AI as a Service
An AI capability for your firm. Without building an AI team.
For accountancy and professional services firms that want AI deployed into daily work with governance already built in, without hiring a dedicated AI team.
The problem it solves
Many firms are caught between doing nothing while competitors move ahead, and letting AI arrive unmanaged through staff pasting client work into consumer tools. Both carry risk.
Hiring a dedicated AI team is premature for most firms. AI as a Service is a right-sized alternative: a defined, governed capability that arrives with its controls already in place.
What you get
Foundations
An AI acceptable-use policy your staff can follow, data protection assessment and lawful-basis documentation, and enterprise AI tooling configured with audit logging. Configuration and data handling are assessed for your selected tools.
Approved workflows
AI deployed into the work your firm already does: accounts commentary, correspondence, research, working papers, report drafting. Built workflow by workflow, each behind a review gate, with human sign-off on anything client-facing.
Your people, trained
Role-specific training built on your firm's real tasks, not generic prompting courses. A named champion in each team, and guidance your staff can follow without translation.
Evidence and reporting
Usage, hours saved and incidents reported on an agreed cadence. Every workflow documented. If a regulator, a professional body or your own board asks how AI is governed here, the answer is documented.
How it runs
01
Foundations
Policy, data protection, tooling. Nothing touches client data until this is done.
02
Pilot
A small group, measured against baselines.
03
Scale
Workflow by workflow, to the teams where it works.
04
Steady state
Ongoing reporting, new workflows added, controls reviewed.
Timelines are indicative and depend on scope, access and approvals. Each phase is agreed before work begins.
Who it’s for
Accountancy practices, IFAs and other professional services firms in the UK, typically 20 to 200 people, regulated or handling client data at a scale where governance is not optional.
If that is you, the first conversation is thirty minutes and carries no obligation.