AI training and process improvement for small and mid-sized companies.

We help people improve the jobs they do and teams change how whole processes run. Your team learns to make the changes themselves, and we measure the result against where you started.

Book a free AI review

We’ll look at how your team uses AI now, identify the biggest opportunities and talk through what to do next, including whether one of our services fits. Afterwards, I’ll send you three practical recommendations.

CCCG
Hotel, Mike
Fazed Media
Symbioss
Fraym
Synerra
Goodwill
Will Thompson Is Away
Loving Alliance
CCCG
Hotel, Mike
Fazed Media
Symbioss
Fraym
Synerra
Goodwill
Will Thompson Is Away
Loving Alliance
“I didn’t just leave with something built for me. I understood how it worked and felt confident improving it myself afterwards.”
Liz Ashton
Liz Ashton
Founder
Symbioss
“We cut the time spent finding and qualifying prospects from eight hours a week to two, while keeping final control over every message.”
Will Thompson
Will Thompson
Founder
Will Thompson Is Away
“I learned how to use AI on the work I actually do. Now it handles the research and admin, without taking away the judgement that makes the business mine.”
Harriet Murphy
Harriet Murphy
Founder
HOTEL, MIKE
The problem

Your team uses ChatGPT or Claude
but they’re not getting more done.

AI helps inside the chat window, but it rarely takes a whole task off your plate.

You copy the information in, spend time explaining and refining, then copy the answer back into the tool where the work belongs.

Features already built into ChatGPT and Claude, including voice mode, skills, sub-agents, scheduled tasks and browser use, largely go unused. So the gains stay one-off and unmeasured.

Our services

AI Training

A hands-on, in-person day built around the real work each participant does.

Who it's for
Teams using AI in a chat window, copying work in and answers back out, and not getting much time back for it.
You leave with
  • Two or three real tasks automated per participant.
  • Your second brain set up and your business tools connected.
  • Time savings measured and the ability to build more yourselves.
Format and price
Full day, in personAt your officeUp to eight people
£950 plus VAT

Usually held at your office. A central London meeting space can be arranged for an additional fee.

AI Sprint

A focused project to redesign one important process around what AI now makes possible, test the changes and put the new process in place.

Who it's for
Teams where people are already handy with AI on their own jobs, and the business now wants to take one whole workflow and make it genuinely better. Work that passes between several people, not one person’s task.
You leave with
  • One important process redesigned, tested against real or representative examples, and put in place.
  • Initial results measured against the original process.
  • The method and templates to improve the next one yourselves.
  • A costed roadmap of what to do next.
Format and price
A typical four weeks, sometimes less if your prep is done.The first two weeks are virtual.The last two are two to three days a week in your office.
£3,500 plus VAT.

Most teams start with AI Training. If you already have the foundations, you can move straight to a Sprint. Not sure? The free AI review will tell you where to start.

Everything we build sits in the tools you already use.

We teach
ChatGPT
Claude
Works with

+2,000 more

Case study

AI Training

Fazed Media cut race-plan time from five hours to under one.

Sarah Fasey runs social media and brand management for elite athletes. In one hands-on day, she built a local second brain around her clients and working style, connected her tools and turned recurring work into reusable workflows.

14 hours

estimated monthly saving across race plans and reporting.

Read the full story

AI Sprint

Hotel Mike grew from two new retailers a month to six.

A four-week Sprint redesigned the complete wholesale process, from finding and qualifying stores to orders, reorders and invoicing. Harriet kept final control over every commercial and brand decision.

new-retailer acquisition in the first full month, without adding more hours.

Read the full story

Michael Atkins
Michael Atkins
Certifications
Claude Teaching AI Fluency, September 2026. Verify
OpenAI Agents and Workflows, September 2026. Verify

You’ll work with me from the first conversation to the final handover.

AI work since 2018

AI projects for air traffic control, World Rugby and Action for Children at Capgemini’s innovation lab.

Improving services at HMRC

Helped establish a cross-department innovation capability and led teams improving live services. One project halved case-processing time from 28 to 14 days.

Built AI capability in-house

Led AI and automation at an Oxford algorithms company, including its client-facing AI services and internal adoption.

Master’s in Computer Science and AI

Graduated with distinction.

There is no junior delivery team. The person you meet is the person who prepares and runs the work.

Four ways to make your team genuinely capable with AI.

Do it yourselfHire in-houseHave it built CairnWorks
Cost Licences only, but progress costs internal time.Salary, recruitment and onboarding.A project fee, with further costs when requirements change. One fixed fee. Nothing ongoing unless you want more support.
Speed to value Quick to start. Slower to identify where AI will make the biggest difference.Usually months to recruit, followed by time learning your business.Time is needed to scope and build before anything goes live. Training produces working automations in a day. A Sprint improves a process in two to four weeks.
Measurement Often not measured unless someone deliberately tracks it.Depends on the person and how success is managed.Usually demonstrated at handover. Longer-term impact may not be tracked. Results are measured against your own work and where you started.
What happens after Progress depends on someone finding the time to continue.Capability stays inside the business, but may sit with one person.Future changes usually depend on the supplier. Your team understands what was built and can keep improving it themselves.
CairnWorks
Cost One fixed fee. Nothing ongoing unless you want more support.
Speed to value Training produces working automations in a day. A Sprint improves a process in two to four weeks.
Measurement Results are measured against your own work and where you started.
What happens after Your team understands what was built and can keep improving it themselves.

Do it yourself

Cost Licences only, but progress costs internal time.
Speed to value Quick to start. Slower to identify where AI will make the biggest difference.
Measurement Often not measured unless someone deliberately tracks it.
What happens after Progress depends on someone finding the time to continue.

Hire in-house

Cost Salary, recruitment and onboarding.
Speed to value Usually months to recruit, followed by time learning your business.
Measurement Depends on the person and how success is managed.
What happens after Capability stays inside the business, but may sit with one person.

Have it built

Cost A project fee, with further costs when requirements change.
Speed to value Time is needed to scope and build before anything goes live.
Measurement Usually demonstrated at handover. Longer-term impact may not be tracked.
What happens after Future changes usually depend on the supplier.

Questions, answered.

Which is right for us: AI Training or an AI Sprint?

Most teams start with AI Training so everyone understands what is possible before redesigning a whole process. Teams that are already capable with AI can move directly into a Sprint. The free audit helps establish whether the team is ready.

Do we need technical experience or new software?

No. If your team can use ordinary business software, they can take part. We handle the setup and explain anything unfamiliar as we go. Training mainly uses the tools you already have; a Sprint may introduce or connect additional tools where useful.

How is the work tailored to our business?

Before Training, every participant completes an individual intake covering their role, recurring work, current tools and experience with AI. We use that to build the session around the team’s real work rather than a generic syllabus. A Sprint goes deeper into one specific process with the people who actually run it.

How do you measure whether it was worthwhile?

We agree what matters before we begin, such as time, volume, quality or mistakes, and record the current baseline. We measure it again after the new way of working is in place, so the result comes from your real tasks and processes rather than an estimate.

What happens after the engagement ends?

You keep everything built and the instructions needed to continue without me. You also get three weeks of email support for questions or problems with the work we completed.

Free AI review

Thirty minutes to find out what good actually looks like, and the three things that would get you closer.

I ask a set of standard questions about how your team works now, show you what the firms getting real value do differently, and give you three specific things to change. You get those written up and sent to you afterwards, whether you hire me or not.

Book a free AI review