What Keeps You Up at Night?
The honest answer is probably on this page. If it isn't, we've designed our services wrong.
What you get is what we're measured on
You don't buy consultancy hours. You buy outcomes you can defend to a board, an auditor, a regulator, and a Finance Director. Every engagement is designed around the result you'll point at six months from now — not the deck we leave behind.
We've built this
Delivered at UK Local Government, a leading UK university, and across medium enterprise. We don't read you Microsoft slides; we tell you what worked and what didn't.
Senior-led, graduate-supported
Every engagement is designed and led by a practising architect with 20+ years in the field. Trained graduates handle structured work under close supervision.
Fixed-price, no surprises
You know the cost before we start. Every service on this site carries a "Starting from" price, a defined scope, and an honest statement of what's not included.
AI-led, not AI-shaped
We don't bolt AI onto an existing services menu. AI is the starting point for every conversation — and the data, security, and operating-model work is what we build around it.
Portfolio Promise
Whatever service you start with — a one-day assessment, a fractional CAIO, an EU AI Act readiness sprint, a FinOps deep-dive — we're optimising for the same four outcomes. They're the reason a CIO can sign off our work without a second opinion.
Speed without recklessness
You move faster because the governance, security and ethics work is baked in from day one, not bolted on at the end. No security veto kills your project at month five. No procurement re-do. No "we'll fix the data later". The fastest route to value is the one you don't have to redo.
your next AI initiative goes live in a single quarter, with sign-off from Security, Legal and Finance already in the bag.
Spend you can defend
Flat-rate AI is over. We give you the inventory, the tiering strategy and the operating model so every pound of AI spend has a named owner, a workload, and a value justification. No surprise bills, no shadow vendors, no Finance Director asking awkward questions you can't answer.
you can produce a single-page AI spend report for your CFO without raising a ticket.
Adoption that actually sticks
Most "AI projects" don't fail technically — they fail at adoption. We design for the human side: champions, training, prompt patterns, change comms, role-by-role enablement. Your tools get used because they fit how your people already work.
licence utilisation, weekly active users, and self-reported value all go up — and stay up — at the six-month mark.
Risk you've already answered for
EU AI Act. NIS2. UK AI regulatory principles. ICO guidance. Sector-specific rules. We map your AI estate against the obligations before the regulator, the auditor or the journalist asks. The evidence pack is ready. The risk register is honest. The board paper writes itself.
your next external audit notes AI controls as a strength, not a finding.
By Role · By Pressure
We work with two kinds of buyer. One works in a complex institution with a multi-year programme. The other runs a business where this quarter matters. Both deserve copy that recognises which one they are.
For IT and Digital Leaders
Universities, councils, NHS trusts, housing associations, multi-academy trusts, medium-enterprise IT — £50m+ turnover, established Microsoft estate, real architecture function.
"My board approved an AI strategy. Now I have to deliver something visible this year."
You need a sequenced, costed 12–24 month roadmap with named use cases, not a strategy deck. → AI Strategy & Roadmap from £45,000
"My Copilot pilot has been running for nine months and I can't prove it delivered anything."
Programme architecture, adoption design, measurement framework — turn the sunk cost into something repeatable. → Copilot Programme Architecture from £35,000
"My data estate is a patchwork — Snowflake, Fabric, 200 orphaned Power BI reports. I need to fix it before AI makes it worse."
A data foundation sized for AI ambitions: lakehouse design, domain model, governance, a working exemplar. → Data Foundation for AI (Fabric) from £75,000
"Our security team is good at operations, but I don't know if we're safe for AI adoption — data oversharing, identity hygiene, AI-specific risk controls."
Targeted security uplift for AI adoption, not a general cyber programme. → AI-Ready Security Posture from £40,000
"The EU AI Act deadline is coming and I don't know which of our systems it applies to."
AI inventory, risk classification, governance framework, audit-ready evidence. → AI Governance & EU AI Act Readiness from £25,000
"I'm losing senior architects to the private sector and my remaining team is underwater."
Build internal capability through structured mentoring and cohort training — led by architects who still do the work. → Mentoring & Training from £3,500
"Microsoft's AI costs are going consumption-based and my finance director is worried."
AI FinOps — consumption inventory, tiering strategy, chargeback model, operating model. → AI FinOps Foundation from £28,000
"We need AI leadership at board level, but we can't afford or justify a full-time Chief AI Officer."
Fractional AI leadership via a defined monthly retainer — strategic direction, governance oversight, board-level advocacy. → Gold Advisory Retainer from £12,000/month
For Owner-Managed and Mid-Market Firms
Law firms, professional services practices, specialist manufacturers, private healthcare groups — £10m–£100m turnover, M365 in place, no in-house architecture function.
"Every magazine and conference is shouting about AI. My partners are asking what we're doing. I don't know where to start."
A fixed-scope assessment in 3 weeks: where you stand, what to do first, what it costs. No pitch. No follow-up pressure. → AI Readiness Assessment from £15,000
"I need to show my board concrete AI opportunities — not theory — that are specific to our sector."
A 3-week sprint: 10–20 use cases surfaced, evaluated, shortlisted to 5 with sketch architectures. → Use-Case Discovery Sprint from £18,000
"The Copilot licences I bought last year are gathering dust. That's £30k/year I can't write off."
A 2-week recovery programme: diagnose what's broken, fix the adoption blockers, measure the improvement. → Copilot Value Recovery from £9,500
"I'm not sure our data is good enough for AI. Half of it lives in spreadsheets and the CRM is a mess."
Targeted data quality check — 6 dimensions scored, quick wins identified, clean-up plan delivered. → Data Quality Baseline from £12,500
"I want to spend half a day with an expert who can tell my leadership team what AI actually means for our industry."
A 2-hour executive briefing on-site. Sector-specific, honest, no sales deck. → Executive AI Briefing from £3,500
"We have budget for a one-day workshop to kickstart our AI thinking. Just give us the patterns."
A full-day on-site workshop: AI landscape for your sector, three patterns you can use immediately, a prioritised action plan. → AI Use-Case Workshop from £4,500
"My cyber insurer is asking about AI governance at renewal and I don't have an answer."
Targeted AI governance engagement sized for smaller organisations — classification, policies, and a defensible position. → AI Governance & EU AI Act Readiness from £25,000
"I want a trusted advisor on call — someone who knows our context and can help us avoid expensive mistakes."
Ongoing advisory via a structured monthly retainer. Defined hours, predictable cost, the same senior architect each month. → Retainers from £3,000/month
Independent · Ethical · Outcome-Led
Talk to us about the outcome you actually need
Tell us the result you need to point at in six months. We'll tell you, honestly, whether NeuraSec is the right partner to get you there — and which of our services is the right starting point.