Accredited · Fully funded until August 2026
AI training for your team, before you commit to anything.
We run accredited AI training courses (normally £650 + VAT per person per day) at no charge until August 2026. Practical, role-specific, and certified. Courses cover AI for cost reduction, operational performance improvement, and combined transformation. A useful way to understand what AI can realistically do for your business before engaging any vendor.
Online or in-person · at your office or in your city
How we deliver it
Our platform.
Owlpen.
Owlpen is our proprietary intelligence platform, purpose-built to find, verify, and sustain cost reductions and operational performance improvements across every area of your business. It powers every Coaley Peak engagement.
Compatible with Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama, Mistral, and others. BYOK available. Full compatibility →
Owlpen
Verified cost reduction and performance improvement, independently confirmed, billed only from results.
Connects to your existing platforms, maps every workflow against your cost base, and benchmarks spend and throughput against sector peers. Owlpen can target cost savings, efficiency gains, or both simultaneously. £0 upfront. No retainers.
15–30%
Cost savings, typically
20–40%
Efficiency gain, typically
Share of results
Billing model
£0
Setup cost
Figures are illustrative. Billing is a pre-agreed share of independently verified savings or performance gains. Actual results depend on your cost base, industry, and scope, confirmed during your process audit. No invoice is raised until results are verified.
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How it works
Powered by Owlpen →Identify
We map the tasks your team is handling that AI can take on, without disrupting what's already working.
Build
We configure AI to handle volume tasks inside your existing tools. No new software, no retraining.
Deploy
AI handles the repetitive, high-volume work. Your team handles decisions, exceptions, and relationships.
Verify & invoice
We measure output increase independently. You only pay from confirmed capacity gained.
£0 upfront
Our only revenue is a pre-agreed share of verified savings. Zero to get started.
Independent verification
Every saving confirmed by a qualified third party before we invoice. Funded by us.
Missed targets? Up to £10,000 back.
If we miss agreed targets, we pay up to £10,000. Applies to contracts started after 24 March 2026.
Research & insight
Thought leadership
Whitepapers, guides, and analysis from the Coaley Peak team. Request by email to receive the download link.
Scaling without hiring: how UK mid-market firms are growing output
How UK businesses increased capacity without proportional headcount growth, covering automation, process redesign, AI tools, and commercial model changes.
The hidden cost of hiring: why headcount isn't always the answer
Beyond salary and NI: the full cost of a new hire (including time to productivity, management overhead, and the option value of not hiring) modelled across different roles.
How to identify what to automate before your next hire
A practical framework for mapping team capacity against business need, and determining which functions can be automated, which need process redesign, and which genuinely need headcount.
Headcount and capacity benchmarks by sector: UK 2025
Revenue-per-employee ratios, automation adoption rates, and capacity utilisation benchmarks across professional services, manufacturing, retail, and technology.
Find out what AI can handle for your team.
We start with a capacity audit. If we can't find meaningful automation opportunities, we'll tell you upfront.
Document reference: ISO_webpage_usecase-scale-without-headcount_v1
Last modified: 24 March 2026
Use Cases·Scale Without Headcount