The caretaker did not ‘die’ or disappear because we stopped caring about schools. He disappeared because the job became too important to be carried by one person’s memory, ingenuity and goodwill. That is what I mean by saying “the caretaker died, and we killed him”. Top marks for anyone that realises that is a deliberate echo of Nietzsche’s (probably) most famous line, so often misunderstood as a chest-thumping statement about atheism. It was not really that. It was actually...

What will this actually change in the day-to-day life of a school? In real terms, it means estates can no longer sit quietly in the background as a reactive maintenance issue. Schools and Responsible Bodies are being forced towards a more active, planned and evidenced approach:

And yet… quietly, in the background, there are actually a few AI use cases that genuinely save time, money and headaches for our estates teams.