consuming, Error-prone, Scalable.
- /data-privacy-matrix/ : How to safely share data with AI systems. A practical classification framework for deciding what business data can and cannot go into AI tools.
- /verification-tax/ : Verification Tax Calculator - measure the true cost of checking AI output against the time it was supposed to save. The gap between promised efficiency and actual efficiency.
- /ai-foundations-companion/ : AI Foundations training companion guide. Reference material for participants in the AI Foundations training programme.

## Case Studies
- /case-studies/ : Real-world AI implementation case studies showing measurable results. Headline client results include 92% faster processing, a 12x capacity increase, and EUR 55k/month of capacity recovered. Individual cases range from a 90% processing-time reduction (and over EUR 250k/year saved) in a medical lab to an 80% cut in documentation time in consulting.

## Resources
- /blog/ : Blog with practical AI insights for business leaders. Topics include AI knowledge bases, reducing AI risk, AI workflows, and maintaining authority while using AI.
- /sparkos/ : SparkOS - guide to building an AI assistant system prompt. A structured approach to configuring AI tools for consistent, useful output.
- /voice-profile/ : Voice Profile template - capture your communication style so AI tools can write in your voice instead of generic AI-speak.
- /red-team/ : Red Team Prompt - a structured prompt for systematically critiquing AI output before publishing or acting on it.
- /tools/ : AI Tools and Custom GPTs - our free custom GPTs (fact-checking, prompt creation, AI usage policy, and more) plus on-site interactive tools (Verification Tax Calculator, Text Cleaner, Framework Library).
- /legal-resources/ : Legal resources for AI adoption - templates and guidance for AI policies, acceptable use, and data handling.
- /toolkit/ : Complete AI Toolkit - three free whitepapers covering AI opportunity assessment, risk management, and adoption planning.

## Contact
- /contact/ : Contact page for enquiries about consulting, training, or speaking.
- https://cal.humanspark.ai/alastair/focus-call : Book a free 25-minute Focus Call to discuss where AI fits in your business. No hard sell.