Helping publishers and media businesses make strategy and put AI to work on their own terms.
Non-executive director, consultant, trainer and speaker. Author of The Intelligence Multiplier. Writer of Context Window, a weekly briefing on AI in media and publishing.
New book · December 2026 · Practical Inspiration Publishing / Penguin Random House Audio
The Intelligence Multiplier
A practical, grounded framework for using AI where it genuinely helps strategy—in research, analysis and option generation—while keeping human judgement where it belongs.
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Helen King put together a useful summary of robots.txt policies across major academic publishers, as compared with t...
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