Consultancy · Strategy & Consultancy
Strategy, readiness, and governance — without the slide theatre.
Practical advisory for organisations navigating AI adoption. Costed roadmaps with defined outcomes. Governance aligned to EU AI Act, UK DSIT AI Assurance, and FCA/PRA guidance. Delivered in weeks.
- Fixed-price engagements
- Scoped to your outcome
- Senior on every call
What we do
Three engagements. One framework.
The strategy work itself sits inside three discrete engagement shapes. Specialist services — Readiness, Governance, Vendor Advisory — sit alongside as their own service lines, linked at the bottom of this page.
AI Strategy & Roadmap
A prioritised, costed 6–18 month roadmap with clear use cases, build-vs-buy recommendations, and defined ROI targets.
Use-Case Discovery
Structured workshops to surface, score, and prioritise AI opportunities across the business. Evidence-based, not speculative.
Executive Advisory
Board-level briefings on AI risk, governance, compliance, and investment decisions. Calm, direct, senior.
How we engage
Four steps. No workshops for the sake of workshops.
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Listen
We start with a 30-minute call. What are you trying to achieve, where are you stuck, and what does success look like? Commercial, not aspirational.
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Diagnose
Short, focused discovery — usually 1–3 weeks. We triangulate between business outcome, data reality, and technical capability.
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Recommend
A prioritised, costed plan. Build vs buy. Sequence of delivery. Named owner per workstream. Defined ROI targets.
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Accompany
Retained advisory where you want continuity. Self-sufficiency where you don't. Either is a valid outcome.
Frequently asked questions
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How long is a typical engagement?
Fixed-price, 2–8 weeks for discovery and roadmap work. Retained advisory is monthly. We price by defined outcome, not by day.
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Do you write code during a consultancy engagement?
Only if it's the right answer. Many consultancy engagements deliver a roadmap, a governance framework, or a recovery plan — no code. When build work is the right answer, we move to the Development arm with a separate scope.
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How is this different from a large consultancy engagement?
We work in weeks, not months. Senior engineers and strategists on every call, not juniors. Pricing proportionate to mid-market budgets. Technical depth — we can evaluate the actual systems, not just the slide deck.
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Can you help with EU AI Act / UK DSIT AI Assurance compliance?
Yes. Our governance framework work is aligned to both. We also partner with specialist legal counsel where contract language needs review.
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What happens if we just need advice once?
Then that's what we sell you. A one-off executive briefing is a valid engagement. We don't manufacture complexity to bill for it.
Related consultancy
Specialist services in this family.
Each is a distinct service with its own engagement shape. The strategy work above is the umbrella; these are the deeper specialisms.
Clarity before commitment.
A 30-minute consult is free. If we can help, we'll tell you how. If we can't, we'll tell you that too.