Everyone is telling you to do something with AI. Almost nobody is telling you what, or why, or whether it is worth it for a business your size. We start with your business rather than the technology — then prove it on one thing before you spend real money.
Businesses buy the licences, switch on the assistant, and wait for something to happen. Six months later there is a line on the invoice, a handful of people using it to write emails, and no measurable difference to anything. The technology was never the issue — the missing step was working out where it would genuinely help.
We look at where your time actually goes, what your people repeat every week, and where things fall over — then work out whether AI helps, and where it plainly does not.
One use case, with a number attached before we start and measured after. If it does not deliver, you have spent very little finding that out.
Your data stays yours. We handle the permissions, the policy and the staff training that stop AI becoming a data protection problem in six months' time.
Not a slide deck about the future of work. A short, specific document listing what is worth doing, what it costs, what it saves, and in what order.
No long tie-in, and no obligation to carry on. Each stage has to earn the next one.
Half a day with the people who actually do the work — not just the management team. We map where time goes, what gets repeated, and what frustrates everyone.
We pick the strongest opportunity and build it properly — with a measurement in place before we start, so nobody has to take anyone's word for the result afterwards.
Roll out what worked across the business, with the governance, security and training that makes it stick — and keep reviewing it as the tools change, because they will.
We would rather tell you now than take a fee and disappoint you in three months.
Not because they are glamorous, but because they are repetitive, they happen every week, and nobody enjoys them.
Someone rewrites much the same document every time an enquiry comes in, pulling numbers from a spreadsheet and paragraphs from the last one they sent. Drafting from your own previous work turns an hour into a few minutes, and the person still checks it before it goes.
A shared mailbox that everyone half-watches and nobody owns. Sorting what arrives, summarising the long ones, and drafting the reply that gets sent twenty times a month — with a person still deciding what actually goes out.
Meeting notes that never get typed up, site visits written from memory on the train, the monthly report assembled from the same four places. The recording and the raw numbers already exist — the cost is in turning them into something readable.
We have deliberately not put savings figures on these. Every business we have looked at has different numbers, and a figure borrowed from someone else's case study tells you nothing about yours. Working out what these are worth in your business is what stage one does.
Which matters more than it sounds. We already know where your data lives, how your permissions are set, which systems are held together with tape, and what your team will actually adopt. An AI consultancy spends the first month finding that out, and bills you for it.
No — establishing whether you are ready is part of stage one. If your data is in a state that makes AI unworkable, we will tell you that, explain what would need to change, and you can decide whether it is worth doing. Finding that out in a fortnight is a good outcome, not a failed one.
Stage one is a fixed fee agreed before we start, based on the size of your business and how many areas you want us to look at. Stage two is scoped from what stage one finds, so you know the number before you commit. Stage three is monthly with notice.
The first conversation costs nothing and carries no obligation. If it is obvious we cannot help, we will say so on that call.
Stage one is typically two to three weeks from the workshop to the finished roadmap. A first use case usually runs four to eight weeks depending on what it is. You will have something you can act on inside a month.
No. Copilot is often the sensible answer if you are already on Microsoft 365, because the data governance is already in place — but it is expensive per user and it is not right for everything. Sometimes the answer is a much cheaper tool, an automation with no AI in it at all, or fixing a process that should never have needed either.
This is the question we get asked most, and it is the right one. With business and enterprise tiers of the main platforms, your data is not used to train the underlying models — but the consumer versions of the same products generally do, which is why staff using personal accounts for work is a genuine problem.
Part of what we do is make sure you are on the right tier, that the settings are correct, that permissions are tight enough that the assistant cannot surface things people should not see, and that your staff know what they must never paste into it.
In the businesses we work with, it has not — it has removed the parts of jobs people liked least. We would be wary of anyone who promises headcount reduction as the headline benefit for a company of your size; the realistic gain is capacity, not redundancy.
That said, it is a fair question to ask your team, and it is better asked openly at the start than discovered later.
That is a perfectly good outcome and it happens. You keep the roadmap, the business case, the data readiness assessment and the policy — all of which are useful whether or not we do anything else. There is no obligation to proceed and no penalty for stopping.
Someone senior enough to change how something is done, and two or three people who actually do the work day to day. The second group matters more than the first — the best opportunities almost always come from the people doing the repetitive task, not from the management team's view of it.
Realistically, half a day for the workshop and a couple of hours each afterwards.
No. It helps, because we already know your systems, but we run this for businesses we do not otherwise support. There is no requirement to move your IT to us, now or later.
Half an hour on the phone or in person. We will ask what takes up your time, tell you honestly whether we think there is anything in it, and you can decide from there.