Forward-deployed AI

We put AI to work inside your business

AI can’t help a business it doesn’t understand. That’s why most integrations fall flat: the software goes in before anyone has mapped what actually happens day to day. We do the mapping first, so each automation is grounded in reality rather than guesswork.

Discovery45 minThe first conversation. Who we are, how we work, and whether it makes sense to go further.

Diagnosis callYour teamWe sit with the people who do the work and map how the business actually runs — the detail the report is built from.

The Diagnostic48 hoursA written report in your hands within two days. Three to five pain points, ranked by impact, quick wins written up and priced.

Quick wins5 hrs / weekBuild them yourself from our instructions, or we build them for you — guaranteed to give the team five hours a week back.

The Operating MapOn siteFront door to back door. How the work flows, documented. The base every automation we build works from.

AI on the spineThe buildWe build a custom AI layer on the Operating Map produced from the site visit.

Monthly rhythmAOAAudit, Optimise, Automate. A monthly session with your department heads so the gains keep compounding.

AI Barometer

The AI Barometer is how we take the measure of a business: of everything AI could be doing for it, how much is it actually getting? We map that across five phases, each one unlocking a bigger share of what AI can deliver at your scale. Most businesses we meet are sitting at 5%.

Circle size · share of the valueHover a circle

Today5%Where most businesses sitWhere most of the businesses we meet sit: strong processes in experienced heads, some individual use of AI tools, nothing written in a form AI can act on.

Why it stops at 90. Nobody captures all of it. The last 10% is the business changing faster than any map. That’s what the monthly rhythm is for.

How we work

Each step earns the right to the next one.

You only pay for the next step once you’ve seen what the last one produced. The Diagnostic comes first and costs the least. If it doesn’t pay for itself, you stop, and you keep the report.

AI Barometer30%

What the evidence says

Independent numbers, with sources.

We don’t publish results we can’t stand behind. What we can share is what independent research says about AI in businesses like yours, and why we work the way we do.

Where the market is

54% of UK SMEs say they use AI, but only 11% use it to automate how the business actually runs. Most of the market is buying subscriptions, not changing the work.

Source: British Chambers of Commerce, March 2026

Why most projects fail

MIT looked at 300 real AI deployments and found 95% returned nothing measurable. The models weren’t the problem — over half of budgets went on sales and marketing tools while the returns sat in the back office.

Source: MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business, 2025

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What makes the difference

McKinsey tested 25 things a business could do to get profit impact from AI. Redesigning the workflow itself came top. Buying the tool didn’t place. That’s why we map the work before we build anything.

Source: McKinsey, The State of AI, 2025

Where the gain lands

Across 5,000 support agents, the least experienced staff resolved 34% more cases an hour with AI assistance.

Source: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2025

Figures are third-party market benchmarks, not guarantees. Your results depend on your processes, your data and your team. That’s what the Diagnostic is for.

What it’s worth

How many hours could your team get back?

Your team

People doing repeat admin5Accounts, sales admin, scheduling, reporting, marketing — anyone who re-keys information a system already holds.

Hours each spends on it, per week5Most teams we meet land between 4 and 10. A rough figure is fine.

Hourly cost£30Salary plus on-costs, per hour.

Back in the business

920

hours a year

Worth about£28,000

Or, per person25 days

Assumes AI takes on 80% of that time — the task automated, a person still in the loop and checking the final output.

Check it on the 45-minute call

Cut through the jargon

The sentence you’ll hear from every AI vendor.

AI has its own language. Click any underlined word and we’ll translate it — one idea per sentence, in plain English.

“We deploy with over your , connected by to your systems, each with its own and , running the of your choice.”

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Industry

Agent

Not ChatGPT

A purpose-built AI system that does one specific job for your business. It holds your context, follows your process and connects to your systems — with a person checking the result.

An accounts agent that reconciles transactions and flags discrepancies, rather than someone keying every line.

Start with a 45-minute call.

No deck, no pitch. We ask what takes the longest, what gets done twice and what nobody wants to do, then tell you where AI can help and where it can’t.

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