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A complete map of Next Step Ventures: private-markets AI consulting, startup support, AI Operating Partner, The WaterWallet, articles and videos.
01Start here
- Next Step Ventures AI Consultancy
- James Bell - founder and AI consultant
- Watch: the 30-minute AI working session
- AI for real estate - practical workflows for independent property developers.
- AI Workflow Planning - one workflow, working evidence and a go, revise or stop decision.
- AI services for private markets
- AI Operating Partner - hands-on AI implementation for founders and business owners.
- The WaterWallet
- Applied AI field notes
02Private-markets AI services
- AI foundations for private markets
- AI literacy training for private markets
- AI implementation for private markets
- AI consulting for private markets
- AI consulting for private credit
- AI consulting for investment and asset management
- AI consulting for infrastructure investing
- AI training for private equity
- AI hackathons for private markets
- AI consulting for startups
03Applied AI field notes
- What an AI Operating Partner Actually Does Inside a Family Office
- Thoughts: Full ChatGPT and Codex resets shouldn’t postpone your weekly reset
- AI is starting to overplan and underdeliver
- AI adoption is becoming a bottom-up movement
- The AI rollout has happened. The training has not.
- How to run a 30-minute AI working session in private markets
- How to score AI use cases before anyone builds anything
- The AI literacy and implementation game plan
- From an AI prompt to a 3D print: ChatGPT, Claude and STL files
- Shipping AI inside a regulated firm
- The Copilot-only AI programme
- AI use-case hackathon playbook
- An unused tool is a failed project
- What a three-hour AI crash course looks like
- Centralising AI knowledge
- AI communications channels
- How to create skills in ChatGPT and Claude
- How supermarkets could use MCP
Create reusable AI skills in ChatGPT and Claude - video
From a meal plan to a supermarket basket with MCP - video
AI prompts to 3D prints - video
04Machine-readable maps
Crawlers can use the XML sitemap index, which groups the site into core pages, services, field notes and video.
Real estate articles
- Real estate articles
- Top use cases for real estate property development
- How to compare builders' quotes without missing the gaps
- Keep control of variations before they become a cost surprise
- A clearer lender and investor update from the records you already have
- Screen a potential development site before commissioning detailed work
Research
- Research collection
- Climate protests and European stock returns — original research: 2020/2021
- Domino’s UK expansion opportunities — original research: 10 October 2026
- Papa Johns UK expansion outlook — original research: 10 October 2026
- Does profit per employee predict stock returns? — original research: September 2026
- Climate protests and stock returns revisited — original research: 18 September 2026
- Could pizza vending work in the UK? — original research: 7 October 2026