Acceleration Program

AI adoption · Acceleration Program

Every company has a unique path to AI adoption.

We offer a short, fixed-price, hands-dirty engagement to establish where your organisation is today, build hands-on AI understanding, and agree on the highest-value next moves.

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What it is

A clear starting point. A practical path forward.

We assess the evidence across leadership, people, data and governance, not just the tools you own or the pilots you have run. The result is an honest picture of your AI maturity, where the gaps are, and what would move the business forward.

Who it is for

For organisations that know AI matters, but not what comes next.

You may need hands-on education before investment, better-structured data before automation, a clearer software-buying decision, or a custom build around one valuable workflow. Most organisations need a combination. We help your team understand the choices and agree where to start.

How it runs

From where you are to what comes next.

Week 1

Assess the evidence

We establish the business gap, map how work really happens, inventory the data and systems, and make your current risk appetite explicit.

Week 2

Learn by doing

Leaders and teams use today’s tools on real work. That practical experience reveals where skills, approved technology and workable policy are missing.

Week 3

Map the opportunities

We identify the workflows AI could improve, estimate their value and dependencies, and keep ‘no AI needed’ on the table as a valid answer.

Week 4

Set the path

We rank the next moves across education, data, software buying and custom building, with owners and a realistic view of effort and cost.

Look at what you get →

What you leave with

A maturity profile and a path you can act on.

An evidence-based baseline

A shared view of where the organisation is mature, where it is exposed, and where leadership and teams see reality differently.

An up-leveled team

Enough hands-on experience to discuss AI from experience rather than hype, and to make better decisions about tools, policy and investment.

A ranked adoption plan

The highest-value next moves across education, data structuring, software buying and custom building, sequenced with dependencies, effort and owners.

What comes next

Turn the assessment into action.

The engagement gives you a practical set of next steps tailored to your maturity, priorities and highest-value opportunities.

Future-looking vendor assessment

Evaluate platforms against the capabilities you need now, the ones you are likely to need next, and the realities of your data, systems and governance.

Roadmap for custom development

Define which valuable workflows merit custom software, what must be true before building, and how to sequence delivery without taking on unnecessary risk.

Sensible & effective training plan

Build practical fluency around real work, with the right depth for leaders, practitioners and the teams responsible for risk and enablement.

Practical governance policies

Put clear, usable boundaries around approved tools, sensitive data, human review and accountability so people can adopt AI with confidence.

Participants collaborating during a Machine & Folk workshop

“We walked in with forty ideas and walked out with three we could defend to the board — and a clear reason for dropping the rest.”

Chief digital officer · Household-name insurer

Start a conversation.

Tell us how your organisation is approaching AI today — training, tools, data, policy, pilots or all of the above. We’ll help establish the baseline and work out what should come next.

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