Get the strategy your
whole team trusts.
Clarity before commitment. A documented AI strategy with prioritised opportunities, build briefs ready to commission, and a phased roadmap.
£8,000 · 5 days of effort · Delivered over 4 weeks · 2–3 workshops
The fee credits in full against the delivery of any opportunity you commission from the roadmap.
AI consultancy for mid-market UK businesses is the structured expert engagement that turns a list of AI possibilities into a prioritised, costed roadmap your leadership team can execute, without building an in-house AI team to figure it out first. The Lean AI Strategy is Ferrous Labs' four-week AI consultancy engagement, applying The Science of AI™ framework to your specific operations: surfacing real opportunities, designing the smallest experiment that tests each one, and sequencing them into a phased plan with costed bespoke AI build briefs ready to commission, or to hand to another vendor. For organisations that also want to productise their consultancy into a software product, the strategy phase is the entry point.
Only 34% of medium-sized UK businesses have adopted at least one AI technology, according to the DSIT / Capital Economics AI Activity in UK Businesses report (January 2022). The gap between knowing AI matters and knowing which build to commission first is a strategy problem, and it is exactly the problem the Lean AI Strategy is built to close.
Built for leaders who need
clarity before they commit.
You know AI matters but not where to start.
The possibilities are overwhelming. You need someone to cut through the noise and tell you which build is worth commissioning first.
You've tried something that didn't deliver.
A pilot. A tool. A freelancer. It didn't land. You need a method, not another experiment, and a documented decision you can defend.
You need your team aligned.
Different people have different ideas about what AI should do. You need a structured engagement that ends with everyone on the same page.
Three deliverables you can use today.
A documented AI strategy.
Prioritised list of 3–5 AI opportunities, scored on impact, feasibility, and data readiness.
Build briefs.
For your top 1–2 opportunities: what to build, why, what it costs, the data needed, the success metric, and the order of work. Anyone (us or another vendor) can start from these.
A phased roadmap.
A phased plan your whole team trusts, with clear next steps and decision points.
~50% of clients commission a build within 90 days.
The Lean AI Strategy is its own deliverable: a documented, costed roadmap you can take to the market or to your board. It also doubles as the cleanest way to enter a build with us. The £8,000 fee credits against the delivery of any opportunity you commission from the roadmap, so if you proceed to build, the strategy phase is effectively free.
We take two new Lean AI Strategy clients per month; workshop time is the constraint.
AI consultancy UK: questions answered.
What is AI consultancy for mid-market UK businesses?
AI consultancy for mid-market UK businesses is structured expert engagement that turns a list of AI possibilities into a prioritised, costed roadmap your leadership team can execute, without building an in-house AI team to figure it out first. Ferrous Labs delivers this as the Lean AI Strategy: a four-week engagement using The Science of AI™ framework, covering opportunity discovery, experiment design, and a phased roadmap with costed build briefs ready to commission.
How long does the Lean AI Strategy engagement take?
The Lean AI Strategy is delivered over four weeks, covering discovery and stakeholder interviews, opportunity analysis and scoring, and a final documented strategy: prioritised AI opportunities, build briefs ready to commission, and a phased roadmap your team can execute.
What does Ferrous Labs deliver at the end of a Lean AI Strategy?
You receive a documented AI strategy including a scored shortlist of prioritised opportunities with business cases, detailed build briefs for the top two or three, and a phased roadmap that sequences quick wins against longer-term capability builds. Everything is written for your team to act on immediately.
Who is the Lean AI Strategy designed for?
It is designed for leadership teams that know AI matters but have not converted interest into a clear plan. It works best when you have a range of AI ideas but no agreed priorities, when the engineering team is too busy for exploratory work, or when you need external expertise to cut through vendor noise and build a strategy your organisation can actually execute.
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Five minutes. Immediate output. Or kick off the strategy build with a Discovery Call.