Andrew Miles Davis opens September with an honest review of August, where the YouTube channel finally launched with two videos live, and ChatGPT voice conversations during daily dog walks became a genuine part of his working process for developing ideas before reaching his desk. For September he is bringing his backlog of thousands of training questions accumulated over fifteen years of face-to-face sessions to LinkedIn video, alongside a return to a full training and keynote schedule after a deliberately quieter August. The centrepiece of the month is the public launch of his Story Lens Method, a framework built around the idea that everything shared online tells a story whether intentionally or not, drawing on one of seven core story structures to help people navigate change, judgement, and decision-making in an AI-driven world. Having delivered variations of this system with organisations for years, Andrew describes finally building it out fully over the summer as genuinely exciting, a rare reaction for him. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute AI insight and to follow the Story Lens Method rollout across podcast, YouTube, and LinkedIn.

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, leading with a genuine change of opinion on Copilot's integration with Excel, which he had previously dismissed after a poor experience with a similar feature in Gemini a year earlier. He walks through five practical use cases including turning messy spreadsheets into instant insights, generating charts and pivot tables from plain language requests, writing formulas without needing to know the syntax, automatically cleaning data and standardising UK date formats, and summarising what has changed across workbook versions, concluding that the native Copilot integration outperforms both ChatGPT and Claude's Excel connectors. He also covers Umind.com's prompt library, a free daily-updated resource of trending prompts across images, video, and text, and IdeaVideo.ai, a free video generation aggregator giving access to Seedance, Veo, Kling, and other major models, positioned as a low-stakes starting point for marketers wanting to build video skills without committing to a paid platform. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone testing them in real work.

Andrew Miles Davis wraps up a deliberately quieter August, using the extra time away from training to properly test three tools that shaped his month outside of his permanently retired ChatGPT and Whisper Flow. Claude Design handled the full front end of his new website, thestorylensmethod.com, built from a rough description in under an hour, and impressed him further with animation capabilities he plans to bring to LinkedIn content given the cost and complexity of sourcing motion graphics manually. Codex handled the back end, hosting the site directly and removing the traditionally fiddly process of domain purchasing, hosting, and name server configuration. Copilot rounds out the three, with Andrew revisiting a tool he had previously written off after a poor experience with Gemini and Sheets, now praising its native integration across Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, particularly for small formatting tasks he can now handle entirely by voice given his RSI. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for a daily ten-minute update on what is actually worth using, from someone building real things with these tools every month.