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Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: How to Use Grok to Track Emerging Security Threats and Vendor Advisories

August 18, 2026 | 12 min

How to Use Grok to Track Emerging Security Threats and Vendor Advisories

A practical daily workflow for AI-assisted threat monitoring: build the watchlist from your own estate, verify every hit against the vendor advisory and CISA KEV, then act.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: How to Build an Office IT Relocation Runbook with ChatGPT

August 18, 2026 | 12 min

How to Build an Office IT Relocation Runbook with ChatGPT

How to generate a sequenced office IT move runbook with AI — the inputs that matter, a worked 60-person example, and the building-specific risks no checklist will cover.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: How to Analyse and Forecast Multi-Cloud Spend with DeepSeek

August 17, 2026 | 12 min

How to Analyse and Forecast Multi-Cloud Spend with DeepSeek

A working method for explaining a cross-border cloud bill with AI — normalising three exports, decomposing a 30% increase, and forecasting without pretending the future is smooth.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: How to Use Gemini to Interpret Wi-Fi Survey and Heatmap Data

August 17, 2026 | 11 min

How to Use Gemini to Interpret Wi-Fi Survey and Heatmap Data

How to read a wireless site survey report with AI — the metrics that matter, why more access points often make it worse, and the four things only a physical survey can find.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: How to Use ChatGPT to Review an IT Services Contract or SOW Before You Sign

August 17, 2026 | 12 min

How to Use ChatGPT to Review an IT Services Contract or SOW Before You Sign

A fixed checklist for reading an IT services agreement or SOW with AI — scope, exclusions, SLA definitions, exit terms — and an honest account of what it can't tell you.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: How to Turn an IT Ticket Backlog Into an Engineer Dispatch Plan with Gemini

August 14, 2026 | 11 min

How to Turn an IT Ticket Backlog Into an Engineer Dispatch Plan with Gemini

How to classify a ServiceDesk Plus backlog into remote versus on-site work and cluster the visits into routed runs — plus the coverage problem no amount of planning solves.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: How to Forecast IT Spare-Parts Stock Levels with ChatGPT

August 14, 2026 | 11 min

How to Forecast IT Spare-Parts Stock Levels with ChatGPT

A practical method for turning twelve months of stock-out records into defensible reorder points per site — and the four places the forecast stops being trustworthy.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: How to Reconcile Multi-Site IT Asset Registers with DeepSeek

August 14, 2026 | 12 min

How to Reconcile Multi-Site IT Asset Registers with DeepSeek

A working method for turning three disagreeing asset spreadsheets and an Intune export into one defensible number — the matching rules to state explicitly, and what a one-off reconciliation cannot fix.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: How to Use ChatGPT to Draft ERP UAT Scripts and Cutover Runbooks

August 13, 2026 | 11 min

How to Use ChatGPT to Draft ERP UAT Scripts and Cutover Runbooks

How to turn a plain-language process description into UAT scripts and a cutover runbook in a day — including the edge cases teams skip, and the three things AI cannot do for a go-live.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: How to Use Gemini to Draft Client Security Questionnaire and RFP Responses

August 13, 2026 | 11 min

How to Use Gemini to Draft Client Security Questionnaire and RFP Responses

How to answer 200-row security questionnaires in a day and a half instead of two weeks — building an answer library from real policies and audit output, and the verification step no AI can take over.