Augmentyour business.

Sell more. Do more.

Our mission is to bring you closer to your customers, pairing AI with deep commercial experience so your market sees you, your teams work faster and your sales grow.

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Teams we have worked with

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For the CEO

Grow faster and run leaner, with AI your board will back.

For the CMO

Know what your buyers want before you spend a pound reaching them.

For the CRO

Warmer conversations and shorter sales cycles, because your market already knows why it should buy from you.

For the COO

A leaner and faster operation, with tools that give your people time back and fit the software you already use.

For the investor

Diligence on the AI and the story behind what you are buying or selling.

Current projects

Building at thefrontier of AI.

We build what needs to be built, take it to market and augment the way you work, using AI at every step. Here is what we are building right now.

1,000synthetic AI customers read every letter

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Dutified

Customer communications and financial promotions tested in minutes against the Consumer Duty rules, using AI customers.

An AI product for financial services. Synthetic customers modelled on published UK consumer research read every letter, email and web page and report what customers understand and where they struggle. Now in pilot with UK firms.

What we built

  • The product, built with frontier AI
  • A UK consumer model calibrated to large published studies
  • Feedback by Consumer Duty lens and customer type
  • An agent that tracks regulatory change
  • Brand, website and onboarding
  • A growing database of studies that baselines every synthetic response
See Dutified
Fort Nevis seal

100 secondsto stop AI attacks, outside and in

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Fort Nevis

Defending companies from AI attacks, inside and out.

Fort Nevis defends companies from AI in two ways: from attacks outside the business that move at AI speed, and from agents inside it that conspire or go rogue. Its SARA engine finds and closes the gaps in outside defences and Genesis keeps internal agents under control. It was founded by former CIOs and CISOs from insurance, banking and payments.

What we are building with them

  • Category and story
  • Website and product film
  • CISO advisory board
  • Founder webinars
  • Community in the UK, Europe and US
  • Introductions to investors
See Fort Nevis
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One joined-up team.

Strategy, marketing, design and AI usually come from separate agencies and consultancies. We bring the right specialists from our network into one team for each piece of work, so the story you tell matches the product you build.

What it does for you

  • Win customers faster
  • Beat your competitors on proposition
  • Keep customers longer
  • Give your people hours back

Our methodology for great outcomes with AI

The AI Strategy Triangle.

We build AI from the ground up, starting with security and governance, then operations that run faster and cost less, then propositions your market wants to buy. Starting at the top tends to leave data and AI tools in silos and returns still waiting.

Read the framework at The Executive Summary
VALUECustomerpropositions PRODUCTIVITYGrowth operations SAFETYSecurity and governance
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We teach itAI courses for leadership teams through The Executive Summary.

The City CIO Club

We share itAI briefings and dinners with senior technology leaders at the City CIO Club.

How we help you sell more and do more.

Sell more by changing how your market sees you, with sales and marketing brought closer to your customers. Do more by changing how you work, with new products and services we design and build just for you.

Sell more · Value

Get closer to your customers and win more of them.

We find out what your customers want, shape the proposition and the story around it and take it to market, using AI and synthetic customers to move faster and test before you spend.

  • Customer insight in days
  • A story your market understands
  • Propositions and products
  • Faster go to market
  • Sales that land with the C-suite

Do more · Productivity

Take the friction and cost out of how your business runs.

We design and build the agents, apps and platforms that take friction and cost out of how you sell and serve, made to fit your teams and the systems you already run.

  • AI agents and automation
  • Apps and platforms in weeks
  • Websites and checkouts that are easy to buy from
  • AI security and governance
  • Replace software you pay too much for

What we build with AI

What AI can do for your business today.

These are the jobs AI does well today, and the first one is usually running within weeks.

We run our own businesses this way. Agents handle research, bookings, events and outreach across The Executive Summary and the City CIO Club, with a person approving everything that goes out. Our AI architects map how the work flows, design the agents and build them to fit the systems you already run.

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Synthetic research

Test messages, offers and pages on synthetic customers before anyone real sees them.

02

Outreach

Prospecting and personal outreach run by agents, with a person approving every message.

03

Answer engine visibility

Make sure ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google name you when buyers ask who to call.

04

Instant landing pages

A page for every campaign, segment or event, live the same day.

05

Websites and web apps

Sites, portals and web apps built in weeks and kept up to date.

06

Design

Brand, campaigns and collateral produced in days.

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Bespoke CRM

A CRM built around how you sell, without paying for features you never use.

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Research and proposals

Market research in hours and first drafts of proposals and bids in minutes.

09

Automation

Workflows that move information between your systems and chase the steps people forget.

10

Data and reporting

Your numbers in one place, with plain-English answers to the questions you ask of them.

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Customer and employee support

Assistants that answer customers and staff day and night, with people on the hard cases.

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Admin

Bookings, scheduling, expenses and the rest of the weekly paperwork.

Start with a friction audit. We map where your team’s time goes, pick the three jobs worth handing to AI first and have the first one working within weeks.

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What they say.

Sales teams we have coached and equipped have gone on to close more than $1bn, for clients from IBM and Microsoft to Cognizant and Virgin Money.

IBM
“Dan held the mirror up to us. Simple techniques, client first. Has it worked? You bet. Win rates are up.”
Christine WyattGeneral Manager, GBS, IBM
Nordea
“Differentiation in banking is hard and they really helped us crack that. Once we had our story, we drove some amazing results.”
Ewan MacLeodChief Digital Officer, Nordea Bank
Virgin Money
“They took a complex product, turned it into a simple story with a great commercial plan, and implemented it.”
Iain GibbonsCustomer Director, Virgin Money
Cognizant
“They nail the brief each time. They understand the challenge of landing messaging in large, matrixed organisations.”
Irene SandlerVP Global Marketing, Cognizant
BBVA
“Instrumental in helping us figure out how we position ourselves in the innovation space, with measurable, data-driven impact.”
Chris SempleGlobal Lead, Innovation, BBVA
Moonfare
“In a thorough and engaging process, Dan helped us develop a clear architecture for brand and messaging we could implement across every channel.”
Yuri NarcissManaging Director, Moonfare
Embridge Consulting
“The response we have had from customers and the market since launching our enhanced messaging has been phenomenal.”
Emma O'BrienCEO, Embridge Consulting
Hatch
“They smashed it. We had struggled for years to describe what we do. They got to know us, then created a whole new concept.”
Matt SimsManaging Director, Hatch
GFT
“It's been critical and has forced us to be direct with customers about what we do.”
Carlton HopperManaging Director, GFT
The Data Privacy Group
“The Mirror showed us exactly where we were in the market, where we needed to be, and how we could get there.”
Ian BornerCEO, The Data Privacy Group
Dan Ilett, CEO of The Proposition

A word from our CEO

“Our mission is to bring companies closer to their customers. I spent years interviewing the chief executives of the world’s biggest companies and running commercial transformation inside a FTSE technology business, and the fastest growers always understood their customers first. AI now lets us find out what your customers want faster and act on it for less.”

Dan IlettCEO, The Proposition

Meet Dan

We teach the leaders deciding what AI does next.

Through our sister company, The Executive Summary, and the City CIO Club we run courses, cohorts, workshops and dinners for chief executives and technology leaders working out how AI changes their organisations. What we learn alongside them keeps our work for clients ahead of the market.

The things people ask first.

Who is this for?

B2B companies that want to sell more and do more, and the CEOs, CMOs, CROs, COOs and investors behind them.

What problem do you solve?

Two problems sit behind slow growth: a market that has yet to see why it should choose you, and teams buried in work that AI could take off their hands. We fix the first by changing your story and how you go to market, and the second by building the tools and agents that change how you work.

What changes?

Your market sees sooner why it should choose you, your sales team spends its time with the right buyers and your people get hours back every week.

Who will I be working with?

A senior team led by Dan Ilett, with specialists from our network in research, AI engineering, design, data and sales enablement brought in for each piece of work.

How do we start?

With one of two small first steps: a half-day Mirror workshop that shows how your market sees you, or a friction audit that finds the three jobs worth handing to AI first.

How is it priced?

Fixed prices, with a clear scope and timeline agreed before we start.

Can AI just do this?

AI can write words and code quickly. Knowing which words your market will believe and which jobs are worth automating comes from asking the right questions and long experience, so we use AI for speed and keep the judgement with people.

Do you use AI?

We use it every day, with agents running much of our research and our own businesses running on the tools we build for clients. We are members of the Claude Partner Network and the judgement on a high-value decision stays with people.

We want to rebuild marketing around AI. Can you help?

Yes, we map where your team’s time goes, build the agents and workflows that take on the production work and train your people to run them.

Where do we start with AI in operations?

With a friction audit. We map where your team’s time goes, pick the three jobs worth handing to AI first and have the first one working within weeks, with your people approving what goes out.

Will it work with our systems?

Yes, we build to work with the systems you already run, then hand over to your team or your integrator so it keeps running after we leave.

Who can help us use AI in sales and marketing?

The Proposition, a London AI company led by Dan Ilett. We find out what your customers want, build the propositions, sites and outreach engines that win them and use AI to take friction and cost out of how you sell and serve.

What is synthetic customer research?

Synthetic customer research tests messages, offers and pages on AI customers modelled on published consumer and buyer research, so you see what lands before anyone real reads it. We built Dutified on the same approach for financial services.

Where do you work?

We are based in London and work with leadership teams around the world.

Speak to us

Tell us where growth is stalling or where work is slowing you down, and we will come back to you within a working day.