Work & Ideas

Learning in public.
Thinking out loud.

This is a personal gallery — a record of what I've been making and thinking since I first opened ChatGPT in November 2022. The work ranges from commercial frameworks to fiction to family history. The common thread is curiosity about what these tools make possible when you take them seriously.

Projects — newest first
Video Apr 2026
The Missing Context
Microsoft Copilot can now reason over your entire Microsoft Graph — and from April 2026, over Dataverse too. But Copilot is only as good as the data underneath it. The most valuable context in any customer relationship — what was actually said on every call — was never there. Solgari puts it there: every call transcribed, summarised, sentiment-scored, and written natively into Dataverse as an activity record.
Claude ChatGPT ElevenLabs Clipchamp
Mar 2026
Genealogy Personal
Mason · Powell · Love · Smith · Morrell — A Family History
Ten generations. Nearly three centuries. Five family strands — from a Huntingdonshire farm in the 1730s to Dublin in 2006 — traced through census records, parish registers, and the notes my grandmother kept. Two great-grandfathers killed at Gallipoli on the same day, in different regiments, whose children would one day meet in Nottingham. Compiled with AI assistance; every primary source verified independently.
Claude ChatGPT
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Paul Mason
Field Notes on AI
Practical observations on AI in commercial practice. What is actually working, what is not yet working, and what the gap between the two means for scaling technology businesses. Written without hype.
A continuing series
2 issues published
Issue 2
Field Note2025
The AI Reckoning
Enterprise AI adoption has flatlined despite record investment. Meaningful usage sits at 5–10% in most firms while consumer adoption races ahead. This note examines why — and what the companies that are actually making it work are doing differently.
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Issue 1
Field NoteLinkedIn
What's Actually Working (And What's Not...Yet)
The first Field Note — a practical survey of AI in B2B sales and marketing. Where teams are seeing real results, where they are still experimenting, and where the gap between hype and reality is widest. Published on LinkedIn.
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Where this started. In November 2022 I opened ChatGPT the week it launched. I had no plan. I just started asking it things — first practical questions, then harder ones, then questions I hadn't known how to ask. Within a few weeks I understood that something structurally significant was happening, and that the right response was to engage seriously rather than observe from a distance.

Everything in this gallery came from that decision. The tools have changed — Claude, ChatGPT, ElevenLabs, Midjourney, and others — but the approach has stayed the same: bring the ideas, bring the judgement, use the tools to go further than either could alone. None of this is AI-generated work. It is my work, made with AI as a collaborator.