by Paul Brindley | Mar 1, 2026 | VAi
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, I had the privilege of working with some incredibly talented people, whom I looked up to in awe and have tried to emulate ever since, especially so in tough times of high stress and pressure. They had one thing in common: their door was...
by Paul Brindley | Jan 3, 2026 | VAi
One of the most interesting things I’m seeing as more people use my insolvency co-pilot, VAi, is this: Many users are treating it like a Google search. That is completely understandable. Most of us have spent 20+ years training our brains to work in ‘search...
by Paul Brindley | Nov 25, 2025 | VAi
I shut my insolvency practice for a month… an entire month. And VAi didn’t blink. From mid-October to mid-November 2025 I did something most insolvency practitioners would regard as utter madness: I stepped completely away from day-to-day practice and went trekking in...
by Paul Brindley | Sep 29, 2025 | VAi
The Problem AI is everywhere. From chatbots on shopping websites to tools generating essays for students, the technology has exploded into the mainstream. But in the rush to use AI, people often misunderstand what these systems are, how...
by Paul Brindley | Sep 1, 2025 | VAi
On 26 August 2023, VAi went live as the UK’s first generative AI co-pilot built specifically for company insolvency. Two years on, it’s worth pausing to reflect on what those conversations reveal – not just about insolvency, but about the way accountants,...
