Most owners of small firms can see AI is useful but cannot tell what to use it for. Opafex turns that question into a specific answer for a UK business. Find what to automate first: describe how your business runs today and get the approaches that fit, the answers that put them there, what to check first and a small first step. What AI does in your sector: what accountancy, recruitment, law, financial planning, insurance broking, estate and letting agency, construction and trades firms automate first, what to watch out for, and whose guidance to read. Check client data before AI: the UK GDPR questions to answer before staff put client or employee information into an AI tool, ordered by what matters most for that tool and that data. Draft a small-firm AI policy: a one-page AI use policy built from your answers, with the steps to take before adopting it. Will automating it pay for itself: the payback on a task in your own numbers, with the time spent checking the output deducted and every assumption stated. The answers are the same every time for the same inputs, written from published guidance. They are questions to ask and starting points, not legal advice. The tools never ask for names or contact details and never quote prices.
