I help leaders and boards think about and work with agentic AI, through challenge-led workshops and one-to-one coaching. I run YQUP this way myself, so what I coach is what I do.
Agentic AI is software that does more than answer a question. It takes steps, uses tools, and gets work done, with people deciding what it is for and checking what it did.
So the interesting question is rarely "which tool?". It is what you hand over, who owns it, and how you know it worked. That is what we talk about.
Book a conversation"What you hand over, who owns it, and how you know it worked."
The three questions behind every workshop and coaching session.Each of these starts the same way: a conversation.
Challenge-led. You bring a real rollout challenge and a picture of your data: what you have, where it lives, and roughly what state it is in. We work the challenge together in the room, with the people who will have to make it happen. You leave with practical rollouts you can start on, not a tour of tools.
Time with me on how you think about agentics and how you work with it: your decisions, your organisation, the agentic work in front of you. I coach from doing it. I run my own company with agents doing much of the work, so we talk about what actually happens, not what a vendor says will happen.
Free and short. Bring the live question you are stuck on. We will work out together whether a workshop, coaching, or neither is the right next step. This is the way in to the other two.
Real challenges, real data, and the people who will have to make it happen, working it through together.
A real rollout challenge and an honest picture of your data.
Practical rollouts and owners.
Leaders and boards at mid-size firms and corporations who need agentic AI to be useful, not just interesting. Any industry.
Based in London. Across the UK and the EU, and further afield when it makes sense.
More than a decade building communities. Along the way I have been a founder, CEO, CTO, advisor and board member, across product, data, operations and governance, including in regulated environments such as banking.
I run YQUP with agents doing much of the work. I check what they produce, because generating something and checking it are different jobs. That is the thread through everything I coach: people, agents and work woven together, with a person still holding the end of each thread.
The proof I can show you in public is the thinking and the practice. I write regularly at tonywood.org on agentic systems, governance and operations, and YQUP runs the free Chief Agentic Officer Briefing.
I would rather show you how I think than tell you who I have worked with.
Why outcomes, quality, attention, AI use and responsibility should become general management skills.
The gap between policies, assumptions and actual oversight.
A common operating layer for humans and agents: terms, moves, receipts, judgement and stop-line boundaries.
Each YQUP site explores one part of making agentic work useful, governed and visible.
Advisory and thinking
Board-level mandate
Visible coordination
Judgement engine
People and training
A chat can produce words. A harness lets an agentic worker see the work, use tools, change files, run checks, create reports, and bring evidence back for review.
Local files, repos, documents, data, and context are available instead of pasted fragments.
Code, scripts, browsers, checks, data tools, and plugins can be used inside the workflow.
The agent can update code, reports, pages, documents, and other working outputs.
Diffs, tests, previews, screenshots, logs, and smoke checks make quality inspectable.
Prompts, decisions, edits, evidence, and results become reviewable management records.
The important question is not which logo wins. Ask what work it can see, what tools it can use, what it can change, how it verifies, and what evidence it leaves behind.
JetBrains coding agent for IDE and terminal workflows, with project edits, command execution, tests, and approvals.
Open official page Europe / France Mistral VibeEuropean work and code agent for long-horizon tasks, company knowledge, tools, coding, deployment, and data residency options.
Open official page Europe / Germany n8n AI agentsWorkflow harness for tool-connected agents, logic, code, integrations, human-in-the-loop guardrails, and self-hosting.
Open official page Europe / France DustMultiplayer AI workspace where agents connect to company knowledge, tools, conversations, and team workflows.
Open official page Europe / Sweden LovableFull-stack AI development platform for turning natural language into editable, deployable web applications.
Open official pageThe Chief Agentic Officer Briefing is a short UK and Europe briefing on agentic AI, written for you to scan and for your assistant to read. YQUP runs it, and it is free. No account or payment needed.
The person or mandate that makes agentic work owned: what exists, what it may do, who can stop it, and what leaders can inspect afterwards.
The briefing supports your judgement. It does not replace legal, regulatory, director or management judgement.
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Tell me what you are trying to roll out and where it is getting stuck. We will work out whether a workshop, coaching, or neither is the right next step. The first conversation is free.
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