Make AI boring.
Strategic guidance for organisations adopting AI and changing how their teams work.
Boring is the goal. Not unambitious: predictable. AI stops being a programme with a steering committee and becomes part of how normal work gets done. Getting there usually has less to do with tools than with deciding what you are actually trying to achieve, and then changing how people work accordingly.
Three independent ways to work together.
AI & Engineering Review
An outside perspective on how you're approaching AI and engineering.
Enquire about a reviewIt starts with what you're actually trying to achieve, not the assumption that AI is the answer.
- 01A kickoff with your leadership
- 02A read through whatever you already have
- 03Up to five conversations with key people, selected together
- 04I make sense of it all, then a session to talk it through
- 05A written report: what I found, and what I'd do about it
Exact scope is agreed after the initial consultation.
AI Adoption Workshop
A focused, facilitated session for your leadership, an engineering team, or a mix, depending on who needs to be in the room.
Enquire about a workshopThe point is to work out where AI can actually help you, poke holes in the assumptions, agree on what matters, and leave knowing what to do next. Not generic AI training.
- Format
- Half day or full day, facilitated
- Audience
- Leadership, an engineering team, or a cross-functional group
- Delivery
- Remote or on-site
AI Strategy Advisory
Strategic guidance, coaching and mentorship around AI adoption.
Enquire about advisoryUsually one-hour sessions with a single leader or a small leadership group. Book them as you need them, though a regular slot tends to work better while you're actively going through a change.
- AI strategy
- Adoption
- Tooling
- Measurement
- Ways of working
- Organisational change
- Developer Experience
This is advisory. I'll help you think it through and decide. I won't quietly end up running your programme.
How I work.
AI adoption tends to get stuck in familiar places: unclear goals, tools introduced before problems are understood, and changes that never become part of normal work. I help organisations:
- understand what they are actually trying to achieve
- decide where AI is useful and where it isn't
- pragmatically adopt appropriate tools and ways of working
- navigate organisational and behavioural change
- measure whether changes are actually helping
- make AI mundane enough that it becomes part of normal work rather than a permanent transformation initiative
If you'd rather read first.
Start a conversation.
Tell me roughly what you're trying to do. I read every enquiry myself.
- 01I review what you send
- 02If it looks like a fit, a free 30-minute call
- 03Then a short, tailored proposal if it makes sense
Remote internationally, on-site mostly across Europe and the UK.
Thanks. It's with me.
I read every enquiry personally. If I think I can help, the next step is a free 30-minute call.
In the meantime, the writing below covers most of how I think about this.