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Alex

(they/them)Confidence practice · 2026

Group CEO, regional finance group · now Independent strategy consultant (finance & risk). Returning to work after a stroke and forced retirement. Recovered, but still under specialist care and on ongoing medication; deliberately manages energy and stress and is rebuilding cognitive stamina.

Using across MTMOT:/rebuilding/cognitive/confidence

Your captured snapshots

ChatGPT / GPT-512 March 2026

“Summarise this board pack into the five themes a director actually needs.”

Came back flat and literal after the GPT-5 change. Felt like I'd lost my touch.

gamma.app9 June 2026

“Build a board-ready deck from this one-page strategy brief.”

A full draft deck in minutes. It took the work off my plate, didn't just tell me how.

Perplexity18 September 2026

“Find the most recent APRA guidance on operational risk and give me the sources.”

Current and citeable. But it always searches, so I check every link.

ChatGPT / GPT-58 December 2026

“Help me prep a client workshop on risk appetite. Keep it tight, I'm low on energy today.”

Good, and it kept it short. Exactly what I needed on a flat day.

Tool Relationship Ledger

ChatGPT / GPT-5

core

Thinking partner, drafting, summaries · since Q1 2026

  • Q1 · Mar 2026GPT-5 change made it literal; felt like my fault.the vendor
  • Q2 · Jun 2026Learned to ask for themes explicitly; quality recovered.me

Core tool. Earns its keep daily. Trusted, with the GPT-5 quirks now understood.

Google Gemini

core

Fast first-draft thinking and reasoning, in my Google stack · since Q2 2026

  • Q3 · Sep 2026Drafted the board narrative and pressure-tested my read of the risk before I walked in.my need

Kept — a daily driver. My fast-draft and reasoning partner, sitting right next to NotebookLM in the Google tools I already work in.

gamma.app

kept

Turning briefs into board-ready decks · since Q2 2026

  • Q2 · Jun 2026Replaced hours of slide-wrangling. Clear keeper.my need

Kept. Earns its keep for decks — a generative tool that does the work, not just advises.

NotebookLM

kept

Grounded answers from my own documents · since Q2 2026

  • Q3 · Sep 2026Best for corpus-grounded work; cites the passage every time.my need

Kept. The tool I reach for when the answer must come from my sources, with citations.

Perplexity

under review

Current, sourced research · since Q3 2026

  • Q3 · Sep 2026Strong for current facts with sources; always searches.my need

Under review. Free tier covers me for now; weighing whether enterprise is worth it for what I do.

Annual Replay Report · 2026

Complete your fourth-quarter Replay and CJ assembles your year.

CJ

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