Install the AI Operating System in Your Team
Work 10x faster with 5x better quality. Structured engagements that deliver quick wins in week 1, and compound your team’s capability from there.
Your team has tried ChatGPT. Now what?
Random Experiments
Team members dabble with AI individually, but there's no shared approach. Knowledge stays siloed, and results are inconsistent.
No Clear ROI
You sense AI could help, but you can't point to specific time savings or efficiency gains. Leadership wants numbers.
Tool Overload
Everyone has opinions on which AI tool is best. Meanwhile, subscriptions pile up and nothing gets properly implemented.
The gap isn't AI tools — it's AI implementation. Your team doesn't need another tutorial. They need a system designed for how they actually work.
How We Work With You
Not consulting. Not training. A structured engagement that leaves your organisation with a working AI operating model it owns and runs.
Diagnose
We map where AI creates the most value in your organisation: the work, the knowledge and the decisions that matter most, ranked by value and effort.
- Opportunities ranked by value
- A 90-day activation plan
Build
We build the operating model for your highest-value work: what it knows, what it does every day and the rules it follows, tested with your people on real work.
- Working systems in your own accounts
- Rules and playbooks your team can extend
Embed
We train your people role by role and set the rhythm that makes it compound: every correction becomes a rule, and each month it does more of the work.
- Training, recorded
- Documentation your organisation owns
What an AI operating model install looks like
The short film: renting intelligence versus owning it, quick wins in week 1, and the brain that stays yours when the models change.
- Diagnose the highest-value workflows first
- Implement working systems your people run
- Embed the operating model so it compounds
What Your Operating Model Does Every Day
These are not theoretical possibilities: this is the daily work an AI operating model does for every client, to your standards and in your voice. Most teams see immediate results within the first week.
Document Analysis & Summarization
Transform lengthy reports, contracts, and research into actionable insights. Extract key points, identify risks, and generate executive summaries automatically.
AI-Powered Presentations
Generate polished, on-brand presentations in minutes. Access enterprise AI for custom visuals. Perfect for client pitches, board decks, and internal meetings.
Email & Communication Drafting
Craft professional emails, proposals, and client communications that match your voice. Handle objections, follow-ups, and complex responses with consistent quality.
Research & Competitive Intelligence
Conduct deep market research, analyze competitors, and synthesize information from multiple sources into actionable reports your team can actually use.
The pattern spotting finds the latest research we’d never have had time to hunt down, and feeds it straight into how we build and grow, with no research and development budget.
A proposal or deck that used to take me hours now comes together from what’s worked before and what the client needs. That’s hundreds of hours saved and a much faster turnaround.
What You'll Walk Away With
- 3-5 priority AI workflows implemented and team-trained
- Your operating model: knowledge, rules and workflows in your own accounts
- 5-10+ hours saved per team member weekly
- Complete documentation your team can use forever
From Overwhelmed to Optimized
Executive Education Team at a Top Business School
A small team of 3 people managing the executive education arm of a leading business school. They handled everything: email newsletters, LinkedIn outreach, marketing, client communications, and program coordination.
The Challenge
No budget to hire additional staff, but workload was unsustainable. They needed to dramatically increase output without adding headcount.
The Solution
We mapped their daily and weekly workflows, identified high-impact automation opportunities, and built a custom AI projects library with optimized prompts, templates, and knowledge bases.
The Results
"We went from drowning in tasks to having systems that work for us. The AI projects library has become essential to how we operate."
More client stories
In their own words, and on film.
Philippa Tuck runs her growth and exit consultancy on her own AI operating system: it knows her business, works for her every morning, and it is hers.
What you’ve built has changed how I run this business. Identifying details are removed from confidential client material on a dedicated machine before AI touches it. That’s the foundation everything else sits on.
What we learn from every piece of work stays in the business, so nothing gets lost when people move on.
From first diagnostic to embedded AI operating model
Three pathways for your team, plus routes for one leader, for boards and for groups of companies. Clear scope. Transparent pricing. Final quote based on your organisation and its needs.
AI Opportunity & Readiness Diagnostic
Know exactly where AI creates value — before you invest
- Stakeholder interviews + workflow and opportunity mapping
- Readiness, risk and governance assessment
- Opportunities ranked by value, with quantified assumptions
- 90-day activation roadmap your team can execute
Team AI Implementation
From diagnosis to execution — workflows live in your business
- One team, one senior owner — team-trained on every workflow
- 30-day bounded support window
- Measurement dashboard + internal owner enablement
- 60-day priority support window
- Your operating model: knowledge, rules and workflows in your own accounts
- Team prompt playbooks + recorded training
- Self-service documentation your team owns forever
- Explicit base scope — anything beyond it is agreed in writing first
AI Operating Model Programme
Embedded transformation, team by team, across the organisation
- Baseline and outcome measures agreed up front
- Prioritized workflow portfolio, implemented role by role
- Governance, decision rights and adoption cadence
- Embedded working days + executive reporting
- A reusable blueprint for scaling beyond the first team
Your Own AI Operating System
From £3,000 £2,250 for Executive AI Circle membersThe operating model at the size of one leader, built around your week: what it knows about your work, the meeting preparation, research, email drafts and briefings it does every day, and how you work with it, set up with you on the tools you use. It runs in your accounts and stays yours.
Discuss your prioritiesExecutive AI Decision Workshop
From £15,000 By applicationA decision intervention, not a training session. Leadership Pulse questionnaire and interviews before the event; a tailored executive briefing and workflow lab on the day; a prioritized group opportunity map; 30-day action canvases; and a board-ready report within 14 days. For boards, portfolio groups and leadership offsites.
Request a proposalPortfolio & Network Programmes
By proposal Sponsored multi-company programmesA consistent AI diagnostic and activation programme across the companies you sponsor — holding groups, PE portfolios, franchise networks and associations. Each company receives evidence-based priorities and an activation plan; the sponsor receives a group-level comparison, common capability gaps and an investment sequence.
Start a conversationAll B2B prices shown ex-VAT. UK VAT (20%) added at invoice. International clients invoiced in their local currency where applicable.
Proven in Real Business Operations
The frameworks I implement for clients sit on top of 15 years teaching MBAs and senior executives, a PhD researching how organizations adopt new tools, and 100+ AI tools tested in real businesses. This is not theory — it is workflow engineering built on adoption research.
Dr. Bruno Oliveira
Founder, GustoMind.ai
Associate Professor, University of Bath
Tested
Trained
MBAs & Senior Executives
Serial Entrepreneur
I combine academic rigor with real-world implementation. My PhD researched how organizations adopt new tools — AI is the most consequential adoption decision they will make this decade. As Director of Studies for the MSc in Entrepreneurship and Management at the University of Bath, and as a serial entrepreneur, I understand both the theory of AI adoption and the messy reality of getting teams to actually use new tools.
- AI operating model installed for a UK consultancy — 10 automated routines now in production
- Commissioned: executive AI strategy workshop for the presidents of a 35-company technology group
- AI keynote to 100 senior construction-industry executives
A selection from current work — 2026 engagements have come through relationships, referrals and organic inbound, not paid advertising.
Thinking that underpins this work
The frameworks behind these engagements, worked out in public on the Insights blog.
Codify Once: How to Write a Workflow Down for AI, and the One Call That Never Goes In
October 28, 2026
Same System, Different Scale: What Stays Constant When AI Spreads Across a Firm, and the 2 Decisions Growth Adds
October 21, 2026
The Decision a Pilot Was Never Asked to Make: What Leadership Needs to See Before Scaling AI
October 14, 2026Let's Make Sure We're a Good Fit
This is for you if...
- You lead an organisation, a team or a group of companies, from a founder-led firm to a corporate leadership team
- Your organisation runs on knowledge: clients, expertise, judgement and relationships
- You want results in the first weeks, and an advantage that compounds after that
- You are ready to invest from £3,000 for one leader, or from £5,000 for a team
- You have the authority to decide
This is NOT for you if...
- You want someone to "do AI" for you permanently
- You are looking for custom software development
- You want a course to watch rather than a system to run
- You are still exploring whether AI is relevant to your industry
Leading the AI decisions yourself? The Executive AI Circle gives CEOs and senior leaders expert answers, their own hour with Bruno and a board of peers.
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Complete this short application. We review every application personally to make sure we are a good fit.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does location matter? Which organizations do you work with?
We're remote-first and work with organizations globally — from North America and Europe to the UK, Australia, and beyond. All discovery calls, training, and delivery happen via Zoom and collaborative tools. For UK-based organisations, optional in-person sessions can be arranged.
Which AI tools do you implement?
We work with all the leading AI platforms: Claude (Anthropic), ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), and Grok (xAI). We also implement specialized tools like Gamma for AI-powered presentations. We'll recommend the best fit based on your team's needs, security requirements, and existing tech stack.
What happens after the sprint is complete?
You own everything we create. Your team will have full access to all AI projects, prompts, and documentation. We include a support period (30-60 days depending on engagement) for questions and refinements. After that, your team is fully self-sufficient — and existing clients can continue with an AI Operating Partner arrangement if ongoing support is useful.
Can you guarantee specific results?
We guarantee deliverables: a working AI system tailored to your workflows, training for your team, and documentation. We do not promise universal productivity multipliers. Instead, we establish a baseline and target measures with you before implementation and track them — actual results vary by workflow, team engagement and adoption.
How much of my team's time is required?
Discovery phase: 2-4 hours with key team members. Architecture phase: minimal involvement (we do the building). Training phase: 2-4 hours for the workshop. Total hands-on commitment is roughly 6-10 hours for a Diagnostic or Sprint — spread across the engagement (2-3 weeks for a Diagnostic, 3-4 weeks for a Sprint, 6-8 weeks for a System) — and scales with scope for a System or Programme.
What if we're not satisfied with the results?
We're selective about who we work with precisely because we want every engagement to succeed. If during the diagnostic call we don't think we can deliver meaningful value, we'll tell you. We'd rather turn away work than have an unsatisfied client.
Can you help us build AI into our own product?
Yes — alongside your development team or agency. We design the AI architecture and economics for your product: which features should use AI (and which should not), model strategy and provider swap resilience, an AI cost and pricing model that protects your margin, and the content pipelines that feed it. Your developers build the platform; we architect the intelligence. These engagements are scoped individually — request a proposal.
Ready to stop experimenting and start implementing?
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