Improve a defined part of your business with a fixed-scope FORT, then keep it working with clear, bounded ongoing care. Senior engineering with delivery ownership — one defined outcome at a time.
Connect fragmented systems, remove repetitive administration, automate invoicing and payments, improve customer follow-up and make your business information useful.
Explore the growing-business routeBounded modernisation projects, integration, production readiness and delivery alongside your existing teams.
Explore enterprise deliveryHave a team or a vendor but no independent technical view? Monthly evidence-based reviews, system health checks and an authorised second opinion.
Explore technical oversightDescribe the system, the problem and the result you want. You will get a suggested first-FORT scope to review, keep or send to us. It is a starting point for discussion, rather than a quote.
Agree the improvement and our delivery fee before work starts. Choose optional monthly care for the delivered systems.
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A paid review of one agreed system or workflow. You receive findings, a baseline and a scoped proposal you can use with us or take elsewhere.
£400
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A focused delivery cycle, typically two weeks: one agreed improvement, a fixed delivery fee, acceptance criteria and a documented handover.
Focused
£1,750
Core
£3,250
Fixed for a published standard scope. Anything broader is a typical scoped engagement — we agree a fixed written quote before work starts.
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Optional monthly care within an agreed application or workflow boundary: scheduled checks, routine updates, reporting and small adjustments within the plan allowance. Care starts on the agreed date and is paid monthly in advance.
£350 / month
Prices exclude taxes and third-party charges. South African and UK prices are separate regional proposals, not currency conversions. Elsewhere, including the US, pricing is quoted per region on request.
Examples to discuss with us. Each needs an agreed written scope before work starts.
Connect capture, routing, acknowledgement and follow-up tasks, with exception handling and reporting to help your team spot missed enquiries.
Handoffs, reconciliations, approvals and reporting across the systems you already run — less re-typing, fewer manual chases.
Review overlapping tools, remove bounded duplication, migrate safely and document the resulting cost base — fewer subscriptions doing the same job.
MARCH is a six-month improvement programme, BASTION covers a broader twelve-month plan, and CITADEL is a five-year alliance with annual scopes. Choose a senior specialist, a multidisciplinary team or an AI-focused formation. Each programme has agreed measures, service terms and its own quote.
6 months · scoped quote
Six missions. Measurable momentum.
12 months · scoped quote
Twelve missions. One fortified base.
5 years · scoped quote
Five years. One enduring capability.
Plenty of businesses have tried AI tools. Far fewer have turned them into dependable capability inside their operations — with the right data, permissions, review and measurement. That integration work is the work we do.
Examples of work we can scope around your existing systems. These describe possible improvements, rather than completed client projects.
Illustrative example
Connect enquiry capture, routing and follow-up tasks to reduce re-keying and make missed handoffs visible.
Illustrative example
Sort requests, prepare draft replies and route exceptions for human review before a response is sent.
Illustrative example
Help staff find answers in approved documents and business records, with sources they can check.
Illustrative example
Recurring figures assembled from the systems that already hold them, checked before they go out.
Illustrative example
Bounded seams of legacy improvement — dependencies, testing and deployment brought forward incrementally.
Illustrative example
Summarise calls where recording is permitted, link reviewed notes to the client record and draft follow-up tasks.
Illustrative example
Connect checkout, recurring billing and accounting, with reconciliation checks and exceptions for a person to review.
Illustrative example
Give key indicators an agreed threshold, a named owner and a clear next action when a result needs attention.
Every engagement runs through the same discipline. Work has agreed acceptance criteria, appropriate human review, testing, traceable decisions and a clear handover — intent, behaviour, work, evidence, outcome, learning.
When a FORT needs several specialists, we assemble a team called the phalanx — senior engineers working to one agreed scope, assembled during Orchestrate and handed over at Transfer.
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Define the problem, baseline, constraints and acceptance criteria.
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Assemble the people, systems and tools needed.
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Build, integrate and test the agreed capability.
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Deploy appropriately, document, train and hand over.
A FORT is typically a two-week delivery cycle — the length of a fortnight, which is where the name comes from. A larger programme runs as several linked FORTs — never as a promise that an enterprise transformation fits in a fortnight. How FORT turns a problem into a defined outcome
Speak Agile?
A FORT is a sprint — one fortnight long, running the cadence your teams already know: plan, deliver, review, improve. What differs is what's inside the cycle: Frame, Orchestrate, Realise, Transfer — with evidence and handover built into the cycle. FORTs fit alongside Scrum or Kanban; they don't replace your ceremonies or claim anyone's certifications. The full translation
The opportunity extends beyond first-time adoption: businesses also need help turning individual AI tools into dependable operational capabilities. That reading is ours — the figures below are sourced.
~400 million
SMEs worldwide
Estimate, global, all SMEs. Treat as an attributed estimate.
Source: World Economic Forum SME Resource Hub
≈20%
EU enterprises using AI
Enterprises with 10+ employed, EU, 2025. Size split: 17% small, 30.4% medium, 55% large.
Source: Eurostat, 2025
31%
SMEs using generative AI
Representative 2024 survey, 5,000+ SMEs across seven countries. Among users, 29% report use in core business activities.
Source: OECD, 2024 publication
Rising, uneven
Adoption vs integration
Increasing adoption but uneven strategic and secure integration. Non-representative sample: 2,000+ SMEs, 12 countries.
Source: OECD, April 2026
Our own breakdown of these numbers — full source links, caveats and what each figure can and cannot support: AI adoption in 2026: what the headline numbers actually say.
Start with a single defined outcome. Grow the relationship only where it keeps earning its place.
A defined outcome and a scoped delivery cycle — typically a two-week FORT with agreed acceptance criteria and a clean handover.
Fixed scope per FORT; linked FORTs for larger programmes.
Ongoing access to a fractional digital department: the systems you depend on kept healthy, improved steadily and extended when the business needs it.
Sized to your systems and roadmap after the first delivery.
Delivery support for agencies and partners: our senior engineers behind your client work, under your brand and your client relationship.
Terms shaped per partnership.
Cooper Agile is led by Troy Changfoot, with Neil Riedel bringing an enterprise engineering perspective to our technical direction. You work directly with the people who shape the work — never through account layers.
A retrospective on five years of business AI — what launched, what changed, and why integration became the hard part.
Period covered: 2022
On 30 November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT — and AI moved from a specialist topic to something any director could try in a lunch break.
Period covered: 2023
GPT-4's launch in March 2023 raised the ceiling on AI-assisted writing, coding and analysis — and made verification and data handling first-order business concerns.
Period covered: 2024
GPT-4o's May 2024 announcement brought documents, images and voice into everyday AI use — and widened what businesses could hand to a model.
Bring us the bottleneck, the disconnected process or the next platform challenge. We’ll help define a sensible first step.