Charlie Cheesman

Charlie CheesmanAug 25, 2026

Got featured in Business Insider this weekend. The topic: "With the AI race very much on, how is the consulting industry reinventing itself, and how much is pitch rather than practice?" > KPMG's CEO is calling it a tech company > PwC is launching an engineering career track for the first time in 170 years > BCG & McKinsey are reporting 40%+ revenue now coming from AI & tech services > Accenture is adding nearly 40k AI and data professionals in 2 years My take, having spent 5 years in the industry and then running dozens of enterprise AI deployments leading an AI agency: These firms are brilliant at initiating large-scale organisational change but still have a long way to go to be on the tech frontier. With the rise of The OpenAI Deployment Company and Ode with Anthropic, this is going to become a very competitive space. The implication: Those that figure out how to bridge deep technical capability with enterprise change management will own the next 5-years of this market. Thanks to Polly Thompson from Business Insider for featuring me. And if you want to discuss how to get your own organisation to the frontier, do reach out. Full article linked in comments.

Charlie CheesmanSep 8, 2026

Working in Boston for the next 2 weeks. Keen to grab coffee with any folks working in AI / looking at enterprise rollouts. Drop me a DM or tag them below 🙏

Charlie CheesmanAug 27, 2026

A 6 month AI strategy delivered in 4 hours. Here's what we did: Workhappy UK is a leading DSE assessment business growing double digits. They still run many of their workflows in spreadsheets and have the view this is holding them back. We sit down and work through my questions. Goals, bottlenecks, manual pain points, resources, ability to invest. Within 2 hours we land on upselling managed services as the biggest opportunity for the business. We put together some quick wins so they can start building momentum from next week. By end of day, we have a 6 month AI and growth strategy, a prioritised roadmap, workflow maps, organogram and a live website with all the findings on it. This is only the half-day answer to the question. We'll revisit and build on this over the coming months. But the team has something concise and actionable that they can start working to now. Over the last year there's been a step-change in the capability of the AI tooling. Everything we've done today has been run AI-native for maximum efficiency. • Wispr Flow for voice capture • Circleback for meeting notes • Claude for background research and artefacts • MCPs for data ingestion • I still have my notebook but take photos so that it's all in context We then go for a run while the agents churn in the background. The value of these sessions is now less about the work of creating the deliverables and more about the application of the right framework for the given business problem. Customer journey mapping, value chain mapping, AI capability assessments, training plans. And the speed of operation means you can deliver these recommendations same-day. "Half a day with Charlie and we've identified the biggest lever we can pull for the business and have a revenue plan for the next 6 months." - Richard Patricio If your team needs an AI strategy but doesn't have time to spend on it, a half day might be enough. Get in touch.