How we got here
Between us we spent the better part of fifteen years in large software businesses. Enterprise SaaS, commercial operations, the kind of environment where the answer to any problem was another platform and a six-month project.
We were around when AI started getting real budgets. By 2022 the boards we sat near were approving proper spend. Consultancies were deploying teams. Results were coming through that were hard to dismiss.
The thing that bothered us was how little of it reached the businesses we knew outside that world. A fit-out contractor running 30 people. A haulage firm that had been manually reconciling the same spreadsheet every Monday for years. An accountancy practice where month-end close still ate four days. None of them were behind the curve. Most ran tight ships. But nobody had built for them. The platforms needed enterprise contracts to justify the price. The consultancies billed by the day and needed big clients to make it work.
We came north to fix that. No enterprise pricing. No six-month timelines. No jargon. Just practical AI that pays for itself in weeks, not quarters.
We are based in the north east, which is not accidental. The businesses we work with are spread across the North of England and up into Scotland: owner-managed, running on real margins, with no patience for projects that take quarters to show anything. Most of the consultancy market has walked straight past them. We think that is a significant mistake.
Who's Behind It
Mark started his career as a sales engineer before moving into commercial leadership roles across SaaS and enterprise software. He has spent years sitting across the table from business owners, understanding what actually drives revenue and where the operational friction lives. At gofasterwith.ai, Mark leads strategy, working with clients to identify the highest-impact opportunities and designing AI roadmaps that align with how their business actually runs, not how a textbook says it should.
Ben cut his teeth as a sales engineer before spending years in commercial operations, building and scaling the systems that keep software businesses running. He knows what it feels like when the tools are supposed to help but the processes are still held together with spreadsheets and goodwill. At gofasterwith.ai, Ben leads execution, turning strategy into working AI systems, embedding them into existing workflows, and making sure the people who use them every day actually want to.
Built for Small Business Reality
The Entrepreneurial Mindset
We've run businesses. We know the difference between a shiny demo and a tool that actually moves the needle on Tuesday morning. Every recommendation is grounded in practical outcomes, not technical novelty.
Efficiency First, Always
Every solution we recommend must save at least 5x its implementation cost in time or revenue within 90 days. If we can't prove the ROI, we won't propose it. Your budget is too important for experiments.
Built for Small Business Reality
No six-month implementations. No enterprise-priced platforms. No dedicated IT team required. We design for businesses where the owner is also the ops manager, the sales lead, and the CFO.
Across the North
We work with businesses across the north of England and Scotland. Follow any link for AI guides written specifically for firms in that area.
Accountancy practices
Construction firms
“We built this to help people like you get their lives back. Not just their businesses, their lives. Because when you aren't drowning in busywork, you remember why you started in the first place.”
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