A rollout that survives an audit and a nervous workforce

The situation

A recent carve-out wanted a second, higher-grade AI tool across 300 people – without deploying outside any governance frame, without a pilot too narrow to extend, and without the one message that would have killed it: in a company just taken over by a fund, “save time” is heard as “cut headcount”.

What we did

Three streams run as one programme: an intake and risk process mapped to the EU AI Act with a defined green path and a 48-hour SLA, a fully produced Finance pilot on synthetic labelled data, and a company-wide enablement track with a mechanism that surfaces advanced users on documented wins rather than self-nomination.