Governance
Your teams are already using AI informally, often without governance, consistency or shared standards.
For Media · Publishing · Risk · Compliance · Research · Health · Insurance · Third Sector
Build the AI capability your board, clients and colleagues now expect.
Mathison helps specialist firms move from AI curiosity to working tools, trained teams and board-ready strategy, without hiring a full AI department.
"Mathison is a lean, senior AI taskforce that helps ambitious organisations move faster, solve harder problems and create outsized impact."
Led by Mark Riley, former Dow Jones innovation executive. Trusted by teams at News Corp · BBC Studios · Hearst · Qualcomm.
Book a Free 30-Min CallSelected organisations we have worked with
The AI Capability Gap
Most firms are experimenting with AI.
Very few are turning it into advantage.
The gap between experimentation and execution is where competitive advantage is won and lost.
Clients
Your clients and partners increasingly expect faster research, smarter reporting and AI-enhanced service delivery.
Boards
Your leadership team wants AI upside without IP leakage, hallucination risk or reputational damage.
Colleagues
Give your team the superpowers to increase productivity and do more rewarding work.
AI Transformation
True transformation moves AI thinking beyond efficiencies and into new products and services.
Moat
The real advantage is not model access. It is your data, workflows, expertise and ability to execute.
The Mathison Method
Four ways to work together
A clear path from understanding AI to owning it, designed to move your firm forward at the right pace.
Step 01
EducateAI Bootcamp
A full-day session that gets your leadership team aligned around use cases, risks and opportunities specific to media, publishing, risk and research firms.
From £3.5k / day · 2 facilitators
- ->Industry-specific AI use cases for your sector
- ->Risks, governance and IP for professional firms
- ->Competitive landscape and where rivals are moving
- ->Written action plan delivered post-session
Step 02
AdviseAI Advisory Retainer
We embed with your leadership team as your fractional AI thinking partner, helping clients move from strategy to execution every month.
From £1.5k / month
- ->Monthly strategic session with Mark
- ->Advice on new use cases and workflow efficiencies
- ->AI tool selection and vendor management
- ->Quarterly AI capability benchmark for your sector
- ->Priority access to prototype sprints
Step 03
IntegrateBespoke AI Integrations
We work with your teams or one-on-one to integrate your AI model of choice into your workflows, automations and agents.
From £3.5k / day
- ->One-day, one-off bespoke build session
- ->Choose your model, we make it work for you
- ->Context, connections, automations and agents
- ->Team or one-on-one format available
Step 04
BuildPrototype Sprint
We design and build a working AI tool tailored to your organisation. Real software, not slide decks.
Scoped to the project
- ->Custom AI tool scoped to your use case
- ->Full development by our senior AI dev team
- ->User testing and iteration included
- ->Handover, documentation and training
Case Studies
Prototypes we have deployed to production for real ROI
Not experiments. Not slide decks. Working tools, in production, delivering measurable results.
Political Intelligence
Parliamentary Live Transcription Platform
Built a live transcription and monitoring tool covering UK and EU parliamentary proceedings.
Hours of manual monitoring -> minutes
Publishing
Archive Search & Retrieval for a US Publisher
AI-powered archive search allowing teams to query large historical content collections in natural language.
Manual keyword search -> instant contextual retrieval
Insurance
Contract Review Tool
A contract review assistant identifying key clauses, risks and obligations across policy and commercial documents.
Repetitive review time cut significantly
Global Media
Automated Metadata Tagging
AI tagging workflow classifying content by topic, taxonomy, themes and commercial relevance.
Manual tagging -> automated classification at scale
Building Safety
Risk Assessment & Reporting Tool
AI-assisted reporting that extracts evidence from documents, links risks to controls and creates structured reports.
Weeks of collation -> review-led workflow
Research & Policy
Natural Language Survey Interrogation
A natural language interface for multi-year survey datasets, allowing non-technical users to ask questions across CSV data.
Manual queries -> instant natural language answers
Have a workflow that is slow, repetitive or trapped inside documents and spreadsheets? Mathison can help you test whether AI can make it faster, smarter and more scalable.
Talk to us about your workflowClient Results
What actually happened
"Mark and Ed ran a company-wide AI programme that actually moved the needle, not just awareness, but real adoption. Our teams came out with tools they use every day."
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John Athanasiou
Chief People Officer · Hearst UK
"The six-month AI sprint accelerated our internal capability further and faster than we expected. Mark's ability to translate strategy into executable next steps is rare."
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Nicole Castillo
VP Strategic Projects · News Corp
"We needed an AI and data strategy for content tagging as a revenue imperative. Mathison gave us the language, the roadmap, and the confidence to move forward decisively."
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Jennie Baird
Chief Product Officer · BBC Studios
"Mathison has consistently delivered high-quality prototypes. They are great AI partners and a joy to work with."
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Ann Michael
Chief Transformation Officer · AIP Publishing
The Team
Built by practitioners, not consultants
People who have done the job, not just advised on it.
Mark Riley
CEO & Founder
Former Director of Innovation & Corporate Ventures, Dow Jones. AI practitioner and accelerationist since 2015.
Ed Daniels
Lead Developer
AI/MLOps architect and chief engineer. Expert at rapid prototyping and production AI systems.
Chris Lloyd
Strategy Consultant
Previously EVP/MD, Dow Jones Professional Information Business.
Strategic Advisers
Jennie Baird
Former CPO, BBC Studios
Global Head of Product, News Corp. Deep network across media and publishing sectors.
Ramin Beheshti
CEO, The News Movement
Former CTO, Dow Jones. Knows what enterprise AI adoption actually takes.
Scott Austin
Gen AI Media Consultant
Former award-winning editor at WSJ. Deep editorial and reputational expertise.
Rhidian Wynn Davies
Media Executive
Editor-In-Chief, Hana News. Specialist information and media sector veteran.
Partners
About the Founder
Oxford Said Business SchoolLondon Business School20+ years in emerging techAI practitioner since 2015
Mark Riley
Founder, Mathison AI & AI Transformation Adviser
Mark Riley is the founder of Mathison AI and an AI transformation adviser who has been working in the AI trenches since 2015. A former Director of Innovation and Corporate Ventures at Dow Jones, he has more than 20 years' experience helping organisations turn emerging technology into practical business value.
He works with CEOs, CTOs and leadership teams to identify high-value AI opportunities, build rapid prototypes, redesign workflows and move from experimentation to measurable implementation.
Mark's approach is pragmatic and commercially focused: start with the business problem, prove value quickly, then scale what works.
What's in a name?
Alan Mathison Turing
"The father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence"
Our company is named in honour of Alan Mathison Turing, whose groundbreaking work laid the foundation for modern computing and artificial intelligence. We strive to embody his innovative spirit and forward-thinking approach in everything we do.
The firms that move now
will define the next decade.
Book a free 30-minute call with Mark. You will leave with a clear picture of your biggest AI opportunity and exactly what to do next.
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