Why this consultancy exists.

The most complete proof of what we do. Convene is a seasonal, ingredient-led café, and AI runs through every part of it, not just the back office.

Accounts are automated, with an accountant signing off. Marketing is planned and produced with AI. Stock and staffing follow demand forecasts. Hiring, menus, legal paperwork and research into new sites all run through AI rather than costly outside support, and the team runs the day from a shared app.

The result is a small team with the back office of a far larger one.

One of the world’s most influential policy institutes, advising governments across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Kyle became the division’s AI lead, building AI into reporting, data analysis, research and creative production.

The work ran both ways: inside the organisation, AI systems that did the work of whole teams; outside it, shaping AI policy for national governments and showing heads of state what the recommendations would look like in practice.

It’s the same work we do now. The difference is one of scale, not approach.

A founder running several health businesses, with a fast-growing audience and a team producing content across channels. The problem wasn’t output. It was consistency, and the founder being needed at every step.

We built an AI content operation from the ground up: forecasting that spotted topics early, and a sign-off model trained on her standards for writing, editing and design, so the team could hit her bar without her.

This isn’t an AI story. It’s where the conviction behind the consultancy began.

Running digital and communications for a senior MP across two general elections, Kyle saw up close how established organisations really run: research done by hand, decisions made on instinct, everything made and approved slowly.

Most businesses still run on processes that made sense fifteen years ago. The gap between what they do and what’s now possible has never been wider.