for UK HR consultants
AI workflow assessment for UK HR consultants - cut the drafting and casework admin behind every client.
A retainer is priced on advice and spent on documents. The 60 minutes goes to your own consultancy rather than a client's - contracts and handbooks, policy updates when the legislation moves, triaging client queries, casework notes and documentation, onboarding and offboarding packs, the retainer report at month end. What you get back is the sort of document you write for clients, only this one is about your own firm, and it is ordered by what buys back the most drafting time.
The drafting and documenting behind every client on the retainer list.
Clients pay you for advice and for someone competent being on the other end of the phone. What fills the week is the writing that goes with it: a contract built out of a template and a role description, a handbook clause rewritten because the law moved, notes from a difficult meeting typed up properly because somebody else may read them later, an onboarding pack, the offboarding version of the same pack, and a month-end report that has to show a client what their retainer bought.
You are the firm other businesses ring when their own admin goes wrong, which makes it uncomfortable how much of your week goes on paperwork. A retainer priced on advice quietly turns into a document-production service. Legislation changes once and every handbook you have ever written needs the same paragraph typing into it, client by client, in each client's own wording.
Everyone tells HR consultancies that AI is coming for the advice. The hour goes to the drafting and the documenting instead, because that is where the week actually goes, and the plan is ranked by hours back against the effort of standing each fix up.
The drafting, casework and reporting admin behind a retainer book - and what it is worth fixing.
We do not put a headline figure on HR-consultancy admin, and the hours on our sample findings sheet are an illustrative shape rather than a forecast for your firm. Your client book decides it - a retained book of small employers produces steady, repeatable paperwork, while project and casework clients arrive in lumps. What recurs across the consultancies we assess is a short list: contract and handbook drafting, policy updates, client query triage, casework documentation, onboarding and offboarding packs, and retainer reporting.
We go through a fortnight of your own client work, consultant by consultant - what was drafted, what was answered, what was reported - and the report ranks what that exercise turns up.
Run your own numbers in the admin cost calculator, or read the full breakdown in where proposal writing time leaks in UK consultancies.
More on that in the admin drain hiding in UK small businesses.
The assessment is £799 - and the week we measure is your own, not a client's.
Your six biggest time sinks - and what we do about each one.
We map your whole consultancy in the 60-minute session, then work backwards to the drains worth fixing first. Here is how that lands on the specific admin HR consultants feel.
Contract and handbook drafting
The same employment contract, rebuilt for a different job title, a different notice period and a different set of client quirks. We pull apart your last few drafting jobs and work out how much of each was genuinely new wording. The clauses that carry risk still get a consultant's eyes before anything leaves the office.
Policy updates when the law changes
A change lands, and it has to reach every client you look after, in their wording and on their letterhead. We time what a single update costs you across the book today, and where the rollout can be drafted in one pass instead of client by client.
Client query triage
The email that turns out to be a quick answer sitting next to the one that turns out to be a tribunal risk, arriving in the same inbox with nothing to tell them apart. We group your incoming queries by what each actually requires, so the routine ones get a drafted reply and the serious ones reach a consultant sooner than they do now.
Casework notes and documentation
Meeting notes written up carefully because a disciplinary or grievance file has to stand up if anyone ever reads it back. We set out where a first-pass summary can come from a recording your client has consented to, and where a consultant has to write it themselves. What the process should be is never a system's decision.
Onboarding and offboarding packs
Starter packs, induction schedules, right-to-work checklists, then the leaver version of all of it, assembled per client and per role. We single out the parts of those packs that come out identical every time and the parts that genuinely follow the client's own policy.
Retainer reporting
The month-end summary showing a client what their retainer bought - the cases, the documents, the advice given - written by hand from a timesheet and memory. We trace where that reporting data already sits in your own systems, so the report gets drafted rather than reconstructed.
What this is - and what it isn’t.
The assessment is a diagnostic and a plan. Within two working days of your call you get a passcode-protected report: the AI and automation opportunities we have found for your consultancy, named tools with costs and setup time, step-by-step recipes, a prompt library, an impact-versus-effort ranking, and ROI worked out on your real numbers. It is written in plain English so you can act on it - no technical background needed.
It is guidance, not us doing the work for you. If the report flags something worth building - a policy-update drafting assistant, say - the Custom AI Agent Build is a separate product from £949, scoped case by case. If you would rather implement the report’s quick wins yourself with someone beside you, the Implementation Kickstart (£349, 90 minutes) is there for that. The assessment always comes first.
The kind of result we publish.
Real clients, in their own words - the full story, what we found, and the measurable change in their week.
“Knowing something and doing something are completely different things.”
Questions HR consultants ask us.
Our advice is the product. Are you suggesting AI gives it?
Employment law changes constantly. Won't a system get it wrong?
Client case files are sensitive. Is this safe?
Is £799 worth it for a small consultancy?
One payment. A written plan,
a video walkthrough, and someone
checking in to make sure it happens.
A diagnostic session, personalised report, video walkthrough, and follow-up support. One payment, no ongoing costs.
Find out where your consultancy's own hours actually go.
Book a 60-minute diagnostic. Get a report built around your consultancy within two working days, a video walkthrough, and follow-up support. Money back if it doesn't show at least 5 hours a week worth reclaiming.
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