Proximity primer · 10 parts

What can AI actually do?

A ten-part Proximity primer on moving from individual assistance to systems that can participate responsibly in professional work.

1. 01What makes AI useful in professional workBegin with usefulness: the conditions that turn model capability into dependable professional work.
2. 02A tool helps you work. A system changes how work happens.Separate a helpful interface from a system that changes how work is coordinated.
3. 03The difference between automation and delegationDistinguish assistance, automation and delegation by responsibility, not novelty.
4. 04Context is not hiding in your databaseSee why records alone cannot explain the state, intent and judgement around a decision.
5. 05The First DraftUse the first draft as a bounded pattern for AI participation and human review.
6. 06What is operating intelligence?Connect context, memory and action through a shared operating model.
7. 07Why Interfaces Need Operating BoundariesMake authority and constraints visible at the point where work happens.
8. 08Most organisations forget their own promisesTreat commitments as operational memory rather than scattered correspondence.
9. 09How to decide whether AI is ready to actEvaluate readiness through authority, evidence, reversibility and exception handling.
10. 10From scattered context to a review packetBring the ideas together in a practical unit of evidence, recommendation and review.