Tim Daines Let's Connect
Applied AI · Operations, Strategy & Delivery

Hi, I’m Tim.

I believe the gap between AI’s promise and real results isn’t technical, it’s human intersection. After 20 years shipping software and AI into production, I help COOs' and teams cut through the hype and get lasting value.

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Tim Daines
T01_trusted by organisations
T02_For companies

Guiding leaders to turn AI ambition into results.

“$75M cut from operational costs to fund GenAI. 8,000+ staff embedded in AI to improve healthcare outcomes.”

Work delivered across NHS, BP, GSK and global supply chains.

01

AI in business operations

Putting GenAI and Agentic AI to work inside real operations, from supply chain, logistics, ERP, and the back-office workflows where AI has to survive contact with the business and actually pay for itself.

Agentic Super Sprint
02

Strategic foresight

Guiding leadership teams to see what GenAI and Agentic AI really means for their market, then turning it into an implementation roadmap, Product Requirements, and prototypes to test value.

AI Strategy Sprint
03

Fractional product AI leadership

C-level Data & AI product leadership without the full-time hire. Vision, metrics, delivery, and team upskilling, embedded alongside your people.

Knowledge and Consulting
T03_For individuals

Accelerate your own AI career.

Learning and guidance for the professionals who have to make AI work in the room.

01

AI Product Management

A structured course for PMs, designers, and engineers shipping AI in the real world. Mentored, practical, regulated-ready.

Take the work apart
02

AI product surgery

A focused, on-demand session to unstick a real AI product problem. Bring the mess; leave with a diagnosis and clear next steps.

Hands on Agentic AI
03

Coaching & mentoring

One-to-one coaching for product and AI leaders. A clear plan, and the accountability to actually follow it.

Schedule a call

Not sure where AI fits? Let’s find out together.

Book a free 15-minute call. Tell me where you’re stuck; leave with a clear next step.

Book time with Tim
T04_What I stand for

Four things I won’t compromise on.

01

Substance over hype

Signal, not AI theatre. I help people see the difference.

02

Production, not demos

The work that survives long after the AI pilot.

03

People first

Empathy for the humans in and around the AI loop.

04

Vision meets delivery

Strategy you can actually see, not a slide deck.

Tim Daines
T05_My story

“The gap between AI’s promise and reality isn’t technical. It’s human.”

Across 20 years, and a decade inside enterprise delivery, I kept seeing the same pattern: brilliant technology, stalled by human behaviour.

Unclear strategy, untrained teams, leaders overwhelmed by the pace of change.

This insight reshaped how I work. Today I guide COOs, CFOs, and product teams, with applied GenAI and Agentic AI, helping organisations turn AI ambition into things that actually ship, from llfe science labs, to Oil & Gas refineries, and global supply chains.

My thesis is simple: Correctly architected technology plus better people equals real business value. I help organisations build both.

Book a call with me
T06_Newsletter

Field notes on building AI products that actually ship. Read by builders, operators, and the CXOs who fund them. No hype, just what works.

T07_In their words

What people say after working with me.

Tim turned a sceptical exec team into AI builders. Within a quarter we had a governed agent in production, saving the operations team a day a week.
COO Global pharma supply chain
No theatre, no jargon. Tim walked us through what GenAI actually meant for our roadmap and what it didn’t. The PRD he left us with funded itself.
CPO European retail bank
The first AI advisor we’ve worked with who has shipped this stuff at our scale. He upskilled the team alongside delivering the work.
Director of Digital NHS Trust
T08_FAQs

Questions I hear a lot.

01 Who do you typically work with?

COOs, operations leaders, and product leaders inside enterprises, especially in regulated or high-stakes sectors: healthcare, life sciences, oil & gas, hospitality supply chains and banking.

02 What does a first engagement look like?

A free 15-minute call to understand the problem. If it’s a fit, we usually start with a short, scoped sprint (Agentic Super Sprint or AI Strategy Sprint) so you get real output, fast, before any longer commitment.

03 Do you build, or just advise?

Both. I lead the strategy and PRDs, and I stay close enough to delivery to know what actually ships. For fractional engagements I sit alongside your team week to week.

04 How do you charge?

Fixed-fee for sprints, day-rate for advisory, monthly retainer for fractional product AI leadership. I’ll quote on the call once we’ve scoped the work.

05 I’m an individual, not a company. Can you still help?

Yes. The AI Product Management course, AI product surgery sessions, and 1:1 coaching are all designed for individual practitioners. Start with the “For individuals” cards above.

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