A book by Steve BoltonRead it before it reaches print.

Think With Me by Steve Bolton, featuring Bolt Method, with a foreword by Kevin Cahill CBE

It starts with a question

Where does AI belong in the work in front of you?

A book introducing Bolt Method™. Personal stories and practical exercises about asking better questions, making decisions and knowing what should stay human.

Printed edition · £9.95

Publishes · 23 October 2026

Free online now · early bird access

Better Thinking. Better Decisions. Better Outcomes.

Begin here
A different starting point

Take a little time.
Think with me.

Fifteen minutes, or half an hour. Headphones on. A spoken conversation with AI about something ordinary that interests you.

Our Walk and Talk exercise gives you the words to begin. Copy the prompt into your AI app, start talking and notice what opens up.

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An open invitation to try it. No signup needed.

Five Ways of Working With AI

Part of Bolt Method.

HumanToolsAgentsPartnersNetworks

More AI is not the goal. The right Way is.

The sentence that gave the book its name
I stopped asking AI to do things for me.
I started asking it to think with me.

Jude Bolton

People. Choices. Consequences.

The thinking became real.

Inside the book
Tanya Franks · Chapter 6

Make It
Earn Its Place

She wanted AI stopped. Her scepticism became the standard she held it to.

Meet Tanya
Caroline Marsh · Chapter 7

Draw
the Line

She began by deciding what must stay out. Then the rest of the work came into view.

Meet Caroline
Sam Regan · Chapter 8

Into
the Frame

He used AI to prepare for his job hunt. The applications and interviews were his to do.

Meet Sam
Val and Cleo · Chapter 12

The Same
Monday

Cleo found work that fitted her life. Val kept working towards a business of her own.

Meet Val and Cleo
Chapter 14

Lydie
and Ronnie

AI helped with the work around caring for Steve’s parents. The caring stayed human.

Meet Lydie and Ronnie
Chapter 13

The Mirror
Effect

The question is what you choose to keep practising when AI takes on some of the work.

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Think With Me

Read it.
Bring it into your life.

Fifteen chapters. Personal stories. A practice you can begin with the work in front of you.

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