Dormouse Consulting · Applied AI for growing businesses
We make AI work for your business.
Practical AI consulting that starts with understanding what you already have, what you actually need and where technology can make a genuine difference.
PHASE 1 · AI ASSESSMENT · STEPS 1–4
Start with understanding.
Before recommending technology, I assess your current processes, workflows, systems, tools, information flows and business needs. The goal is to understand what already works, where value is being lost and where AI or automation could genuinely make a difference.
Deliverable · Key Findings Report (KFR)
Your KFR brings the assessment together into a clear decision document: key findings, opportunities, risks, priorities and recommended next steps.
Professional consulting · €500/hour
We begin with a free 15-minute Zoom introduction. If we agree to continue, paid assessment and consulting work is billed at €500 per hour, with expected scope agreed before work begins.
THE DORMOUSE AGENTIC READINESS LENS
Never automate an undefined conversation or decision.
Before an AI agent receives decision-making power, we define what must happen, why it happens, who decides, what information is required and what could go wrong. Technology comes after the work, boundaries and accountability are understood. Bad agentic systems usually begin with premature building—not inadequate technology.
Define the work
Outcome · Workflow · Context
Clarify the result, map how work moves between people and agents, and establish reliable sources of truth.
Define control
Decisions · Authority · Actions
Decide where human judgment is required, what an agent may do and how its actions are governed.
Define assurance
Exceptions · Evaluation · Accountability
Plan for edge cases, test before deployment and ensure a person or organisation remains answerable for outcomes.
FOUR LEVELS OF READINESS
Company · Department · Team · Individual
Every proposed AI initiative is assessed at all four levels—from strategy and functional dependencies to workflows, adoption, confidence, capability and personal responsibility. The weakest readiness gap can block the whole initiative.
If any critical area or readiness level is undefined, the system is not ready to design or deploy.
THE DORMOUSE METHOD
Four phases. Clear decisions. Tangible deliverables.
Understand, design the workflow, build the system, then monitor and improve it. Across ten steps, each phase is based on evidence and moves toward a useful, interactive system people can understand and trust.
Phase 1 · Steps 1–4
AI Assessment
Key Findings Report (KFR)
Phase 2 · Steps 5–6
Workflow Analysis
Value Architecture Board + Detailed Workflow Plan
Phase 3 · Steps 7–9
Build the System
7 · Data Management & Prep
8 · Source Resources & Collaborate
9 · Design & Deploy
Phase 4 · Step 10
Monitor & Optimize
10 · Monitor & Optimize
Trust, oversight and continuous improvement
SERVICES
AI services built around your business.
You should not have to diagnose whether you need an agent, automation, integration or something simpler. That diagnosis is part of the work.
AI Assessment & Strategy
Assess readiness, uncover opportunities and turn evidence into priorities.
Workflow Design & Automation
Redesign work before automating it.
AI Agents & Assistants
Build useful assistants grounded in your business knowledge and rules.
Systems & Integrations
Connect AI and automation with the tools you already use.
Governance & Documentation
Create sensible ownership, guardrails and documentation.
Training & Adoption
Help people use the implemented solution confidently and responsibly.
Implementation
Build and deploy approved solutions with specialist technical implementation support.
Managed AI
Keep workflows and systems reliable after launch.
Continuous Improvement
Measure, optimise and expand what works.
ABOUT DORMOUSE CONSULTING
Technology changes. Curiosity shouldn’t.
Dormouse Consulting makes AI useful, understandable and practical for growing businesses. I work from the business outward: first understanding how work happens today, then deciding where technology can genuinely improve it.
Business first. Technology second.
Sometimes the answer is sophisticated AI. Sometimes it is a simple automation. Sometimes the best answer is not AI at all.
Trusted, interactive systems
From strategy through deployment and optimisation, Dormouse Consulting builds around the people who will use the system. The goal is a useful, interactive system that can be understood and trusted, with appropriate human oversight, permissions, documentation and monitoring.
THE STORY
Why the Dormouse?
The teapot
What you already have: your business, systems, knowledge and familiar ways of working.
The dormouse
Curiosity: the willingness to look beneath the surface and ask what could work better.
The stars
Possibility: opportunities waiting to be discovered when the right ideas and technology meet.
The real magic isn’t AI itself. The magic happens when the right technology, the right people and the right ideas come together.
TRAINING & ADOPTION
Give your people confidence with AI.
Training is practical, role-specific and connected to the systems and workflows your team actually uses.
AFTER IMPLEMENTATION
Your AI should keep getting better.
Implementation is not the finish line. Ongoing Managed AI can monitor, maintain and improve solutions as tools, teams and business needs change.
THE CURIOSITY CABINET
Ideas worth opening the drawer for.
Practical AI, automation, workflows and emerging technology — explored with curiosity rather than hype.
Why AI Should Start With Curiosity, Not Technology
The best AI projects do not begin with a tool. They begin with a better question: what is actually worth improving?
REQUEST AN AI ASSESSMENT
Curious what might be hiding inside your business?
Start with a free 15-minute Zoom conversation. Tell me a little about your business and what you would like to improve. There is no commitment to paid work. If we decide to continue, consulting is €500 per hour.
✦ Start with understanding. Then build what matters. ✦
Dormouse Consulting
We make AI work for your business.
Business-first AI consulting, workflow design, implementation and training. No AI for the sake of AI — just the right technology in the right places.
Start a conversation
Curious what AI could improve in your business? Start with a free 15-minute Zoom introduction.
