Project consulting
An agreed piece of work, such as an AI strategy, feasibility study, technical review or implementation. A strategy or review can stand on its own; it does not need to lead to a build.
Work With Me
I help organisations with AI strategy, technical decisions and hands-on implementation, from startups to large enterprises.
I can work with you on a defined project, join your team for a period, or provide ongoing, part-time AI leadership. I also offer speaking, advisory and training.
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AI Consulting Services
How we can work together
The work can focus on strategic guidance, technical delivery, or both. How we work together depends on what you need.
Embedded AI expertise
I work alongside your team for an agreed period, providing senior technical expertise, helping guide decisions and doing hands-on implementation. This can support a particular initiative or fill a temporary gap in the team.
Fractional AI leadership
Ongoing, part-time involvement in setting AI priorities, guiding technical decisions and supporting your team. I take responsibility for progressing agreed work and can implement selected parts myself.
We agree the scope, responsibilities, time commitment and duration for each engagement. You do not need to choose a model before getting in touch: start with what you are trying to do.
I also work alongside consultancies and delivery partners that need specialist AI expertise for their client work.
Discuss working togetherWhat I can help with
My consulting work covers strategic guidance, technical review, research and implementation. The services below are grouped by stage of work and specialist area.
The links on each card take you to the fuller service pages on clearlead.ai.
Stage of work
Getting Started with AI
For organisations that know AI matters but aren't sure where to begin.
- Assessing where AI realistically fits your business
- Feasibility studies on the harder technical questions
- Proof-of-concept prototypes with real data
- Taking selected ideas through to production
Scaling & Proving AI
Already have AI underway? Assess whether it is ready to scale, get an independent view of the work, and get stalled systems into production.
- Scale readiness for an existing system or proof of concept
- Independent second opinion on a programme
- Evaluation of how good an existing system actually is
- Production rescue for systems that are stuck
Service areas
AI Strategy
Strategic clarity on what to do with AI, and how to adopt it in practice.
- Opportunity assessments and roadmaps
- Technology due diligence
- Workforce and change management for AI adoption
AI Governance & Compliance
Practical help with AI governance and regulatory readiness, from focused checks through to putting lasting governance in place.
- Exposure assessment across the AI you already use
- Transparency and labelling checks
- Literacy programmes and documentation
- High-risk readiness and lasting governance frameworks
AI & Machine Learning
Custom machine learning for problems where off-the-shelf tools fall short.
- Predictive analytics and fraud detection
- Recommendation systems and computer vision
- Bespoke models built around your use case
- MLOps, monitoring, and production deployment
Data Science & Analytics
Getting value from data you already have.
- Predictive modelling and segmentation
- Sales and demand forecasting
- Statistical analysis and anomaly detection
- Exploratory work that surfaces what is actually going on
NLP & Generative AI
Practical use of language models and NLP in real products and workflows.
- Chatbots and AI assistants
- RAG systems for knowledge retrieval
- Document analysis at scale
- Agentic workflows and fine-tuning
- Safety, evaluation, and compliance
Research
For work in genuinely new territory.
- Feasibility studies on novel ideas
- Applied research projects
- Technology assessments
- IP and patent strategy
This work tends to be more bespoke, so the best starting point is a conversation. Get in touch to discuss what you are working on.
Where to start
Not sure which service is right for you, or want to talk through your specific situation first? I offer a free introductory call to meet, understand your goals, and explore the options together. It's completely free with no commitment required.
Beyond Consulting
Alongside AI consulting, I take on a small number of other professional engagements.
Speaking & keynotes
Practical AI talks for business leaders, grounded in research, strategic leadership and hands-on experience building systems inside organisations.
I speak about where AI can help, what it takes to make it work and how to make informed decisions. Available for keynotes, conference talks, panels and Q&A.
Technical & board advisory
I serve as a technical advisor to boards and leadership teams making decisions about AI: helping them understand the landscape, evaluate options, and ask the right questions of their technical teams.
Drawing on experience as Director of Data Science at a Fortune 5 company and current advisory board roles, I bring both the technical depth and the executive-level perspective to be useful at board level.
Advisory work focuses on counsel and independent review. For ongoing responsibility for progressing AI work with your team, see fractional AI leadership. Discuss an advisory arrangement
Workshops & training
I run workshops for teams looking to build a working understanding of AI: what it can realistically achieve, where it adds genuine value, and how to think about adopting it in their context.
Workshops are tailored to the specific team and situation: technical teams broadening their AI skills, leadership or cross-functional groups preparing for AI adoption, or bespoke sessions built around a particular use case or industry.
If you have something specific in mind, get in touch to discuss.
Why Work with Me
Regardless of what AI collaboration you're looking for, here's what sets me apart.
Deep AI expertise
Over 20 years of hands-on work in AI, machine learning, and data science, across healthcare, finance, e-commerce, telecoms, and more.
For more on my background, see the About page.
You work with me directly
The person you speak to at the start is the same person doing the work. No handoffs, no junior bench, no account layers between you and the work.
Without the big-firm overhead
Senior expertise that moves faster, and at a fraction of the cost of a large firm. No management layers, no sales overhead, and none of the margin built in to support either.
Questions worth asking any AI consultant
If you are choosing someone to help with AI, these are fair questions. Here are my answers.
- Will they build it, or only advise?
- Both. I advise on strategy, then design, build and deploy the systems myself.
- Has their work been put to use in real organisations?
- Yes. In multinationals across consumer electronics, telecommunications and healthcare, including UnitedHealth Group, and today with Clearlead clients. See the case studies on clearlead.ai.
- Do they understand the technology underneath?
- A PhD, post-doctoral research, and patents and academic publications.
- Will they choose the right approach, not just the latest tool?
- More than 20 years across machine learning, NLP and data science as well as generative AI. I choose from established techniques through to the latest models and tools, depending on what the problem needs.
- Are they still doing the work today?
- Yes. Through Clearlead AI Consulting I work directly with companies of all sizes, advising on AI strategy and building AI systems myself.
Selected client work
A sample of recent projects delivered through Clearlead AI Consulting.
Retail · Machine learning
Automated price prediction
Rebuilt a price prediction system for 30,000+ products across 130+ locations, achieving 40% lower prediction error with automated MLOps retraining.
Digital health · GenAI
AI health insight engine
Built a RAG-powered insight engine that detects patterns in longitudinal wellbeing data and generates evidence-grounded observations, with multi-layer hallucination safeguards.
Industrial procurement · AI
Supplier intelligence and search
Transformed 8,000+ sparse supplier records into structured profiles using hybrid semantic search and LLM-powered enrichment.