20+ hours a week we are finding are recoverable
It is all in your head, and that is why you have no time.
Ninety minutes with Sarah and a written report on where your hours actually go, what could come off your plate, and who should be leading the change. Free, and yours to keep either way.
"Everything is in my head and I have no time to get it out."
This is the sentence we hear most. It is where the audit starts.
"Two people are keen. The other eight are not."
Normal. That is a leadership job, not a software job.
"Nobody has ever told us what funding we could get."
We hear this from almost every owner we sit down with.
Two people, two different jobs.
The audit usually finds the same thing: somebody needs to lead the change and somebody else needs to build it. The AI Leadership Programme is for the first person. The AI & Automation Practitioner, which is funded, is for the second. Training one and not the other is why this normally stalls.
Most owners call us in the same week something makes them feel behind.
A competitor announced something with AI in it and you felt slow.
You have paid for tools that nobody in the building opens.
Half your team is already using ChatGPT and there is no policy anywhere.
Everything still runs through you, and AI was supposed to be the thing that fixed that.
None of that is an AI problem. It is a people and process problem, and that is exactly what the audit looks at.
Train. nurture. Build. Always in that order.
Most owners want the third one. You do not get it without the first two, which is why so much training money gets wasted.
Teach them to do the job properly
AI and automation, marketing, assessing and mentoring, and the technical skills the business actually runs on. Done properly, with outcomes you can see.
Grow the people who run it
Leadership, management, CPD and the ongoing development that makes good people stay instead of leaving for someone who invests in them.
Turn it into a business
Better systems, better margins and a business that keeps working when you are not in the room. This is the part owners actually wanted all along.
Three businesses, and what changed.
No names, because we would rather show you the shape of it than put a client on a poster. Ask on the call and we will talk you through any of them properly.
A contract they kept, because they could prove their team was qualified when the client asked.
Beauty and aesthetics business, EssexStopped buying training in and started delivering it themselves. Ended the year with more qualified staff than they started with, and the money stayed in the business.
Care provider, South EastSomeone working remotely who nobody had really invested in. Now runs the operation.
Service businessTaken from our own client records. Ask us about any of them on the call and we will talk you through what actually happened.
We sat a group of founders down and asked what they actually wanted from AI.
Nobody asked for a course. This is what came back, and it is why the audit exists.
"What we want is an independent AI broker with a human touch."
Owner, seven figure service business"Everyone is selling us AI. Nobody has asked what our business actually does first."
Owner, professional services"Two of my team are keen. The other eight are not."
Managing director, 40 staff"Not one of us knew what funding we could actually access."
The whole room, when we askedMost owners assume funding is not for them.
It usually is. It is not a grant application, it is not a mountain of paperwork, and it is not only for big employers. One conversation and we will tell you straight whether you qualify and roughly what it is worth.
The FREE AI and Team Audit
We look at how the business really runs, where AI would help, who should lead it and who should build it, and what skills are missing. You keep the findings whether you work with us afterwards or not.
Sarah Abel
Sarah built TNB out of her own business after learning the funding system the hard way. She is the reason we talk about training in plain English rather than in acronyms, and the reason we will tell you when the answer is no.
Author of The Power of Funding: In the Hair and Beauty Business. Thirty years in the industry, six businesses built.
You will actually speak to these people.
Not a call centre and not a form that goes nowhere. When you ring, one of these people answers.
Here to train or retrain yourself?
Hairdressing, beauty, nails, and the teaching and assessing awards if you want to train other people. Most of our courses are government funded, so for a lot of people there is nothing to pay. Same tutors, same standards, and someone answers the phone when it gets hard.
Start with a conversation, not a brochure.
A few quick questions, then one of us rings you. You will know within a day or two whether any of this is worth your time.