Around fifteen AI programmes delivered, worth £100,000 to £27m, from readiness reviews and governance to full implementations. If you feel lost with AI, the place to start is a short, independent readiness review.
Book a confidential conversationMost boards we meet have the same three problems: too many vendors, no clear first use case, and no rules for what AI is allowed to do with company data. The result is either paralysis or a dozen uncontrolled experiments. Neither gets to value, and both cost more than a short, honest look at where you stand. Our guide, where to start with AI when your business feels lost, sets out the order we use.
A fixed scope, fixed fee review of your processes, data, people and risks, ending in a prioritised roadmap and a business case for the first use cases. The way in when you do not know where to start.
The policy, controls and oversight that let you use AI at scale without a data breach, a regulatory problem or a decision nobody can explain. Written to be followed, and built to fit UK and EU rules as they tighten.
Full delivery: selecting the platform with no vendor ties, integrating it with ERP, CRM, billing and case systems, and running the programme through to measured benefits. The plumbing is where AI projects stall, and plumbing is what we have done for nineteen years.
Fixed scope, fixed fee, a few weeks. We look at where time and money leak in your processes, what your data can support, what the rules need to be, and which two or three use cases are worth a pilot. You get a roadmap you can act on, a business case your board can sign, and an honest answer if the right move is to wait.
The clients include government bodies, a hedge fund, a telecoms operator and ordinary businesses with ordinary systems. The work has run from a few weeks of assessment to full multi year implementations. We do not name clients here, but in conversation we will walk you through what was done and what it returned.
Our people also build and run production AI systems in their own ventures, so the advice comes from people who have shipped, not just written slides.
Most AI consultancy is priced and shaped for large enterprises. We work just as often with SMEs and professional services firms that want a clear AI strategy, one or two use cases that will pay back inside a year and the governance to use AI safely with client data. For public bodies we add the procurement, assurance and accountability expectations that come with spending public money.
Whether the brief is an AI readiness assessment, an AI strategy, an AI governance framework or a full AI transformation programme, the shape is the same: a clear scope, a plain answer on what is worth doing and the delivery to make it real.
Read the practical AI governance framework guide for the seven things that have to exist before AI is governed rather than merely permitted.
Our guide to AI consulting sets out what an AI consultant actually does, what the work costs and the six questions to ask before you hire anyone, including us.
Read how to write an AI strategy that gets funded, the EU AI Act for UK companies and ISO 42001 explained, or download the free AI policy template.
For Microsoft 365 Copilot, see our Microsoft Copilot consultancy. For the data that AI depends on, see data strategy and governance. London organisations can read about our AI consultancy in London, and for automation, AI automation and data.
Two hours of your leadership team and access to the people who run three or four of your busiest processes. From that we can tell you where AI would pay, what your data can support and what the rules need to be. You do not need a strategy, a data scientist or a vendor shortlist to begin.
No. We hold no reseller agreements and take no commissions from any platform, model or integrator, so when we tell you to wait, or to choose the cheaper option, there is nothing behind the advice but the advice.
Yes, in conversation. We have delivered around fifteen AI programmes for government bodies, a hedge fund, a telecoms operator and ordinary businesses, from assessments and governance to full implementations, ranging from £100,000 to £27m. Client confidentiality means we do not name them on this page, but we will walk you through what was done and what it returned.
Almost certainly good enough for a first use case, and almost certainly not good enough for all of them. The readiness review finds the process where the data is already trustworthy and starts there, and turns the rest into a roadmap rather than a reason to wait.
We write the rules with you before the first pilot: what AI may decide alone, what needs a person, which data may never leave the business, who signs off a new use and how decisions are logged and explained. The policy is short enough to be followed and built to fit UK and EU rules as they tighten.
Tell us where you are and we will tell you, plainly, whether to start, what to fix first, or whether to wait.
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