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AI-powered operations
for growing organisations.

Six validated use cases from a mid-size professional services firm (50–200 people). Each one started as a real bottleneck — scattered SaaS spend, manual reporting, fragmented AI tooling — and ended as a system that runs without constant attention. Real architecture, real stacks, real outcomes.

Annual SaaS Savings $40–60K
Tools Reviewed 40–60
Hours Saved / Week 3–5+
Systems Transformed 5 + 1*
Context   Mid-size professional services firm · 50–200 people · Scaling from founder-led ops to structured infrastructure · All outcomes independently verifiable on request
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2025–26 Professional Services · Org-wide
Organisation-Wide AI Toolchain Rollout
Fragmented individual AI subscriptions became a governed, integrated operating model — knowledge base connected to Slack, Drive, and Calendar; four MCP connectors to core business tools; a reusable skill library that compounds at zero marginal cost.
MCP Connectors Governed AI Skills Library
Org AI Plan MCP Slack · Drive · Calendar Desktop Agent
$ Cost Reduction
2025 Ops · Finance
SaaS Cost Audit & Vendor Consolidation
Scattered tool spend across 40–60 subscriptions became a governed registry — with $40–60K+ in identified annual savings and 10–20% budget headroom reclaimed.
$40–60K saved Renewal leverage
Tool Registry Renewal Calendar Governance
Automation
2025 Leadership Reporting
Executive Reporting Automation
A weekly 60–90 minute manual status writeup became an AI-drafted, leadership-calibrated report with human-in-loop approval — ~80 minutes saved per cycle, feedback compounds each week.
~80 min saved/cycle HITL approval
AI Skill Slack Ingest Feedback Log
Operations
2025 Ops Architecture
Project Management Tool Restructure
A cluttered project and budget tool got a clean schema, new tracking fields, ownership model, and a governance protocol — plus the first org-wide resourcing survey to surface resilience risks.
Schema cleanup Governance
Schema Design Ownership Model Resourcing Survey
Infrastructure
2025 Automation Platform
Automation Stack Consolidation
Two overlapping automation platforms (Zapier + Make) migrated to a single self-hosted n8n deployment — 75–80% cost reduction, zero vendor lock-in, full flow documentation for the first time.
75–80% cost cut Self-hosted
n8n CRM Integration Slack · Notion
Business Dev AI In Progress
2026 · Concept Multi-Agent System
Proposal & RFP Intelligence Agent
A concept-stage multi-agent system: five specialised AI agents with mandatory human-in-loop checkpoints that research, draft, fact-check, and learn from every win and loss. Targets the 8–20 hours consumed per proposal.
5 agents HITL checkpoints Win/loss learning
Multi-Agent Proposal Archive Fact-Check Loop
Earlier Engagements
Data Pipelines
Dec 2025 Government / Public Sector
Government-Scale Performance Intelligence Engine
A zero-touch data pipeline that ingests, processes, and surfaces performance metrics across a distributed government organisation — eliminating manual reporting cycles and giving leadership real-time visibility at scale.
Automated reporting Zero manual entry
JavaScript (GAS) API Integration OAuth2
AI & Automation
Apr 2025 Internal Operations / IT
Wall-A
An AI-native internal operations agent — combining a structured knowledge base, autonomous task routing, and workflow automation to handle IT support and ops queries without human triage.
Autonomous triage Knowledge base
OpenAI GPT-4 Slack API Notion
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