Chief Agentic Officer, led by Tony Wood
We help leaders and their teams understand AI and use it well. We spend our time with people. AI helpers do the groundwork. A person checks everything.
What does “agentic” mean? It means AI helpers that can do whole tasks for you, like reading, sorting, drafting and chasing. A person always stays in charge.
Start here
Pick a door. Each one takes you to the right place.
You keep hearing about AI agents. You want a plain answer to what they are and why they matter.
Start with the basics Door 2Your team needs to get going with AI. You want someone to show the way, in a way people trust.
See the ways to work Door 3AI has landed on your desk. You need a clear first step, and a plan you can explain to others.
Start with a health checkOur design name
“95% human, 100% agentic, all quality” is the name of our design. It is a way of saying what we aim for, not a measured guarantee. Here is what each part means.
95% human
We aim to spend nearly all of our time with people: listening, talking and deciding with you.
100% agentic
We design the work behind the conversation so AI agents help with it: the reading, gathering, drafting and chasing.
All quality
A person checks the work before it reaches you.
Why it is not 195%. It is a name, not a sum. The first part is about our time with people. The second is about the work behind it.
The idea
Humans where we need humans, where they give most value. Agentic where they take away most of the human dross.Tony Wood
Most of what goes into good advice is not the advice. It is the groundwork. Agents carry that, so our time goes to you.
“Team of ten becomes a hundred.”
Tony Wood
Who you work with
This is not a platform or a faceless team. When you work with us, you work with real people, led by Tony Wood.
Tony brings forty years of experience. In his words, it has “never been online and never been trained on”.
Around us sits our own team of AI helpers. They do the preparation. So we can come to you, meet your people and listen before we advise.
How it works
Most people start with a short health check. Then you choose what fits.
A remote health check. It shows whether you have a data, training or organisation problem, and what to do first.
Choose one of four shapes, from a talk for the whole company to a month-long programme.
We act as your part-time Chief Agentic Officer, for as long as it helps.
A planned handover, so your own people can run it without us.
Start anywhere. None of these steps needs the one before it.
Ways to work
Pick the one that fits where you are today.
“Add AI to your town hall.” Honest answers to “what does this mean for my job?”
For a leader who has been handed AI and needs their own plan.
What is really happening with AI, then your first decisions together.
Five sessions on real work, with a test at the start and the end.
Honest about AI
As Tony puts it, “AI is an art form and needs an artisan”. Just because you can ask AI to do something does not mean it will be good.
The work is not handmade, and we never pretend it is. We tell you which parts AI helped with, and who checked them.
“Did you use AI for this?”
“Yes. An AI model drafted the first summary from your notes. We name the model on the work. One of our team checked and rewrote it before it came to you.”
An example of the answer you get. Every piece of work names the AI used and the person who checked it.
Our promises
AI helpers prepare. A named person approves anything that matters.
Every piece of work names the AI used, how it was used and who checked it.
It is never used to train anything. We ask you where it should be kept.
Yes to the goal, with a smaller first step in a safe place.
We measure where you start. After 90 days we measure again, so you can see the change.
“You pay for the humans. You don’t pay human prices for agentic work.”
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