by Paul Brindley | Aug 23, 2026 | VAi
Today, 23 August 2026, marks three years since VAi, our insolvency co-pilot, went live. Three years. In the world of AI, that feels like rather a long time. When we launched VAi on 23 August 2023, ChatGPT itself had been publicly available for less than a year. Most...
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...
