Department / Faculty SLT
You need your PS teams to reclaim time from repeatable work and academic staff to gain AI confidence grounded in academic values.
AI Capability Built for Higher Education
Move your staff and students to confident, capable and compliant AI practitioners. Hours saved, tracked and reported.
AI training, coaching and consultancy by those who fully understand universities.
A free, confidential 45-minute call followed by a written summary report.
Built by former Digital Skills Leads from UK universities.
Proud members of the Staff Development Forum and the Association of Learning Technology.
Services
AI support designed for every part
of your institution
Whether you need to lift staff capability, equip students for an AI-shaped workplace, coach an individual academic, or give your leadership team a confident strategic position, we can design something for you.
Workforce Capability
Your professional services and academic staff using AI in real work, not just sitting through a session. Built role by role, mapped to tasks they already do, with time savings tracked from day one.
Learn moreStudent Programmes
Students feel confident in understanding how to use AI responsibly in their studies and the wider world of work. Programmes support your academic integrity policy and employability strategy at the same time.
Learn moreLeadership Consulting
A clear strategic advisory to increase AI capabilities and engagement in your staff and students. Designed for SLT, department and student services heads, who need to lead on this, not just respond to it.
Learn moreAcademic Coaching
One-to-one and small-group coaching for academics developing their own AI practice across research, teaching and admin. Confidential and paced to fit a real academic schedule.
Learn moreEvents and Away Days
A sector-aware introduction to AI for conferences, leadership days and team events. One session that moves a room from uncertainty to a clearer sense of what AI means for their work.
Learn moreOur flagship offering
The AI Partnership
For institutions that want to stop running pilots and start joining up the dots. Over an academic year, move from uncertainty to genuine capability - with everything designed around your roles, your policies and your calendar.
- Free initial consultation and baseline assessment
- AI literacy audit and needs analysis
- Role-specific workshops, in-person or online
- On-demand courses for staff and students
- Strategic roadmap session with your SLT
- Ongoing AI Café drop-in sessions throughout the year
- Follow-up leadership calls to track progress and adjust
Every partnership is scoped to the institution. Book an AI Capability Check to start that conversation.
Who we work with
Built for the people who own AI adoption
We work with the people tasked with turning AI curiosity into
institution-wide confidence, capability and compliance.
HR / L&D teams
You need AI capability building to support diverse staff roles and offer support to individual's needs.
Library / Career services
You need your students to be supported during their studies and AI-ready when they enter the workplace.
“AI is the second most cited challenge [for HE] again this year [2025] ...the full potential of AI can only be unlocked if the staff are well-trained and confident in using these new technologies responsibly.”
- AI and Jisc’s Leadership Survey 2025
AI maturity
Five stages of AI capability
in higher education
AI adoption happens in stages. These are the five we see most often. We support you at each.
- 01
Recognising the strategic priority
AI is on every board agenda. You know you need a coordinated response, not a series of individual experiments.
- 02
Understanding your starting point
Before you build a plan, you need an honest picture of staff capability, current usage and risk exposure across the institution.
- 03
Building the institutional plan
Translating insight into a board-ready roadmap with measurable outcomes, accountable owners and a realistic timeline.
- 04
Equipping staff with confidence and capability
Role-specific training that respects the difference between an academic, a finance officer and a student services lead.
- 05
Embedding and sustaining
AI evolves quickly. Your institution needs structures that keep momentum after the initial push.
“Students overwhelmingly see AI as essential for their futures, but many do not feel adequately supported to develop the necessary skills. If universities want graduates to feel prepared for the future, then AI literacy and capability must be embedded across the curriculum. These skills cannot be treated as optional.”
Charlotte Armstrong, Policy Manager, Higher Education Policy Institute - HEPI/Kortext Student Generative AI Survey 2026
We’ve worked inside the buildings we’re trying to help.
Our team brings over a decade of direct experience inside UK higher education, and more than four decades combined across learning, educational technology, and learning and development. That context shapes every workshop we design and every conversation we have with your team.
Understanding how universities operate and the technology used, means we can jump straight into helping you directly with your specific need.
Appreciating the time, capacity and anxiety pressures that can exist, we use a people-first approach, to offer flexibility and support every step of the way.
This isn’t theory for us. It’s the world we came from.
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ROI calculator
What does the status quo cost you?
Limited and sporadic AI use isn’t free. Staff are spending hours on tasks that could be done in seconds if they were AI capable. This calculator shows what a coordinated approach could reclaim.
How much could you save with AI?
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Free resource
From chatbot to agent in one task.
A short guide that takes a single task most staff already do, and shows how it can be improved with AI - from a quick AI prompt to a full agentic workflow. See how AI capability works at different levels, depending on workforce capability.
Download the guideWhere does your institution stand?
Book your AI Capability Check
A confidential 45-minute conversation, followed by a written summary report on where your institution sits and the three things to do next. No pitch, no slides, no obligation.
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