The Digital Employee

What it does

Most AI projects fail for organisational reasons, not technical ones: culture, alignment, and change readiness. The Digital Employee diagnoses whether your organisation is genuinely ready to adopt AI, and shows you exactly what to fix first. It runs on the PULSE Framework: a structured path from a fast readiness assessment to a prioritised roadmap, with expert support available from diagnosis to deployment.

I help smaller businesses figure out where AI actually fits, then put it to work on the jobs that eat your week. Take the free 2-minute AI Starting Line quiz.

I am Ian. I help smaller businesses figure out where AI actually fits, then put it to work on the jobs that eat your week. No jargon, no enterprise price tag, no pilot purgatory. Big companies are racing ahead with AI, backed by huge budgets and teams of consultants. Smaller businesses, the ones that actually keep the economy running, are being left to figure it out alone. The large firms are not much help. They charge thousands just for an assessment, hand over a thick report, and leave you to work out the rest. That never sat right with me. I have spent years building AI systems for businesses, from LLMs and agents to the data pipelines behind them. For the last six months I have turned…from thedigitalemployee.ai

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