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AI that survives Monday morning.

Practical, evidence-led writing on AI adoption, capability, agentic workflows and sustainability — by someone who actually uses it. Aimed at people who want answers, not hype.

Kevin Clubb AI-Native Analyst UK Retail · Hospitality · Education Issue series 2026

The articles.

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The AI Competency Pyramid. Cover showing 20.6m UK workers across 14 levels.
Issue 001 Adoption 7 min read · 20 Apr 2026

The AI competency pyramid.

Where 20.6 million UK workers actually sit. 14 levels, 95% at the bottom, and the jump that costs nothing — but 97% still haven't made.

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AI-curious? This is the bit no one tells you. Cover image in Clinical Green design.
Issue 002 Practical AI 4 min read · 25 Apr 2026

AI-curious? This is the bit no one tells you.

Stop typing questions into AI. Start pasting things in. The free habit that beats any productivity app — no subscription, no prompt engineering, no faff.

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Four labs. Seven days. No clear winner. Cover image showing the April 2026 AI frontier.
Issue 003 Frontier 9 min read · 28 Apr 2026

Four labs. Seven days. No clear winner.

Six months ago, GPT-5 was the headline. Today, four labs are trading the lead in seven-day cycles. A clear-eyed map of where capability sits in April 2026 — and what it means for enterprise strategy.

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Vibe coding capability. Three skill sets collapsed into one prompting loop.
Issue 004 Vibe coding 8 min read · 6 May 2026

Vibe coding capability.

Three skill sets — collapsed into one prompting loop. What vibe coders actually do all day, and why it sits somewhere between Level 4 and Level 5 on the AI competency pyramid.

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About the author

Senior business analyst. AI super-adopter. Still learning.

I've spent twenty years bridging business and technical teams across retail, fashion, finance and now hospitality & catering. The last twelve months have been almost entirely about putting AI to work — properly, in real production systems, not as a demo.

AI Sustained is where I write up what I'm learning. Practical, evidence-led, and aimed at people who want to use AI well — not people who want to be sold something.

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