AI Consultancy

AI consultancy for small businesses that want results, not slide decks.

Most AI consultancies are built for the FTSE 100. SynaBot is built for the rest of us — founders, small teams and professional services firms who want a clear plan, a working pilot, and people who can actually use it.

Vendor neutral Fixed scope, fixed price No agency lock-in
What you walk away with
  • A prioritised AI roadmap for the next 90 days
  • A working pilot you actually use, not a prototype
  • A team trained to keep going without us
  • Clear measurement of time and money saved
Curated and led personally by Mark Barclay, founder of the SynaBot project.

What is SynaBot AI consultancy?

SynaBot AI consultancy is a short, outcome-led engagement that helps small businesses and internal teams adopt AI properly. We map where AI can actually move the needle for you, build a focused pilot using the right model and tools, and train your people so the value compounds after we leave. It's the same thinking that powers our specialist AI assistants, curated prompts and independent tools directory — applied to your business.

Who is it for?

How is this different from a normal AI agency?

Most agencies sell you the tool they're partnered with. We don't take vendor commissions, we don't sell six-month retainers, and we don't start by building. We start by listening, scope a fixed-price piece of work, and prove value in weeks — not quarters. If a £20/month tool will solve your problem, we'll tell you that.

Three ways to work together

Each engagement is short, fixed-scope, and designed to stand on its own. Most clients start with Discovery and graduate into a Pilot.

Step 1 · 2 weeks

AI Discovery Sprint

We map your business, score where AI can actually help, and hand back a prioritised roadmap you can act on with or without us.

  • Stakeholder interviews and process audit
  • Use-case longlist scored by impact and effort
  • Tooling and model recommendations (vendor-neutral)
  • Prioritised 90-day roadmap
Step 2 · 4–6 weeks

AI Pilot Build

We pick one high-value use case from the roadmap and ship a working pilot — an assistant, an automation or an internal tool — with measurement baked in.

  • Solution design and prompt architecture
  • Custom assistant or workflow build
  • Integration with your existing tools
  • Success metrics and a measurement dashboard
Step 3 · Workshop or ongoing

AI Enablement & Training

We train your team to use AI safely and well — so the pilot keeps paying back long after we're gone.

  • Live, role-specific workshops
  • Prompt libraries tailored to your business
  • Internal policy and safe-use guidance
  • Optional monthly office hours

How does an engagement run?

No mystery, no ten-page methodology deck. Four steps, weekly demos, everything documented.

  1. 01

    Discovery call

    A 30-minute call to understand the business, the pressure points and what 'good' looks like.

  2. 02

    Scoped proposal

    A short, plain-English proposal — fixed scope, fixed price, no fuzzy hourly retainers.

  3. 03

    Sprint or build

    We work in short cycles with weekly demos, so you see progress and steer it, not just receipts.

  4. 04

    Handover & enablement

    Everything we build is yours, documented and demoed to your team — no black boxes, no lock-in.

The principles we work by

These four rules decide what we recommend, what we refuse, and what we ship.

Use case before tool

We start from the job to be done, not the latest model. The right answer is sometimes a prompt template, not a platform.

Vendor neutral

We're not on commission. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, open-source — we recommend what fits your data, budget and risk.

Safe by default

Privacy, IP and prompt safety are baked into every engagement. Your data doesn't end up training someone else's model.

Useful before clever

We'd rather ship one boring AI workflow that saves 8 hours a week than a flashy demo nobody uses.

Need a custom AI chatbot too?

If the right answer turns out to be a customer-facing AI chatbot — for your website, support desk or internal team — we build those end-to-end through SynaBot Chatbot Development.

Ready to talk about your AI roadmap?

Book a free 30-minute discovery call. No pitch deck, no obligation — just a straight conversation about what's possible.