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AI consulting for people
who have to decide.

Everyone is telling you what AI could do. Very few people will tell you what it is worth in your business, in what order, and at what cost. That is the whole job here.

00The short version

The expensive mistake isn't picking the wrong tool. It's building the wrong thing well.

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AI moves fast enough that the hard part is no longer capability, it is judgment. Which of the twenty things you could do is worth doing, which one first, and what happens to the people currently doing that work. Those questions do not get answered by a demo.

We work through your business the unglamorous way: sitting with the teams, following the work, counting volumes, looking at where information gets re-typed and where decisions wait on someone. Then we put a number against each opportunity and rank them.

Because we build as well as advise, the shortlist is honest about effort. Nothing lands on it that we could not scope into a real first phase. And when the right answer is to fix a process or a data problem before touching AI at all, that is what we will tell you.

01What's included

What you get out of a consulting engagement.

An opportunity map

Every place in your business where AI could plausibly help, gathered from the people who do the work rather than from an industry report.

A ranked shortlist

Those opportunities scored on value, effort, risk and readiness, so the argument about what to do first happens with evidence in the room.

Real cost estimates

What each option would take to build and run, from the team that would build it. Ranges, with the assumptions stated, not a single reassuring number.

Risk and compliance view

Where your data would go, what the EU AI Act means for the options on the list, and which ones bring obligations you would rather know about now.

02Honest fit

Who this is for.

This is a good fit if
  • You know AI matters to your business but not where it fits
  • You have competing ideas internally and need a way to choose
  • Someone is asking you to approve AI spend and you want a straight read
  • You want the plan to be costed by people who could actually deliver it
We'll tell you to skip it if
  • You already know exactly what you want built. Skip this and go straight to a build conversation.
  • You need a document to justify a decision that has already been made. That is not work we do well.
  • The blocker is organisational rather than technical. We will point that out rather than bill you for a roadmap.
03How it runs

Short, focused, and it ends with a decision.

01
Free first call

Thirty minutes on your business and what is prompting the question. No pitch and no invoice.

02
Discovery

Sessions with the teams doing the work, plus a look at the systems and data behind it.

03
Analysis

We size each opportunity, estimate the build, and flag the risks and compliance obligations.

04
Read-out

A working session where we walk the ranked shortlist and agree what, if anything, happens first.

04Read next

Go deeper before you commit.

Start with the free call.

Tell us what is on your mind and what is prompting the question. If a consulting engagement is not what you need, we will point you at the shorter path instead.

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FAQ

Questions about AI consulting.

What does an AI consultant actually deliver?

A decision you can act on. We review how your business works today, identify where AI would genuinely help, estimate what each option would cost and return, and put them in priority order. You end up with a shortlist and a costed first step, not a research document.

How is this different from a strategy deck?

We are the people who would also build it, so the recommendations are constrained by what can actually be delivered. Every item on the shortlist comes with a real estimate and a first phase we could start on. That tends to remove the ideas that only work on a slide.

How long does an AI consulting engagement take?

A focused opportunity review usually runs one to three weeks depending on how many teams are involved. Larger organisations with several departments and existing AI pilots take longer, and we will scope that before starting.

Do we have to build with you afterwards?

No. The consulting engagement stands alone and the plan is yours, including the estimates. Plenty of clients take it to their own team. If you do want us to build, you already know the scope and the cost.

We are not technical. Is that a problem?

It is the normal case. Most of the people we work with are founders, operators and department heads. We translate between the business problem and the technical implementation, and we do not expect you to arrive with a solution in mind.

What if the answer is that we shouldn't build anything yet?

Then that is the recommendation, with the reasoning. It happens, and telling you plainly is worth more to us than a project that quietly disappoints. Often the real blocker is a process or data problem worth fixing first.