What I Hope AI Can Bring Us

What I Hope AI Can Bring Us

When we hear about artificial intelligence these days, it’s easy to get caught up in the hype or worry about the unknown. But as someone who’s spent a lifetime feeling like an outsider, not just in business but in life, I believe that, done right, AI could help people finally feel included. This is something deeply personal for me, and it’s the heart of why Inkie exists.

You see, I didn’t grow up dreaming of running a tech company. I grew up at a Steiner school, where we learned with our hands, spent more time making than memorising, and where creativity was celebrated, not squeezed out. But even there, as someone who’s now openly neurodivergent, I learned early that the world isn’t really set up for people whose brains work differently. By the time I started my first business, I already knew what it felt like to sit on the outside, looking in, and that’s what I wanted to change.

AI gets a lot of headlines for what it can do: answer questions, write code, even generate a poem in the blink of an eye. But the thing that excites me most isn’t about getting more done, faster. It’s about the chance to free people up to do the work that only humans can do, connecting, creating, caring, and telling the stories that matter.

Accessible Tools for Real People

For a long time, business tools have been made by and for a very narrow group of people. Glossy, complicated dashboards. Assumptions that you can read and write quickly, spot clever sales tricks, or just “pick things up as you go.” If, like me, you struggle with focus, or traditional literacy, or just need a different kind of support, you’re often left behind.

That’s where the true promise of AI comes in, not in replacing people, but in creating room for all kinds of people to take part. Imagine a marketing tool that doesn’t ask you to fill out endless forms or stare at blinking cursors but instead listens when you talk, guides you through one step at a time, and encourages your ideas. Imagine a tool that isn’t judging you for spelling, sentences, or what you “should have done by now,” but instead cheers you on for trying in the first place.

Making Business Accessible for All

This isn’t only a dream anymore. With Inkie, I’ve set out to build the platform I wish I’d had when I was starting out, one that meets you wherever you are, however you think or work. That means tools that are voice-led, chat-based, and always supported by a real human if you need it.

That vision has just got a massive boost with the start of our Innovation UK grant project, and an incredible partnership with Joyfully Different, a community and consultancy making business more accessible for neurodivergent founders. Together, we want to make sure Inkie breaks down real barriers, not just ticks boxes. Our aim is that lived experience, not just technical know-how, shapes every decision.

Lived Experience at the Core

As someone who spent years feeling like I had to work twice as hard, hide my differences, or just keep quiet when something didn’t make sense, I know what’s at stake. That’s why we’re inviting testers from every walk of life, especially those with neurodivergent brains, low confidence, or anyone who’s felt ignored by traditional business advice, to join us. Your feedback will steer us in the right direction so that this platform isn’t just accessible in theory, but in practice.

Reclaiming Time for What Matters

At the end of the day, AI shouldn’t be about doing more for the sake of it. It should give us back the time to create, to connect, and to step away from the endless grind of chasing algorithms. I hope that Inkie, and technology like it, can help people reclaim that time for real thinking, dreaming, and building businesses that actually look like the people running them.

So, what do I hope AI can bring us? I hope it gives us space for more stories, more voices, and more ways of doing things, not just more output. And I hope it gives every one of us, no matter our background or brain, a chance to belong.

If you’d like to help shape this future, especially if you’ve ever felt different, you’re exactly who we want. With the Innovation UK project and our partnership with Joyfully Different, there's never been a better time to make business accessible to all.