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From Council Estate to £10M AV Company: The SPOR Group Story
The version of this story that gets told at industry events is the one that starts at the first £800,000 deal. This is the version that starts earlier, in Liverpool, where there was no father figure, no mentor, no business background and no idea how to spell the word entrepreneurship.
Chris Gore
Jul 26 min read
This Is How You Deploy Useful AI in Your Workplace
The four-day week trials have run. The data is largely positive. Productivity holds or improves. Staff wellbeing improves. Retention improves. The case for it as a concept is reasonably well established at this point. The question that gets far less attention is a practical one: is the office actually capable of supporting it?
Chris Gore
May 185 min read
Revealing The Secret Footballer | Future Workplace Podcast
A Premier League footballer turned whistleblower on the culture, mental health failures and high-performance secrets inside professional football. What does it mean for your workplace?
Chris Gore
Apr 15 min read
How to Deploy Useful AI in Your Workplace: The Practical Guide for Business Leaders
Most organisations have now had some kind of conversation about AI. Many have bought access to tools. A smaller number have actually got consistent, meaningful value from them. The gap between having an AI tool and having an AI-enabled organisation is significant, and it is not primarily a technology gap. It is an implementation gap.
This guide is written for senior leaders and operations teams trying to close that gap. Not for developers. Not for people who want to build AI
Chris Gore
2 days ago5 min read
My Business Delegation Framework: How I Stopped Being the Bottleneck
If you are reading emails at midnight, fixing your own website at the weekend, and doing the books on a Sunday before going back to work on Monday, I need to tell you something uncomfortable. You are not the hardest working person in the room. You are the biggest bottleneck in it.
Chris Gore
3 days ago4 min read
Cristiano Ronaldo's Obsession With Marginal Gains, And What It Means for Your Meeting Rooms
Cristiano Ronaldo's obsession with marginal gains and what it means for your meeting rooms. The difference between good and elite is rarely one big thing. Chris Gore | Updated 2026 Cristiano Ronaldo is not the most naturally gifted footballer of his generation. Most coaches who worked with him early in his career would tell you that. What separates him from everyone else is not talent. It is an obsession with the margins. Every single detail of his preparation, recovery, slee
Chris Gore
4 days ago4 min read
The Problem With AV
How a Major Insurance Company Transformed 8 Meeting Rooms With a Full AV Fit-Out
They had eight meeting rooms on a single floor that needed a complete rethink. Not a patch job. A proper, standardised, future-ready AV fit-out. That's where SPOR came in.
Chris Gore
Apr 216 min read
When One Room Needs to Do Two Jobs: Microsoft Teams Room Meets Dolby Atmos
Most meeting rooms are built for one thing. A screen, a camera, a speakerphone, done. But what happens when your business needs that same space to pull double duty? One moment it needs to run a flawless Microsoft Teams call with a client in New York. The next, it needs to drop jaws with a cinema-quality product demonstration.
Chris Gore
Apr 175 min read
How SPOR Group Transformed Masdar's London HQ Into a Seamless Microsoft Teams Rooms Environment
When a global clean energy company relocates its London headquarters, the pressure is on to get everything right and that includes the technology that keeps their people connected. Masdar, one of the world's leading renewable energy developers, needed a complete Audio-Visual overhaul at their new Paddington office. They turned to SPOR Group to deliver it. Here's how we did it and what the end result looks like.
Chris Gore
Mar 114 min read
Reviews
What Should Meeting Room AV Actually Cost? A Straight Answer
Ask three AV suppliers to quote for the same meeting room and you will likely get three very different numbers. One comes in cheap. One comes in eye-watering. One sits somewhere in between with a list of exclusions you have to chase down. If you have ever tried to budget for a room refresh or a multi-site rollout, you already know how frustrating this is.
Chris Gore
2 days ago4 min read
How Much Does a Boardroom AV System Cost in the UK? (2026)
The question of how much a boardroom AV system costs comes up constantly, and the honest answer varies by a factor of ten depending on room size, specification tier and what the room is actually used for. An entry-level boardroom setup for twelve people costs very differently from a flagship executive suite with dual PTZ cameras, ceiling microphone arrays, dual 86-inch displays and full room control.
Chris Gore
5 days ago4 min read
Logitech Scribe vs Huddly IQ: Which AI Whiteboard Camera Is Right for Your Room?
The question of how to include a physical whiteboard in a hybrid meeting has been around since hybrid working began. Two of the most commonly shortlisted solutions are the Logitech Scribe and the Huddly IQ. Both use AI. Both involve a camera in the room. But they are solving the problem in fundamentally different ways, which means the right choice for one room type is completely wrong for another.
Chris Gore
Jul 143 min read
How Much Does AV Cost?
GoBright vs Condeco: Which Room Booking Platform Is Right for Your Organisation?
Both GoBright and Condeco are well-established room booking platforms deployed across UK organisations. Both integrate with Microsoft 365 and provide room panels, utilisation data and desk booking capability. On paper they look like direct alternatives. In practice they serve different organisation sizes, different IT maturity levels and different analytics requirements.
Chris Gore
Jul 153 min read
Cisco Webex Board vs Microsoft Surface Hub: The Honest Comparison
The Cisco Webex Board and Microsoft Surface Hub are both premium all-in-one touchscreen devices designed for collaboration-heavy rooms. Both start above £8,000. Both include 4K display, integrated compute, camera, microphone, speaker and digital whiteboarding. Both are designed for flagship spaces where the technology is expected to impress as well as perform.
Chris Gore
Jul 133 min read
Neat Bar vs Neat Bar Pro vs Neat Board: Which Device Is Right for You?
Neat has built a strong reputation in the UK corporate market for clean, minimal hardware that integrates tightly with Microsoft Teams Rooms. Unlike manufacturers who support multiple platforms, Neat devices are designed specifically for the Teams experience, which shows in the polish of the integration but narrows the platform choice if your organisation runs a mixed environment.
Chris Gore
Jul 23 min read
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