# AI consultancy in Leeds and across Yorkshire

> AssumeAI is an AI consultancy registered in Leeds, for consultancies and professional services firms in Yorkshire and across the UK. Prices from £3,000.

Source: https://www.assume-ai.com/ai-consultancy-leeds

AssumeAI is a founder-led AI consultancy and AI engineering firm with its registered office in Leeds. We help consultancies and professional services firms in Leeds, across Yorkshire and throughout the UK find where AI pays back, put the safeguards in place and build the systems, at published prices from £3,000. Training runs on site or remotely, whichever suits your team.

## What does an AI consultancy in Leeds do for your firm?

If you run a consultancy or a professional services firm in Leeds or elsewhere in Yorkshire, the questions about AI are the ones firms ask everywhere. Where would it actually pay back? How do we keep client data safe? And who is going to build it? A good AI consultancy answers all three, and the honest version starts with where your hours go, not with a tool.

AssumeAI is registered in Leeds, at 205 Madison East, St Cecilia Street, and works with consultancies and professional services firms across the UK. Our work follows a structured, risk-aware order. We find where your hours go and put a cost against each opportunity, ranked, so you can see the return before you commit to anything. We then put governance and safeguards in place, with clear policies, controls and training, so your team can use AI safely and consistently. Only then do we design and build production-grade AI that works in real environments. You can take all three stages with us, or take one and run the rest yourself.

We sit between the strategy firms that cannot build and the AI development firms that cannot advise. The same team that writes your plan can deliver it, so one firm is accountable for both the advice and the build. Nothing is built without justification and nothing is deployed without safeguards.

## Which firms do we work with?

We work with consultancies and professional services firms: firms that sell expertise, but lose a good part of the week to work that is not expertise at all, such as assembling proposals, re-keying data between systems, formatting reports and digging the same answers out of old documents. The starting point differs by the kind of firm.

### Boutique consultancies

A boutique firm rarely has anyone technical in house, and that is usually the whole reason it has not started. The building is our part. Afterwards we train your team, hand over the documentation and leave a roadmap you can run without us.

### Specialist consultancies

A specialist firm usually sits on deep, proprietary knowledge. [The Consultancy Growth Network](https://www.assume-ai.com/work/consultancy-growth-network-ai-board-advisor) had six years of tools, assessments, talks and articles; we put them into an AI board advisor trained on more than 400 hours of its material.

### Management consultancies

A management consultancy with several departments needs prioritisation: an opportunity map for each department and a sequence leadership can agree on. Our [review for The Litmus Partnership](https://www.assume-ai.com/work/litmus-partnership-ai-strategy-review) covered seven departments and found 9,672 hours a year.

### Regulated advisory firms

A firm that answers to a chartered or professional body needs the governance right first. For [Hillbreak](https://www.assume-ai.com/work/hillbreak-ai-governance-foundations) we assessed its AI policy against the RICS standard and found twelve new provisions to close. Our guide to [AI for professional services](https://www.assume-ai.com/ai-for-professional-services) goes further.

## How does an engagement run, remotely and in person?

Very little of the work depends on being in the same room. An [AI Strategy Review](https://www.assume-ai.com/services/ai-strategy-review) is built from organisational surveys, stakeholder interviews and a full review of your tech stack. The [AI Priorities Workshop](https://www.assume-ai.com/services/ai-prioritisation-consultation) is two pain point workshops: one with your senior leadership team, and a second within the department to surface the day-to-day frictions leadership does not always see. [Tailored AI team training](https://www.assume-ai.com/services/ai-team-training) runs remotely or on site, whatever suits your team.

Builds happen inside your firm rather than on top of it. Everything lives in your existing infrastructure and you own all of it, code included. The people who will use a system test it with us before it goes live, and each automation is handed over with its own pack, as they were at [Coaching Without Borders](https://www.assume-ai.com/work/coaching-without-borders-transformation-programme).

Distance has not been a barrier for our clients. One of our first, [Classmaids](https://www.assume-ai.com/work/classmaids-ai-agents), is a cleaning company in Florida: we built it an AI receptionist that answers calls around the clock, gives quotes and books into the team's calendar, delivered in five sprints over eight weeks. If your firm would rather meet in person for a workshop or a training session, tell us when we first speak and we will plan around it.

## What have firms achieved with AssumeAI?

These are results from across our client work, not a list of Leeds firms; they are here because they show what the work produces.

[Clear AIMS](https://www.assume-ai.com/work/clear-aims-proposal-generator) asked for a proposal generator, and it took the average proposal from what would have been two to three hours of work down to five to ten minutes. At The Litmus Partnership, a [two-week review](https://www.assume-ai.com/work/litmus-partnership-ai-strategy-review) identified twenty-six initiatives, and the [eight-month programme](https://www.assume-ai.com/work/litmus-partnership-transformation-programme) that followed now saves the firm 268 hours a month, a figure collected from the people at Litmus who use the tools; its benchmarking platform handles 2,000 lines in around 45 minutes, where 200 to 300 lines used to take eight hours.

For [Coaching Without Borders](https://www.assume-ai.com/work/coaching-without-borders-transformation-programme), one form now sets up a new project in four systems in about ninety seconds. The [review for Plan Ahead PM](https://www.assume-ai.com/work/plan-ahead-pm-ai-strategy-review) identified 6,722 hours a year and set out thirteen initiatives over eight months, and the [workshops we ran for i10](https://www.assume-ai.com/work/i10-ai-priorities-workshop) assessed thirteen use cases and produced a sixteen-week plan. You can see every project, with the figures, on our [work page](https://www.assume-ai.com/work).

## Where should a firm start with AI?

### Free AI maturity assessment

If you would like a benchmark first, the free [AI maturity assessment](https://assess.assume-ai.com/ai-maturity) is nine questions and about two minutes, built for professional services firms of 20 to 200 staff, with your scored report in your inbox immediately.

### AI Priorities Workshop

If you want direction quickly, the [AI Priorities Workshop](https://www.assume-ai.com/services/ai-prioritisation-consultation) is the lightest paid way in: two pain point workshops and a concise roadmap of the initiatives to focus on first, from £4,000.

### AI Strategy Review

If you want an evidence-based plan before you spend, the [AI Strategy Review](https://www.assume-ai.com/services/ai-strategy-review) takes about six weeks and hands you five documents, including an implementation roadmap, a risk assessment and an executive presentation.

### 30-day implementation sprint

If you already know the bottleneck you want gone, a [30-day implementation sprint](https://www.assume-ai.com/services/30-day-sprint) spends one week agreeing what to build and three weeks rolling it out.

## What does an AI consultancy cost?

Every service has a published starting price. We will not quote a build before we know where your hours go, because the honest number depends on it. The first step is finding the leaks and putting a cost against each one, ranked; you then sign off exactly what gets built, with the number and the return it is based on in front of you.

Each service carries a guarantee. If the strategy review does not surface opportunities worth many times the fee, we keep working until it does. If a 30-day sprint is not live and delivering value in 30 days, we keep working at no extra cost until it is. We are not the cheapest option, and if you want a quick hack we are the wrong firm.

| Service | Timeline | Investment |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [AI Priorities Workshop](https://www.assume-ai.com/services/ai-prioritisation-consultation): Two pain point workshops and a concise roadmap | Two workshops, plus a roadmap | From £4,000 |
| [AI Strategy Review](https://www.assume-ai.com/services/ai-strategy-review): Surveys, interviews, a tech stack review and five documents | About six weeks | From £12,000 |
| [AI Governance Implementation](https://www.assume-ai.com/services/ai-governance-implementation): Policies, impact assessments and audit trails | 2 to 4 weeks | From £3,000 |
| [Tailored AI Team Training](https://www.assume-ai.com/services/ai-team-training): Workshops across Claude, Cowork, Gemini and more | One-off or a sustained programme | From £5,000 |
| [30-Day Implementation Sprint](https://www.assume-ai.com/services/30-day-sprint): One use case, built and deployed | About four weeks | From £6,000 |
| [90-Day Implementation Sprint](https://www.assume-ai.com/services/90-day-sprint): Several workflows built, deployed and embedded | About twelve weeks | From £15,000 |
| [Enterprise AI Deployment](https://www.assume-ai.com/services/enterprise-ai-deployment): Claude Cowork or ChatGPT Enterprise, with six to twelve agents and skills | Agreed when scoped | £20,000 ex VAT |
| [Managed Service](https://www.assume-ai.com/services/managed-service): Half, one or two engineers embedded in your firm | Monthly | From £5,500 per month |

## How do you choose an AI consultant in Leeds?

Whether the firm you choose is down the road or at the other end of the country, the same questions separate useful AI consultancy from expensive AI consultancy.

- Can they build as well as advise? A roadmap from a firm that cannot build is a document you then have to take somewhere else.
- Will they tell you the price before the first meeting? Published prices let you judge the fit before anyone spends time on a pitch.
- Do they put governance before the build? Policies, impact assessments and audit trails should come first, especially where client data and a professional body are involved.
- Will you own what they build? You should own the code, the documents and the roadmap, and be free to run the plan without them.
- Can they show named work with real figures? Look for case studies that say what was built, for whom, and what changed.
- Who will actually do the work? Ask to meet the people who will deliver, not only the people who sell.

We publish our answers to each of these on our [services page](https://www.assume-ai.com/services) and our [work page](https://www.assume-ai.com/work), and the [governance template](https://www.assume-ai.com/resources#governance) we use with clients is free on our resources page.

## Who will you work with?

AssumeAI is founder-led from end to end, which means faster decisions, senior accountability and less friction throughout delivery. [Rupert Wiseman](https://www.assume-ai.com/about#rupert), Managing Director and Principal AI Consultant, studied Law at Exeter and worked in corporate finance before co-founding the business; his legal background brings a rigorous focus on safety, governance and risk controls from day one. [Hugh Dowling](https://www.assume-ai.com/about#hugh), Head of Development, completed a Master's in Software Engineering and makes sure everything we build is designed to operate in a secure, scalable, commercial environment.

Our AI engineers and consultants work alongside them, and behind the founders is an associate network of over ten AI consultants and AI engineers, so the work is never waiting on one person. We also teach this subject: we have run workshops for master's students at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, on how AI is practically supporting consulting firms. You can meet the team on our [about page](https://www.assume-ai.com/about) and read our weekly writing on AI adoption on the [blog](https://www.assume-ai.com/blog).

## Questions

### Is AssumeAI based in Leeds?

Our registered office is in Leeds: AssumeAI is AdsumoAI Ltd, registered in England and Wales with company number 16276829, at 205 Madison East, St Cecilia Street, Leeds LS2 7ER. We work with consultancies and professional services firms across the UK, and the quickest way to reach us is hello@assume-ai.com or a strategy call with one of the founders.

### Can you run workshops and training in person?

Our training runs remotely or on site, whatever suits your team. Surveys, stakeholder interviews and build work do not depend on being in the same room, so where your office is does not limit what we can do. If you would rather meet in person for a workshop, tell us when we first speak and we will plan the engagement around it.

### Do you only work with firms in Leeds or Yorkshire?

No. Leeds is where the company is registered, not a limit on who we work with. We work with consultancies and professional services firms across the UK, and one of our first clients was a cleaning company in Florida, for which we built an AI receptionist in five sprints over eight weeks.

### How much does an AI consultant cost?

Every AssumeAI service has a published starting price. AI governance implementation starts at £3,000, the AI Priorities Workshop at £4,000, tailored AI team training at £5,000, a 30-day implementation sprint at £6,000 and the AI Strategy Review at £12,000. The free AI maturity assessment costs nothing and takes about two minutes.

### Is it safe to use AI with our clients' confidential data?

It can be, with the right platform and the right rules. Governance comes before the build: internal and external AI policies, impact assessments and audit trails, aligned with EU GDPR and the requirements of your chartered or professional body. We build inside your existing infrastructure rather than on top of it, and you own everything we build, code included.