Which AI model should a UK business use? The autumn 2026 decision table
Eleven AI options for UK buyers, checked 7 Oct 2026, including Claude Haiku 5.5: pounds per million tokens, residency and HubSpot links.
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Which AI model should a UK business use? The autumn 2026 decision table
Eleven AI options for UK buyers, checked 7 Oct 2026, including Claude Haiku 5.5: pounds per million tokens, residency and HubSpot links.
Where your data actually goes: UK residency and GDPR for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Muse
Checked 12 Sep 2026: ChatGPT Business has no UK data residency and Claude has no first-party EU or UK region. Nine vendor tiers in one table.
AI policy template for UK businesses, clause by clause
A complete AI acceptable use policy for UK businesses of 30 to 500 staff, free and ungated, with the source and reasoning behind each of its 16 ...
What Should a Personal AI Agent Touch in Your CRM?
Muse, Grok Bot, ChatGPT and Claude all act on your behalf. Only two have an official HubSpot connector, and both cap bulk writes at 10 records.
Is Your Sales Team AI Competent? How to Find Out, and How to Certify It
A prospect asked if their sales team was AI competent. A four-level framework, an assessment design, and why a certificate should expire at six ...
Which AI vendors actually do voice, and how to choose
Text strength and voice strength are not the same thing. Grok publishes speech to speech at about 6p a minute. Anthropic sells no voice product at ...
An AI agent that owns a pipeline stage and knows its exit point: the quote-chase example
How to design an AI agent that owns one pipeline stage with a measurable exit condition, with a quote-chase example and costs at £9.00 per 1,000 ...
GPT-6 Astra: a weekend of testing, and four rules before you leave it unattended.
I spent a Saturday testing GPT-6 Astra, released 3 Sep 2026. What it does when it wants a credential it has not got, and four rules for running it.
Your contact list is what drives your AI bill
A worked model: on a 40,000-contact base with 15% duplicates, deduplication and overnight pre-summarising cut the monthly agent bill from £1,304 to ...
Grok API pricing for a UK business, and what Grok Bot is
Grok 4.7 costs about £1.48 per million input tokens. What the Grok API really costs a UK business in pounds, and what Grok Bot for Enterprise is.