AI Adoption
Practical AI for businesses that already work.
For owner-led, family-owned and established businesses looking for a clear first step. We begin with half a day, work with the systems you already have, and every recommendation comes with its estimated cost, savings, assumptions and payback.
The questions owners ask us
You’ve built a business that works. Everyone says AI will change it. Nobody has shown you where.
Vendors promise transformation. Your IT provider keeps the lights on. Your team is quietly trying chat tools with no plan behind them. And the systems that run the business were never built with AI in mind.
We start small and work with what you already have. Every recommendation comes with its estimated cost, savings, assumptions and payback, so you can judge it for yourself. We run AI in production inside regulated businesses, so our advice is grounded in what actually works, not what demos well.
- “I don't know where to start. Is AI even for a business like mine?”Very likely, but not everywhere. Half a day on your own work will show you where.Executive AI Session
- “Where would AI actually pay off in our business?”In a handful of places, usually. We find them, cost them and put them in order.Practical AI Review
- “How do we get our people using AI properly, and safely?”The right tools, set up safely, practical training on their own work, and a follow-up to make it stick.AI Adoption for Your Team
- “Every vendor now sells ‘AI’. Who do I trust?”Someone with no vendor ties, who checks the contract before you sign.Systems Roadmap
- “Who looks after all of this once the project is over?”Someone senior has to own it. That is what an on-demand CTO is for.On-Demand CTO
Start here
Half a day, using your own work.
AI Adoption
Executive AI Session
Half a day to see what AI can do in your business, using your own work.
We sit down with you and two or three of your key people and work through real examples from your business: your quotes, emails, documents and reports, using today's tools live. You leave knowing where AI fits, where it doesn't, and three concrete places to start.
- Timeframe
- Half a day
- Where
- On site or remote
- Your time
- Half a day for you and two or three key people
- Best for
- Owners and leadership teams ready to move from reading about AI to using it
What we might recommend next
After the session you get a one-page summary and a recommended next step, with a rough cost and payback. Nothing more is booked unless you decide. You’ll hear back within one business day of asking, and we confirm the date, what we will look at and the fee in writing before anything is booked.
Not sure which? Tell us the problem and we’ll help you choose.
It might be neither: a stalled software project, or nobody owning technology. We help with those too: Systems Roadmap, On-Demand CTO and Implementation Rescue.
Free practical guide
Safe AI rules for your team
Clear rules for using AI at work, a first-week rollout plan, a printable checklist and a policy worksheet you can adapt for your team. No call, no obligation.
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Or see what repetitive work costs youAI in production
We build and run AI for regulated businesses every week.
Our team builds and runs AI that handles document and admin work for businesses every working day, including regulated ones such as insurance agencies. That experience shapes every recommendation we make.
AI now reads incoming documents, pulls out the details and prepares proposal paperwork across the agency's systems, carrier portals and email, so staff stop re-keying the same information.
30 min to prepare a proposal, down from 12 hoursRead the case studyManufacturer · Southern CaliforniaOne consistent way to quote jobs at a family-owned manufacturerAs on-demand CTO for a new operations system, we designed how estimates and pricing work and used AI to convert years of old estimates, so the team quotes from the same data.
3 years of estimates turned into one quoting data setRead the case studyCreative industry association · New York and EuropeA conference captured, analysed and reported by AI in real timeLive transcription of every keynote, breakout and interview, an AI agent pulling quotes and themes onto the venue screens as they happen, and a branded post-event report with takeaways within a week instead of a written summary weeks later.
1 week from a live conference to the full report, instead of weeks laterRead the case studyAccounting and advisory firm · Midwest USClient meeting notes turned into a weekly brief for a fractional CFO teamAI agents read the firm’s client meeting notes and give each CFO a short weekly brief: overdue actions, the conversations to have next, frustrations building and signals to watch, with a bot to ask before a call.
3 to 5 min weekly read per client, in place of months of meeting notesRead the case studyConcept, AI/ML model development and web build for a live AI-moderated debate at SXSW.
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What is repetitive work costing your business?
Put in how many people do document and admin work and how long it takes them. See the cost a year and what the staff time a first automation could free up is worth. Nothing is stored.
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