AI CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Some of what our ai consultants do starts as an AI strategy that goes to the board, where does an AI implementation change something, what would it cost to be wrong, what order should this happen in. Sometimes it starts with a founder wanting to know if their business is compliant, or a team asking whether they need a policy written before their staff carry on using Ai tools with client data in it.
We hold and run readiness assessments, we train teams who are terrified of the technology into people who use it every day and where a client needs to see artificial intelligence working before they will commit a large budget, we build the proof of concept ourselves.
Security, sovereignty and the EU AI Act come up in most of these conversations now, A lot of UK businesses trading into Europe still don’t know if the Act applies to them and we help them with all of these.
OUR AI CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Strategy
Process mapping, opportunity scoring and a fully defined roadmap. we look at your entire business to determine what an AI implementation could realistically return and which of your existing systems it has to work with.
Governance
Data classification, access controls, retention and a written policy your team can both understand and follow. Then where AI sovereignty matters we ensure all processing is handled inside your own infrastructure. Then lastly where the EU AI Act applies we tell you how it applies to you and what you need to be aware of.
Proof
We provide training built around the AI tools your team will use, or build you a proof of concept built on Sonae for when an ai automations decision needs evidence. We agree the scope so the cost efficiency and revenue impact as close to real as we can get them.
AI and Digital Transformation in Action
AIME
Your AI Companion
CYSIAM
Making cybersecurity assessments simple
IFFO
AI Policy Workshops and Creation
AI STRATEGIES FOR
What We Build
AI strategy and roadmaps : We find the opportunities for AI adoption, in what order that they should happen and the value to the business for each phase.
AI policies and governance frameworks: That are written in a language style and tone that your team can follow, aligned to the EU AI Act and covering data classification, access and retention.
Readiness and data assessments: Process mapping, opportunity scoring and what your existing systems, data and team can actually support.
Rapid prototypes and proofs of concept: Built using our framework Sonae to reduce time and cost all running on your own data to evaluate the effectiveness of the AI models.
Training and adoption: Built around the specific AI tools your team will use with guardrails to ensure your business stays compliant.
Model and tool selection: We stress test the various options against your own use cases for cost and quality until the final model choice is obvious.
OUR AI SOLUTIONS
HOW OUR AI CONSULTANTS DELIVER IT
We start with readiness: Before we create you a strategy we look at how your teams operate day to day, what data you hold, who has access to it and what your existing systems can support in data flow in and out.. Our AI consulting starts here because the biggest opportunities are usually the data driven insights that come out of this phase.
We write the strategy and the roadmap: Once we have the opportunities we score them against business value, effort and risk, the business objectives are attached to each entry and a high level project timeline for what happens when.
We handle governance while we go, not after: Security, data governance, sovereignty and the EU AI Act all get dealt with as part of the strategy. Where ai sovereignty compliance is required we keep all the processing inside your own cloud infrastructure, and the written ai policy is written so your team and your IT department can follow it without having to check it every time.
We prove it and train the team who will use it: The proof of concept always comes before the product, and we built the POC using our framework Sonae with your own data and with measurable outcomes. Our training is built around the specific AI tools your team will use, and we offer ongoing support so what we hand over continues to get used.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Our Point of View on AI consultancy engagement
Most AI consultancy is sold on the promise that your business stays exactly as it is but runs faster. We believe that is the least interesting thing you can do with it. We believe that the companies who will own their category in five years are the ones asking what their business would look like if it were designed using the technical today.
That question is uncomfortable because the answer is rarely a specific tool or automate a process It’s usually a product you don’t currently sell, or a service you couldn’t afford to offer, or a customer experience that was never economically possible before.
Machine learning models, AI agents and natural language processing are what make those things attainable now,
So we start by what should exist that doesn’t. Efficiency gains are always the by-product and they are worth having, but they are not the reason for transformaton.
We believe its the revenue impact that comes from what you build that your competitors can’t answer.
Getting agentic products to market faster and cheaper
SONAE – OUR AGENTIC AI PLATFORM
We have already built the hardest part. Sonae is our own agentic platform with the authentication, orchestration, knowledge pipelines, approvals, cost control and audit trail already done and proven on live projects, so when you come to us your budget goes straight on the part that is specific to your business which translates into a lower cost and a shorter route to market.
FAQs
Questions we are asked before we are hired?
What would our business look like if designed today?
This is the common question our AI consulting practice gets asked today. So instead of create a list of things that you do now, to find jobs for a ai model, we look at what your companies market would let you offer if the cost of delivering it dropped to near zero. Usually there is a product you don’t sell or a service you couldn’t afford to run, and that is where our innovation is.
Will you tell us not to build something?
Yes we would. If a specific tool you already pay for covers it, or the honest answer is a fixed process, we say so and our AI consultancy engagement ends there. Good consultancy is worth more for what it stops than what it starts, and we would rather keep the relationship than sell you AI driven solutions you did not need.
Does the EU AI Act apply to us?
We have found that most UK businesses have not checked and assume it doesn’t as its the EU right. But i you trade into Europe or use AI in ways the Act classes as higher risk it applies regardless of where you are based. We tell you what and how it applies to you and help you write the policy your team and your IT department can work to.
Who owns everything at the end?
We make this one simple and you do, including the code, the prompts and the documentation. Where AI sovereignty matters we keep processing inside your own cloud infrastructure on models that do not train on your data. Plenty of our clients take our deliverables in house and run it themselves, which is a fair outcome and one we plan for.
What does a proof of concept actually prove?
Ultimately we prove a new process, a new way of working is possible before we build a product. We agree the scope first and the POC proves the cost efficiency and revenue impact.
Our staff already use AI. Is that a problem?
Don’t worry, this is a common starting position. Someone uses AI powered chatbots on personal accounts with client data in them or experiments with one workflow automation . Part of our assessment is finding all of it and giving people a policy they can follow.
How quickly can we see something working?
Most AI consultancy runs between two and six weeks and the project timeline depends on how many people we need to speak to and your business goals. Where software development is needed for a proof of concept thats included inside this window too.
What does it cost?
We like to keep the decision making simple and always operate on a fixed fee that start from £3,500 and always agreed before we start. A readiness assessment and roadmap sits at the lower end and a full AI strategy with policy work and a working prototype costs more.
Do we need our own AI team first?
No not at all and most of our clients have no internal technical expertise when they arrive. Part of what any good consultant hands over is the ability for your own people to have judgement and not be afraid of the technology or the artificial intelligence solutions we build.
What if the model we choose becomes obsolete?
Unfortunately things are moving so fast it will, which is why we build to be agnostic. We build in evals into our machine learning solutions so a swap of model can easy prove the seamless integration of another model whilst comparing costs and quality standards. This way your business needs and existing system do not need to change.
Where does this show up in the numbers?
This depends what we find. Operational efficiency and efficiency gains show up almost everywhere and they are worth having, but the larger benefit is usually inside customer satisfaction or something you can now sell that you could not before with measurable outcomes.
What happens after the engagement ends?
This is entirely up to you, some clients move into build with us, whilst others take it in house. We offer ongoing supportwhere it is useful, and all our work is documented so you are not dependent on us going forward. If you want more infobefore any of this, the first conversation is free and usually happens over a couple of phone calls.
We were going in circles until Ronins stepped in, they got us focused, showed us what mattered, and built a solution that didn’t rip out everything we’d already invested in.
Neil RaffertyPartners who rely on us for AI strategy and delivery
OUR AI SERVICES
Consultancy
Most people think that AI strategy begins by asking what could be automated. We believe it is by asking how the business should work now that ai powered automation exists to find the operations where changing that creates you the most value.
AI Agents
Automating the way you already work only gives you a faster version of the same thing and sometimes thats OK. We rethink how the work could be reshaped, then build the automated workflows and ai agents too deliver on that new promise.
AutomationsAI Systems
Sometimes the new strategy doesn’t fit inside an existing tool. This is when we build from scratch to design and build the ai systems and bespoke platforms for where your business wants to be.
Development