Make AI your competitive advantage
Your strategic partner for AI discovery and adoption, without the overhead of an in-house department.
“10 Kinds is a lean, high-impact AI consultancy providing the strategic clarity and technical execution needed to adopt AI where it matters most”
– Alan Bates, AWS Certified AI Professional & AI Founder
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How we help
From getting your leadership aligned on what's possible, through identifying the right opportunities, to building and deploying working tools — we can help at every stage.
Map your highest-value workflows
Most AI wins hide in plain sight: repetitive document tasks, approval chains and data re-entry that cost your team hours every week. We find them, rank them by ROI, and tell you what to tackle first.
Automate decisions, not just admin
AI can route inbound requests, flag exceptions and prioritise queues — so your best people spend time on judgement, not triage.
Unlock what your organisation already knows
Retrieval AI (RAG) lets your team ask questions of your documents, policies and past cases in plain English and get cited answers instantly. The expertise locked in files and people’s heads, made searchable and queryable.
Build agents that act
Beyond answering questions: AI agents take multi-step actions autonomously — gathering data, drafting outputs, triggering downstream workflows — without human hand-holding at each step.
Align your leadership on opportunities
Before starting, your team needs a shared, grounded view of what AI can and can’t do. We run workshops to bring you up-to-speed and build the consensus to move fast.
Take Control of AI Today to Prepare Your Business for Tomorrow
The market shift is inevitable. To secure the long-term advantages of AI tomorrow, businesses must actively manage the security and operational risks of today.
Competitors
Competitors leveraging AI will move faster, outpace your execution, and win market share.
Client expectations
Clients increasingly expect AI-enhanced service, faster turnaround times, and smarter business outputs.
Data risks
Without clear guardrails, staff using public AI tools risk exposing proprietary company & client data.
Adoption risks
Skipping strategy and rapid prototyping leads to expensive software that your team rejects.
Cost savings
Targeted automation lowers your operational costs and directly protects your bottom-line margins.
Unique advantages
Harnessing your unique data and workflows builds a secure, proprietary competitive advantage.
Let's discuss how we can support your transition. Book a free call
Four ways of working together
From initial AI curiosity to active operational ownership, we guide your business step-by-step at your own pace.
AI Education & Alignment
Demystifying AI for your leadership and teams so everyone understands what is actually possible, what's hype, and where the real opportunities lie.
From £1,500
Half-day or full-day sessions
- Custom interactive workshop tailored to your specific industry and workflows
- Frameworks for identifying and scoring AI use cases
- A curated resource guide and session recording for ongoing team reference
Fractional AI Advisory
Ongoing strategic guidance, vendor sense-checking, and leadership support to keep your AI initiatives on track without the cost of a full-time hire.
From £1,500 / month
Flexible retainer
- Dedicated strategic advisory hours and async support (Slack/Teams)
- Objective reviews of third-party vendors, software proposals, and architecture decisions
- Regular roadmap updates to align your AI adoption with evolving technology
Rapid AI Prototyping
Test your highest-impact AI ideas quickly and cost-effectively to prove business value and user adoption before investing in full development.
From £2,000 / day
- A working, interactive prototype built with secure, mock, or live data
- Technical feasibility and data readiness assessment
- Clear production cost estimate and implementation roadmap
Custom AI Build
Developing, securing, and integrating production-ready AI tools directly into your existing systems and business workflows.
Project-scoped
- Fully integrated, production-ready AI solution customized to your data
- Built-in security guardrails to protect proprietary company and client data
- Handover documentation, technical support, and team training sessions
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- AWS Certified Generative AI Professional
- Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration
- AI Founder & Practitioner
- Based in the UK, working globally
Alan Bates
Founder, 10 Kinds
Alan Bates is the founder of 10 Kinds, an AI consultancy helping businesses move from AI curiosity to practical implementation. He’s spent over 20 years working hands-on in technology, including multiple years at household names in media, telecoms and finance.
Alan also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, giving him formal grounding on the commercial side as well as the technical.
His fluency in both business and tech means he can see what’s technically possible and what’s commercially worth doing, then translate between the two. He works with leadership teams to identify where AI can realistically add value, test those ideas through rapid prototyping, and move from one-off experiments to embedding AI throughout their organisation.
"I can talk ROI, priorities, and risk while translating between tech-speak and actual English"
Questions
What does 10 Kinds actually do? +
We help you work out where AI is genuinely worth using, then make it happen — from setting the strategy to building and deploying working tools.
That means hands-on implementation, steering third-party developers, evaluating vendors, or providing ongoing strategic leadership — whatever you actually need.
How do I know if AI is right for my business? +
That’s exactly what the free 30-minute call is for. Alan will give you a straight read on where AI could realistically add value for your business — and where it probably won’t. No obligation, no pitch.
Do I need to know anything about AI? +
No. We provide the AI expertise, so you don’t have to develop it in-house or take vendor claims at face value.
Where do most businesses start? +
Usually with the AI Education & Alignment session - a half or full day that gets your leadership aligned on what’s possible, what’s hype, and where the real opportunities are. From there, you might move into an Advisory retainer, a prototype sprint, or straight into a build.
Can you build things, or is it just advice? +
Both. We can run a full prototype sprint or custom build, work alongside your existing developers, or brief and oversee an external supplier. The right approach depends on what you’re building and what capability you already have.
Is our data safe? +
Yes. Anything we build or specify runs on infrastructure scoped to your business, sees only the data it’s pointed at, and never feeds public AI models. Data governance is part of the conversation from day one.
How do we get started? +
Book a free 30-minute call. We’ll get to know your business, give you a straight read on where AI fits, and agree what the right next step looks like — whether that’s a workshop, a retainer, or something else entirely.
Start your AI Journey Now
Half an hour to cut through the noise and find your first real AI opportunity.
No commitment. No sales pitch.