Woodlark Associates

Woodlark Associates is an AI and business consultancy for established, owner-led UK businesses, typically with 5 to 50 staff. We help them change how work gets done: we find where AI earns its place, build the governed system and stay until the people using it can run it without us.

We start with the business problem, not the technology. Sometimes the answer is an AI agent. Sometimes it's a dashboard, an approval step or a decision not to automate at all.

Every engagement has three steps, and you can stop after any of them. Blueprint is a month inside your workflows and systems, ending with an operating plan you own, including a written list of what not to automate. Build, over at least six months, puts in the system the plan calls for, with approvals, spend limits and a record of every action from day one. Embed provides training, an operating rhythm and clear ownership until your team runs the system without us.

The founders, Trent Peek and Richard Ardis, scope, build and lead every engagement themselves. Trent was Managing Director, then Group Director, at CCM Group and is CEO of WAF (We Are Fulfilment). Richard spent two decades in advertising, branding and broadcast media, finishing as Managing Director at Global.

Based in Nottingham, working across the UK.