The future won't wait. Neither should you.

Building your next chapter.

In Partnership With

The businesses we're proud to work alongside.

Swig Wines
Swig Wines Independent Wine Retail
Your business Could be next

01 active partnership — and growing.

Where To Start

Let's talk about
where to start.

AI is changing the world of work — that bit, everyone knows. The harder questions are where to start, what to trust, and how to make any of it fit alongside the operation you have spent years building.

That's the conversation we want to have. We take the time to understand your business and how it actually runs, so the tools we put in place feel like they belong there.

How We Work Together

Three phases. One partnership.

01

Discover

A free discovery call followed by a deep audit across every area of your business — admin, sales, marketing, finance, operations. By the end, we know exactly where AI can make the biggest difference fastest.

02

Plan

A full integration report covering what we found, what we recommend, the tools that fit, a phased roadmap, and realistic projections. The complete picture before anything begins.

03

Deliver

Tools installed in unison with how your business operates. Staff trained on exactly what has been installed. Then ongoing partnership — regular reviews, performance checks, and new tool evaluations as AI evolves.

Solutions for SMEs

Built for your business.

I understand that no two businesses look the same, which is why you will not find a menu of fixed packages here. You tell me what is holding the business back, and we build the solution around it, to fit your size, your stage and your budget.

What we hear

What we put in place

A full audit of your business

We start with a free discovery call, followed by a full audit of how the business runs day to day. You get an AI opportunity report which shows where AI can make the biggest difference fastest.

  • Full business audit and AI opportunity report
  • Digital infrastructure review

What changesYou have the complete picture before anything begins.

What we put in place

Automation across your admin

The repetitive, time-consuming tasks are automated across admin and customer service, in order to give your team their time back for the work that needs a person.

  • Automation across admin and customer service
  • Core AI tools installed in unison with how you operate

What changesWe remove the tasks that drain people, not the people themselves.

What we put in place

CRM integration and lead management

Your enquiries are captured in one place and followed up properly, so winning new business no longer depends on someone remembering to reply.

  • CRM integration and lead management
  • Automation across sales and customer service

What changesEvery enquiry gets an answer, which helps you drive sales and retain customers.

What we put in place

AI content and social media tools

Content and social media tools set up around your brand and your voice, so the business stays visible without marketing taking over someone's week.

  • AI content and social media tools
  • Automation across marketing

What changesYour marketing keeps going, even in the busiest weeks.

What we put in place

A dashboard for your numbers

Your data is pulled into one dashboard with regular business reporting, which gives you a clear view of what is working and what is not.

  • Data dashboard and business reporting
  • Regular reviews and performance checks

What changesDecisions get made on what the numbers say.

What we put in place

Training and ongoing support

Your staff are trained on exactly what has been installed, with support after go-live, so the tools get used and nobody is left behind.

  • Staff AI literacy training
  • Support and optimisation after go-live

What changesA stronger team, not a smaller one.

No price list, no fixed packages. Every project is scoped to your business and your budget after a free discovery call.

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Where it can take you

From stretched thin to the inside edge.

Today

A good business, stretched thin

The work that drains your team is still done by hand, and AI feels like uncharted territory.

First steps

Your first tools go live

Two or three core tools installed around how you already work, with your staff trained on exactly what has gone in.

Momentum

The core starts running itself

Automation across admin, customer service, marketing and sales, with your numbers in one place.

The inside edge

AI becomes your edge

An ongoing partnership with regular reviews and new tools evaluated as AI evolves, so the business keeps moving forward.

About

Lachlan Davis
Lachlan Davis
Oxford Saïd Business School
Trained in AI strategy, implementation & ethics
Helping independent businesses thrive in an AI world
Passionate about AI that empowers people, not replaces them

A mission I truly believe in.

Founding this company started very organically. I kept seeing areas in my dad's business where I would think — why are we not using AI here? It could save him time. It could help him sell more.

So slowly but surely, I began teaching him how to speak to it. Where to use it. When to use it. And we started seeing real progress.

That is where ACE.i came from. Not from a business plan or a pitch deck. From watching what is possible when the right technology meets a business that knows what it stands for.

Right now, I hear people worried every day about AI replacing their jobs. That is not what good AI work looks like. AI is a beautiful thing — one that should make people's lives easier, not harder. Done properly, it removes the boring parts and leaves room for what actually matters.

Helping people improve has always been important to me. The room for innovation in the workplace is always on my mind — and there has never been a better time to be doing this work than right now.

At fourteen, I was looking to be the difference. At eighteen, I still believe in being the difference. In twenty or thirty years time — I still hope to be the difference.

Trust Quality Relationships
AI should remove the tasks that drain people — not the people themselves.

Our Approach

There are companies implementing automation in ways that hollow out teams, eliminate roles that did not need to go, and leave businesses more fragile than they found them. That is not integration. That is replacement.

The businesses we work with have staff who matter. People who have built customer relationships, who carry knowledge that cannot be downloaded, who make the business what it is.

We automate the repetitive, the time-consuming, the administrative — the tasks that drain people rather than the people themselves. The result is a stronger team, not a smaller one.

Get Started

Make AI your edge.

A free discovery call is the easiest next step. No pitch, no pressure — just a conversation to see whether ACE.i is the right fit. Reach out whichever way suits you best.