James Parris
AI consultant and fractional Chief AI Officer.
I spent eighteen years teaching people to do things that can't be put into words — crews I coached won seventeen medals at international regattas, four of them gold. The hard part was never the rowing; it was getting knowledge out of one head and into another. That is also why most AI adoption disappoints: the tools arrive before anyone has worked out what the business actually knows. I help businesses close that gap — with strategy, working systems, governance, and teams that can use them.
AI leadership, without the full-time hire
Embedded with your leadership team a day or two a month: strategy, build-or-buy calls, governance, and a roadmap someone is accountable for.
See the retainer AuditFind where AI actually pays
A fixed-scope audit that starts by extracting how your business really works — then maps AI onto it, in priority order.
How the audit works SystemsAI that does work, not demos
Agents, automations and multi-model pipelines, built hands-on — the same machinery behind everything on the building page.
What I build TrainingTeams that can actually use it
Teaching people to work with AI is a coaching job, and coaching is my trade — eighteen years of it.
How I train teams GovernanceAdopt AI without betting the firm
ISO/IEC 42001-anchored governance — policies, risk and accountability sized for SMEs and sport organisations.
The governance workI don't sell methods I haven't run on myself
Two complete companies designed end-to-end by AI agents working from my knowledge system. A second brain that interviews its owner. Automation pipelines that chain four AI models between scrape and publication. A published research review of what AI does to expertise. All of it documented — see the work or read the research.
James Parris is an AI consultant and fractional Chief AI Officer based in South West London. He coached rowing for eighteen years, founded Afterlife Carbon, has completed ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer training, and builds agentic AI systems — including the knowledge system this site was written from.
Start with a conversation
An intro call costs nothing and usually settles whether any of this is worth your money. Email me at james@jamesparris.ai — or find everything on the contact page.