From ambition to AI impact
The Studio is how we work: three components, each with its own job, each unlocking the next. One entry point, one handover, one build pattern. You leave with the sequence you can defend to your board.
Most AI engagements start with a tool and hope a strategy emerges. Ours start with a decision environment and end with a repeatable capability. It moves an organisation along a single, deliberate path: from fragmented enthusiasm, scattered initiatives, little governance, unclear ROI, to controlled enterprise impact. We think of the path as three verbs, decide, de-risk, scale, and deliver it as three engagements. The method behind all of it is published in full: read it, argue with it, test it against your own portfolio. Read the method.
The craft you’d recognise. The instruments only we bring.
The room works the way good strategy rooms always have: real people, analogue work, cases on the wall, arguments in the open. Every serious consultancy runs that room. What no other room has is an instrument in it. The line is drawn live from your own evidence, and the Decider computes every placement in front of the people who will own it, reasoning on screen, open to challenge. Win the challenge and the placement recomputes; it does not get minuted and forgotten.
DECIDE
Frontier Impact Studio & Map
Two days, executive-led, decision-grade. The line is drawn, the board readout produced.
DE-RISK
Frontier Foundations
Laid down once, used everywhere. The platform the decisions need.
SCALE
Frontier Build
Proven thinking into running capability, at the pace enterprise AI requires.
Experience isn’t a phase. It runs through every engagement.
Most AI programmes treat adoption as a workstream, bolted on after the technology lands. We treat it as a discipline that runs through Decide, De-risk and Scale. The Microsoft data is unambiguous: organisational factors drive twice the impact of individual behaviour. Most ACM teams sell training. We sell system redesign. How we read experience.
How it’s priced. Fixed fee, fixed scope, fixed duration.
No day rates. No scope creep. You know what you’re spending and what you’re getting before you start.
- A Frontier Impact Studio and Map is £60K. Analysis of where you sit today, industry and leadership alignment, two days with your leaders, line and load measurement, worked use-cases, Frontier Map and Dream Book production and board playback.
- A Frontier Build cycle is around £40K. A Studio Impact Day followed by iterative build to a working proof of value, ready to move into MVP and production.
- Frontier Foundations and production-grade builds are scoped per engagement. Most clients invest £150-300K across their first six months with us.
Studio Studio is a decision engagement: two days that end with an evidenced portfolio decision.
It’s an operating-model intervention, supported by the engineering depth to execute it, delivered against measurable enterprise outcomes.
The firms pulling ahead are organised differently, and the difference is measurable.
Most clients start with Decide.
It’s the smallest, fastest, lowest-risk engagement. It is as likely to stop a £2m mistake before it is funded as to green-light the right builds, and either way the decision carries its evidence. If you already know what AI is for and you’re stuck on the platform or the scale, we can start there. Most don’t.
Where is your line?
Twenty minutes, screen-share, a real readout end to end. No deck, no discovery call: the method shown working.