Consulting, not selling.
Adoption, compliance, transformation, governance and strategy, from one person. Thirty years of architecture, security and transformation inside regulated businesses, now spent on where AI belongs and where it does not. Everything arrives in writing and every price is fixed before the work starts. There is nothing here to buy a licence for.
What that actually means
The right use, or none
Where AI earns its place in your business and where it does not. Most of the value is in narrowing that down before anybody builds anything.
The data question, answered
Lawful basis, what leaves your estate, who can see it and how long it is kept. Plainly, with the parts that genuinely need a solicitor marked as such.
A named owner, a rule
Transformation fails on ownership far more often than on technology. Who decides, who maintains it, and what people are allowed to put into it.
One agreed number
What this is meant to change, written down before it starts, so it can be checked honestly afterwards instead of quietly dropped.
How a piece of work runs
What it needs from you
- A short written intakeWhat the process is, who does it, and what it is supposed to produce. A page is usually enough to start.
- Sample data or documentsScreenshots work well. So does a short screen recording of somebody actually doing the job.
- One named personSomebody who answers questions by email. Ideally the person who does the work, not only the person who describes it.
What comes back
- A straight answer on the ideaReal, not real yet, or never. With the reason, so it survives being repeated to somebody else.
- What it would takeRough effort, rough cost, and what has to be fixed before it is worth starting at all.
- The data positionWhere your exposure sits and whether it is routine. Most people are relieved. Some are not, but everybody would rather know.
- Something you can keepFindings, a runbook and a recorded walkthrough. Readable again in eighteen months when somebody asks why a decision was made.
Where this starts
The first step is the review. £1,250 fixed, five working days, and credited in full against any work commissioned within ninety days. It exists so the decision about what to build is made on evidence rather than on a conversation, and so nobody pays for a discovery phase dressed up as delivery.
Half the value here is being told no. If the honest answer is fewer steps and no software at all, that is what the review will say, and you will have paid for an answer rather than for a project that should not have started.