AI Strategy and Consulting
Work that ends in a decision rather than a deck. We audit what you have, score what is viable, cost it honestly, and tell you when the answer is to do nothing yet.
The expensive
mistakes happen
before the build.
Companies rarely fail at AI because the engineering was hard. They fail because they built the wrong thing, on data that could not support it, for a process nobody was willing to change.
Every service here is designed to surface that early, when the cost of being wrong is a few weeks rather than a few quarters.
What we do
Each is a standalone engagement with its own scope, price and output. Most clients use two or three in sequence.
AI Readiness Assessment
A two week audit that scores whether your organisation can actually support the AI you want to build, and tells you what to fix first.
Read moreAI Strategy and Roadmap
A sequenced plan for what to build, in what order, at what cost, with the dependencies made explicit.
Read moreAI Use Case Discovery
A structured workshop that converts a long list of AI ideas into a ranked shortlist with feasibility and value scored.
Read moreAI ROI Analysis and Business Case
A defensible financial model for an AI initiative, built on your numbers, with the assumptions exposed rather than hidden.
Read moreBuild vs Buy Advisory for AI
A structured comparison of building, buying or combining, costed over three years with switching risk priced in.
Read moreAI Vendor and Model Selection
Structured evaluation of vendors and foundation models, benchmarked against your data rather than public leaderboards.
Read moreAI Proof of Concept Development
One narrow use case built against real data in four to six weeks, judged against a threshold set before work begins.
Read moreFractional Chief AI Officer
Senior AI leadership on retainer, typically two to four days a month, for organisations not ready to hire a full time executive.
Read moreAI Center of Excellence Setup
Design and launch an internal AI function with a working operating model, not an org chart and a mission statement.
Read moreAI Training and Workforce Enablement
Role specific AI training built on your own tools and policies, with practical exercises rather than a lecture.
Read moreAI Adoption and Change Management
The organisational side of an AI rollout, from workflow redesign to communication and measured adoption.
Read moreAI Technical Due Diligence
Independent assessment of a target company's AI claims, covering model reality, data rights, unit economics and defensibility.
Read moreHow they
fit together
You do not need all twelve. Most engagements follow one of three paths depending on where the uncertainty sits.
No clear direction
Use case discovery, then readiness assessment on the shortlist, then a proof of concept on the winner. Roughly ten weeks end to end.
Direction agreed, funding not
ROI analysis and business case, then roadmap. Built to survive a finance review rather than to win a workshop.
Capability gap, not a project gap
Fractional Chief AI Officer or Center of Excellence setup, with training and change management alongside.
FAQ
Where should we start if we have never done an AI project?
A readiness assessment or a use case discovery workshop, depending on whether your uncertainty is about capability or about direction. If you do not know which, the discovery workshop is the safer first step because it produces candidates you can then test.
Do these engagements commit us to building with you?
No. Every consulting engagement in this pillar is priced and delivered standalone. The outputs are written to be usable by your internal team or by another provider, and several clients do exactly that.
How are these engagements priced?
Fixed fee for defined scope work such as assessments, roadmaps, ROI models and pilots. Monthly retainer for the fractional leadership role. We publish indicative ranges rather than quoting only on request.
Can you work with our existing consultants?
Yes. We frequently work alongside a strategy firm handling the commercial side while we cover technical feasibility, data reality and AI specific regulatory exposure.
Start with a conversation.
Thirty minutes, no charge, no deck. Tell us what you are trying to decide and we will tell you which of these engagements fits, or whether none of them do.