Waterfront Ventures
House of Turing · A Waterfront Ventures company

Put AI to work,
with control.

House of Turing helps mid-sized businesses and SMEs adopt AI, govern and audit it, and make it stick.

AI readiness·Governance, risk and audit·Training and adoption·AI agents and automation·Tools for SMEs
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
Alan Turing, 1950

Alan Turing, often called the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, asked whether machines could do what we, as thinking people, can do. We ask a more practical question: can machines do what resource-strained teams need them to do? For small and medium-sized businesses, the answer is yes, with the right controls: AI that takes on the manual work, without the enterprise price tag, and with people firmly in charge.

Who we work with

Sound familiar?

If any of this describes where you are, we should talk.

Owners and managing directors

You know AI matters, but not where it fits in your business or what it should cost.

COOs and CFOs

You want a measurable return, not another pilot that goes nowhere.

HR and transformation leads

You need people to take up new ways of working, safely and with confidence.

IT, risk and compliance

You need control over which AI tools are used, by whom, and with what data.

Supply chain and operations teams

Data scattered across systems and spreadsheets, and decisions made on yesterday’s numbers.

Waterfront clients

The technology behind BankStreet’s planning, Convoy’s control tower and Second Tide’s recovery tracking.

A quick check

Is your business ready for AI?

If two or more of these sound familiar, a short readiness review is the place to start.

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Staff are using AI with no policy

People are already putting work into AI tools, and no one has agreed what is allowed.

The licences are paid for, but where is the return?

Copilot or another assistant is switched on, and nobody can say what has changed.

Your data isn’t ready

Information sits in spreadsheets and systems that don’t talk to each other.

You don’t know where to start

There are a hundred possible uses and no clear first step.

Customers or regulators are asking

Tenders, customers and insurers want to know how you control the AI you use.

What we do

Adopt. Govern. Embed. Build.

Four ways we help. Start wherever you are: most clients begin with a readiness review or with governance, then build.

All services
01 · Adopt

AI readiness and opportunities

Where AI can save time or improve decisions in your business, ranked by value, and what needs to be in place first.

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02 · Govern

AI governance, risk and audit

The policies, controls and checks that let you use AI with confidence, and show customers, insurers and regulators that you do.

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03 · Embed

AI adoption, training and change

Helping your people use AI well, safely and every day.

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04 · Build

Tools, agents and integration

When the plan needs new tools, we build them with established technology partners, on your own data and the systems you already have.

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How it works

Four steps. One outcome.

A clear sequence from first conversation to lasting result.

01

Discover

Where you are

How AI is used today, where it could help, and what is in the way.

02

Design

The plan and the guardrails

Priorities, policies and controls, agreed with the people who will own them.

03

Deliver

Small, then scale

Training, tools or builds, started with one team and tested before going wider.

04

Embed

Make it stick

Use and value tracked, controls reviewed, and support until it is simply how you work.

The House model

Different by design.

What you can hold us to on every piece of work.

How it works

The business question first

We start with the task or decision you want to improve, not the technology.

Plain English

Policies, training and reports your people can read and act on.

Something working early

A first result in weeks, tested with the people who will use it.

Fixed fees

Scope and fee agreed after a short call, before any work starts.

Audit kept separate from build

We never audit a system we built, so the findings stay honest.

People stay in charge

Human sign-off on the decisions that matter.

Selected partners

The right specialists, under one lead.

Readiness reviews, governance, audit and training are our own work, with our own methods and tools. For technical assurance and for building, we bring in selected partners: specialists we know, who work under our lead and to our standards.

Assurance

A second pair of eyes on the technology

Technical testing of AI systems for accuracy, bias, robustness and security, carried out by specialist testers alongside our governance and audit work, so you can show customers, insurers and regulators the evidence.

Build

Proven platforms, not blank pages

Established platforms and engineering partners for digital twins, AI agents, dashboards and integration, so you get working tools in weeks without paying for software to be written from scratch, and without being tied to one vendor.

How we work with them

Our lead, our standards

We choose partners for each piece of work on fit, manage them day to day and stay accountable for the result. Audit work is always kept separate from anything we helped to build.

Part of Waterfront Ventures

Connected to the wider group.

House of Turing builds the technology behind BankStreet’s planning, Convoy’s control tower and Second Tide’s recovery tracking, and works alongside Waterfront Advisory on operating models.

Waterfront AdvisoryStrategy, modelling and diagnosticsBankStreet PartnersProcurement, planning and working capitalConvoyLogistics orchestration

Ready to put AI to work?

Tell us where you are with AI. A short call is enough to agree a first step and a fixed fee.