Hi, I’m Ben Preston. I built a workplace-AI review desk people rely on.
Hands-on, disclosed verdicts on Microsoft, Copilot, Claude, and the productivity stack. Every one comes from real testing, and the score never moves for money. Tested calls that professionals, and the brands behind these tools, take seriously.
A marketer’s eye for what works.
I earned an MBA from UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and spent years in marketing, strategy, and team development before turning all of it on the tools reshaping how we work. That background is the point. I judge software the way a team actually buys it, against real workflows and real cost, not a feature list.
It started with a simple frustration. I could never find a straight answer to whether a tool was worth paying for, so I started testing them myself, at work, on real tasks, and writing down what happened. Hundreds of reviews later, that discipline is the whole operation.
Years of tested work, all public.
More than opinions. A body of tested work that buyers, and the brands they evaluate, take seriously.
160 hands-on reviews
A searchable library of tools run against real work, each ending in one plain verdict: buy it, skip it, or wait.
2.1M+ views since 2020
Every review starts as a video, with the screen recording so you can see exactly what I saw. 11.9K subscribers and counting.
A newsletter and a Tool Finder
A weekly note for professionals choosing tools for real teams, plus an AI Tool Finder that turns the whole library into one honest pick.
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I work with a small number of companies in workplace AI and productivity. I only take on tools I can stand behind, which is exactly why a recommendation here carries weight. Sponsorship covers reach and craft, never the score and never the verdict.
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A hands-on, clearly disclosed review of your tool, produced to the standard of everything else here and shown to an audience that came for honest verdicts. You get the craft and the reach. The verdict stays mine.
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Ongoing presence across the newsletter, the reviews library, and the channel, scoped to fit naturally so it builds trust with readers instead of spending it.
Advisory
Candid, experienced feedback on positioning, onboarding, and where your product wins or loses against the tools I test every week.