Compound Labs · 2025 Remote

Practice.

Seven engagements across the AI lifecycle

Seven ways to work with us. From the first strategy conversation through to embedded leadership inside your team.

§ 01  ·  Strategy

Strategy & Operations

Where AI fits in your business — and how to get there.

For executive teams thinking about AI through an operations lens. Where it should fit in the organisation, what it changes about how teams work, and what to invest in first.

We map the opportunity space against your operational reality — your data, your team, your customers — and produce a prioritised roadmap that ties every investment to outcomes you can measure. A working plan, not a 50-slide deck.

§ 02  ·  Build

Product Development

AI-native products. Built, not bolted on.

For businesses building software where AI is the core capability, not a feature added later. We work end-to-end — concept, architecture, evaluation, and shipped MVP. The output is a working product, not a prototype.

We've built AI-first products at zero-to-one and at scale. Senior product, engineering, and AI judgement in the room. We leave you with a system your team owns and can keep extending.

§ 03  ·  Build

Agent Development

Working agents. Scoped, built, handed over.

We design and build agents that take on real operational work — research, drafting, analysis, internal ops, edge-case support. Production-grade agents engineered for a specific job, with the evaluation harness to prove they're doing it well.

Every agent is scoped to a job description, owned end-to-end, and handed over with the documentation your team needs to run it. We don't build dependency.

§ 04  ·  Tactical

AI Automations

Focused automation against specific bottlenecks.

Smaller in scope than a full agent. Aimed at the bottleneck that's eating hours every week. We audit the workflow, design the automation, build it on the right stack — Zapier, Make, n8n, custom code, or a blend — and hand it over with monitoring in place.

Every automation is scoped to a tangible recovery — time, cost, or risk — measured before we start and again once it's live.

§ 05  ·  Adoption

AI Change Management

Adoption that sticks.

Most internal AI tools fail at adoption, not at the technology. We help organisations roll them out properly — combining product, change, and training so the tools actually get used.

We design the rollout, identify and equip internal champions, build the training, and define the success metrics. What you've invested in becomes part of how the work gets done day to day.

§ 06  ·  Retainer

Ongoing Advisory

A senior partner on retainer.

For executives making AI-shaped decisions every week without a senior specialist in-house. We work alongside you as that specialist — running diligence on tools and vendors, sanity-checking your team's output, briefing you on what's just shipped and what it means, and giving you judgement when the path isn't obvious.

Working access to people who've built and shipped this stuff. Not consulting in the deck-producing sense.

§ 07  ·  Embedded

Fractional AI Operations

Embedded AI leadership, fractionally.

For organisations that need senior AI operations capability now but aren't ready to hire full-time. We embed inside your team, owning an active backlog of agents, automations, adoption work, and vendor decisions. Part of your leadership in everything but headcount.

The deepest engagement we offer. Continuity, not a project. Senior judgement in the room, the work moving forward, and a steady hand on what AI is doing inside the organisation.

A short list of how we work.

  1. 01We work foundations-first. People, financial, and technical systems before AI.
  2. 02We take on a small number of clients at a time.
  3. 03Every engagement begins with a paid scoping conversation, fitted to your context.
  4. 04We don't run RFP processes or speculative decks.
  5. 05We hand over completely. Your team owns whatever we build.
  6. 06If we're not the right fit, we'll say so and refer you on.

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