Who we are
Built in the Lab.
Rolled out
where it matters.
Enterprise AI Consulting exists to unlock the power of AI for the benefit of humanity and the planet — and to be genuinely useful in one sector before being plausible in ten.
Vision
A world where AI empowers an enlightened humanity living in harmony with the planet.
Our mission is to unlock the power of AI for the benefit of humanity and the planet. That is the whole of it, and we would rather print it plainly than paraphrase it into a tagline.
How a governance consultancy serves that
By making AI safe enough to run at full power in the systems everything depends on — control is not the brake on the ambition, it is the reason we are allowed in the building at all. Meet the founders · how we deliver.
The method
Everything we offer starts in the Lab.
We take one industry at a time, learn it properly, build what that industry actually needs, and only take it to market once it stands up. Regulated finance and legal came first, and produced Sentinel and Citadel. Food and local resilience is where we are now, and produced Backgate. Carbon and waste management is in the Lab today. We are deliberately not everywhere at once — we would rather be genuinely useful in one sector than plausible in ten.
How the work gets done
Two founders directing a governed AI workforce — with every gate written down.
We publish the whole method, because describing it is the offer. How we work, in full
Values
Six demands, not six descriptions.
Each one names something the firm has to do, and keep doing, when it would be easier not to. Each carries the line that says what we are on the hook for — so you can hold us to it.
We build what does not exist yet.
The lab exists to make the thing the market cannot buy. If it can be bought, we buy it, and we spend our people on the part nobody has solved. Every piece of work leaves a working system behind — not a recommendation.
On the hook for: something running at the end of every engagement, and a genuine first in every industry we enter.
We aim at the systems humanity and the planet cannot afford to lose.
Finance, food, land, energy, health. We choose by consequence: what breaks if it goes wrong, what compounds if it goes right. Attractive markets and essential ones are not the same thing, and we are not here for the attractive ones.
On the hook for: measuring ourselves against the size of the problem, not the size of the invoice — and naming, for every venture, what the world gets that the customer never pays for.
We move at the speed of the technology, not the speed of the industry.
Frontier capability turns over in months; the industries we work in plan in years. We work to the faster clock and pull our clients onto it — starting before the mandate exists, building while the sector is still writing its strategy. Being first is not a bonus in this market. It is the prize.
On the hook for: weeks, not quarters, between a decision and a working thing in someone’s hands.
We make AI safe enough to run at full power.
Control is not the brake on the ambition — it is the reason we are allowed in the building at all. A bank, a hospital, a water authority can only run AI hard if someone can see what it did and stop it. We build that layer because it lets the ambition through, not because a regulator asked.
On the hook for: every agent we ship being inspectable and stoppable, with a named human accountable for what leaves the building.
Obsession is the qualification.
We staff on conviction, not CVs. Every venture in this lab has someone whose name is on it who would be building it anyway. We would rather run a venture short-handed than hand it to someone doing it for the rate — this work is too consequential to be done by people who are indifferent to it.
On the hook for: a named owner on every venture who chose it, the freedom to chase a thing before it has a budget line, and stopping any venture nobody wants to own.
The best things we build outgrow us.
A product that still needs the lab has not finished. We build ventures to stand alone — spun out, handed over, or opened up — and we count that as the win. EAIC keeps the method and the next problem. The world keeps the product.
On the hook for: release as the rule, retention as the exception; giving up ownership, control or upside when that is what makes the thing bigger.
The rest of who we are
Four pages, and none of them is a brochure.
Two founders, a bench four tiers deep, partners earned onto the list rather than procured, and a hiring bar that is about conviction rather than CVs.
Team
Declan Ellard and Austin Sharpley, 35+ years combined — and the four tiers of bench strength behind them, including the ones we will not name and why.
Meet the team
Partners
Delivered with, not procured. Senior practitioners on call, engineering at scale, and four specialist firms that earned their way onto the list.
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Careers
Obsession is the qualification. We staff on conviction, not CVs, and would rather run a venture short-handed than hand it to someone doing it for the rate.
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Contact
Thirty minutes with a founder. Three fields, no sales deck, NDA available beforehand. You will not be routed to a qualification call.
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Where we are
Stroud is not incidental.
A market town that cared about food provenance and planetary cost before it was fashionable — the right place to build for food, local resilience and the circular economy, and no accident that the sector we are learning now is carbon and waste.
We build what we recommend
Applied AI consultancy, done from here: we recommend only what we have survived building ourselves. Thirty minutes with a founder is the way in.
Bring us the question you can’t get answered.
Thirty minutes with a founder. No sales deck, NDA available beforehand.
Price agreed before we start · Founder-led · NDA available