AI, MADE USEFUL · 10 WAYS AI CAN HELP YOUR BUSINESS
Turn business data into decisions
Ask questions of sales, costs, traffic or operations data and turn the answers into charts and dashboards.
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START HEREFive steps.
Five steps.
No sorcery required.
The aim is a useful result, not an impressive conversation with a robot.
Pick one business question—not “analyse everything”.
Use clean data with clear column headings and dates.
Ask for the calculation, comparison and chart that answer the question.
Investigate the reason behind unusual changes rather than stopping at the chart.
Save the method so next month uses the same definitions.
Try this prompt
Using this data, answer: [business question]. Show the calculation, create the clearest chart, identify unusual changes and list what additional evidence would be needed before claiming a cause.
How you know it worked
The analysis changes a decision, priority or experiment—not just the colour of a dashboard.
Keep a human in charge. AI can be wrong, incomplete or overconfident. Check important facts, prices, legal/financial/medical information, customer promises and anything irreversible.
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Feature availability can vary by ChatGPT plan, region, workspace and app version. This guide was researched and checked on 18 September 2026.