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The AI decision that has to hold up under your board, your auditors, and your regulators — and the work that gets it there.

The firm meets an organisation at whatever level of maturity it has reached, and matures the relationship toward autonomous execution the client can trust, govern, and own. The offer spans five layers. A client enters at the layer that matches its position; every engagement creates the case for the next.

  1. 5 layers
    Enter at your level
    From a board governance session to autonomous systems in production — each engagement builds the case for the next.
  2. Client-owned
    You keep the system
    Every build ships with the Decision Record and audit trail intact — yours to inspect, export, and take in-house at any time.
  3. Outcome-aligned
    Priced on the result
    In production and annuity, where the client can underwrite the metric, the firm prices on what the system produces.
01 Board altitude

Governance & oversight

Board

Premium advisory at board altitude — what becoming AI-first commits the organisation to, and where it is already exposed.

  • Board Briefing

    The entry conversation at board altitude; frames the commitment, and surfaces existing exposure.

    A shared view of exposure

  • Governance Posture Assessment

    A documented map of AI use, risk, and the gap to a defensible standard — mapped to the EU AI Act, the US automated-decision regimes, and ISO/IEC 42001.

    A documented risk map

  • Framework Build

    The AI policy, the supporting procedures, the board reporting cadence, and ISO/IEC 42001 readiness, built to operate.

    A working AI policy

  • Fractional Chief AI Officer

    A senior peer holding the client’s AI governance the board can rely on; twelve-month minimum, co-sign authority on high-risk deployments, professional indemnity insurance.

    A senior peer, accountable
02 Strategy programme

Strategy & prioritisation

Executive

The AI Foundations Programme scores candidate initiatives on the Value-Ease framework and produces a defensible sequence. Entry-tier engagements credit toward a build.

  • Foundations Experience

    A first structured pass at the opportunity.

    The opportunity, sized

  • Foundations + Agent Blueprint

    The opportunity, plus a blueprint for the first agent.

    A first-agent blueprint

  • AI Roadmap Advisory

    A sequenced, defensible roadmap across the business.

    A sequenced roadmap
03 Embedded capability

Running the change

Management

Senior AI capability to supplement a client team that owns its own delivery. When scope grows structural, the engagement transitions to a scoped statement of work.

  • Architecture Lead

    Senior architecture for a complex or regulated estate.

    Senior architecture

  • Business Analyst

    Process discovery and KPI baselining.

    KPI baselines

  • AI Developer

    Build capacity under the senior architecture.

    Build capacity
04 On-ramp

Literacy & access

Workforce

Workplace Productivity: practical coaching that gets a workforce using sanctioned AI tools well. An on-ramp that opens a relationship and matures it toward the core.

  • Workplace Productivity

    An AI Readiness Session, hands-on coaching on Microsoft Copilot and the existing stack, and safe-use guidance that addresses shadow tooling.

    A workforce using AI well
05 Staged build

Autonomous execution

The core

End-to-end design, build, and operation of autonomous agents in the client’s environment, architected by the senior core. Outcome-aligned in production and annuity, where the client can underwrite the metric.

  • Agentic AI Build — MVP

    Discovery and scoping, then a working vertical slice on real data.

    A working slice on real data

  • Agentic AI Build — Production

    The system, engineered to scale, with governance as an output.

    A system that scales

  • Annuity

    The system operated and improved; priced on the result where the metric can be underwritten.

    Operated and improved

  • The Decision Record

    A permanent, inspectable, client-owned record of every autonomous decision.

    A client-owned audit trail
How an engagement runs

Each stage produces the evidence on which the next is committed.

The programme is funded against results rather than forecasts. Where the client can underwrite the metric, the firm prices on what the system produces.

  1. 01

    Qualification & scoping

    A working session that maps the process and baselines the opportunity.

  2. 02

    Working product

    A vertical slice running on real client data — evidence, not slideware.

  3. 03

    Production build

    The system, engineered to scale, with governance as an output.

  4. 04

    Annuity

    The system is operated and improved; priced on the result where the metric can be underwritten.

Start here

Start with a scoping conversation.

A 90-minute working session, not a pitch. We map the process, baseline the opportunity, and define what success would have to look like — the inputs to a paid diagnostic and a working product, if it makes sense to proceed.

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