Q: What has DeepSeek got to do with business writing?

A: Constraints lead to innovation. The scientists working for DeepSeek didn't have the money and data centres filled with £30,000 microchips so they had to find a different way to build  artificial intelligence models. They did it by asking better questions of the data rather than cramming more and more data through their processors (as I understand it, anyway). You can apply this approach to your writing. The most obvious constraint is time. If you have 1 hour instead of 1 day to write a report, what would you do? And if you allow yourself 1 or 2 pages instead of 20? ✅ You might ask yourself better questions about what to include and what to exclude. ✅ You might write shorter, snappier sentences. ✅ You might think about how to lay out your document to make it easier to read. If you want to improve your writing, give yourself some constraints.