Susan Ryan leads our AI work. Before founding the studio she supported critical infrastructure systems for London Underground and utility companies across the UK. Since 2023 she has trained clients’ teams to use AI in their everyday work.
Most of our day-to-day AI work happens in Claude Team Projects. Each client and each website we look after has its own project, holding the briefs, documents and instructions that work needs, so every conversation starts from the right context rather than from scratch.
We use the Team plan rather than personal accounts because of how it handles data. Under Anthropic’s commercial terms, our conversations and the documents in our projects are not used to train its models by default, and projects are visible only to people inside our studio account. As owners, we control the data settings for the whole account, including whether conversations can be sent to Anthropic as feedback.
Around those projects we have built workflows for the jobs that repeat: replying to enquiries, drafting quotes and proposals, writing care reports for the sites we maintain, and the admin behind each project. Each one produces a draft for one of us to check before anything goes out.
We are now setting up Hermes, an open-source agent that can carry out longer, multi-step tasks on its own, and running AI models locally on our own machines. Local models mean some work never leaves the studio, which matters for clients whose information should not go to an outside provider.