Free AI starter pack
AI is already in your business. Is it being used safely?
Your team are probably using AI already, but do you know how? This free starter pack helps you put sensible guardrails in place first, then put AI to work properly.
In the pack
Everything you need to get AI right.
A leadership brief covering what AI is, the real risks, and five steps to take straight away
An AI acceptable use policy ready to edit, make your own and share with your team
A prompt cheat sheet for getting better results from everyday AI tools
A free 30-minute AI Readiness Workshop with Tom and Chris, no obligation
54%
of UK businesses now use AI, up from 25% in 2024. Much of it is Shadow AI, running on personal accounts with nobody in charge.
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Why this matters
The risk isn’t AI. It’s AI nobody is managing.
Your team don’t need permission to start using AI. They can set up an account in seconds and paste in information, confidential or not, and you may never know. There’s even a name for it: Shadow AI.
What Shadow AI actually means
Staff using AI tools without approval, oversight or data protection controls. They’re rarely trying to cause trouble. The tools are free and useful. But the moment company or client information goes in, you’ve lost sight of where your data has gone.
Bottom-up, not top-down
Most technology arrives from the top, with leadership approving it and signing off the rollout. AI is arriving from the ground up, as staff adopt it themselves. It makes sense to them, but for you it’s risk nobody signed off.
The answer
Don’t ban AI. Put sensible guardrails around it.
That’s exactly what this free guide helps you do.
Get the free guide →What you’ll get
Three parts. One clear plan.
Each part does a different job, for a different person in your business.
Part 1 · For the leadership team
Leadership brief
What AI actually is, why unmanaged use creates real risk, what good looks like, and five steps to take straight away.
Part 2 · For your team
AI policy template
A ready-made acceptable use policy to adapt and share. Minutes to make your own, with proper governance from day one.
Part 3 · For everyone
Prompt cheat sheet
A simple guide to writing prompts that get better results, for anyone who uses AI day to day.
Included with the guide
A free 30-minute AI Readiness Workshop
Half an hour with Tom and Chris. We’ll look at where AI may already be in use, talk through your main data and governance risks, see whether Microsoft Copilot is the right place to start, and map out your first steps. No obligation.
Get the guide and book your workshop →54%
of UK businesses now use AI, up from 25% in 2024 (British Chambers of Commerce)
90%+
of firms report no change in headcount. AI is supporting staff, not replacing them
Most
AI use is Shadow AI, running on personal accounts outside any company control
From Tom and Chris
We wrote this for business owners like you.
“Done properly, AI hands your team hours back and takes on the work nobody enjoys, so you can focus on growing the business.”
We talk to business owners about AI all the time, and we hear the same two feelings, often in the same breath: excitement about what it could do, and a quiet worry about what it might already be doing. That’s why we put this pack together.
Our starting point is always foundations first. Get the governance, guidance and security in place, then let your team loose on everything AI can do.
Tom and Chris, Co-Founders of CREAVO
Is this for you?
This guide is for you if…
If that sounds familiar, the guide is a good place to start.
Get the free guideYou’re a business owner or leader
You suspect your team are already using ChatGPT or other AI tools
You don’t have an AI policy or guardrails in place yet
You’re responsible for IT, data or compliance and want to stay in control
You want to use AI properly, not ban it