Burnley · Lancashire · Est. 2026

AI with its sleeves rolled up.

Hands-on training, implementation and governance for Lancashire's businesses, professional firms and schools. On your premises, on your real work, at fixed prices published right here.

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Measured in hours saved, not hype.

Out the door, Tuesday 09:12

Survey report extract, drafted

Damp traced to a blocked gutter. Risk register updated, photos referenced.

Checked by a human

Out the door, Thursday 16:40

File note and holding letter

Boundary query opened, three next steps booked, letter ready for review.

Checked by a human

Out the door, Friday 15:05

Lesson pack, printed

Starter, main and stretch for Year 8 rivers. Every resource in large print.

Checked by a human

The finished article, not the machinery · example documents

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of UK businesses with 10 or more employees now use AI, up from 12% in late 2023. The question is no longer whether. It is how well.

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cite lack of expertise as the top barrier, the most common answer given. Most firms close the gap by training the people they already have.

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the day the RICS responsible AI standard became mandatory for regulated surveying firms in 2026. Professional duties now extend to the tools you use.

Sources: ONS Business Insights (businesses with 10+ employees, June 2026); RICS, Responsible use of AI in surveying practice, in force 9 March 2026.

How we deal

i.

Every price is published, on this page, before we ever meet.

ii.

Taught on your real work, at your desks, never from slides.

iii.

If AI will not pay its way on a job, you are told so, for free.

iv.

We never sell to the councils Tom answers to. Stated up front.

v.

Claims get evidence behind them, or they do not get made.

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Services

One ladder. Every price published.

Start free, buy a fixed-price product when you are ready, keep us only if the numbers work. Nothing here is a lecture: every session runs on your documents, your processes, your tools.

AI Clinic Monthly, Burnley

An open surgery. Bring one real problem, leave with a working answer.

Free

Half-day team workshop

Up to 12 people, hands-on with your actual work. Tools set up, habits started, before we leave the room.

£950

Full-day workshop or school INSET

A deeper build: morning of capability, afternoon applied to your workflows or classrooms.

£1,450INSET from £1,150

Sector pack

Policy, templates, risk register and training built for your profession's rules. Details below.

from £1,950fixed

AI readiness audit + 90-day roadmap

Where AI genuinely pays in your business, where it does not, and the order to do it in. Written, costed, yours.

£1,950fixed

Embed retainer

We come back every month and make it stick: new use cases, refreshers, measurement against hours saved.

from £1,250per month

Fractional AI lead

Your part-time head of AI: strategy, vendor calls, delivery and governance, without the salary.

from £3,000per month
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Sector packs

Built for your profession's rules, not generic slides.

Free introductions to AI are everywhere. What nobody local offers is the sector layer: the policies, safeguards and training your regulator now expects. Fixed price, delivered in days.

Surveyors & valuers

RICS responsible AI pack

The RICS standard on responsible AI use has been mandatory for regulated firms since 9 March 2026. This pack gets a practice compliant and capable in one engagement.

  • AI risk register, built with you, ready for review
  • Client notification wording and file templates
  • Due diligence checklist for every AI tool in use
  • Half-day staff training on safe, useful AI in practice
Law firms

AI competence pack

Courts have already sanctioned lawyers over AI-fabricated citations, and competence duties extend to the tools your fee earners use. Capability and safeguards in one pack.

  • Firm AI use policy, drafted for COLP sign-off
  • Research safeguards: what AI may and may not touch
  • Hands-on training for fee earners and support staff
  • Designed to support continuing competence records
Accountancy practices

Practice AI pack

From proposal drafting to working paper summaries, AI is already in your competitors' workflows. This pack embeds it with client data safeguards in place from day one.

  • Practice AI policy and client data guardrails
  • Workflow-by-workflow implementation, not theory
  • Training designed to support CPD records
  • Follow-up session after 60 days to fix what slipped
Schools & trusts

School AI pack

Staff are already using AI, with or without a policy. This pack turns that into safe workload reduction, aligned with DfE guidance on generative AI in education.

  • Staff AI policy, ready for governors
  • INSET focused on real workload: planning, marking, admin
  • Safeguarding-aware tool guidance for classrooms
  • Department-level follow-up for heads of subject

See it work

Watch a job go through.

Four messes we see every week, and what each becomes. Pick one, or let it run.

Lancashire AI workbench

Before ↓ what walks in the door

After ↓ minutes later

Reading the notes… Scripted demonstration, example documents
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The back of the envelope

What is the repetitive work actually costing you?

Slide the numbers to match your team. This is your arithmetic, not our promise: whether AI can win any of it back in your business is exactly what the audit answers, honestly.

Wages plus overheads, roughly. Assumes 46 working weeks a year.

Hours on repetitive admin, per year

1,380 hrs

Roughly £30,360 of paid time

If even a fifth came back

£6,072 a year

Illustrative arithmetic from the numbers you set, nothing more. No tool wins time back by itself. The audit (£1,950, fixed) tells you what is realistic for your firm, and if the honest answer is "not much yet", that is the answer you get.

Coming this autumn

The 1% Lancashire AI Challenge

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Lancastrians taught the basics of AI. One per cent of the county.

Finland taught 1% of its population the basics of AI and changed how a whole country talks about technology. No one has done it here. Lancashire goes first: free sessions in libraries and community centres, employers pledging to train their staff, and a public counter that only ever tells the truth.

Pledge your workplace early
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How it works

Audit. Embed. Assure.

Tools change every month. The method does not. Every engagement, from a single workshop to a fractional role, runs the same three-step arc.

Audit

Find where AI genuinely pays in your organisation, and where it does not. Real workflows, real numbers, honest answers, including "not yet".

Embed

Train your people on their own work, set the tools up properly, build the habits. Adoption is a behaviour change problem, not a software problem.

Assure

Policies, safeguards and measurement, so the gains survive staff turnover, satisfy your regulator, and show up in hours saved.

Being built now

What is coming next.

This autumn

The 1% Challenge

Free AI basics for 15,000 Lancastrians, with employer pledges and a public counter. Pledge early above.

Filming soon

AI Business Makeover

One real Lancashire firm per episode. What we changed, what it saved, measured and published, warts and all.

Quarterly, free

The Lancashire AI Meetup

The county's practitioners, in one room in Burnley, comparing notes. No stage, no sales pitch, no badge scanners.

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About

Taught by someone who ships.

Lancashire AI is run by Tom Pickup, an AI and data specialist born, raised and based in Burnley. He builds and runs production AI systems daily: large-scale data platforms, automation pipelines and the same tools this page recommends.

Everything taught here is in real use, on real work, before it reaches a training room. No slideware, no futurology, and a standing rule: if AI will not pay its way on a job, you will be told so, for free.

The ambition is simple: make Lancashire the best place in the North to run a business with AI, one firm, one practice and one school at a time.

Tom PickupBurnley, Lancashire

The straight-dealing bit

Tom serves as an elected member of Lancashire County Council. For that reason Lancashire AI does not sell to, and will never bid for work from, Lancashire County Council or Burnley Borough Council while he holds office. Private businesses, professional firms, academy trusts and independent schools only. Clean lines, stated up front.

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Questions

Asked and answered.

Which AI tools do you cover?
All the ones that matter, and none religiously: ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, plus the automation layer that joins them to your systems. Tool choice comes out of the audit, not a partnership deal. We hold no reseller agreements, so the recommendation is only ever what fits.
Where do you deliver?
In person anywhere in Lancashire, from Burnley to the coast, and online across the UK. On-site is the default because adoption happens at desks, not in webinars.
Does training count towards CPD?
Courses for professional firms are designed to support CPD and continuing competence records under outcomes-based schemes, with documentation provided for each attendee. Your professional body's own rules determine what you log.
We already went to a free AI workshop. Why pay?
Free awareness sessions are genuinely useful, and plenty exist. What they do not do is sit with your team, on your files, until the time savings are real, or write the policy your regulator expects. Awareness is free everywhere; implementation and assurance are the paid layer.
Do you work with public bodies?
Not with Lancashire County Council or Burnley Borough Council, ever, for the reason stated in the About section. Other public sector organisations are considered case by case, with any relevant interests declared first.

Contact

Start with a conversation.

Tell us what you do and what eats your team's time. You will get a straight answer on whether AI helps, what it would cost, and what to try first. Free, within one working day.

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Based in Burnley. Delivering across Lancashire.