Working together on AI adoption
We work with consultants, advisers and firms when a client needs more AI expertise, more capacity, or a specialist view. You keep the relationship. We bring the depth.
Not only when there is no AI practice
Some partners want a specialist they can rely on. Many have AI capability of their own and call us for other reasons.
The client wants to move faster
Your team is committed elsewhere, and the client does not want to wait. We add senior capacity without you having to hire.
A specific area
AI governance, adoption and change, or building a working AI operating system for a business. We go deep on the parts that sit between strategy and technology.
An independent view
A second opinion for a board or leadership team, from someone with no platform to sell.
You know someone who would benefit
A client, a business you know well, or another adviser. You want to point them in the right direction.
Four ways to work together
Each is a deeper relationship than the one before. Pick the one that fits the client and the partnership. Many partners use more than one.
Make an introduction
Introduce us to someone who needs help with AI: a client, a business in your network, or another adviser you know well. We take it from there and keep you informed.
Work alongside us on a client
Bring us into an engagement you are already running. We take on our part under our own contract and plan with you, so the client sees one coherent programme.
Sell it, and we deliver
Include AI work in what you sell. You hold the client relationship, and we deliver as your specialist team.
Build a joint offer
Combine your platform, product or programme with our Business AI Operating System, and take it to market together. From Prompt to Autopilot, our programme with Third Circle, works this way. Integrate partnerships are selective and agreed one by one.
Each model comes with clear commercial terms: an introducer fee for Refer and Collaborate, agreed rates for Deliver, and a joint commercial agreement for Integrate. Get in touch for the details.
Human–AI Systems
We help organisations move from scattered AI experiments to disciplined, everyday use. Adopting AI is mostly about how people and teams work, so we spend as much time on roles, governance and habits as on the technology.
From first decisions to organisation-wide adoption
We work through a structured path: assess where AI can create value and where the risks sit, pilot it in real workflows with clear measures, scale what works across the organisation, and support leadership over the long term. Engagements range from a half-day leadership session to fractional Chief AI Officer support.
Our methodology combines Radar, Pilot, Scale for adoption with the Tool, Assistant, Worker model for how AI capability matures, and a practical approach to leading mixed human and AI teams.
Our approach →Practical AI skills for teams
Sector-tailored workshops that build working AI skills around the tasks people do every day, covering AI essentials, hands-on skills and adoption planning.
Half-day and full-day sessions for up to 20 people, with bespoke programmes where needed.
Explore training →An AI team that runs real work
We run Human–AI Systems on one: a named AI team covering marketing, sales, operations, finance and delivery, around thirty routines that run every day, and clear rules on what waits for a human. We build the same for clients.
See how we run →From Prompt to Autopilot
A programme, delivered with Third Circle, that builds business owners, functional leaders and their teams their own AI operating system, and teaches them to run and extend it.
About the programme →Mike McKeown
Mike founded Human–AI Systems after leading AI transformation from the inside, in a listed company and in local government.
At Verimatrix, a publicly listed technology company, he led the AI transformation programme. It changed how engineering teams wrote, reviewed and shipped code, and put an AI governance framework through the board for approval.
Outcomes, Verimatrix AI transformation
~£1M engineering productivity improvement
~£3M revenue impact attributed to the programme
AI governance framework approved at board level
He is also an elected Cabinet Member at Cotswold District Council, where he co-authored the council’s AI policy and oversaw its Microsoft Copilot rollout to around 250 officers and members.
Before that, he spent more than two decades in enterprise technology, including a senior leadership role at Cisco with responsibility for a £430M EMEA public sector P&L.
What partners can expect
Openness
We are open with clients about how we work with partners, and we find they appreciate it.
Your relationship stays yours
We respect your client relationship and involve you as much as you want to be involved.
We start small
Most clients begin with a leadership session or a short assessment, which leads to larger work if they want it.
Have someone in mind?
Or want to explore how we could work together? Book 30 minutes with Mike.