Notes on AI at work

Most AI content right now is made by content creators for content creators. They show you how to wire up agent swarms to batch-edit Instagram reels, or build automated content pipelines for an audience you don't yet have. The advice is fine if your job is making content. If your job is accounting, consulting, finance, or any of the office work that fills most of the white-collar economy, it isn't.

You have spreadsheets, not subscribers. You probably don't have access to Claude Opus or the latest GPT model. You almost certainly have Microsoft Copilot, possibly Gemini, possibly an internal tool nobody trained you on. And you have a directive, somewhere up the chain, to "leverage AI" in your work, with no real instructions about how.

This site is for that person. I'm a Tax Associate at KPMG and a CPA candidate. I test AI tools against the kind of work that fills a professional services week, publish the results, and write honestly about what helps and what doesn't. The site and the newsletter are free. I have no course to sell, and my employment contract wouldn't allow one if I did.

If you'd rather be the most effective person in your office at using AI than the loudest, the work I publish here is meant for you.

— Samuel L. McHargue