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Build & Embed

AI tools built around your business

Can you build AI tools around the way our team works?

Build & Embed is for teams ready to build a tool or fix a workflow. We learn how the job works with your team. Then we agree what to build and help people use it. Need to choose where to start? An AI Design Sprint helps you make that plan first.

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Custom AI workflows and agents designed around how your team already works - then built, embedded, and trained in. No off-the-shelf tool forcing you to change your process.

The Journey

The AI Maturity Journey

Where is your business today? Where could it be?

01

AI as Search

Asking questions, drafting text. Using AI the same way you use Google.

~65% of businesses
02

AI as Assistant

Discrete tasks with human approval at each step. Useful but limited.

~25% of businesses
03

AI as Teammate

Runs workflows end-to-end. Humans review outcomes, not every step. We call this the Remote Humans stage.

~6% of businesses
04

AI Native

End-to-end with oversight on exceptions only. AI is the default starting point.

<1% of businesses

We take you from wherever you are to wherever you need to be.

What We Do

Two Sides of the Coin

Most consultancies do one or the other. We do both - because strategy without execution is just a slide deck.

AI Strategy

The Thinking

  • Where are you on your AI journey?
  • What's possible that you haven't considered?
  • How do you prepare your team for the fluidity of AI?
  • How do leaders keep up with emerging capabilities and feed that into their business?
Build & Implementation

The Doing

  • AI workflows and systems that do real work
  • Integrations that connect your existing tools
  • Solutions your non-technical team can use and maintain
  • From single workflows to full operational transformation
Adoption

The AI-First Mindset

Technology is only half the equation. The other half is your people - how they think about AI, how they adapt, and how they lead through change.

Leading Adoption

Businesses need people who are comfortable with change, experimenting, exploring. People who can champion AI adoption across teams and departments.

Unlearn and Re-learn

The ability to let go of how things have always been done and embrace new approaches - at the pace AI evolves. What works today may be obsolete in six months.

Emerging Capabilities

Understanding what AI can do now - and what it will be able to do soon. Preparing for capabilities that emerge as both your business and the technology grow.

AI as Default

Preparing for a world where AI is the default starting point, not an afterthought. Where the question isn't "should we use AI?" but "why aren't we?"

Capabilities

How AI Actually Works Now

No jargon. Just what's really possible and why it matters for your business.

01

Beyond the Chatbot

Tools like personal AI assistants aren't just for asking questions. They pull in resources, tools and systems to complete entire workflows and functions. This is a step-change from "I asked ChatGPT."

02

Non-Technical People Building Technical Solutions

What happens when your ops lead, your people manager, your marketing team can suddenly build their own tools and automations using AI? Tools like Claude Code, Cowork and Codex are making this real. This reshapes how decisions get made, how fast the team moves, and what becomes possible without waiting for IT.

03

Agent Skills

Packaged workflows that deliver consistent results across tasks and iterations. Shareable across teams - meaning your whole organisation can instantly adopt powerful capabilities.

04

Voice as the New Interface

What does work look like when your team talks to AI instead of typing? The productivity gains from voice-native interaction are massive. This changes how every task gets done.

05

Your AI Adoption Drives Your Clients'

When your team becomes AI-fluent, that capability flows outward. You advise your clients better. You deliver faster. You become the partner who gets it. Your internal transformation becomes a competitive advantage.

Embedding AI

Where to Embed AI and How

More Human
More AI
Agent in the Loop

AI provides insights, information and recommendations. Humans do the doing.

Human in the Loop

AI does the heavy lifting - completing tasks, running workflows. Humans oversee and approve.

Autonomous

AI runs independently with minimal oversight for routine, well-defined tasks.

Different tasks need different levels. Business-critical processes need more human involvement. Routine operations can be more autonomous. Establishing when, where, and how to embed AI is part of the strategic work we do together.

The Process

How We Work

No rip-and-replace. We design AI-powered solutions that fit your tools, your team, and your pace.

01

Understand Where You Are

We establish where you are on your AI journey. What's working, what's not, what you haven't considered yet.

02

Explore How Work Gets Done

We sit with your team and map how work actually happens. Where are the bottlenecks? Where's the manual grind? Where are people waiting on people?

03

Design the Direction

Based on what we find, we design AI-powered solutions that fit your tools, your team, and your pace. No rip-and-replace.

04

Build It

We do the building. Workflows, integrations, AI systems - configured, tested, refined. Your team tells us if it solves their problem.

05

Embed It

Training, documentation, handover. Your team doesn't just know how to use it - they understand why it works and how to evolve it.

06

Grow Together

AI doesn't stand still and neither should you. We stay alongside you as a long-term partner - guiding your AI adoption as new capabilities emerge, helping you make sense of what matters and what's noise.

Built by someone who delivers.

18 years making complex technology work for real businesses. When I build something, it works - and your team knows how to use it.

18+Years Bridging Tech & Humans
Fortune 500
& FTSE 100
Client Experience
100+Processes Analysed & Automated
Elliott Callender, your partner for the Build and Embed program

Elliott Callender · Building Your Solution

Client Story

Hear It From People Who Did It

Testimonial · 5:30

Speed
I just went from start to finish building a project in about three hours.

Tom Veysey · Founder, Perch

Leader Lab

Testimonial · 7:10

Speed
It gave us that mindset shift of there's so many things we can do that are accessible to people like us who are not technical.

Sheena & Jo · Co-Founders, Somnii

Leader Lab
Engagement

Choose Your Path

Every engagement is scoped to your specific needs. No off-the-shelf packages.

Foundation

Fix the Pain Points

1-2 Workflows · 4-8 Weeks

You've got one or two clear pain points. We fix them.

  • Targeted AI solutions for specific problems
  • Team training and handover
  • Measurable time savings from day one

Scoped per project

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Most Common
Acceleration

Connected Transformation

3-5 Workflows · 8-16 Weeks

Multiple areas need help. Connected automation across systems. This is where real transformation starts.

  • AI strategy aligned to your operations
  • Cross-system integrations and workflows
  • Team adoption and mindset coaching
  • Where most clients see the biggest ROI

Scoped per project

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Transformation

Full Operations Redesign

Full Operations · 12+ Weeks

AI embedded across your operations. Full redesign of how your team works.

  • End-to-end AI strategy and implementation
  • Organisation-wide adoption programme
  • Ongoing partnership as AI evolves

Scoped per project

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Our Guarantee

What We Promise

Outcomes must be measurable and agreed upfront.

If we don't deliver the agreed outcomes within the timeline, we refund 50% of your investment or keep working until we do. Your choice.

The one condition: You need to engage with the process. We build solutions collaboratively - that means your team's input and feedback during the project is essential.

FAQ

Questions buyers ask

How are you different from a big consultancy?
You work directly with the person doing the work, at a published price. Elliott runs the first call, every session and the handover, and the AI Design Sprint has a fixed fee from £1,950 + VAT$2,500 USD and a fixed end date of 2-4 weeks. You keep everything we build, so your team can run it without us.
Should we hire someone for AI or use you?
Prove the value with us first, then hire. A senior UK AI hire costs £144,000-£214,000 a year and can take nine months to recruit, so the best part of a year passes before anything ships. For a larger organisation, our AI Design Sprint gives you a costed plan in 2-4 weeks for under £12,000, then we build the first tools with your team and train them as we go, so your eventual hire starts with working systems and a trained team. (Pay: Levels.fyi, October 2026; Robert Half 2027 Salary Guide. Hiring time: AWS research reported by The Banker, May 2026, UK financial services.)
What should I ask before hiring an AI consultant?
Ask five things: who will do the work, what it costs, when it ends, what you keep, and whether they can show work like yours. A good consultant answers all five before you book. Our answers: Elliott does the work, our prices are published, the sprint ends in 2-4 weeks, you keep everything, and our client stories name the client and what they built.
We don't know what we need yet. Is that okay?
Yes. The AI Design Sprint maps your work and costs each fix in 2-4 weeks for a fixed fee, so you know what to build first.
Our team isn't technical. Will they use what you build?
Yes. We design tools your team can run and change, train them on their own work and document everything. We hand over when they can use it with confidence.
Is it safe to use with our client or deal data?
Yes, if access is agreed first. We work only inside the AI accounts your company already approves, with the files you choose to share, and a person checks every output before it is used. At a private equity firm, 17 of 21 sessions made progress with files alone, before any live system was connected.
How long until we see results?
You get a costed plan in 2-4 weeks from the AI Design Sprint. In Leader Lab you build on your own work from the first session: Tom Veysey built a campaign dashboard on his own in about three hours after four sessions. Build & Embed timelines are fixed before we start.
What happens after the project ends?
You own everything we build, documented so your team can maintain it. If you want, we stay on as advisers to add to it as the tools improve.
Can we start small and expand later?
Yes. Foundation is built for that: solve one or two clear problems, see the value, then decide whether to go further. There is no lock-in.

Ready to stop using AI like a search engine?

Let's talk about where you are, where you could be, and how to get there.

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