Strategenie®
Strategenie is set of tools that help you decide what's most important and what to do next. They make tough decisions easier and clearer for everyone involved.
Stop working so hard. Volcano Base helps leadership teams automate the mundane, outsmart the grind, and build real momentum. No tech skills needed.
Service Overview
Automate the Grind
Put admin on autopilot. Automate key business workflows so you can focus on what matters: growth, profit, and making a difference. Start small and take it from there.
Consolidate Chaos
Your tools, data, and processes tidied up into one powerful, cost-effective system. No more juggling tabs, spreadsheets, or headaches. Everything works, together.
Augment Your Team
Want to go further? Bring in AI staff. Synthetic agents that work alongside you. Smarter systems, less grind, and results you didn't think possible.
Services
System Review
Get a clear understanding of how your current system supports or hinders your goals, followed by recommendations for a calmer, clearer, more efficient way (with or without AI).
Automation Systems Built For You
I design and build AI-powered systems that take boring, manual tasks off your plate. Smarter workflows, fewer mistakes, and way less faff, so your team can focus on what actually matters.
Your Secret AI Partner
Behind-the-scenes technical expertise when you need it. I help challenge assumptions, spot pitfalls, make prototypes and guide AI decisions with clarity, without needing to hire a full-time specialist.
AI Training For Teams
Practical, hands-on training to get your team confident with AI tools. Less panic, more competence. Demystify the tech and learn how to actually use it day to day.
Talks, Reports and Forecasts
Keynotes, strategy papers, and executive briefings that decode what’s coming next in AI. Straight-talking, no-nonsense insights for your industry and your future.
On-Call AI Advisory Retainer
A direct line to expert AI advice, whenever you need it. Ongoing support to help you navigate fast-changing tech, spot new opportunities, and stay ahead of the curve.
Feel free to contact me to discuss your situation. Or, if you want to get a head-start, complete the AI Diagnostic. It'll compute your "archetype" and provide some suggestions for things to consider, given the way you're currently using AI and automation.
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Tools & Resources
AI Diagnostic
What's your organisation's AI archetype? What should you be focusing on?
Prioritisation Tool
Identify your AI and automation quick wins
Automation Directory
Access a regularly updated directory of AI and automation tools for the self-employed, consultants, coaches, solopreneurs or small business owners.
Articles
Base Operations
Drawing lines in the digital sand
Computers are indifferent sand
Software
Do you love your systems?
Would you make them a cup of tea?
Automation
Exit not found (please consult the minotaur)
Familiarity is not mastery. It’s just a longer leash.
The Core
The Core #10: Best practice is a myth
The Core is a limited series of concise principles, sharing the ideas that sit at the heart of everything I
Base Operations
The proposal that wasn’t
How do you write a brief if you don't know what's possible?
The Core
The Core #9: Meetings are for decisions
The Core is a limited series of concise principles, sharing the ideas that sit at the heart of everything I
The Core
The Core #8: People first, technology last
The Core is a limited series of concise principles, sharing the ideas that sit at the heart of everything I