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16/10/2026

AI doesn't make a bad decision. It makes a confident one, based on whatever data you fed it.

A duplicated customer record. An old price list. Two spreadsheets that disagree. Most businesses have one of these hiding somewhere, and AI just moves faster on top of it.

Spend an hour checking what your AI tools are actually built on. Free Clarity Call with James if you'd like a second pair of eyes: https://www.spidergroup.com/contact?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

08/10/2026

Arup's finance team recognised the faces and voices on a video call, and still lost $25 million. Every person on that call except the real employee was a deepfake.

UK deepfake attempts are up 94% in the last year. The question isn't whether this could happen to you. It's whether anyone on your team would know what to do in the first ten minutes.

A one-page plan takes half an hour to write and costs nothing.

06/10/2026

Every October, someone tells you to change your passwords. Ignore them.

That advice is 20 years out of date. Changing your password feels productive, but it stops almost nothing.

What actually stops most account breaches is MFA, and the stronger version any small business can use now is passkeys.

Start here: turn MFA on for your email and Microsoft 365 first, use an authenticator app instead of SMS codes, and switch on passkeys wherever they're offered.

MFA isn't perfect on its own, which is why passkeys give you a second layer.

Want MFA checked across your whole team, not just the accounts you remember? Book a free 30-minute Clarity Call with James, SpiderGroup's CEO: https://www.spidergroup.com/contact?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social

29/09/2026

Most businesses are paying monthly for software built for everyone else, then bending their own processes to fit it.

Custom builds used to mean six figures and months of waiting. That's not true any more for a business your size.

Stop bending your business to fit your tools. Start using new tools to build it. Free Clarity Call with James if you want to see what that looks like for you: https://www.spidergroup.com/contact?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

23/09/2026

Copilot can now build a workflow and run it on its own after one prompt.

Microsoft's August update makes this genuinely useful, but it needs admin approval switched on properly and a rule for who can create shareable links before it goes anywhere near your team.

An afternoon of setup now saves a data headache later. Free Clarity Call with James if you'd like a hand: https://www.spidergroup.com/contact?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

21/09/2026

Is everyone else further ahead with AI, or does it just feel that way?

The British Chambers of Commerce puts UK SME adoption at 54% in 2026. The ONS puts it nearer 25%. The gap is mostly about what counts as "using AI": trying ChatGPT once isn't the same as changing how you work.

Want an honest read on where you actually stand? Book a free Clarity Call with James, SpiderGroup's CEO: https://www.spidergroup.com/contact?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

17/09/2026

Even phishers are using AI.

Spelling mistakes used to give them away. Not any more.

AI now writes scam emails in perfect English, with the right names and the right tone. UK Finance reports £576.4 million lost to payment fraud last year, up 19%.

One rule protects you: confirm any request to move money or change bank details on a second channel first. Ten minutes to set up, free.

Free 30-minute Clarity Call with James if you want to check where you stand: [link]

01/09/2026

In 2024, an employee at the British engineering firm Arup joined a video call with his CFO and several colleagues.

He was asked to move money for a confidential deal. He recognised the faces. He recognised the voices. So he made the transfers.

Every other person on that call was a deepfake. Arup lost $25 million.

Nothing was hacked. In fact, every system did exactly what it was built to do. Someone made a sensible decision based on what he could see and hear. But what he could see and hear was fake.

Small businesses are easy targets. These days, cloning a voice convincingly only takes a short clip. The person paying your invoices probably isn’t following a procedure when you ask them something: they know and trust your voice.

The solution is to take away the chance of human error.

Pick a figure. Above it, the transaction is confirmed on a second channel, whether that’s video, call, or email. No payment or edit to bank details should go through from the voice of one platform alone. Urgency is the textbook tactic of fraudsters, so beat it with process.

It'll take your finance manager ten minutes to set up, and it costs you nothing.

There's a lot of opportunity with AI, but there's a lot of danger too. AI-readiness means being prepared for both. And it doesn’t have to be daunting.

So, are you AI-ready? Watch this space, because we’ll be posting more on AI cybersecurity to help you answer that question.

For a readiness assessment tailored to your business, book a free clarity call with James: https://www.spidergroup.com/contact?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch

25/08/2026

AI isn't underdelivering. It's being used badly.

You use it in your business already, but can you point to what it's actually changed?

Speeding up a process that was already inefficient only gets you a faster inefficient process.

This is AI On Trial, a new series where we take one claim about AI, and give it a straight verdict. If you’d like a verdict on your business, book in a free, 30-minute conversation with our CEO: https://www.spidergroup.com/contact?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch

21/08/2026

If someone on your team pasted business data into ChatGPT this week, that data was used to train the model.

Most owners don't know if that happened. Most don't know it's the default.

But getting your data safe is the first step to getting AI working properly for your business.

If you want to understand where you stand, book a free Clarity Call with James, SpiderGroup's CEO today -

https://www.spidergroup.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch

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