Part lab. Part professional services.
We help educators, founders and associations turn AI from a headline into working practice — assessments, training, and things we actually build. Retainer or à la carte. Bootstrapped or well funded.
No discovery-call gatekeeping. Answer three questions and we will tell you what we would actually do.
Who we are
The lab is where we prototype — assistants, automations, curriculum, internal tools. Fast, cheap, disposable if it does not work.
The practice is where we do the unglamorous work that makes the prototype survive contact with real people: policy, training, change management, documentation, handover.
Most firms sell you one and pretend the other does not matter. A pilot with no adoption plan is a demo. A training program with nothing built is a slideshow. We do both because neither works alone.
Capabilities
Flip any card for the detail. Tick the box to add it to your opportunity register — we will scope and price everything you flag when you reach out.
Role-based training that gets a team from cautious to capable — without the vendor hype.
Half-day to six-week formats. Separate tracks for leaders, practitioners and support staff — each built around the actual work they do, with prompt libraries and a usage policy they helped write.
We map how work actually moves, then name the three processes worth changing first.
Two weeks. Interviews, process mapping and a scored readiness baseline across data, skills, tooling and governance. You get a costed roadmap with phases — and permission to ignore the parts that are not worth it.
Purpose-built assistants trained on your material — not a chatbot bolted to a website.
Retrieval over your documents, policy guardrails, evaluation before launch, and a maintenance runbook your own people can follow. Deployed where your team already works — Teams, Slack, LMS or intranet.
The repetitive middle of your operation — intake, reporting, follow-up — handled quietly.
Document generation, grant and compliance reporting, CRM hygiene, intake triage, meeting-to-action pipelines. Built on tools you already pay for wherever possible, with a human checkpoint on anything consequential.
Programs designed for AI-era learners — and for educators who have to teach with it.
Outcome mapping, assessment redesign that survives generative tools, facilitator guides and AI-integrated activities. We also build the course itself — LMS-ready, accessible, and packaged so you can sell or accredit it.
The document your board asks for, written so people can actually follow it.
Acceptable-use policy, data handling rules, disclosure standards, vendor review criteria and a risk register. Written in plain language, mapped to your jurisdiction, and short enough that staff read it.
A repeatable engine for marketing, proposals and donor communication.
Voice and brand guides an AI can hold to, campaign templates, proposal and grant libraries, and a publishing rhythm that runs without you. Built for solo operators who cannot afford an agency retainer.
Three weeks, one idea, something real at the end. Kill it or scale it.
Week one we scope and constrain. Week two we build. Week three you test it with real users and we hand you the evidence to decide. Fixed price, fixed scope, and a written recommendation that sometimes says stop.
Senior capacity on retainer, without the cost or commitment of a hire.
A set number of days a month: vendor evaluation, roadmap ownership, staff coaching, board reporting and hands-on build. We work alongside your team, not above it — and we document ourselves out of the role.
Start here
Pick whichever sounds most like your week. Three questions, then we take it from there — no call required to get a straight answer.
How engagements run
The sequence matters more than the tooling. Skipping straight to build is the most expensive mistake we get called in to fix.
We learn how the work actually happens — including the workarounds nobody documented. Usually one to two weeks.
One narrow thing, built and tested with real users. Cheap enough to abandon, real enough to judge.
Training, policy and documentation delivered together, so the thing we built has somewhere to live.
Your people run it. We stay on retainer only if that is genuinely the better option for you.
Pricing
Every plan is available as a monthly retainer or as one-off à la carte work. Non-profits and registered charities get adjusted rates — ask, it is not a favour.
Solo operators and pre-revenue founders. Buy one thing at a time.
Small teams and growing organizations who need momentum, not a one-off.
Multi-team rollouts with compliance, procurement and board reporting attached.
One idea, one prototype, one honest verdict. Independent of any retainer.
Ready when you are
If the honest answer is that you do not need us yet, we will say so.