Most failed AI initiatives were doomed before the first line of code — the organization simply wasn't ready for the investment in front of it. We test that readiness before capital is committed.

• Grounded readiness assessment — ten diagnostic blocks, three non-negotiable gates, and a verdict rather than a score
• AI portfolio prioritization: which use cases carry real business value, and in what order
• Build / buy / partner decisions and platform strategy grounded in your actual constraints
• Business cases your CFO can defend — costs, risks and value stated honestly

Your company knows exactly who is allowed to approve a £2m payment. It has no equivalent answer for the AI agent that just raised one. We design that answer — structurally, before AI acts.

• The Operational Authority Layer: define what each AI system is permitted to do before an action commits
• Governance operating model — decision rights, escalation paths, and accountability that names people
• Policy-to-enforcement mapping so governance lives in systems, not binders
• Regulatory alignment (EU AI Act and sector regimes) approached as architecture, not paperwork

A strategy that stops at a slide deck is theatre. We stay engaged through delivery, bringing 26 years of enterprise technology delivery to bear on the messy middle of AI adoption.

• Operating model and team design for AI delivery — who builds, who runs, who is accountable
• Vendor and platform selection, negotiation support and architecture review
• Pilot-to-production discipline: exit criteria, reliability thresholds and scaling decisions
• Change management and capability building so adoption outlasts the consultants

AI decisions are being made in boardrooms by leaders who are handed hype from one side and fear from the other. We give leadership teams a clear, evidence-based mental model instead.

• Keynote speeches on AI strategy, governance and the physics of autonomous decisions
• Executive and board programs: from AI literacy to investment decision frameworks
• Leadership workshops built around your live AI decisions, not generic case studies
• See the Speaking page for formats and topics