Most AI strategy work produces a deck. Lots of slides, lots of vendor logos, very little that anyone can act on. The board reads it, nods politely and the team carries on as before. A waste of months and a quiet erosion of leadership confidence in the AI conversation.
Teylu runs a different kind of strategy engagement. Two to four weeks. Senior people on the audit. Real interviews with the people doing the work. A documented assessment of where AI will compound value in your business, where it will not, and a sequenced roadmap your board can actually fund and your team can actually deliver. Sharpest thinking, not biggest budgets.
What you get:
It is generic. The vendor running it has a tool to sell. The framework is the same one every other client gets. The recommendations are too big to start, too vague to defend and disconnected from your operating model. The team reads the deck, sees no path to ownership and quietly opts out.
We sit with your marketing, sales, operations, finance and IT leaders. We document the work as it actually happens. We score the opportunities against your data, your team capability and your commercial priorities. The output is specific to you, sequenced for your context and built to be funded.
Your current data landscape and the unification opportunities sitting inside it. Your existing AI use across teams. Your priority commercial outcomes for the next 12 months. Your team capability, gaps and training needs. Your governance and compliance position. The tooling already in your stack and what to keep, retire or add.
The Big Four charge a quarter of a million pounds and a quarter for the same audit work. We charge a fraction of that and deliver in weeks. Senior Teylu people on every interview. No junior consultants paid out of your budget. Enterprise grade thinking without the enterprise overhead.
You should not need a degree in machine learning to make confident AI decisions. The audit speaks to commercial leaders in commercial language. Where technical detail matters, we annotate it. Where it does not, we leave it out. You read the output and act on it.
Teylu is independent. We do not take rebates from tooling vendors. The recommendations are scored on commercial fit, not on partner economics. The audit tells you the truth even when the truth is that you do not need what is being sold to you.
The audit includes an EU AI Act categorisation of any high risk use cases you plan to deploy, an ICO AI Code of Practice alignment summary and a documented governance posture your legal and risk teams can defend. The 2 August 2026 high risk obligations are factored in from day one.
The roadmap is sequenced to deliver short term results that fund the long term build. Each phase earns its budget back before the next phase starts. The business funds AI from the value it produces, not from speculative capex.
You walk into the board with a defendable view of where AI fits in your business, what it costs, what it returns and the sequencing that gets there. The conversation stops being abstract and starts being commercial.
You see the investment case stage by stage, with the commercial return mapped to each phase and the risks priced in. Measurable marketing with strategic ROI, applied to the AI investment. No fee inflators, no vague benefits.
You see the prioritised opportunities in your function, the realistic delivery sequence and the change you will need to lead inside your team. The audit gives you the case, the language and the plan to take to your peers and your board.
If your business has not yet committed to a clear AI direction, this is the cleanest place to start. You leave with clarity, a defensible plan and a sense of what is real and what is not. No tool sales attached.
It is not a strategy deck full of generic frameworks. It is not a pitch dressed up as strategic advice. It is not a vendor relationship in audit clothing. We will tell you not to do things if not doing them is the right answer.
A short, focused, evidence-led engagement that gives leadership the clarity to commit, the structure to deliver and the sequencing to fund. It is the entry point for businesses that recognise the value of AI but lack the in-house capability to design and deliver it themselves.
We interview your leadership and senior team. We audit data, tools and current practice. We map opportunities against your commercial priorities and document the early findings.
We sequence the roadmap, build the investment case and document the governance posture. We present back to leadership and leave you with a written output the board can act on.
Every recommendation is mapped to its EU AI Act categorisation. The governance posture is documented. The data residency position is explicit. The audit gives your risk team the answers they need before procurement gets involved.
Where the answer depends on data we have not seen, we say so. Where the recommendation needs validation in a pilot, we say so. Confidence comes from evidence, not from posturing.
Strategy boutiques produce decks. We produce implementation ready roadmaps. Because we build and ship AI for clients including HMS Networks, Arrow ECS, Timberplay and TouchWood Play, the recommendations are grounded in what actually ships, not what reads well on a slide.
Most vendor audits exist to sell their platform. Ours exists to give you the truth. If the right answer for you is a competitor tool, an open source library or no tool at all, we will tell you. Partnership, not transaction.
Two to four weeks from kick off to written output. Week one is leadership interviews and current state mapping. Week two is opportunity scoring and roadmap design. Weeks three to four are sequencing, investment case and governance documentation.
Fixed scope audit, then optional implementation engagements off the back of the roadmap. Many clients move into the data unification, content operations or workspace implementation services because the audit makes the case for them.
See the implementation services that typically follow an audit, and how each one maps to the priorities most audits surface.
This is built for leadership teams that need clarity on AI before committing to any meaningful investment. That usually means:
Founders and CEOs of scaling businesses asked by the board for a coherent AI direction and needing to defend the answer.
Marketing, operations and commercial leaders in traditional UK businesses where AI has not yet been seriously assessed and the board is starting to ask.
CFOs and finance leaders wanting a properly costed investment case before AI hits the operating plan.
Risk, legal and governance leaders needing a documented compliance posture before any high risk use case is approved internally.
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Week 1
Senior Teylu people sit with your marketing, sales, operations, finance, IT, risk and people leaders. We document the priorities, the current AI use, the data landscape and the team capability.
A documented current state of your business across the dimensions that matter for AI: data, people, process, tooling, governance and commercial priorities.
Week 2
We score every opportunity against commercial value, time to value, implementation complexity and risk. We map them to your priorities and document the trade offs.
A prioritised list of opportunities, with the commercial case for each and the recommended sequence. You can defend any decision in the list with evidence.
Week 3
We sequence a 12 month roadmap, build the investment case and document the governance posture across EU AI Act, ICO and your internal risk framework.
A board ready roadmap with phased delivery, sequenced funding and a documented compliance posture. Your board can fund any phase with confidence.
Week 4
We present back to your leadership, document the questions raised and leave you with the written outputs. If you want us back for implementation, we are ready. If not, you have a roadmap you can run yourself.
Leadership confidence, a defensible AI direction and a clear next move. You decide whether implementation happens with us, with another partner or in house.
Tell us where the business is today and what the board has asked for. We will tell you, honestly, whether an audit is the right next move.
The audit is a fixed scope engagement designed to give leadership clarity inside a month.
Foundation Audit (entry tier)
A two week audit covering data, people, process, tooling and governance, with a prioritised opportunity list and a quarter one delivery recommendation.
Full Strategy Audit (core tier)
A four week audit covering everything above plus a 12 month sequenced roadmap, an investment case, governance documentation and a leadership presentation.
Audit Plus Implementation (combined)
The audit followed by the implementation engagement (data unification, content operations, workspace setup, brand design system or knowledge base) for clients who want continuity from strategy to ship.
Pricing is transparent. Enterprise grade thinking without the enterprise overhead.
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The audit is built on the same operating depth that produced 391% search market share growth and 73% cost per lead reduction for HMS Networks, 411% conversion lift for Blake Mill Menswear and 3,000 sales opportunities in 90 days. The recommendations are grounded in what actually ships, not theory.
If you are about to commit to an AI direction and want to do it on evidence rather than vendor pressure, this is built for you.
Speak to a senior member of the team. We will scope a discovery in the call and give you a clear next step.
How is this different from a Big Four AI assessment?
A Big Four assessment runs six months and costs a quarter of a million pounds. Ours runs two to four weeks at a fraction of that. Senior Teylu people on every interview. No junior consultants on your budget. The output is implementation ready, not a deck that gets filed.
What does the written output look like?
A prioritised opportunity list, a sequenced 12 month roadmap, an investment case for each phase and a documented governance posture. Board ready, defendable and specific to your business, not a template.
What if the answer is that we should not do AI?
We will tell you. The audit is honest. If the right answer is to wait, fix data foundations first or focus on something else, we say so. Independence is the whole point. Proof over promises.
Do we have to use Teylu for the implementation?
No. The roadmap is yours. You can run it in house, with another partner or with us. We will tell you which is the right fit for your business honestly. Many clients choose us for implementation because we have shipped this work before, but the decision is yours.
How is this priced?
Fixed scope. Two week Foundation Audit or four week Full Strategy Audit. Transparent pricing. No fee inflators. We will quote in the discovery conversation.
Have a question we have not answered? Tell us. We will give you a straight answer, not a pitch.
