// ai consultancy · uk
I find where it'll help, build what's missing, and train your people to use it. For operations, HR and senior leaders at UK organisations of 50 to 500 people.
// how_i_work
Discovery takes four to six weeks, and the cohort work three to six months, depending on the scope of the project.
Discovery is a fixed piece of work over four to six weeks. I talk to your people and look at how the work really runs, and you finish with an AI strategy, a usage policy your people can follow, and the governance to keep both current.
Where the work needs something that doesn't exist yet, I build it inside the systems you already use. Every client build keeps a person in charge, so nothing an AI produces reaches anyone's day until someone has confirmed it.
A walkthrough of the SOP platform, recorded on my demo copy rather than the client's own system.
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The group had around 260 standard operating procedures and no way of knowing who had read them or which were still true, so people rang a colleague instead of opening the document. I built a system that runs inside their Microsoft 365: an owner records themselves doing the task, AI drafts the procedure, and a named person approves it before anything publishes.
Each procedure goes to the people it applies to, every acknowledgement is recorded against the version they read, and managers see who is outstanding by name.
Read the full storyTraining runs by role, on the work each team really does, and managers learn how to coach their own people through it. I set up champions who keep it going after I hand over, with the guardrails and policy that keep it safe.
a typical cohort
Three months of hands-on support for the people already using AI, with governance and risk built in from day one rather than bolted on later.
Getting more from AI, plus the essentials on safe use: what data can and can't go in, checking AI output, and when a build needs a second pair of eyes.
The group brings real work, we solve it together, and good ideas spread across teams.
Each champion gets a session on their own work or project.
Where I answer questions within a working day.
What's encouraged, what needs approval, what isn't permitted. Written by the people who'll follow them, so they actually do. They become the basis of your AI policy.
Before others start relying on it: who owns it, what happens if it breaks.
For you: what's being used, what's working, and any risks to act on.
The cohort is the first step to a wider rollout.
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// worked_with_and_for
Paul Thomas · Sheffield
// next step
I'm Paul Thomas. Twenty years in learning and development, organisational culture, and change. The layer most AI rollouts skip.
I'm based in Sheffield and work with businesses across the UK, including Leeds, Manchester and London.
A short call to work out where AI would help your organisation, and where it wouldn't. No hard sell.
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