Scaleups and enterprise boards
Board seat / NED
A seat at the table with a specific brief: AI risk appetite, assurance, and holding management to a decision record rather than a demo.
Annual appointment · quarterly cadence
Advisory
Independent because I do not sell the implementation.
Four ways to work together. All of them start with a real decision you are currently avoiding.
Founders and founding teams
AI strategy review
Three weeks. I map every place a model already touches a decision, rank by stakes, and hand back a sequenced plan with the things you should stop doing at the top.
Fixed scope · fixed fee
Companies heading for ISO 42001 or enterprise procurement
Governance build
Inventory, impact assessments, oversight model, supplier clauses, and the evidence trail an auditor or a customer's security team will actually accept.
8–16 weeks alongside your team
Any board that keeps deferring the AI item
Board & exec sessions
A closed-door session that ends with named owners and a dated set of decisions, not a further paper.
Half day, in person or remote
Start smaller
Most advisory relationships I have started in the last two years began with one paid hour. Bring the board paper, the architecture, or the contract clause you are stuck on. If it turns into something longer, we will both know by the end of the call.
- MBE for Services to Entrepreneurship (2016)
- Advisor, UK Government AI Council
- Consultant, Department for Education
- Multi-exit founder CEO
- Non-Executive Director