Sweetie, your cousin says you work with robots now.
Are you the reason my bank replaced Brenda with a machine? 🤖
Gilles · HowToFly
😂 Not guilty. My company is called HowToFly. We help people work with AI, not get replaced by it.
Aunt Linda
Explain it slowly. I'm typing with one finger. ☝️
Gilles · HowToFly
Deal. Remember your job at the library?
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Aunt Linda
Thirty-one years, dear. Best job in town.
Gilles · HowToFly
What took up most of your time?
Aunt Linda
Typing up the new arrivals list. Every week. Then a monthly report for the council that nobody ever read.
Gilles · HowToFly
And what did you love?
Aunt Linda
Helping people find the right book. The little boy who only read about volcanoes. The lady researching her grandfather.
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Gilles · HowToFly
That's it exactly. AI can do a lot of the dull bits: the lists, the reports, the searching. So people get more time for the lovely bits, and do them better.
That's what we do. We look at what a company wants to achieve, how the work gets done and what people are good at. Then we find, build and set up the right AI helpers for them.
Aunt Linda
So the computer wouldn't have taken my job?
Gilles · HowToFly
No. It would have taken your Friday afternoon of typing. You'd still choose the volcano books. 🌋
Aunt Linda
And it would know which books?
Gilles · HowToFly
It would help. You could ask it, “What do we have for a seven-year-old who loves volcanoes?” and it would search the whole catalogue in a second.
You'd still decide what to hand him. And you'd know he also likes dinosaurs.
Aunt Linda
I'd have been unstoppable.
Gilles · HowToFly
That's the word we use: augmented. You, plus a very fast assistant.
Quicker. Better. And cheaper for the library, because nobody spends Friday afternoon typing lists.
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Aunt Linda
One clever assistant per person. That's a lot of clever assistants, dear.
Gilles · HowToFly
It is. And that's only half of it.
Did your library ever have a problem nobody could solve alone?
Aunt Linda
The leaky roof! Doris knew who to call, Frank knew the budget, and the cleaner knew exactly where to put the bucket.
Gilles · HowToFly
How long did it take to get them all together?
Aunt Linda
Two winters.
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Gilles · HowToFly
That's the other half of what AI can do. It knows who's good at what, and gives each person the right job.
Doris calls the roofer, Frank signs off the budget, the cleaner brings the bucket. Same day. 🪣
Aunt Linda
A computer that hands out the jobs! Like the village WhatsApp group, but useful.
Gilles · HowToFly
Much more useful. And nobody posts photos of their lunch.
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Aunt Linda
And who's in charge? Not the computer, I hope.
Gilles · HowToFly
People. Always. The AI suggests who does what. People check, decide and do.
Aunt Linda
Show me something fun, then. It's Christmas. 🍿
Gilles · HowToFly
A Spoonful of SugarA film from the HowToFly collection. New tools stick when people enjoy using them.
Aunt Linda
A spoonful of sugar. Now that's a business plan I understand.
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Gilles · HowToFly
The Unicorn WithinAnother from our collection. Everyone has more to offer than their job title says.
Aunt Linda
Robots, unicorns and leaky roofs. Your Christmas cards must be something else. 🦄
Aunt Linda
But does it actually work? Outside of Christmas chats with your aunt?
Gilles · HowToFly
It does. We've done this with teams at some very big companies.
Researchers who get months of reading done in days. Estate agents who make a virtual tour of a house in an afternoon. Whole teams sharing their ideas instead of keeping them in a drawer.
First you look at what the company wants. 🧭 Then you give everyone a helper for the dull bits. 🤖 And you help hand out the big jobs, so everyone pulls together. 🤝
Gilles · HowToFly
That's HowToFly. People, augmented. One by one, and all together.
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Aunt Linda
Why didn't you just say that, sweetie? 😂
Gilles · HowToFly
Because you ask better questions than most boardrooms. 💛
Aunt Linda
And if a company wants your help?
Gilles · HowToFly
They bring one thing they want to achieve and one job that eats too much time. We show them where AI could help and what a first tool could look like.
One working session. No obligation.
Aunt Linda
Lovely. Now come and carve the turkey. No robots. 🦃
Gilles · HowToFly
Augmented by gravy. On my way.
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