Start with one real job.
Pick a task with a clear owner, clear inputs and a result you can see.
I help UK business owners make AI pay
Find the right job. Prove the value.
Build from what pays back.
My Philosophy
You've been told you need AI. You may already have a CRM, a portal and a dashboard nobody opens, so the scepticism is earned. My approach is simpler: start with one real job, prove the value, and let it earn the next.
Reformat Labs is my AI consultancy for UK businesses. What I learn there, I write about here: what's worth trying, what to leave alone, and what it actually takes to make one job stick.
Read about my approachMake it work before you scale it.
Agree what good looks like, test it with the people doing the job, and fix what breaks.
Make the first job earn the next.
Set success before you start. A proven result gives you the confidence and evidence to take on the next job.
Choose the easiest useful win.
The best first project is simple enough to launch, important enough to matter, and visible enough to prove.
Keep ownership close to the work.
AI adoption is a business habit, not an IT handover. The people doing the job must shape and improve it.
Use AI to grow capacity.
Give saved hours back to customers, quality and work that has been waiting, not just to a cost-cutting target.
Working together
Advisory, workshops and talks
Advisory
A plan for the first job, the number it has to hit, and what comes after it. Done with the person who can say yes in the room.
Start a conversationWorkshops
A working session with your team. You leave with one job chosen, one measure agreed and a first step you can take next week.
Plan a workshopSpeaking
Talks and panels for business audiences who want to know what AI actually does inside a working business, and what starting involves.
Enquire about speakingArticles on finding useful work for AI and making it pay
Agree what good looks like before AI goes live
Three people have to agree the standard before an AI step touches real work, and it has to be a standard a reviewer can apply in seconds.
How to control AI running costs
The four lines an AI tool costs you every month, and the short review that keeps all of them in view.
What to do when AI gets it wrong
How far a wrong answer travelled decides what it costs you, and what you should do in the hour after you spot it.
CONTACT
Contact me
If you have a job in mind, a question about AI, or a business problem worth working through, tell me what you’re trying to make work. I’ll help you find the sensible next step.
Start with the job
A short conversation is often enough to work out whether AI can earn its keep.
jay@jayjanes.com