Research
Choose this if you want evidence before a decision: where demand is growing, who else serves your customers, which regulations are coming, or who might one day buy a business like yours.
What I do
Strategy, marketing and AI tools, delivered as finished work
Together we work out where your business could grow or run more efficiently, then build what's missing, alongside your team, so the plan actually happens. You get finished work, not a report about it, and I stay to see it used, or hand it over so your team owns it.
Four parts
Which part do you need?
Work often starts with Research or Consulting and ends with something built. Advising is for when you want an experienced person on your board or at your side over time.
Consulting
Choose this if you're weighing up where the next stage of growth could come from, if marketing tends to happen in bursts, or if you have a pitch, a tender or a bank meeting coming up.
Building
Choose this if your team loses hours to quotes, reports or chasing emails, or if you'd like a deck, a website or a tool built rather than specified.
Advising
Choose this if you want a non-executive director, a board adviser or a mentor, or you're an investor who wants an independent view before you invest.
Who it's for
The businesses I work with
Owner-led firms from around £1m turnover, and venture-backed technology companies, in four sectors:
Owner-led businesses
Engineering, manufacturing, professional and trade services.
Fast-growth startups
Venture-backed technology companies.
Agri-food and regenerative
Farms, food and drink producers, estates, agtech.
Climate, biodiversity and impact
Carbon, nature and flood risk.
Based in Wiltshire. I work across the South West, London and further afield, in person or remotely. If you're not sure whether you fit, the 30-minute call is the quickest way to find out. If I can't help, I'll say so.
How it works
From first call to finished work
- A 30-minute conversationWe talk about the business, where you want it to be, and what's in the way. You don't need to prepare anything.
From you: 30 minutes. - A working demo on your businessUsually within a week, I build something real from your public information, such as a positioning draft, a sample campaign or a working version of a tool. There's no charge, and because it uses only public information, you don't need to share anything confidential yet.
From you: a short call to walk through it. - A fixed-scope projectWe agree what will be delivered, by when, and the price, before work starts. Then I build it alongside your team, with the AI team doing the research, drafting and coding, and me checking and signing off every piece.
From you: about an hour a week to answer questions and review work, plus access to the systems or information the project needs. - Ongoing, if it's usefulMonthly support to keep tools and agents running and the marketing going, a handover so your team owns and runs it, or a seat on your board as a non-executive director. Advising
How the AI team works, and what I do myself: About
Common questions
How much does it cost?
Prices aren't on the site, because every project is scoped to the business. You get a clear price, agreed up front, before the project starts. The first call and the demo cost nothing.
What do you do, and what does the AI team do?
The AI team is software: coding, research and analysis agents. We agree what we're doing and why. I direct the agents, check every claim, and sign off everything before it reaches you. You deal only with me.
What happens to our data?
Your data stays yours. I use tools that don't train on your data.
We already have a marketing team, or an agency. Does this still fit?
Yes. I work alongside the people and tools you already have: filling gaps, adding capacity, or building what they don't have the time or tools for, then handing it over so your team owns it.
How many clients do you take on?
No more than three at once, so each one gets my full attention. That sometimes means a short wait to start.
Do you work in person?
Yes, where it helps. I'm based in Wiltshire and work across the South West, London and further afield, in person or remotely.
Can I have just one part?
Yes. Some businesses need only research, only a plan, only a tool, or only a board member. We'll still start by agreeing where you want the business to go, so everything points the same way.
Talk to me
Start with 30 minutes
Tell me what you want to change. If I can help, the next step is a demo built on your business.