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I help organisations think clearly about AI.

Most AI conversations start at the wrong altitude. I work with founders, agency MDs, and boards on how the organisation should think, before anyone decides what it should buy.

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Mondelez
FIFA
LG
Shark Ninja
Pets at Home
Magnet
Opella
Screen Yorkshire
Leeds Trinity
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Advisor, not vendor. Ideas before offerings.

Twenty-five years across creative engineering, content, and AI. I sit just inside the decision with founders, MDs, and boards, connecting opinion to fact and translating what matters into actions the organisation can actually take. Embedding AI shouldn't mean procuring new suppliers and platforms, or onboarding permanent hires to run it. Everything we do is designed to be handed over: we build the infrastructure together, growing AI capability and experience in your existing talent. That individuality remains your commercial delta.

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Ideas, before anyone is sold anything.

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What is a consultant now?

Role Collapse & Emergence · 26 Aug 2026 · 6 min Read the entry

What do you actually buy when you commission a consultant now? On capability mapping for agents as well as people, and why 'I don't know yet' became part of the job.

Your AI project doesn't start with a developer

Translation Layer · 20 Jul 2026 · 6 min Read the entry

Most AI projects don't fail at the build. They fail because nobody mapped the architecture first - an established discipline that AI delivery quietly dropped.

Do we need Fable 5?

Compression Economics · 20 Jul 2026 · 5 min Read the entry

In five weeks Fable 5 launched, was suspended by the US government, returned, and became standard on Max plans. The board lesson: match model, plan and effort to the task.

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