Retainer

Your AI Manager, on Retainer

For businesses that do not have the time to become their own AI manager. Helm joins your team as part of how you run: we keep prioritising what to do next, keep building, keep your people trained, and keep everything maintained as the tools change.

Your AI manager, embedded

Helm becomes your embedded AI manager. We keep prioritising the work that returns the most for the least effort, keep building it, and keep training the people who will use it so it becomes part of their day.

Nothing sits half finished waiting for someone internal to find a spare afternoon. You always know what is now live, who uses it, and what we are working on next.

Strategy, implementation and adoption

Our philosophy is the same across everything we do. Strategy is prioritising: choosing the next piece of work that returns the most for the least effort, and being honest about what should be left alone. Implementation is building it and embedding it in person in the business, not handing over a document and hoping. Adoption is training, because a tool nobody uses is worth nothing.

On retainer, all three keep happening. We keep prioritising as your business changes, keep building, and keep training the people who touch the work. Nothing sits half finished waiting for someone internal to find a spare afternoon.

Maintained, not just delivered

AI tools change constantly. Models get replaced, features move, limits shift, and something that worked in March quietly behaves differently in June. Part of the retainer is keeping everything you have running, and telling you plainly when something changes and what it actually means for your business.

We build in your own accounts and systems, so access, data and billing stay with you. The retainer is there because you want the work handled, not because you are locked in.

Who it suits

This suits Newcastle and Hunter businesses where the operational load already sits on a few people and there is no realistic internal owner for AI. You want the benefit without adding another job to someone's plate.

You work directly with Ryan and Oliver. No layers, no juniors. Ryan leads the strategy and trains the teams. Oliver owns the code, the systems and the builds.

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Client note

I've worked with Ryan for a number of years now. During that time he has helped improve our business in a number of ways: improving efficiencies, automating processes and streamlining how we operate.

Ryan understands AI and how to leverage its power. Importantly he has a strong ability to identify issues that you wouldn't ever know were an issue. He can then build practical solutions that work immediately. The projects he has developed for us have made a substantial difference to our bottom line.

Not only is he a great mind, he's also a fantastic human. He cares deeply about the work he does and the relationships he forms. He is definitely someone that you want on your team.

Dave Lane
Director · LaneCampos

Which one is right for you?

Training workshopsChoose training if you want your own team to own AI in-house. Hands-on workshops in your office so your team builds and manages its own AI setup, with full control from there.
AI manager on retainerChoose the retainer if you would rather someone else carried AI for you. Helm becomes your embedded AI manager: we keep prioritising, building and training as your business changes, and keep everything maintained.You are here

Talk through an AI retainer

Book a 30-minute intro call with Ryan and Oliver. Meet by call or in person in Newcastle. Bring the problems, not a shortlist of tools, and we will tell you honestly where AI fits.

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