April 2026
The two assessment tools in the previous post are designed for the person who wants to use AI. This one is different. It’s for the person helping them.
If you are an adviser, a carer, a family member, a teacher, or anyone else supporting someone who wants to get more from technology — this tool is for you. It is a searchable reference guide to AI tools and smart technology, organised around what people actually need help with rather than around the technology itself.
What it covers
The reference tool covers five areas: smart home, smart appliances, home and daily living, wider life and wellbeing, and work. Within each area it lists specific tools with honest descriptions of what they do, a practical session use case written from an adviser’s perspective, the real cost, and a difficulty rating.
You can filter by life area, by barrier type — fatigue, mobility, memory, vision, hearing, communication, cognitive, mental health — or by AI type. You can also search by keyword. The idea is that mid-session, if someone mentions they struggle with fatigue and want help at home, you can filter to fatigue and home and immediately see what is actually worth recommending.
It also flags what is coming rather than already here — Apple Intelligence and the new Siri are marked clearly as things worth waiting for rather than things to buy around today.
The smart appliances section
One thing I want to flag specifically. The smart appliances section covers robot vacuums, robot lawn mowers, smart washing machines, smart kettles, automatic pet feeders, and similar. These are not really AI in the way Claude is AI — they are smart automation. But for someone with mobility or fatigue issues, a robot vacuum that runs every morning while they are still in bed is genuinely transformative. I have been honest about what these things actually are, what they cost, and crucially where funding might come from — because Access to Work does not cover domestic appliances, but some charitable grants do.
How to use it
Download the zip file below. Open it and extract the HTML file inside. On iPhone, tap the HTML file in the Files app, then when the preview opens tap the Share button and choose Safari. On a computer, just double-click the HTML file and it opens in your browser.
The tool works completely offline. No internet needed once it is open. Nothing is sent anywhere.
The zip also contains a JSON data file. This is the list of all the tools in a format that can be updated. When tools change — and they will — an updated JSON file can be loaded into the tool using the Upload button inside it, without needing to download a whole new version. That is by design. This is a living document, not a fixed resource.
Built in conversation with Claude. The tool will be updated as the AI landscape changes — check back for newer versions of the data file.
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