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What AI can deliver here, and what it takes to get there.

I offer a free audit, team workshops, focused advisory and fractional leadership to organisations working through AI adoption and governance, along with the decisioning, transformation and migration questions that tend to arrive with it. Every recommendation comes with delivery experience behind it.

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The adoption–value gap

AI adoption has soared, but the value has not followed it.

88% of organisations now use AI in at least one business function, yet only 17% can attribute even five percent of earnings to gen AI, and just 7% have scaled it fully. The constraint has moved. Getting AI in the door is no longer the hard part; making it pay inside real workflows, under real governance, is.

Organisations using AI in at least one business function · 2017–2025
20%
88%
20172025
Where the value sits today
17% attribute ≥5% of EBIT to gen AI88% use AI somewhere
0% of organisations100%

Source: McKinsey Global Surveys on the state of AI, 2017–2025; 1,993 respondents in the 2025 edition. Adoption definitions tightened across editions. EBIT attribution and scaling figures from the March and November 2025 reports.

Where I can help

Four places where this work tends to matter most.

Ways to work together

Choose the format that fits your problem.

If you are not sure which one fits, most people start with the free AI audit. It covers one real workflow, costs nothing and tells you quickly whether anything more is worth doing.

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When it moves into build

The delivery capability that sits behind every recommendation.

My advice has to survive contact with implementation, so this is what an engagement covers when a recommendation has to become working software.

Retrieval and knowledge systems

I ground models in your own documents and data, with citations and freshness you can defend to any stakeholder who asks.

Agentic workflows

I design multi-step automation with human checkpoints built in, so the system asks for a decision instead of guessing at one.

Evaluation and guardrails

Test sets, regression suites and refusal behaviour are defined before rollout, so you know the moment a change makes things worse.

Data pipelines and readiness

I take on the unglamorous half of every AI project, from extraction and cleaning to schema design and the plumbing that keeps it all current.

Security, access and audit

Least-privilege access, tenant isolation, retention policy and audit logging are designed in from the start rather than bolted on later.

Cost and latency engineering

Model routing, caching and batching are tuned against a real budget, and you can see exactly what each workflow costs to run.

Suitable for

The organisations this work is built for.

  • Technology leaders who need a clear position on AI before they commit budget to it.
  • Architecture teams working through platform, integration and migration decisions.
  • Transformation leaders accountable for programmes that have to land.
  • Product and delivery teams who want AI to earn its place in real workflows.
  • Banking and financial-services organisations where governance and explainability are non-negotiable.
  • Professional-services organisations bringing AI into their client work.
Typical outcomes

What you can expect to walk away with.

  • A clearer map of where AI can help you, and where it cannot.
  • A shared understanding of customer decisioning across your business and technology teams.
  • A named set of delivery risks, identified before they turn into cutover surprises.
  • Architecture decisions you can defend, made with the trade-offs in plain view.
  • An honest view of the capability you have and the capability you are missing.
  • A defined next step, written down and owned by your own team.
Next step

Bring me your situation, and we will find the starting point.

Bring one real workflow to the free audit, or simply start with a conversation about AI adoption, decisioning, migration or the capability you are missing. Either way, you will leave knowing what a sensible next move looks like.