The AI Orientation

Bring the mess.
Leave with a clear first step.

One hour about where the work is piling up in your firm, what AI would change, and what it wouldn't. Then I go away and think about it. Within 48 hours you get my observations and recommendations in writing, and they're yours to keep.

A useful first hour

Bring every question, big or small.

Most firms I meet aren't short of ideas about AI. They're short of somebody who'll tell them which of those ideas is worth starting with. So bring the situation as it is, and bring the questions with it. No tidy process map, no technical brief, no shortlist of tools.

Work is piling up in reports, proposals, follow-ups and client preparation.

You've tried AI tools before, but they never became part of how the firm works.

You need a clear first move before spending serious budget or asking the team to change.

Clients have started asking what the firm is doing with AI, and you don't have an answer you like yet.

Inside the Orientation

What happens in the hour.

No slides, no discovery framework, no homework beforehand. It's a conversation, and I do most of the listening.

Bring

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The work that keeps slipping

You show me where the time disappears, what your people keep chasing, and what you've already tried and quietly abandoned. Not the org chart, the week: what lands on Monday, what's still open on Friday, and what keeps getting pushed to the evening.

Nothing to prepare. Come as you are.

Work through

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What AI would actually change

We go through that work with your firm, your systems and your appetite for change in view. This is where the invoice test comes in, out loud: which of that work never reaches a bill, and which of it AI would genuinely take on.

Leave with

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A plain first recommendation

I tell you whether AI helps here, where it would help first, and what I'd do next if the firm were mine. Sometimes the answer is that it isn't an AI problem at all, but a process that needs fixing first. That comes up more often than you'd expect.

Online, at a time that suits.

Afterwards

After the call.

The conversation is an hour. The thinking takes longer. I go away, make sense of what you've told me, and write it up. Short enough that you'll actually read it.

What I'd do first, and why that rather than the thing you were expecting.

What I'd leave alone for now, and what would have to change before it's worth revisiting.

Roughly what it would cost, so you can tell early whether this is a conversation worth continuing.

Whether a Census is the right next step for your firm, or whether it isn't.

No deck. The report is yours to do with as you wish. You can act on it with me, use it in discussions with your team, or use it to brief somebody else.

The price

The hour and the price.

You're paying for an hour of my full attention and for the work that goes in afterwards. What you get back is judgement, and some clarity on where you stand and what options are open to you.

It's your hour, so use it. Ask me anything you like, including things you might feel silly or embarrassed asking in front of others.

If you go on to a Census, the €450 is credited against its price.

Some firms aren't ready.

It can be due to a number of reasons:

  • The information is in five places.
  • The process changes depending on who's doing it.
  • The firm is about to change how it does things anyway.

Hand AI uncertainty like that and it doesn't fix things. It just automates the mess and makes it pile up faster.

If it turns out that your firm falls into this category, we'll be clear on it in the hour. You'll still leave knowing what's standing in your way, what you need to do to get ready, and what you might do as your first AI initiative.

Bring the mess.
Leave with a clear first step.

You bring the situation you're actually in, and I'll tell you what AI would do about it, what it wouldn't, and what I'd do first if the firm were mine.

Book your AI Orientation — €450

60 minutes on the call · online · written recommendations within 48 hours, yours to keep · no further commitment

Not sure it's the right step? Tell me about the firm first and I'll say so if it isn't.