Our Services
Tailorable services,
fully flexible to your needs.
Our research packages run across our services — for organisations embedding AI responsibly, and organisations building it. Every package is grounded in rigorous, human-centred methods and leads with the people most affected. While responsible AI research is our specialism, we also use our creative and speculative methods across a range of other technological and societal contexts.
§ 001 — Creating AI Responsibly
For AI makers
For startups, product teams, and innovation leads building AI products or features — and who want to base that work on genuine understanding of the people it will serve, affect, or exclude.
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Start Up Discovery Sprint
Rigorous first-round responsible AI user research for teams who need to validate before they build.
Early-stage founders often build for months before discovering their assumptions about users were wrong. Academic-grade discovery research before you build saves time, money, and the risk of designing for the wrong person entirely — but most options are too expensive, too slow, or too shallow.
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Inclusive User Experience Discovery
Test your AI product with the users who reveal what standard testing misses.
Standard usability testing does research with digitally confident, articulate adults. It ignores crucial diverse voices — neurodivergent, disabled, BAME, LGBTQI+ populations and many others — validating the experience of the minority and embedding exclusion into your product. Listening to people who are marginalised reveals failure modes in trust, comprehension, and fairness that standard testing never surfaces.
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Responsible AI Co-design Sprint
Design your AI product with the people it will affect — not just for them.
Most AI product design happens in a room of engineers and designers — not the people the product is actually for. This embeds assumptions, blind spots, and exclusions at scale. Participatory design isn't just more ethical; it produces products that work better, fail less, and earn trust faster.
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Human-Centred AI Discovery
Understand who you're building for — before you build anything.
Most AI teams start with what the technology can do, not what people actually need (or don't need) from it. Standard user research wasn't built for AI's distinctive challenges: opacity, unpredictability, trust, and the risk of harm at scale. The result is products that are impressive in demos and ignored — or harmful — in the real world.
§ 002 — Embedding AI Responsibly
For AI adopters
For organisations adopting or deploying AI — and who want to understand its real impact on the people it affects before, during, and after implementation.
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AI Readiness & Impact Scan
Understand who will be affected — and how — before you embed AI.
You're planning to adopt AI but haven't yet mapped who it will affect and where the real risks lie. Without this groundwork, adoption creates human problems that need critical and responsible examination — and that are expensive to fix later.
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Stakeholder AI Experience Study
Find out what it's actually like to use AI tools as part of your team's daily work.
Your organisation has deployed AI tools, but you don't know how stakeholders, employees or users genuinely experience them — the trust issues, the workarounds, the unfair outcomes. Surveys miss what people won't say to a manager. The result is low adoption, hidden friction, and legal exposure you can't see.
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Community AI Perceptions Study
Find out what the communities you serve actually think and feel about AI, in creative ways.
Most organisations consult communities after decisions are made — presenting plans and inviting reaction. That's not research; it's notification. When it comes to AI, the communities most likely to be affected are also the least likely to be asked. Left unexamined, that gap becomes a reputational risk, a democratic failure, or both.
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Ongoing Research Partnerships
Embedded research expertise for teams engaging with AI responsibly over the long term.
AI products don't stand still — they learn, adapt, and affect people in new ways over time. A one-off research sprint gives you a snapshot. Responsible AI futures require sustained research: continuous monitoring, early identification of emerging harms, and human-centred input at every product milestone.
§ 003 — Training
For teams building capacity
Training
Do you want to learn how to do what we do? As experienced educators and facilitators, we offer practical, hands-on training in research, evaluation, and community engagement. Drawing on our extensive background as academic lecturers, we've taught everyone from undergraduate students to industry leaders.
We can guide you through the entire research and engagement process, or focus on specific methods, tailored to your organisation's goals. Whether you're just starting out or looking to build internal capacity, we design custom training packages that reflect your needs and the people and communities you work with.
We're passionate about supporting you to do meaningful, inclusive work, and amplifying the voices that matter most.
