For leaders
CTOs, founders and heads of function who need an adoption plan with measures in it, and a way to move faster without moving blind.
The board wants an AI plan. The tools are bought and half adopted. The Centre of Excellence you set up to keep everyone safe has become a queue, and the interesting work is happening around it. You may have cut junior roles, or be about to, and are not sure that was right. You want a plan that treats governance as the route to speed rather than the brake on it.
Typical climb
Rung 1 to rung 3
Where most people in this group start, and where the work gets them. Your own starting rung might differ, which is the first thing we find out.
What is not working
- Adoption is uneven and you cannot see where each team actually is.
- Governance and velocity are fighting each other.
- Vendor and platform decisions are being made on headline prices, not measured costs.
- The junior pipeline question has no owner.
What we do together
- An adoption review: where each team sits on the ladder, what is holding it there, and what moves it up.
- Org design for AI: how to keep a centre of expertise without making it a checkpoint.
- Governance that enables: promotion criteria for tasks and agents, so autonomy is earned and auditable.
- Migration economics: local versus cloud, provider moves, batch versus real time, with a measured cost model rather than a vendor's slide.
- The people side: what adoption does to ownership, expertise and the next generation of seniors, and the leadership choices that decide it.
What you leave with
- A written review with a ladder position per team and a plan per team.
- Governance you can defend to the board and the engineers.
- A cost model you built, not one you were sold.
- An exec session to align the leadership team on the plan.
Format
- A one-week review: interviews, a look at the work, a written report and a two-hour exec session.
- Retained advisory afterwards, two days a month plus asynchronous questions, for leaders who want a sounding board while it lands.
Rates
What it costs, and the pilot offer
The first three organisations get 40 per cent off any team, engineering or leadership engagement. In return I ask for a written testimonial and a short case study I can publish. The individual rates are already the pilot rates.
| Engagement | Remote |
|---|---|
| Adoption reviewOne week. Interviews, a look at the work, written report, two-hour exec session. | £6,000 |
| Retained advisoryTwo days a month plus asynchronous questions. Three-month minimum. | £1,500 per month |
Tell me which rung you are on.
A short message is enough. Say who you are, what you are trying to do, and whether you want remote or onsite. I reply within two working days.