Three diagnostic business books by Andrew Seel and Nigel Jay Cooper — exploring why professional content goes beige, why AI adoption keeps failing, and what AI actually is.
Most B2B and professional content falls into the trap of being entirely forgettable. In The Beige Code, we run a diagnostic on the corporate communications machine to uncover why so much content ends up blending into the background, and provide the antidote for creating authentic, standout thought leadership that actually resonates with your audience.
Every business owner is being told the same thing: adopt AI or get left behind. Almost none of them know how to do that properly.
For many, AI isn't transforming much at all. Research shows that while 89% of businesses are using AI, fewer than 5% see meaningful results.
The problem isn't the technology. It's what sits underneath. Too much depends on a few people, knowledge lives in heads instead of systems and the business gets harder to run as it grows. AI doesn't fix that, it exposes it.
Andrew Seel and Nigel Jay Cooper know this because they lived it, a growing business that hit operational limits no tool could fix. When they started talking to other business owners, they found the same pattern everywhere.
System Error shows what's really going on inside businesses that struggle to get value from AI, then lays out what needs to change so they can.
A practical guide to building a business that runs more clearly, scales more effectively, and is ready to benefit from AI in a meaningful way.
For any business owner who feels overwhelmed by AI, underwhelmed by it, or simply unsure where to begin.
We don't know what consciousness is. Not in AI. Not in animals. Not in each other. Not even, when you look closely, in ourselves.
The Elusive Ghost Who Walks starts with the obvious question — is AI conscious? — and quickly runs into a stranger one. We don't have the tools to answer it for anyone. We just collectively agreed to stop asking it about other humans because it was socially inconvenient.
Look closely at the cognitive tests we use to mark the line, and the line keeps blurring. Tests AI passes are tests humans sometimes fail. Tests humans pass are tests AI passes too. The boundary between thinking and the appearance of thinking is drawn by people who can't locate it in themselves.
Three frontier AI systems are asked the same questions about their own consciousness. They give meaningfully different answers — even though they're built from broadly the same stuff. The book asks why, and what that tells us about consciousness itself.
I'm a fiction author who builds AI products — not a scientist or a philosopher. This is a personal exploration, sharpened through conversations with scientists, philosophers and other deep thinkers. Written from the same starting point as you.
It doesn't arrive at certainty. It arrives at a clearer view of what we don't know — and why that might be the most honest place to start.
Co-founder of The Togethr Project, Ghostart and The Foundry, helping organizations build authentic voices that cut through the noise.
Co-founder of The Togethr Project, Ghostart and The Foundry, exploring the intersection of human creativity and AI.