The only day rate I carry • £1,250 / day
I'm the AI Advisor in Residence at the University of Bath's innovation centre. Advisor on Call is the same job for you: straight answers on AI, operating models, and the decisions between them — bought by the day, as often as you need.
£1,250 per day, invoiced per day. No retainer, no minimum, no lock-in.
The constraint is named and the sequence is yours to run. This is the sanity-check on the follow-through — someone who saw the inside and has no incentive to stretch the work.
Vendor claims, build-vs-buy, governance calls, board questions. A day with someone who ships production AI beats another vendor briefing.
Not a NED, not a coach, not a consultancy. A pattern-spotter you can put a hard question to and get a straight answer from, this week.
Everything else I sell is priced by outcome — a diagnosis, a proof, a redesign, each with a fixed price and a defined end. The one thing priced by time is advice: £1,250 a day, and you buy exactly as many days as you need.
Advisory means advice. You own the decisions and the outcomes. If you want implementation, that's a priced offering on the menu with a defined end — and if you want something à la carte, we can talk.
Find where the constraint actually sits. Not where the org chart says it should be.
Build the thing that proves the pathway exists. Working software, not a slide.
Get it into live use with your people, on real cases, until it is load-bearing without me in the room.
Every engagement has a defined end. Extension is your choice, never my pitch.
I leave, and it keeps running. If you want a consultant who moves in for eighteen months, I am the wrong person — the whole point is that you don't need me.
My full attention on your decisions: reviewing a plan, pressure-testing a vendor claim, working through an operating-model call, preparing you for a board conversation. Take it as a whole day or split it into sessions across a couple of weeks — whatever fits how you work. Remote by default, on-site by arrangement.
As many as the decisions demand. Advisory scales because you own the outcomes — I am advising, not delivering. Some clients want one day around a big call; others book a day a month as standing access. Both are fine, and there is no minimum and no lock-in either way.
Then it stays advice until you decide otherwise. If you want something implemented, the menu is public: a diagnosis, a PoC Sprint, an Operating Model Redesign Sprint, a workshop cohort — each with a fixed price and a defined end. And if what you need doesn’t fit any of those shapes, we can talk à la carte. Extension is your choice, never my pitch.
A short conversation is usually enough to know whether I'm useful to you. If I'm not, I'll say so.
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