I'm James, an AI consultant for small businesses, based in Sevenoaks. I look at how your week really runs, then set up the one or two things that give you time back, or bring in more of the right work. Fixed price. No jargon.
I start from the work, not from a tool. People stay in the loop on anything that matters. Nothing goes into a tool that shouldn't.
We start with how the work actually happens. A conversation, a morning alongside you, or interviews across the team, whichever fits the size of the job. No forms and no jargon.
I set up, or build, the one or two things that save the most, on tools you can run yourself and plugged into the ones you already use, and show you how it works.
We check it's actually helping, with a person still deciding anything that matters. If it isn't working, we change it or drop it.
For a firm of ten or more, Look becomes a two-week sprint: interviews, a map of the work, and a plan for what to set up first. That's your AI strategy, in plain words, with the human oversight written in.
Fifteen years working out how people actually do their jobs before anything gets built, in large organisations where getting it wrong is expensive. My last two roles were AI projects: finding where it helps real teams, and where it doesn't. I bring the same approach to small businesses: understand the work first, then decide where AI fits, where to fix the process instead, and where to keep it human.
Pick one and the rest of the page talks to you, not to everyone.
That's normal. The hours aren't in writing emails faster. They're in quotes typed up at night, invoices chased by hand, and the same ten questions answered on your phone. I start with how your week actually runs, then set up one or two things on the AI you already pay for.
Four places the hours usually go in a business like yours. Yours will differ; the tags say what I'd do about each.
Your site notes or voice memo become a quote in your words, your prices, ready to check and send.
The ten questions you always get, answered properly while you're on a job. You still make the call on anything real.
Invoices out, reminders out, and a Friday note of who owes you. Sometimes the fix isn't AI at all, and I'll say so.
The bit that wins the work stays yours.
Most owners want more of the right work, not just less paperwork. We set up for both.
We agree the exact figure on the call, before anything starts. The AI tool itself (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) is your own subscription, usually £15 to £20 a month. If you already pay for one, we start there.
Book a free 20-minute chatYou see inside more small businesses than anyone in the room. For your practice, I find where AI earns its keep and set it up. For your clients, I'm the person you send them to when they say “we use ChatGPT but nothing's changed.”
Four places AI tends to earn its keep in a practice like yours. The real list comes from how your week actually runs; the tags say what I'd do about each.
Answers drafted from your own notes and templates, in your voice, for you to check and send.
One clear ask, reminders that send themselves, nothing lost in a thread.
A short “what's changed and what it means for you” note, drafted monthly, approved by you.
Regulated work stays with the regulated person. I'm careful about what goes into any tool, and we write that down.
If one of your clients says it, send them this page. The first conversation is free and there's no pitch.
Exact figure agreed on the call. Tools stay on your own subscriptions.
Book a free 20-minute chatNot a webinar. Half a day at your desk, on your real emails, quotes and spreadsheets, until it sticks. You leave with two or three things set up and a one-page how-to you'll actually use.
Written for your business, saved where you'll find them.
Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot, decided by what you actually do, not by the adverts.
Customer data, money, anything regulated. A one-line rule you can give your team.
Twenty minutes to see what stuck and fix what didn't.
The tool is your own subscription, usually £15 to £20 a month. If you're on a free plan, we talk about whether paying is worth it before you do.
Book a free 20-minute chatA site is only half of it. Someone finds you, enquires, gets a reply, books, pays, and hears from you again. I build the lot on tools you can run yourself, with the words written from a 45-minute conversation about your business, not a form. It's built on the platform you already have, Squarespace, Wix or similar, and wired to the booking tool, email and WhatsApp you already use. Nothing gets replaced.
Fixed price, scope in writing, yours to editBuilt on the platform you already have (Squarespace, Wix or similar), domain and hosting in your name, two rounds of changes. Anything beyond that is a new fixed price, never an hourly tail.
Book a free 20-minute chatEvery business has one job that takes more time than it should. Pick the closest things below, add a line in your own words if you like, and the 20-minute call starts from there instead of from scratch.
That's a first guess. The call is where we find out what's actually true.
What you pick and write here goes into your WhatsApp or email message, nowhere else.
Whatever we land on, it's one figure, not day rates, and the tools stay on your own subscriptions.
No pitch and no slides. Tell me what takes up too much of your week. If AI isn't worth exploring yet, I'll tell you.
james@upkurve.comNot for you? Pass this on to someone who's wrestling with AI at work.