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Digital Futures
A board seat at the company solving the half of AI adoption nobody can buy: the people.
At a glance
- Role
- Non Executive Director
- Timeline
- 2024 — present
- Location
- London
- Sector
- AI talent & capability
Overview
The reason innovation programmes fail is almost never the technology. It is sponsorship and capability — whether the organisation has the people who can actually run the thing once the pilot ends. Digital Futures is a business built directly on that observation, which is why the board seat interested me.
It works across three fronts: deploying AI-native engineers into organisations, upskilling the existing workforce and assessing its AI readiness, and training senior leaders on AI strategy so the sponsorship layer understands what it is sponsoring. Enterprise and government both.
The results clients report are the ones that matter to a board rather than a lab — around 30% productivity increase, twice the speed to value, an 80% lift in AI fluency, and 40% off operating costs.
Milestones
- Appointed to the board as Non-Executive Director.
- AI-native engineers deployed directly into organisations.
- Workforce upskilling and AI-readiness assessment.
- AI strategy training for senior leaders.