Portrait of Steve Quinlan
10+ years
of experiments, keeping only what works.
Steve feeding one real task into a testing machine. A gauge measures it, and it comes out as a green-lit checkmark and an upward trend.
Tested, not borrowed

Stop following. Start testing.

The best way to get more from AI is to start with your own work. Take one real task, test an approach, and shape it around your context, standards and judgement. Keep what helps, adapt what does not and build on each proven gain. You can learn from other people’s prompts and tools without being limited by them. The result is a way of working with AI that fits you, and an advantage nobody else can simply copy.

The Edge Loop: five steps, one proven gain at a time.

It turns scattered AI use into proven improvements in how you work. Start with one real task. Prove a better way. Then stack the next win.

Use the Edge Loop
  1. 01
    Pick
    One real task from your work.
  2. 02
    Test
    An AI approach against how you do it today.
  3. 03
    Measure
    The difference in time, quality or output.
  4. 04
    Keep
    The approach only if it works for you.
  5. 05
    Stack
    The win into your workflow, then run the loop again.

Get the next experiment, not another list of tools.

Every fortnight I send one real AI experiment, plus one focused test you can run on your own work.

01
One real test
A recognisable task, worth doing better.
02
The evidence
The number, and enough detail to check it.
03
An honest verdict
Kept or binned, with the limits stated.
04
Something to try
One focused test you can run on Monday.

I run the experiments. You see the numbers.

At a UK retail bank I designed an AI-supported system for GEO and code reviews. Five hours across three roles became 20 minutes with one engineer.

93%
less time on every review
486 hrs
saved a year, two reviews a week
£33,150
saved a year on the same work
A decade of this before AI

+28% donation journey conversion at RNLI. +14% health quote leads at Vitality. +162% year-on-year colour consultant bookings at Farrow & Ball. Building production AI inside a UK bank since 2023.

Your AI advantage has to be yours.

I’m Steve Quinlan. I help you build an AI advantage around your work, not borrowed from a guru or copied from a prompt pack. A decade of experiments in product and conversion taught me the rule that still holds. Test it on your own work, keep what wins.

More about me
Product and conversion experiments since 2012. Building with AI since 2022.