Win more client work without hiring more people.
For agencies, consultancies and professional services firms of 20 to 200 people. We find the work that eats your team's time, get AI doing it safely, and your firm owns the result.
Under ten minutes. See where you stand on AI control and capacity, and your next move.
Where to start
Leverage Board
This is for you if: You run a 50 to 200 person firm and nobody senior owns AI or tech.
Senior AI judgement on your side, so every AI and build decision is checked before you spend.
Build Partner
This is for you if: You have an IT director, but no one to build what they have planned.
Your IT director stays in charge, the build gets a fixed plan and a fixed scope, and your firm owns the code.
AI Quick Start
This is for you if: You are a firm of around 20 people and want one thing working with AI, not another meeting.
In 30 days, the one problem your Audit found is handled by an agent or workflow your people know how to run, and it stays yours.
Not sure which fits? The free AI Readiness and Governance Audit will show you.
Your best people have become the glue between your systems.
Every new client adds more chasing, copying and checking, so growth means hiring.
Why the usual fixes fail
Vendor AI, more licences, chatbots, and agencies selling builds rarely fix the work between systems. They add tools while the firm stays dependent.
Most agentic projects will not survive the forecast
Gartner forecasts that more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027, mostly for cost, unclear value, or weak risk controls. Strategy has to come before build: decide what to fix, what to build, who builds it and how AI stays under your control.
Source: Gartner press release, 25 June 2025. Not an endorsement of FluentForward. Read the Gartner press release.
Judgement on your side of the table
The Leverage Board puts senior AI and operations judgement on your side of the table, so every AI and build decision makes your firm more productive per head and never more dependent on a vendor.
Between sessions, scheduled portal office hours and the AI advisor help you prepare and recall decisions. The decisions stay with people.
What changes for your firm
- AI you control, not AI that happens to you.
- A build partner chosen on merit, not on who pitched first.
- A roadmap and IP you own, not a vendor's lock-in.
- More output per person, not more people.
Under ten minutes. See where you stand on AI control and capacity, and your next move.
Built for services firms where people are the glue
Agencies, consultancies, professional and managed services firms of around 20 to 200 people, where client work runs on people, inboxes and spreadsheets. Whether you have an IT director, your own developers or nobody technical at all, there is a starting point that fits.
Where we draw the line
We're not the right fit if:
- You sell software. If SaaS or a product is your core business, you need a product team.
- You're a team of fewer than about 10. The free Audit is still useful, but our work pays off once there is a team to multiply.
- You want a chatbot or a licence. We don't resell tools.
- You want to rent developers by the day. Every build we do is fixed scope, and your firm owns it.
- You want a multi-year transformation programme. We work in short, visible steps, and you see progress as it happens.
Not sure? The free Audit will tell you in under ten minutes.
From Audit to AI that works
Find where the time goes
The free AI Readiness and Governance Audit shows where your people are stuck doing the work between systems, how safe your current AI use is, and the one thing to fix first.
Pick your starting point
On a free Audit review call we agree the right route for your firm: the Leverage Board, Build Partner or AI Quick Start. Straight answers, including when we are not the right fit.
Get it working
We fix that first problem with your team, or for you, under your control. Your firm owns the code, the agents and the know-how.
Then we re-score as you grow and take on the next one.
The CRM was winning. The process was losing.
The owner and ops team stopped bending their process around the CRM and moved to a system built around how their work actually runs.
"We stopped reshaping our process to fit the CRM. We got a system built around how we actually work, and we can see the whole pipeline and client book without hunting through sheets and inboxes."
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Find your starting point.
However you start, your firm owns the code and keeps the capability.