AI Consulting Ireland · Updated June 2026

Independent AI Consulting Ireland

Acuity AI Advisory is an independent AI consultancy for Irish SMEs, regulated organisations, and boards. Engagements are fixed-fee — diagnostics from €5k, strategy and build from €15k — covering AI strategy, governance, EU AI Act readiness, and productivity automation. Every engagement is led personally by founder Ger Perdisatt, former COO of Microsoft's Enterprise business across Western Europe, with no vendor partnerships and no commissions.

Acuity AI Advisory works across the full arc — from diagnosis through to build and delivery. We identify where the value is, decide honestly whether to build or buy, and put the answer to work inside your existing systems. The work that's made the difference for our clients was never a report handed over at the end of an engagement. It was the thing itself — built, deployed, and running.

Ger Perdisatt presenting at Danske Bank — AI in the Real World

Focused implementation

Start with one workflow that takes too much time.

Client reminders. Monthly reporting. Document checks. If you can describe the repeated steps, we can discuss whether they are worth automating in the systems you already use.

1. Show us the bottleneck
Describe who does the work, how often, and where it gets stuck. No confidential files needed for the first conversation.
2. Agree scope and a fixed fee
We define the inputs, outputs, human checks and success measure before a build starts. If it needs further diagnosis, we explain why.
3. Build, check and hand over
Test the workflow against agreed examples, establish who owns it and leave the team able to run it.

The diagnostic below starts from €5,000. Implementation is scoped separately. For problems spanning several teams, the Capacity Recovery Audit is a broader four-week engagement.

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The service

What you get

AI strategy, governance, EU AI Act readiness, productivity automation

Designed, built and deployed within your existing systems. Not a slide deck. Not a shelf document. Operational infrastructure your team uses on Monday.

Who it's for

Irish SMEs, professional services, regulated organisations, boards

Senior leaders who want clarity on where AI fits in their organisation — and what the governance, risk, and operational implications actually are. Not vendor pitches.

How it's scoped

Fixed-fee. Diagnostic from €5k. Strategy & build from €15k.

Every engagement is scoped and priced before any work begins. No hourly billing. No open-ended retainers. ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Auditor certified.

How we work

Diagnose

Audit of current AI use, hours hiding in plain sight, margin not being captured. Honest read of what's actually happening.

Written findings by week 2.

Design

Solution architecture, governance framework, or workflow redesign — whichever the diagnostic surfaced as the priority.

Sign-off by week 4.

Build

Built within your existing M365, SharePoint, or CRM environment. No new vendor stack. No handoff to another team.

Operational by week 8.

Deliver

Handover with documentation, training, and an ongoing review cadence. The team owns it from there. No retainer required.

Done, not dependent.

A vendor's AI consultant is, structurally, a salesperson.

The advice you receive reflects the incentives of the person giving it. For Irish SMEs, professional services firms, and regulated entities, the practical question when choosing an AI consultant is not who presents most confidently. It is whose advice is shaped entirely by your situation — not their product catalogue.

The problem

Why most AI advice in Ireland misses the mark

Most of what is described as AI consulting in Ireland falls into one of three categories: technology vendors with an advisory wrapper, large consultancies with platform partnerships, and generalists who have rebranded for the moment.

For Irish SMEs, professional services firms, and regulated entities, the practical question when choosing an AI consultant is not who presents most confidently. It is whose advice is shaped entirely by your situation — not their product catalogue.

Independence

What independence actually means here

—No technology platform. No vendor relationships. No commission on what you adopt.

—Ger Perdisatt was COO for Microsoft's Enterprise business across Western Europe — 14 markets, ~€10 billion in revenue. He has seen, from the inside, how technology is sold to organisations like yours.

—Currently serving as Non-Executive Director at Dublin Airport Authority and Tailte Éireann. Board governance is not a service line — it is lived experience.

—Fixed-fee engagements. Defined deliverables. No billing by the hour, no scope creep, no surprises.

—Ger leads every engagement. No juniors, no account managers, no handoffs.

What we do

The work

Strategy

AI Strategy

Finding recoverable value — 1,525 hours of solicitor time recovered in one Irish law firm. €560K in margin identified in a food business in seven days. The diagnostic identifies exactly what the problem is and what fixing it is worth. The build follows from that — designed, scoped, and delivered within your existing systems.

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Productivity

Productivity & Process Automation

Automating what should not require a person — Manual, repeatable work that consumes senior time gets redesigned and automated. We build within your existing Microsoft 365, SharePoint, or CRM environment — no new technology stack, no external implementation partner, no handoff to a team who wasn't in the room.

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Governance

Governance & Risk

Governance that holds up under pressure — AI policies, oversight frameworks, and risk controls designed and deployed. One energy investment firm had a full governance framework live across three business functions in four weeks — alongside a redesigned management reporting cycle that eliminated two days of monthly manual effort.

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Boards

Board Advisory

Equipping boards and leadership teams to act — Structured briefings, diagnostic frameworks, and governance tools that directors leave with and use. Delivered for IoD Ireland and the Law Society of Ireland. The Law Society AI resources have been the most-viewed on their platform since launch.

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Compliance

EU AI Act

EU AI Act readiness — A fixed-fee review that tells you exactly where you stand: AI inventory, risk classification, gap analysis, remediation roadmap. Where remediation requires a workflow or policy document to be built, we build it.

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Programmes

Institutional & Member Programmes

IP that wins competitive bids — Acuity frameworks were embedded in the winning proposal for a Gulf government innovation mandate worth AED 1–2M. Cited as the key differentiator. The same diagnostic approach anticipated client concerns that surfaced unprompted at kick-off.

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Proof

What this looks like in practice

€560k

Margin recovered in seven days

A food business was operating at margin without understanding why. Acuity's diagnostic identified €560,000 in recoverable margin through supplier renegotiation, SKU rationalisation, and pricing correction. No technology deployed. No implementation required. Clear thinking and the right questions.

1,525

Hours of automatable work identified and built

An Irish professional services firm had staff manually processing documents that a workflow could handle. Acuity audited the process, quantified the hours, designed the automation, and built it within the firm's existing M365 environment.

100%

VAT compliance automated end-to-end

A cross-border property transaction platform was managing VAT calculations manually across multiple jurisdictions. Acuity designed and built an automated workflow that eliminated the manual process entirely and reduced compliance risk.

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Context

AI consulting in Ireland — what to look for

The Irish market for AI consulting has expanded rapidly since 2023. Much of what now carries that label is technology sales with a consulting wrapper.

The confusion is measurable. An IoD Ireland snap poll conducted in February–March 2026 found that 65% of Irish directors do not understand what the Government's new AI rules mean for their organisation (source: Irish Tech News). A William Fry survey published in May 2026 found 55% of large Irish businesses are unaware which EU laws apply to their AI use (source: RTÉ). That is the gap a structured EU AI Act readiness review and targeted AI training for Irish teams exist to close.

For the organisations Acuity works with — Irish SMEs, professional services firms, regulated entities, state bodies, and their boards — the risk is not that they move too slowly on AI. It is that they move in the wrong direction, with the wrong tools, on the advice of someone who stood to benefit from that choice. If your organisation has already rolled out Microsoft 365 Copilot and is not seeing the return, a Copilot adoption diagnostic is usually the fastest way to find out why.

Independence means the business model is independent. Acuity has no platform to licence, no vendor commissions, and no stake in which tools you choose — so the build-or-buy call, and the size of the engagement, are only ever what the problem actually requires.

We work with organisations across Ireland — Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, and remote-first teams operating across the island.

FAQ

Common questions

What should I look for in an AI consultancy?

Ask who will deliver the work, whether vendor commissions influence recommendations, and what a fixed fee includes. Look for relevant operational examples, a clear handover and a proportionate approach to governance.

What should I ask an AI advisory company before engaging them?

Ask about vendor partnerships, who owns delivery, the boundaries of the scope and how success will be checked. Request an example of comparable work and understand what you will be able to do when the engagement ends.

Do you work with regulated organisations?

Yes. Our work includes legal, financial services and public sector organisations. The scope takes account of how information is handled, who approves outputs and the governance the organisation needs.

What does an AI consultant actually do?

The work runs from diagnosis through to build and delivery. We identify where AI can create measurable value, assess the risks and obligations that come with adoption, design the solution, and implement it within your existing systems. That includes AI strategy, automation builds, governance frameworks, productivity programmes, board education, and EU AI Act compliance. The engagement ends when something has changed — not when the report is filed.

How is independent AI consulting different from working with a technology vendor?

A vendor's advice starts from their product and works backwards to your problem. Independent advisory starts from your problem and works forwards to whatever the right answer is — which sometimes involves no new technology at all. Acuity has no platform to sell, no partner commissions, and no interest in a larger engagement than your situation warrants.

What types of organisations do you work with?

Irish SMEs, professional services firms (legal, accounting, financial services), regulated organisations, state bodies, and boards. Our clients are typically senior leaders who want to use AI effectively and responsibly — and who need clear thinking, not a vendor pitch. We work across financial services, legal, healthcare, construction, public sector, and knowledge-intensive businesses.

What does it cost?

All engagements are fixed-fee with defined deliverables — no hourly billing, no open-ended retainers — and sized to fit Irish SMEs. The price is agreed in writing after a short scoping call, before any work begins. Smaller firms typically begin with a workshop or diagnostic and scale up to a full strategy, governance, or implementation programme only if and when it's the right next step. There are no surprises on either side.

What changes when the manual steps go?

Two examples of the work. These simplified walkthroughs explain the process using illustrative records, not client data or promised savings.

A client reminder cycle

The handler checks a spreadsheet, sends reminders and removes clients who have replied. The same checks happen again at the next stage.

With the workflow: the handler reviews the due list, sends the batch and sees confirmations reflected in the next list.

Discuss a process like this

Example: review before sending

Client A · documents outstanding: Include in reminder batch
Client B · receipt confirmed: Exclude from reminder batch
Client C · handler follow-up: Hold for review

The person approves the action. The workflow handles the repeatable steps.

A legal operations check

A fee earner works through records individually, checks the required information and chases missing items before the next stage.

With the workflow: complete records and exceptions are separated, so the person can concentrate on the decisions and checks that need judgement.

Read the engagement stories

Example: an exception list

Record A · required fields present: Ready for handler review
Record B · missing reference: Return for completion
Record C · conflicting figures: Check against source

A clear exception is more useful than an answer that hides uncertainty.

What would you like to stop doing by hand?

Tell us the task and the systems involved. We will reply within one working day to arrange a conversation and work out whether there is a useful next step.

Please describe the process without including client records, passwords or confidential documents.

Start with a conversation

No pitch. No proposal until we've spoken. An honest conversation about whether this is the right fit — and if it is, what the right starting point looks like.

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