Sep 7, 2026 · 27 min · 10 segments
What if AI could give smaller organisations access to capabilities that previously needed much bigger teams, budgets and technical expertise? Paul Wiseall is co-founder and managing director of…
Paul WiseallGuest
Annie LeggeHost
So it's kind of looking out at what's the biggest pain point to sort of touch first, but also, I mean, how do you, I'm interested in how you think about where's actually going to kind of all make culturally make a difference.

Doesn't quite make sense, but actually what's going to, what's going to make the team also come on board in terms of, okay, this, this, you know, enabling technology could really help us achieve more in terms of what our organization is doing.

There's one that we see occasionally, especially when people are looking to adopt AI into their company.

There's this real fear that that means it's coming from my job and I won't be effective.

But actually, what's quite warming is the majority of people companies that we talk to say no no no that's that's actually not what we're trying to do what we want is for our team to be able to do what they're really good at more not stuck in the spreadsheets and pulling all this disparate data into one report if an agent can do that then my guys can be out there talking and analyzing and looking at things and saying that's not right and and helping actually drive us forward so that i think is is something that i think we need to be aware of but actually the responses we're seeing are quite warming but the other side of it is with all of this, we said just about people know their jobs.

You and I have done a little bit of great stuff together with Braun and the Living Labs.

And I was really privileged to be able to work with you guys on the AGK Gloucester stuff.

And talking to them, what you realize is people love what they're trying to do.

They're trying to make a real difference, but they don't really know how to touch this stuff.

So just a few, hours of showing us a couple of demos and saying just have a play can just dial up their ability to go look what i made like even like my my parents back at home they they run a small community charity and i just showed them how they can quickly put together posters and and simple things otherwise they would be either paying somebody an awful lot of money for and it might not be right or they wouldn't be too proud of now it's plastered everywhere and they're really chuffed so it's I think with this, at least the AI that we're playing with, it's empowering people to do better things.

So when we first talked to you a bit more deeply in terms of, you know, you'd come in as a member, but also we were at a point of like, how do we find the resources and the capacity to really start growing sustainably Tech for Good Southwest, given we are pretty much volunteer dependent? How did you hone in on what we needed to do first? And then we can talk about the problem we solved.

I think it's fair to say the few of us, we sat around a table, didn't we? Exactly.

We got around that table and we talked about, you know, what's keeping you up at night? What's keeping you sat in front of a laptop? You know, what are you, what's the stuff that's just draining all your energy? Because like you, Ed, Dev, you're such brilliant people, people.

But the problem is doing four or five hour events, the admin is still there and all the extra stuff is still in the background.

So that was, I think it's fair to say our conversation was like, what's, what's, I don't know, keeping you busy.

So it's kind of looking out at what's the biggest pain point to sort of touch first, but also, I mean, how do you, I'm interested in how you think about where's actually going to kind of all make culturally make a difference.

Doesn't quite make sense, but actually what's going to, what's going to make the team also come on board in terms of, okay, this, this, you know, enabling technology could really help us achieve more in terms of what our organization is doing.

There's one that we see occasionally, especially when people are looking to adopt AI into their company.

There's this real fear that that means it's coming from my job and I won't be effective.

But actually, what's quite warming is the majority of people companies that we talk to say no no no that's that's actually not what we're trying to do what we want is for our team to be able to do what they're really good at more not stuck in the spreadsheets and pulling all this disparate data into one report if an agent can do that then my guys can be out there talking and analyzing and looking at things and saying that's not right and and helping actually drive us forward so that i think is is something that i think we need to be aware of but actually the responses we're seeing are quite warming but the other side of it is with all of this, we said just about people know their jobs.

You and I have done a little bit of great stuff together with Braun and the Living Labs.

And I was really privileged to be able to work with you guys on the AGK Gloucester stuff.

And talking to them, what you realize is people love what they're trying to do.

They're trying to make a real difference, but they don't really know how to touch this stuff.

So just a few, hours of showing us a couple of demos and saying just have a play can just dial up their ability to go look what i made like even like my my parents back at home they they run a small community charity and i just showed them how they can quickly put together posters and and simple things otherwise they would be either paying somebody an awful lot of money for and it might not be right or they wouldn't be too proud of now it's plastered everywhere and they're really chuffed so it's I think with this, at least the AI that we're playing with, it's empowering people to do better things.

So when we first talked to you a bit more deeply in terms of, you know, you'd come in as a member, but also we were at a point of like, how do we find the resources and the capacity to really start growing sustainably Tech for Good Southwest, given we are pretty much volunteer dependent? How did you hone in on what we needed to do first? And then we can talk about the problem we solved.

I think it's fair to say the few of us, we sat around a table, didn't we? Exactly.

We got around that table and we talked about, you know, what's keeping you up at night? What's keeping you sat in front of a laptop? You know, what are you, what's the stuff that's just draining all your energy? Because like you, Ed, Dev, you're such brilliant people, people.

But the problem is doing four or five hour events, the admin is still there and all the extra stuff is still in the background.

So that was, I think it's fair to say our conversation was like, what's, what's, I don't know, keeping you busy.
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