{"id":629509,"date":"2026-06-09T16:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629509\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:37:09","slug":"devon-cannot-risk-falling-behind-in-ai-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629509\/","title":{"rendered":"Devon cannot risk &#8216;falling behind&#8217; in AI revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gemma Boss is a director of Exeter-based Chalk and Ward marketing company, which is already using AI to increase productivity and deliver a better service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;The massive thing about it is that efficiency &#8211; so we&#8217;re creating bespoke AI solutions which will hopefully help free up at least 20% of our time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That will then give us back that ability to focus on our own business and create that added value for our clients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Legal firms are one of the professions wrestling with how to use AI and what the consequences will be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mick Savage, chief operating officer at CWC Solicitors &#8211; which has offices across Devon, said: &#8220;Internally we&#8217;re using AI to improve processes, simplify the landscape and improve the client experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said his firm was using AI to carry out simple tasks or administrative tasks which allowed staff &#8220;to spend more time dealing with clients&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gemma Boss is a director of Exeter-based Chalk and Ward marketing company, which is already using AI to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-629509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}