About Practical AI

Hands-on AI training for senior teams, led by Ollie Ayton.

Practical AI is a London AI training company run by Ollie Ayton. We run in-person, hands-on AI training for leadership teams on their own real work, usually Claude Cowork, a meeting transcriber and Wispr Flow.

Ollie leads half-day and full-day intensives for founders, MDs and senior teams, in small groups (typically up to 5) or 1:1. We also run larger-group sessions and team rollouts. Ongoing partnerships and bespoke AI builds then help teams keep going. Sessions run across the UK and US, in person where we can, with virtual sessions also available.

Practical AI is a London AI training company run by Ollie Ayton; not the Practical AI podcast.

Ollie Ayton
Who's coaching you

I'm Ollie.

Founder @ Practical AI · Based in London

I studied Data Analytics & Management at London Business School, then spent years leading product at companies like Deel and Kittl, building tools for thousands of users and managing engineering teams.

Now I use AI every single day to build products, run my business, and help others do the same. I don't teach AI as a technology. I teach it as a way to solve business problems faster.

ex-Deelex-KittlLBS MScLondon
ollie@aytonlabs.ioLinkedIn →
How we work

Practice, not theory.

  • Hands-on, on your own laptop. You build real AI tools using your own work. Zero slides about the history of machine learning.
  • 70% of each session on your real workflows. The agenda is built from what you tell us on the discovery call.
  • Small groups, led by Ollie. Typically up to 5 people per session, or 1:1, in person where possible. We also run larger-group sessions and team rollouts.
  • Principles, not button clicks. Context engineering, prompt engineering and tool selection, so the skills keep working as the tools change.
  • Not tied to any vendor. Usually Claude Cowork or ChatGPT Work day to day, Granola for meetings, Wispr Flow for voice, and Claude Code or Codex for technical builds. If something else fits your stack better, we use that.
  • Support after the session. Two weeks of WhatsApp support after a half-day, and 30 days of follow-up support after a full day.

Read more about AI training in London, AI training for leadership teams, ChatGPT training for business, the team AI workshop in London, Claude training for business and Claude training in London, or see full pricing.

Clients

Founders and teams we've worked with.

We work with founders and senior teams across financial services, family offices, PE-backed businesses and high-growth firms. Ollie has coached 450+ executives, with a 4.9/5 average rating.

  • JUX
  • Annoushka
  • Daily Mail
  • Country & Town House
  • CBRE
  • London Business School
  • Bold Bean Co
  • Citizens of Soil
  • Cibus
  • CleanCap
  • Throxy
  • DayJob.ai
  • Burlington Stone
  • Holker Group
  • Botivo
  • Holy Moly
  • NorthPoint Aviation
  • Vision Ventures
Case studies

Real outcomes, not AI theatre.

LP reports, dashboards, and warm-investor re-engagement on autopilot.
Quarterly LP letters were a 2-week scramble. Portfolio tracking sat in stale decks. 4,000 investors went untouched in a spreadsheet. We built three Cowork workflows: branded LP letters drafted from fund performance in the firm's voice, a live portfolio dashboard with AI-flagged trends, and a re-engagement skill that scores dormant LPs and drafts outreach in the partner's tone.
4,000
LPs re-scored
2wk → 2d
LP reporting cycle
Managing Partner · Mid-market PE / renewables fund
Hours of vet admin, streamlined to seconds.
Equine vets were spending evenings writing up clinical reports after consultations and pre-sale reports after inspections, hours of admin every day. We built a voice-to-report system that transcribes on-site, drafts both report types in the vet's tone and clinical language, and turns hours of typing into seconds of review. The practice now reclaims hundreds of hours a month.
Hrs → secs
per report
100+ hrs
saved / month
Founding Vet · Equine
A lean team, punching above its weight.
A small team running 50+ SKUs were rewriting copy by hand, building Meta ads one at a time, and burning hours on Shopify ops. We built four Cowork systems: a brand-voice writer trained on Anna's prose, automated Shopify workflows, a Meta ads pipeline that ships quality creative at the volume the algorithm rewards, and reusable skills for the team's recurring tasks.
8 hrs
saved / week
50+
SKUs in brand voice
Founder · FMCG
Loss leaders flagged before they bleed.
A year of Ocado promo data sat in spreadsheets, but nobody could rank what actually paid back. The CEO suspected one mechanic was destroying margin but couldn't prove it. A Cowork workflow now scores every phase by ROI, layers in COGS for true profit, and runs weekly, automatically flagging loss leaders before the next phase ships.
13x
best mechanic ROI
Weekly
loss-leader scan
CEO · Frozen FMCG
Company details

Who you're working with.

Trading name
Practical AI (Practical AI Group)
Legal entity
Bethcorp Ltd, a private limited company
Company number
14250170
VAT number
GB 518 9042 80
Address
Oxford Gardens, London W10, United Kingdom
Founder
Ollie Ayton
Directory
Listed in the aibl AI Enablement Directory
Contact
ollie@aytonlabs.io or see all contact options
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Let's talk

Where does AI save you the most time?

Free 30-minute call. No pitch deck. We'll talk about your work and recommend a next step, even if it's not us.

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