An AI consultant in Cambridge who actually ships.
Louis travels in from Norwich — up the A11 in time for the morning stand-up. James, Phil and Shivam back every engagement from Derby, Nottingham and London. Senior, AI-native operators in the room with you, not a Cambridge research paper.
Cambridge has plenty of AI research, plenty of clever PhDs, and plenty of consultancies billing London rates to walk you through a strategy deck. We are different. Louis — our technical architecture lead — travels in from Norwich for on-site days. James, Phil and Shivam back the engagement from Derby, Nottingham and London. Operators who have shipped AI into production at three of their own companies.
We have spent the last three years rebuilding our own businesses around AI — Homemove, home.co.uk and homedata.co.uk. We bring that stack and that way of working into Cambridge businesses ready to ship rather than research.
Easy reach across Cambridge, Cambourne, Ely, Newmarket, Huntingdon, Peterborough and the wider tech corridor. Monthly retainer plus transparent hourly delivery; most engagements pay back inside the first quarter.
Up the A11 when you need us
Louis drives in from Norwich for on-site days; the wider team joins remotely or in person as the engagement asks. Cambridge delivery without a leased Mill Road office and a partner’s utilisation target loaded into your day rate.
Build, not paper
No Cambridge research note and a deck. We diagnose with your operators, design the systems, build them on your stack, deploy into your environment, and hand over the runbook to your team.
First-quarter pay-back
We start with the workflow that pays back fastest. Most clients save more in the first quarter than the entire engagement costs. The second workflow compounds on the first.
Common questions.
Why a regional AI consultant rather than a Cambridge research-lab spin-out?
Cambridge has world-class AI research and we will never compete with it on novelty. We compete on shipping. Most businesses need production AI in their existing systems, not a frontier model. The team that diagnoses is the team that builds and deploys.
Do you have a Cambridge office?
No, and we will not pretend we do. Louis travels in from Norwich for on-site days. Engagements run in your offices, in shared workspaces in the city, or in a coffee somewhere central. The saved overhead comes back to you as a more honest rate.
Who comes to Cambridge engagements?
Louis from Norwich leads delivery on technical architecture and is on site most often. James from Derby joins for commercial and capital work; Phil from Nottingham travels in for delivery sprints; Shivam (London) for financial diligence and any investor-facing work.
What kinds of Cambridge and Cambridgeshire businesses do you take on?
Scale-ups and mid-market firms with revenue and a real operating model. Cambridge tech-corridor companies in life sciences, biotech, fintech and enterprise software are the natural fit. Property, professional services, finance and recruitment too.
What does AI consulting in Cambridge cost?
A monthly retainer reserves capacity and covers planning and oversight; delivery hours are billed transparently on top. Rate quoted on the first call. We are cheaper than the equivalent London or research-lab engagement because we are not paying for a city lease.
The full Forward Deployment offer
How engagements work: diagnose, build, operate. The detailed page covers engagement structure, pricing, and the four UK bases on one page.
About James, Louis, Phil & Shivam
The operators behind the work. £5m+ raised for their own companies, ~£10m across their broader career, AI-native since the week ChatGPT shipped.
More Academy entry points.
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