AI strategy01
Before you buy another AI tool, map one day of work.
A practical way to find a useful AI starting point: follow one task, identify the friction, and define a result worth measuring.
An open notebook on artificial intelligence.
Less noise. Better questions. Work worth doing.
Practical essays on AI, business, and leadership.
By Pasqualino Mazza, Toronto & beyond.
AI strategy / 3 minute read
Before you buy another AI tool, map one day of work.
A tool can look impressive in a demonstration and still have no obvious place in your business. A better starting point is an ordinary working day.
Read the opening essayThe reading room
Notes worth keeping.
AI strategy02
An AI pilot needs an exit, not just a launch.
How to design a small AI trial with an owner, a comparison, review criteria and a clear decision at the end.
Practical AI03
A draft is not a decision.
A simple review routine for AI-assisted writing: check the facts, restore the context, and keep responsibility with the person approving the work.
Practical AI04
The most useful prompt is often a better brief.
Build a reusable AI task brief with audience, source material, constraints, output format and a human review standard.
Leadership05
A Toronto business can start smaller than an AI department.
Pasqualino Mazza’s Toronto notebook: a practical starting point for a small business exploring AI without turning it into a company-wide initiative.
Leadership06
Five questions a leader should ask before the rollout.
Five leadership questions for an AI rollout: what changes, who owns it, how it is checked, what happens when it fails, and what evidence supports expansion.
No essays match this topic.
A note from the authorA business perspective.
A business perspective.
An open notebook.
I’m Pasqualino Mazza—an entrepreneur, global AI consultant, and content creator. This journal is a place to examine how AI fits into the work people actually do. Written with Toronto in view and a wider conversation in mind.
The Toronto notebookA small beginning.
A small beginning.
A useful question.
For an owner with a full calendar, an AI initiative can sound like another large project. This Toronto-focused note begins with one piece of work and one manageable experiment.
Read the Toronto notebook