Your competitors are spending millions on AI.
Most of them are wasting it.

Fractional Chief AI Officer for UK mid-market companies. We help leadership teams at £20M–£100M businesses build a clear AI strategy — so you stop guessing and start making decisions you can stand behind.

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AI strategy experience at the highest levels of UK government and global finance.

Most mid-market companies know AI matters.
What they're missing is a clear plan.

No strategy

You know AI is important. You've had vendors pitch you, read the articles, maybe bought a tool or two. But when someone asks what your AI strategy is, there's a pause.

Money spent, nothing to show

You've invested in AI — a platform here, a consultant there — and the board is asking what you actually got for it. The honest answer isn't comfortable.

Everyone disagrees

Your CEO, your operations lead, and your IT team are all getting their AI advice from different places. They can't agree because they're not hearing the same things.

No guardrails

Your team are using ChatGPT, Copilot, and other tools with no policy, no oversight, and no visibility. You're exposed and you know it.

88% of UK companies are using AI tools. Only 1% are doing it well.

Senior AI leadership — without the
full-time executive price tag.

We sit alongside your leadership team as your Fractional Chief AI Officer. Independent. Vendor-agnostic. Accountable for results, not just recommendations.

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AI Diagnostic

£2,500
One-off · 2 days

We interview your leadership team, audit your AI spend, and deliver a One Page AI Game Plan — what to do first, what to park, and what to avoid entirely.

  • Stakeholder interviews across your leadership team
  • Audit of existing AI spend, tools, and outcomes
  • Prioritised roadmap with costs, timelines, and KPIs
  • Governance gap assessment
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Most common

Strategic

£4,000/month
1 day/week · 90-day initial engagement

Embedded AI leadership for your business. We oversee execution of your AI roadmap, evaluate vendors, build governance, and report to the board.

  • Everything in the Diagnostic
  • Pilot initiative oversight and KPI accountability
  • Vendor evaluation and partner recommendations
  • Governance framework and AI policy design
  • Monthly board-level reporting
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Deep engagement

Embedded

£7,500/month
2 days/week · 90-day initial engagement

Hands-on AI leadership for companies in active transformation. Full CAIO scope with team mentoring and capability building.

  • Everything in Strategic
  • Team training and AI capability building
  • Shadow AI audit and policy enforcement
  • Multiple concurrent initiative oversight
  • Internal playbooks so you don't need us permanently
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For context: a full-time Chief AI Officer costs £250,000–£400,000/year. A Big Four AI strategy engagement costs £50,000–£200,000. All engagements are month-to-month after the initial 90-day period.

From confusion to a plan your
board can stand behind. In 90 days.

01

Diagnose

We talk to your leadership team. We audit what you've spent, what you've tried, and where the real opportunities are. You get a One Page AI Game Plan — clear, specific, and honest.

02

Execute

We sit alongside your team to oversee the first priority initiatives. We recommend execution partners, manage quality, and make sure you're not wasting money. Weekly or bi-weekly check-ins with leadership.

03

Build capability

We build your internal AI muscle — governance frameworks, decision-making processes, team confidence. The goal is to make ourselves unnecessary, not to create dependency.

Who you're working with

Bramforth AI was founded by two people who spend their careers helping organisations make high-stakes AI decisions — and kept seeing the same problem in the mid-market.

Jamie Oarton — AI Strategy & Governance

Jamie Oarton

AI Strategy & Governance

Jamie's background is in AI strategy at the highest levels of UK government — advising on where AI creates genuine value, how to sequence investment, and how to build governance frameworks that actually work. He leads client engagements, runs diagnostics, and works directly with leadership teams to build their AI roadmap.

Ben Andreas — AI Technology & Implementation

Ben Andreas

AI Technology & Implementation

Ben works in the AI team at one of the world's largest financial institutions. He brings deep technical expertise in AI architecture, tooling, and implementation — the ability to evaluate whether a vendor's claims are real, whether a technical approach will scale, and what it actually takes to put AI into production.

Together: the strategic clarity to know what to do, and the technical depth to know whether it will actually work. That combination is rare — and it's why most AI initiatives fail without it.

We've sat where you sit

We work inside large organisations navigating AI. We know what actually works, what fails, and why — because we see it first-hand.

We build your capability, not your dependency

Our goal is to make ourselves unnecessary. We build your internal AI muscle so you don't need a permanent AI executive.

We're not selling you anything except clarity

We don't build AI tools. We don't resell software. We don't take referral fees. Our only interest is the right answer for your business.

73%

of AI transformations fail at the CEO level — not because of bad technology, but fatal leadership mistakes

BCG, 2026
80%

of AI failures trace back to people problems, not technical ones

Braincuber Technologies
67%

success rate when AI is led by an external strategic adviser, vs 33% for internal builds

MIT Sloan

This is not for everyone.

We work with a specific type of company. If this doesn't describe you, we're probably not the right fit — and we'd rather be honest about that upfront.

This is for you if:

  • Your business does £20M–£100M in annual revenue
  • You have 100–500 employees
  • Your leadership team knows AI matters but doesn't have a plan
  • You've spent money on AI with mixed or unclear results
  • You want strategic guidance, not someone to build a chatbot

This is not for you if:

  • You're a solopreneur or early-stage startup
  • You want someone to write code or build tools
  • You're looking for a quick fix or a magic platform
  • Your business is under £20M revenue
  • You want training, not strategic leadership

Thinking

Perspectives on AI strategy for the UK mid-market. No hype. No jargon.

The AI Advice Gap

Three people, three sources, three different versions of what AI means for your business

Your CEO, CTO, and CFO are each getting their AI advice from completely different places. That's why nothing moves forward. Here's what's actually happening — and what closes the gap.

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Your team are using AI tools you don't know about. Here's what that actually means.

68% of employees use AI tools their employer hasn't approved. 77% have pasted company data into them. Most are using personal accounts. Here's what that means for your business.

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You don't have an AI strategy. You have a list of tools. Here's the difference.

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Read more →

How AI-ready is your business — really?

7 questions. Under 2 minutes. You'll get a clear picture of where you stand, what's holding you back, and what to do first.

No sales pitch. No jargon. Just clarity.

The first step is a conversation.

30 minutes. No pitch, no slides, no pressure. We'll ask about your business and your AI situation, and tell you what we'd do if it were our company. If there's a fit, we'll talk about next steps. If there isn't, you'll still leave with something useful.

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Or email directly: info@bramforth.ai