AI Advisory — London
Enterprise AI is won in the last ten yards.
Ten Yards is a London advisory firm for the agentic era. We guide enterprises from AI ambition to autonomous, autopiloted operations — agents in production, not demos on stage.
References
Enterprise experience with the world's most demanding brands.
Delivered with our engineering partner, Retter.
The Shift
Software is learning to act.
01
Software becomes agents
The interface era is closing. Work moves from screens and clicks to delegated intent — agents that plan, act and report back, supervised by your people.
02
Operations move to autopilot
Campaigns launch themselves. Reviews moderate themselves. Anomalies resolve before anyone is paged. Humans set the rules and own the exceptions.
03
Speed begins to compound
Every agent you land makes the next one cheaper. The enterprises that reach production this year will be difficult to catch in three.
Services
Counsel for the whole distance.
From the first board conversation to the day your operations run themselves — four practices, one standard: production.
01
AI Strategy & Roadmap
A clear-eyed map of where agents create value in your business — and in what order. Ninety days to a costed, sequenced plan your board can sign.
02
Agentic Systems Design
Architecture for agents that act: integrated with your ERP, commerce and data estate, with guardrails, audit trails and human approval where it matters.
03
Autopilot Operations
Chosen workflows taken from human-driven to human-supervised — pricing, promotions, support, fraud, reporting. Measured, reversible, observable.
04
Governance & Enablement
Policies, permissions and controls so autonomy never outruns accountability — and the training so your teams direct agents rather than compete with them.
The Last Ten Yards
Named for the hardest stretch.
Most AI programmes cover the first ninety yards with ease — the vision, the strategy deck, the demo. They stall where it matters: legacy systems, live data, regulation, people. Ten Yards exists for exactly that ground.
Assess
Two weeks inside your business. Where agents pay, where they don’t, and what stands in the way.
Design
The target architecture and operating model — agents, guardrails, integrations — sequenced into a plan.
Prove
A production pilot on real systems and real data. Working software, demoed weekly — not slideware.
Land
Scaled into operations with governance in place and your team in command. Zero yards left.
Why Ten Yards
Advice with running systems behind it.
Ten Yards is the advisory practice of the team behind Retter — a decade spent engineering commerce and loyalty platforms for global brands. What we recommend in the boardroom is drawn from what we operate in production.
10+
years engineering enterprise platforms
100K+
daily transactions on systems our team built
0
downtime at global scale
Weeks
from decision to production, not quarters
Contact
Bring us your last ten yards.
We work from London with enterprises across Europe, the Gulf and beyond. If your AI programme must move from promise to production, we should talk.