Find the one AI change worth making.Then actually build it.
Most businesses do not need another AI strategy deck. They need one thing built properly, in production, being used. We map how your business really runs, recommend a single bounded pilot, build it, and then stay on to keep shipping.
For owners and leadership teams of established small and mid-sized businesses.
- Fixed fee audit and pilot
- Unlimited development
- Turnaround in the contract
- No hourly billing
You already know AI matters. That is not the hard part.
The hard part is that every route in looks either trivial or enormous. A chatbot nobody opens, or a transformation programme with a two-year horizon and a budget to match. Neither is a sensible first move for a business that still has a quarter to run.
So it stalls. A few licences get bought, a few experiments run in isolation, and a year later nothing has structurally changed. The specific, unglamorous change that would hand a team back real hours never surfaces, because nobody has looked closely enough at how the work actually moves to find it.
That is the whole job here. Look closely, pick one thing, build it, prove it, then keep going.
Three phases. Each one ends in a decision.
Nothing here commits you to the next thing. Every phase is scoped so that stopping at the end of it still leaves you better off than when you started.
Audit
Fixed fee · about 4 weeks
Interviews with three to five of your people, then a map of how work actually flows through sales, marketing and operations. You get a written report, a prioritised opportunity map, and one recommended pilot, scoped and costed.
Decision point
Stop here and the report is yours to act on, with us or anyone else.
Pilot
Fixed fee · 4 to 8 weeks
We build the one thing the audit recommended. Not a prototype to admire in a demo, but a working system inside your business, with a short adoption note so your team knows how to run it without us.
Decision point
Stop here and the pilot is yours, running.
Strategy and Build
Monthly · pause anytime
Ongoing AI strategy plus unlimited development requests. A monthly session to decide what is worth building next, then the building itself, for one flat fee and inside a turnaround window agreed in writing.
Decision point
Pause or cancel whenever you like.
Strategy and Build
This is the part clients stay for: someone senior deciding what to do next, and as much development as you can find work for. It behaves like a product rather than a retainer, so here is the specification.
- Strategy
- A monthly session on what is worth building next.
- Development
- Unlimited requests. Add them whenever you think of them.
- Turnaround
- A fixed window per request, written into the contract.
- Billing
- A flat monthly fee. Never hours.
Twenty years of shipping systems, not recommending them.
Client case studies from this offer are still in flight. Rather than fill the space with logos that are not ours yet, here is the prior work the judgement is built on.
- Millions/day
- Scaled e-commerce systems from thousands to tens of millions of orders a day, on less infrastructure.
- 40–60%
- Time saved in mapped conveyancing workflows after a single targeted change.
- 20 years
- Building and scaling production systems, still writing the code today.
Senior-led, and the senior stays on the work.
Matt Todd runs every engagement end to end: the interviews, the recommendation, and accountability for whatever ships. A technical founder who still writes code, so nothing gets recommended that has not been thought through as a build.
Where a piece of work needs a particular specialism, it goes to someone from a network built up over twenty years, briefed and reviewed by the person you spoke to. Senior judgement throughout, and capacity that scales with the work rather than a bench you pay for either way.
Worth a conversation?
Thirty minutes. We will talk about where your team’s time actually goes and whether an audit would find anything worth acting on. If we do not think it would, we will say so on the call.