Practical AI

AI in the business, without a two-year platform project.

Most AI initiatives stall between the pilot and the P&L. We work the other way round — find the handful of workflows where AI actually changes the economics, build them, and hand them over running.

01
Who this is for

Owners and leadership teams who can see it, and cannot start it.

Founders, owners, and leadership teams at small and midsize companies who can see what AI should do for the business and cannot get a straight answer about how to start.

You do not need a platform, a data warehouse, or a transformation programme. You need three workflows that work and someone who has done it before to build them with you.

02
What we actually do

Two ways in. They are not a sequence.

Start where your actual problem is. We will tell you if you have picked the wrong door.

Where we usually start
AI Readiness
Advisory

When you have ambition but no agreed starting point. A structured read on what the business can safely and usefully do with AI, and in what order — so the first build is the right one.

  • Scope, boundaries, and where AI does not belong
  • Risk alignment and governance ownership
  • Use cases ranked on value, effort, willingness, and measurability
  • A controlled pilot, and the gate that decides whether it expands
Agent Builds & Pilots
Build

When you already know the problem and want it solved. You have a concrete bottleneck and a strong hunch an agentic workflow fixes it. We scope it, build it, and put it in your hands.

  • Quick-win automation where the payback is obvious
  • Analysis agents pointed at data you already have
  • Scoped proofs of concept where the payback is not obvious yet
  • Governance sized to the pilot, not to the enterprise

On governance. Starting with a build does not mean skipping it. It means sizing it to one pilot — who owns it, what data it touches, what would make us stop — rather than standing up a programme before anything works.

03
How it runs

Short engagements, priced before they start.

Usually a few weeks to find and scope, a few more to build. If the honest answer is that AI is not your constraint right now, you will hear that instead.

Find and scope
A few weeks. Where the time goes, which workflows are worth it, and what each one is worth.
Build
A few more. Built against your real data and process, with the people who will run it.
Pricing
Per engagement rather than by the hour, and scoped so you know what you are getting before it starts.
04
The connection back

Same method, smaller and closer to the workbench.

This is the same instinct as the rest of the practice: find what is actually holding things back, fix the thing that matters first, and leave the system easier to run than you found it. On the revenue side that work is called Line to Revenue. Here it is smaller, faster, and closer to the workbench — but it is the same method.

Start with a conversation, not a proposal.

Twenty minutes on what the business does every week, where the time goes, and whether AI is worth pointing at any of it.

Book a 20-minute intro