AI adoption, built into your team
Founder Engine puts AI to work inside your business, on the work your team already does.
“Our team went from AI‑curious to builders in 30 days.”
Maison Sport brought Founder Engine in with the licences already paid for and the team already willing. What changed was capability.
Thirty days later their people were shipping their own automations and the leadership team could finally see where the hours went, without adding a single hire.
OLIVER ROBINSON
CO-FOUNDER AT MAISON SPORT
54%
of UK SMEs now use AI. Two years ago it was 25%. A third still have no plans at all.
BRITISH CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND ATOS, MARCH 2026
70%
give their staff AI tools. Only 48% give them the time to learn them.
SLALOM, 2024
54%
say the workforce skills gap is the single biggest barrier to AI returns.
SLALOM, 2024
Policy, process, habit and legacy tech. Each harmless alone, together they block anything new. That is why the AI you already pay for sits idle.
Our whole job is turning that immune system into fuel for the engine.
Three ways in, depending on how much of it you want to own yourself.
01 · Do it yourself
The seven-part kit that takes you from AI-curious to running the engine yourself, built to the same standard we bring on engagements. Start this week, no call needed.
£497 one-time · founding places £297
See the Founder Kit ↗02 · Done with you
Ninety days inside your business. We map the work, your people build with us beside them, and leadership gets pointed one way. Pilot first, with a hard decision point at day 30.
£7,500 a month · three months
See the Skunkworks ↗03 · Done for you
Marketing, sales, tech, finance. We have the bleeding-edge team to deliver AI capability, placed into your business and run under Founder Engine direction.
Scoped per role
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Maison Sport is a ski instruction marketplace. Their team had AI licences and wanted to use them, but nobody knew how to turn that into real work, so the tools sat idle.
In thirty days of mapping, building and coaching, the team went from willing to capable. The people who started furthest behind improved the most, so the whole team levelled up together rather than a few people racing ahead.
WILLINGNESS, DAY ONE
91%
LOWEST STARTERS' IMPROVEMENT
~4×
BASIC PROMPTING, DAY 0 TO 30
82→95%
I'm Ruari Fairbairns. I co-founded One Year No Beer and took it past 100,000 members and seven figures.
And I have been exactly where you are: certain the business could run more efficiently, higher revenue at lower cost, and unable to reach it. Not because the technology was missing, but because the company's own immune system, the fearful people, the policy, the process, the legacy tech, quietly voted no every time.
Founder Engine exists to turn that immune system into fuel. Not more hires, not another tool. The team you already have, made AI native, so revenue per head goes up.
RUARI FAIRBAIRNS, FOUNDER. You get me on the call, and me on the work.
