Fixed price • 1–2 days • £4,500

How far has your AI
actually got?

A fixed-price measurement of where your AI adoption really sits and what is holding the next level shut, written for your board, not your backlog. From someone who ships production AI, not slides about it.

Fixed price. One invoice. No procurement cycle needed.

Sound familiar?

  • The pilots worked. The demos impressed. Then the wins ran out at the edge of your existing workflows.
  • You raised on an AI story. Twelve months on, tasks are faster — but how the organisation actually works hasn’t changed.
  • Engineering says the models are fine. Product says priorities shifted. Nobody can say how far the adoption has actually got.
  • The board is asking what the AI spend produced. "Faster tasks" is true, but it isn’t the answer they funded.
  • Your best engineers use AI personally every day, and the organisation is no more capable than it was last year.

Organisations paying transformation prices for redecoration outcomes.

None of this means your team failed. It means you have reached the first level: tasks got faster, and how work moves stayed the same. Most organisations shipping AI features sit exactly here — and most stop here and call it done. The question is whether you're settling, or whether the next level — fewer handoffs, then work that couldn't exist before — is worth the risk-versus-return. That decision starts with measuring where you actually are.

What you get

Your level, measured

A written reading of how far your AI adoption has actually got: structurally, not anecdotally. Most plateaus are not model problems. They are workflow, verification, or decision-rights problems wearing an AI costume.

What I would test first

The single highest-leverage intervention, with the experiment that proves or kills it inside a fortnight. Not a roadmap. A next move.

Board-ready, not backlog-ready

The output is written for the conversation you are dreading: the one where someone asks what the AI investment produced. You will walk in with a measurement instead of a status update.

Want a smaller first step?

The AI Maturity Review. 90 minutes, £750.

One structured session on where your AI adoption sits. You leave with a first reading of your level, the three structural causes most likely holding it there, and what I would test first. Not an hour of my time; a defined outcome.

The £750 is credited in full against the AI Maturity Diagnosis if you book it within 30 days. So the first step is risk-free, and the price of the real work does not change.

How every engagement runs

1

Diagnose

Find where the constraint actually sits. Not where the org chart says it should be.

2

Prove

Build the thing that proves the pathway exists. Working software, not a slide.

3

Embed

Get it into live use with your people, on real cases, until it is load-bearing without me in the room.

4

Leave

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.

Why me: I build this stuff.

Most people advising on AI adoption have never shipped any. I have 20+ years in organisational transformation and seven production AI products of my own. The diagnosis comes from practice, and you can check the practice:

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Questions you are probably asking

How does the two days actually run?

A structured set of interviews with the people closest to the work (typically four to eight conversations), a review of what was actually built and where the gains stopped, and the written diagnosis delivered within a week of the last interview. Remote by default; on-site by arrangement.

Why fixed price?

So you can expense it without a procurement cycle, and so neither of us has an incentive to stretch it. £4,500, invoiced once, no day-rate creep.

What happens afterwards?

You own the diagnosis and you can act on it without me. If you want the recommended intervention built and proven, that is a separate, clearly-scoped PoC Sprint — and getting it into daily use afterwards is the Embed Sprint; if the constraint is the operating model itself, the Operating Model Redesign Sprint is the follow-on shape; and if you want the truth on call while you run it yourself, that is Advisor on Call at £1,250 a day. All on the services page, all priced. Extension is your choice, never my pitch.

What if we’re exactly where we should be?

Then you will know that, in writing, and it will be defensible. "You’re at the right level for now, and here is what would make the next one worth it" is a real answer — and it has been worth the fee to people before.

Two days from now, you could know where you stand.

£4,500 fixed. Your level measured. The constraint named. Your next move identified. And then I leave. Six weeks after that, you're answering a different board question: not "what did the AI spend produce?" but "which workflow do we convert next?"