From architecture to AI
I spent 14 years as an architect, mostly working in the luxury residential sector. The design side of the job is great. The side nobody talks about is how much admin you end up doing. Emails to clients. Project notes. Reports for planning. Chasing contractors. By the end of most weeks, the actual design work had taken a back seat to keeping the paperwork moving.
When ChatGPT came out a few years ago, I started using it for the small stuff. Drafting client emails. Summarising long meetings. Writing first drafts of reports. The hours I got back were the difference between feeling on top of the week and feeling buried by it.
That experience is why I started Savvy AI. Most small businesses have the same problem I had: too much admin, not enough time. And most of them haven't tried AI yet because everything written about it sounds like it's aimed at software companies.
Why I work with small businesses
Both my parents ran small businesses while I was growing up. I watched them try to do everything themselves because finding good help was hard and expensive. They were always one set of hands short.
The UK is full of businesses like that. People running a shop, a trade, a small office, who carry the whole thing on their own. AI can take a lot of the routine work off them, but only if someone explains it properly and sets it up properly. That's what I do.
A bit about me
I'm originally from South Africa. My wife Selina and I moved to Glasgow a few years back and never wanted to leave. When I'm not working, you'll usually find me at Queen's Park walking our dog Riley, at the gym, or listening to whatever album I'm into that month.
