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AI Consultancy Services
for UK Business.

Claude training, AI governance, and AI transformation delivered as one journey, not four disconnected projects. Clear scopes, published prices, measurable business outcomes.

Our AI consultancy services

Five service lines. Most clients start with a discovery assessment, then run training and governance in parallel before the build.

AI training for teams and leaders

Hands-on AI training built from your own work, not generic courseware. Team workshops, leadership programmes, and board-level briefings.

Claude training for UK teams AI training for teams AI training for leaders and boards

AI governance and responsible AI

An AI governance framework built to ISO 42001, the EU AI Act and UK policy, that brings shadow AI inside a boundary and still lets people move.

AI governance and ISO 42001 Responsible AI in practice Eliminating shadow AI

AI strategy and discovery

Find out where the value actually is before you spend. An 18-dimension readiness assessment and a board-ready AI strategy decision.

SPARK AI discovery audit AI strategy review for boards Find your first AI use case

AI transformation and adoption

Transformation that gets past the pilot: people and process first, technology second, with a 90-day proof and a 12-month trajectory.

AI transformation Cultural transformation and AI adoption Where to start with AI

AI implementation and the AI Operating System

Claude built around how your business actually works: prompts, workflows, knowledge bases and governance in one system that compounds.

Claude Built For You AI implementation The AI Operating System

Proof and method

How the work runs, what it has produced for other UK businesses, and why AI programmes stall when any one element is missing.

AI case studies How we work Why AI adoption fails

Bespoke AI solutions: what it should and should not mean →

AI development and project-based work

Not every engagement is a retainer. A lot of what we build is scoped, delivered and handed over as a project, with a defined start, a defined finish and your team owning it afterwards.

Process mapping and workflow support

Before anything is automated it has to be described. We map the process as it actually runs rather than as the handbook says it runs, which is usually where the first surprise lives. That map is the deliverable whether or not you go on to build anything, because a process nobody can describe cannot be automated, improved or handed to a new starter either.

Workflow automation and integration

Connecting the tools you already pay for so work stops being re-keyed between them. Most of the recoverable time in a small business sits in the gaps between systems rather than inside any one of them, and closing those gaps rarely requires new software.

AI agents and Claude agents

An AI agent is a system given a goal and a set of tools, which then works out the steps itself rather than following a fixed script. That is genuinely useful for work that varies each time, and genuinely risky for work where a wrong step is expensive. We design agents with the boundary drawn explicitly: what it may do unattended, what needs a human before it proceeds, and what it must never touch. The boundary is the design decision. The rest is configuration.

Prototypes and pilots

A working prototype in front of the people who will use it settles arguments that a specification document will not. We build small, deliberately, and agree beforehand what result would justify going further and what result would mean stopping. If you would rather see one than read about one, the Build Layer is a live worked example → — a single pane of glass over an e-commerce brand's sales, marketing, ERP and stock data, with an agentic decision layer on top, running on composite data in your browser.

Bespoke AI solutions

Custom AI solutions shaped around your processes rather than a product everyone buys off the shelf. For most organisations of 15 to 200 people that means configuring an existing platform rather than commissioning software. The honest version of what bespoke should mean →

The Claude toolchain, and where each part fits

We are a Claude specialist, so it is worth being precise about which product does what. These are different tools for different jobs, and buying the wrong one is a common and avoidable waste.

Claude

The assistant most people mean when they say Claude: a conversational interface for drafting, analysis, summarising and reasoning over documents. This is where most teams start and where most of the day-to-day value sits.

Claude Cowork

Anthropic launched Cowork in January 2026 to bring the agentic behaviour of Claude Code to knowledge work rather than coding. You give it access to a folder and describe the task in plain language, and it carries the work out rather than suggesting how you might. It is the difference between asking for advice and delegating the job. We have run our own business on it since February 2026, which is where our founder case study comes from.

Claude Code

The agentic coding tool, and the foundation Cowork was built on. Relevant to you if you have developers, or if your operations team has grown into scripting and automation without quite calling it that. We train teams on it and use it ourselves.

MCP and connectors

The Model Context Protocol is the open standard for giving an AI assistant access to your own systems and data, rather than only what you paste into a chat window. It is what turns a capable assistant into one that knows about your business. Connecting it correctly is a governance decision as much as a technical one, which is why we scope the data boundary before we scope the integration.

Claude for UK SMEs

Most published guidance on Claude assumes either an individual power user or a large engineering organisation. Very little of it is written for a 40-person business with no internal AI team, a real compliance obligation and no appetite for a twelve-month programme. That gap is the whole of what we do. See how the six layers fit together →

Transparent pricing. No surprises.

Every engagement starts with the same discovery assessment, then follows clear investment tiers tied to measurable business outcomes.

SPARK Discovery

From £5,000 exc VAT | 4 to 6 weeks

"Every engagement starts here. The single AI discovery package. £5,000 is the floor for typical SME engagements. Larger or multi-site organisations scope higher because they need more stakeholder interviews. All prices exclude VAT."

What You'll Walk Away With:

18-dimension AI readiness assessment, across Strategic Foundation, Leadership and Culture, Governance and Ethics, Capability and Enablement, Implementation and Scaling.
Human capability mapping, sceptic identification, AI champion mapping, change-readiness signal per functional team.
Nine-seat adversarial advisory board, named-expert intellectual models pressure-testing your findings against an evidence standard.
Findings Report and scored evidence summary, yours to keep regardless of next step.
Findings Session with Chris, to pressure-test the findings and choose the next path.
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What Comes Next

After SPARK, we recommend the right path based on your readiness, goals, and capacity.

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Foundation

Months 1-3: Proven Success

Investment Confirmed After SPARK Discovery

The launch phase. We build your first pilot, train your team, and establish governance.

Discovery & Readiness Roadmap
1 Pilot Implementation
Team Training (up to 15 people)
Advisory Retainer
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Growth

Month 4+: Expansion

Custom Scope Tailored to your Roadmap

Rolling quarterly plans

Scale what works. Multiple pilots, cultural alignment, and internal champions.

Everything in Foundation
3-5 Pilot Implementations
Full Cultural Alignment Programme
Champion Network Building
Governance Confidence Framework
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Enterprise

Strategic Leadership

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200+ employees or complex reqs

Fractional CAIO, board-level advisory, and unlimited use case scoping.

Everything in Growth
Fractional Chief AI Officer (CAIO)
Board-Level Growth Advisory
Unlimited Use Case Scoping
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Common questions

What is the SPARK Discovery?

SPARK is Ignite AI's bundled AI discovery audit for UK SMEs. 18-dimension readiness assessment, human capability mapping, and a nine-seat adversarial advisory board pressure-test. Findings Report and Findings Session with Chris. From £5,000. 4 to 6 weeks. Findings yours to keep regardless of next step.

What's included in the Foundation phase?

The Foundation phase (from £2,500/month) includes implementation of priority AI solutions identified in your SPARK Discovery, staff training and upskilling, governance framework deployment, human-in-the-loop protocol setup, and ongoing senior practitioner support. You work directly with Chris, no junior consultants.

How does Ignite AI Solutions pricing compare to other AI consultancies?

Ignite AI Solutions starts at £2,500/month, positioning between enterprise consultancies (Big 4 at £50K+) and solo operators. The key difference: you work directly with a senior practitioner, an ex-Military Certified Chief AI Officer, with no handoffs to juniors. Transparent pricing with no hidden costs.

Chris Duffy, founder of Ignite AI Solutions

About the author

Chris Duffy Founder and Chief AI Officer, Ignite AI Solutions

Chris is the founder of Ignite AI Solutions and a Certified Chief AI Officer. He's a Claude Partner, was named a Top 20 AI Leader in 2026, is a regular expert source for Forbes on AI and cybersecurity, a Responsible AI Awards nominee, and nominated for 3 awards at the National AI Awards 2026. Ex UK Special Forces, he now helps UK SMEs adopt AI safely.

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