Services

Five ways to work with a senior practitioner who builds the thing rather than recommending it.

Goldseam offers five services: AI consulting (work out where AI pays off, then build it), process automation (remove a specific manual bottleneck), n8n consulting (implement and fix n8n workflows), fractional AI leadership (a senior owner for the AI agenda) and fractional CTO (part-time leadership of the whole technology function). All are delivered personally, in weeks rather than quarters, with the ROI measured rather than assumed.

Which one do you need?

They overlap, and it doesn't much matter if you pick the wrong one - the first conversation sorts that out. But if you'd rather work it out yourself, start from the situation you're actually in:

Fractional CTO

Technology decisions are queuing behind someone who has no time to make them.

Part-time ownership of the whole technology function - architecture, delivery, the engineering team and the hiring - by someone who is still in the codebase.

The judgement of a CTO, at the cadence you actually need it.

Fractional AI Leadership

You need the judgement of a senior technical leader, not a full-time hire.

One to three days a week of hands-on fractional CTO or Head of AI support: strategy your board can follow, and delivery that actually ships.

Senior cover without the salary or the search.

AI Consulting

You know AI should help, but not where it pays off.

Discovery with your senior stakeholders, an honest read on which use cases are worth it, then the highest-value one built and put into production.

From uncertainty to something running, in weeks.

Process Automation

You already know which manual process is bleeding hours.

The bottleneck mapped with the people who actually do the work, then automated properly - error handling, monitoring, and the ROI measured against a real baseline.

Typically 60-70% of the time on that task, back.

n8n Consulting

You've settled on n8n, or you're running it and it keeps breaking.

Hands-on implementation, review and repair of n8n workflows - self-hosted or cloud, plain automation or AI-powered - by someone who builds on it daily.

Workflows that survive contact with production.

How engagements are structured

Two models, both deliberately short.

Fixed-price projects

A clear deliverable at a clear price - typically 5-20 days of work spread across 4-8 weeks, 50% up front and 50% on delivery. Best for a specific automation, a proof-of-value pilot, or a first phase that has to earn the next one.

Fractional leadership (day rate or retainer)

Ongoing strategic guidance and hands-on delivery, one to three days a week, for as long as it's useful. Best when you need senior technical judgement in the room without opening a full-time role.

What you get either way

One senior practitioner: 20 years of hands-on delivery across 8+ industries. No junior analysts, no bench.
Working software, not a deck: deployed into your environment, with error handling and monitoring, not a prototype.
Measured ROI: the time and cost saved compared against a real baseline, so the value is evidenced rather than claimed.
A clean exit: documentation and training so your team owns and extends what I build. Dependency is not the business model.
Vendor neutrality: the right tool for the job. I have no reseller margin to protect.

Does it actually pay for itself?

I'll work with you to build a scope around your budget and objectives, before we begin you'll have a measurable ROI and a business case that writes itself. Some previous examples from my case studies:

CRM data pipeline automation - £50,700 saved annually
AI-powered sales qualification - 67% increase in closed-won rate, £56K ARR added from the same pipeline
Month-end close automation - 70% reduction in close time
Fintech user onboarding - hours to minutes, £13,300 saved annually

If you'd rather read first

Each of these answers the question that usually comes before picking a service:

Is this process even ready to automate? - the five-question test, before you spend anything
How do I prove it will pay for itself? - the 60-day pilot, scoped around one number
Fractional, a full-time hire, or the Big Four? - what each is genuinely good at
Should I build it, buy it, or integrate it? - the third option most SMEs skip
Which automation platform? - n8n, Zapier and Make compared on cost, control and complexity

The full insights section covers the rest, and about covers who you'd be working with.

Still not sure which one?

Then start with the problem rather than the service. Book a call, describe what's slowing you down, and I'll tell you which of the five fits - or that none of them do, which happens and is worth knowing early.