What this site is
Most writing on AI-first companies comes from two places. Consultancies write for large enterprises. Technology companies announce their own plans. Neither tells a 40-person accounting firm or a 300-person manufacturer what works.
This site is for the people who run those companies. It reports what the evidence shows and says how strong that evidence is. It sorts advice by company size, because a firm of 10 and a firm of 5,000 face different budgets and risks.
Start with the guide to AI-first by company size. To see how evidence is judged, read how evidence is rated.
Who writes it
This site is written by Dr Paweł Szczęsny (ORCID, LinkedIn).
To get in touch, or to report an error, write to contact@ai-first.company. Every page also has a “Report an error” link next to its review date. Corrections are made on the page, and the review date changes.
The lists of cases, assessments and practices can be downloaded as data files. Those files are under the CC BY 4.0 licence: you may reuse them if you give credit.
Editorial rules
- Every practice carries an evidence rating. The method behind the rating is published, with a version number.
- Memos are signals, not evidence. When a company announces an AI plan, I report it as a statement of intent. I never present it as proof that something works.
- Every page shows when it was last reviewed. Pages are kept up to date, and ratings change when the evidence changes.
- Every figure links to its source. Figures reported only by a company about itself, or by the vendor that sold the tool, are labelled as such.
Funding and independence
- I co-authored the TPAH model. TPAH is a method for assessing where AI fits in a company’s work, task by task. It was developed with Rzeszów University of Technology and the Human for Future foundation, which sells the analysis to companies.
- TPAH gets no special treatment here. It is rated with the same fields and the same method as every other assessment. See how TPAH is rated and the worked example that uses it.
- Money never affects ratings. Nobody can pay for a rating or to change one.
- Paid placements will be labelled. There are none on this site today. If that changes, each one will be marked clearly and kept apart from rated content.