AI implementation for CEOs.
You know AI matters. Now what?
Most CEOs know AI should be helping them scale. The problem is knowing where to actually start. Connected Paths begins with your business — how it runs, where it gets stuck, and where you want to take it.
Working with professional services firms and B2B technology companies:
A business partner who uses AI as the engine.
There's no shortage of AI advice. None of it is built for your business. Most consultants arrive with a framework and work backwards. We start with what is getting in the way of your growth — the bottlenecks, the processes that don't scale, the decisions that take too long — and work out where AI can fix it.
We start where you are. Here's what that looks like.
Clarity
We map your business against the AI landscape. You leave knowing exactly where the opportunity is, why it matters, and what to do first.
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We identify the processes slowing you down or costing money and redesign them with AI built in where it makes the biggest difference.
Activation
You and your team are using AI confidently — not as a bolt-on, but as a genuine part of how the business runs.
Whitefox
A creative publishing agency with the ambition to work smarter — but no in-house bandwidth to make it happen. Connected Paths went across the business, found the bottlenecks, and built a prioritised plan. Pitch prep time dropped 42%. AI adoption shifted from reluctance to confidence.
“The engagement with AI tools has definitely improved, and the confidence to do that. It's definitely generated an attitude towards it that wasn't there before.” — Hannah Bickerton, MD, WhitefoxRead the full story →
Thorogood
A leading management and data consultancy relying on existing relationships and events to find new business. Connected Paths built out their paid digital presence channel by channel — Google, LinkedIn, and YouTube — while coaching the internal team and presenting directly to senior leadership.
“Engaging for the last couple of years has been foundational really for our capabilities with all things digital marketing.” — Alaistair Jones, Global Head of Marketing, ThorogoodRead the full story →
Every business is different.
The levers tend not to be.
Most B2B pipelines underperform not because of strategy but because the engine isn’t working — attribution is broken, CRM data doesn’t reflect reality, and campaigns aren’t connecting to revenue. We identify exactly where the friction is and rebuild it with AI where it creates the most leverage.
“We were reliant on existing lists, the vendors we work with, events we run. We wanted to reach wider — to audiences we couldn’t reach through those means. You’ve enabled that.”
— Alaistair Jones, Global Head of Marketing, Thorogood
The processes that made sense when you were smaller often become the friction that slows you down as you scale. We find the bottlenecks, remove the manual work, and rebuild the workflows that should be running themselves.
The work that slows your best people down is usually predictable and repeatable — which means AI can handle most of it. We map where time is being lost and build the automations that give it back, so your team is spending their hours on the work that actually needs them.
“It's gone from an hour to 35 minutes, to be specific. But if you multiply that by lots of different presentations, that's significant.”
— Hannah Bickerton, MD, Whitefox
Most B2B marketing functions are active but underperforming. The strategy is usually fine — the problem is in the engine. Attribution that doesn’t close the loop, CRM data that sales ignores, campaigns that generate activity but not pipeline. The Marketing Engine Audit is a fixed-scope engagement that diagnoses exactly where the engine is broken and maps where AI can fix it. Clear output. Defined scope. A starting point for companies that know marketing should be working harder than it is.
Alongside the consultancy work, we build tools that let marketing and ops teams put AI to work directly.
Paid Ads MCP Server
Connects AI agents to your advertising platforms — analyse performance, surface optimisation opportunities, and act without switching context.
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Connects AI agents to your social platforms — publish content, monitor performance, and respond without leaving your workflow.
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“The right question is not ‘how do we implement AI?’
It’s ‘what is getting in the way of your growth — and can AI help fix it?’”
Riaz Kanani, Founder, Connected Paths
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Before we talk, read the guide or take the assessment. Both will help you understand whether you're ready, what good implementation looks like, and the questions worth asking any AI consultant — including us.
What clients say
“We were very aware that we lacked in-house resource. It came out of a boardroom discussion — one of the board members said, 'Can you do this internally?' Truthfully, the answer was no.”
“You bring a level of knowledge and ability that we don’t have internally — and simultaneously you’re coaching our team in how to do some of the things that you’re able to do.”
Not sure where to start? That’s exactly where we start.
Book a conversation. We’ll tell you honestly whether Connected Paths is right for you — and if it is, we’ll show you exactly what the first step looks like.