Headroom
A year-long side-by-side build · for owner-managed engineering and technical firms
Your senior judgement, locked into the firm.
Headroom works alongside you for a year. By the end, your firm runs without you on every quote, proposal, and senior-engineering decision. The system you keep is built on your judgement, signed off by you, in plain sight, on the page.
Earthing system shall provide a continuous low-impedance path to ground per BS 7430. Minimum conductor 16mm² copper.
Limits per IEEE 80 Tables. Apply uniform soil model.
How it works
Custom agent first pass. Engineer override. Client sees both.
No black box. The chartered-engineer corrections sit on the page next to the AI draft, signed and dated. The engineer override is the work, and it stays visible.
Draft on the standards.
A custom AI agent reads the brief, pulls the relevant standards, and produces a working draft of the quote, the calculation, or the section. Fast. Searchable. Cited.
Correct on the page.
The chartered engineer reviews, annotates, and signs every override on the same document. Where standards differ, the engineer names which one applies and why.
Both layers shipped.
The deliverable shows the AI draft and the engineer corrections side by side. The client sees the working, not just the answer.
What's in the box with Headroom
Four things you keep, even after the engagement ends.
Bonuses are not decoration. Each one solves a named objection and stays with you when the year is over.
Your First Quote, On Us
We take one of your real quotes, the one stuck on your desk right now, and finish it for you in week 2. No charge. You get the finished quote out the door, your client gets a fast answer, and you see the method working on a real piece of your business inside the first month.
The Quarterly Score for Your Fellow Directors
Every three months, we write a one-page score for the people who own and run the firm with you. Two numbers, no more. Senior-engineer hours saved this quarter. What the firm would be worth at sale today versus three years from now. We walk your board through it for an hour, in normal money words.
Plain-English Notes on the Standards Your Work Depends On
A written set of notes, in normal English, on the standards your work turns on, the same treatment we give our own. In HV earthing and lightning that means EN 50522, EN 62305, IEEE 80, ENA TS 41-24 and the rest, written by an engineer who sits on the British Standards development committees for earthing and lightning protection. Yours to keep, even if you walk at month 12.
A Front-Row Seat to How We Run Greycell
A login to our live AI-tracker. You watch every automation we run inside our own firm, what they do, when they break, when they save us time. Most consultants tell you they use AI. We let you watch ours actually working.
The guarantee
By month 12 your firm ships senior-grade work without you signing it, or the final quarter is free.
That is the promise the whole engagement stands behind, and it is the one worth repeating to your fellow directors. One condition, stated up front: we can only deliver it if you are willing to let the firm ship work without your signature. That is a question we ask on the qualification call, not a surprise in month 11. If you cannot get there, we will tell you straight in month 3, while your 90-day walk-away still stands.
The detail, for the lawyer-brain
The 90-day walk-away
Any time in the first 90 days, you can walk. Full refund of the unused balance. No questions, no exit interview, no notice period.
The milestone schedule
Three concrete things happen on three dates, or money back pro-rated:
- Day 14: your first AI-augmented quote goes out the door, signed off by you.
- Month 6: AI scaffolding produces at least 50% of first-draft senior-grade output.
- Month 12: the senior-knowledge agent kit is handed over, yours forever.
How we work
- If we cannot help, we tell you in the first call and refer you on.
- We take three engagements at a time, and no two firms in direct head-to-head competition.
- Every override is signed, dated, and kept on an audit trail for 7 years.
- What we build runs on accounts you own. Nothing is rented from us.
- If the honest answer in month 3 is that this will not work in your firm, you hear it in month 3.
The price
Early rate. Then standard.
Two rates, one product. The early rate holds for the first three firms to sign. After those three, the standard rate applies to every firm thereafter. Same engagement. Same deliverables. Same guarantee.
Early rate · 3 slots open
For the first three firms
£2,100a month
About £25,000 a year
The step-up is structural: case studies from the first three engagements anchor the standard rate.
- Year-long side-by-side build
- AI first pass, chartered-engineer override on every deliverable
- Four bonuses, yours to keep
- Senior-knowledge agent kit handed over at month 12
By month 12 your firm ships senior-grade work without you signing it, or the final quarter is free.
Standard rate · 4th firm onward
For every firm after the first three
£3,750a month
About £45,000 a year
Same engagement, deliverables, and guarantee as the early rate. Anchored by published case studies.
- Identical scope, identical override-quality bar
- Same four bonuses, same guarantee
- Same senior-knowledge agent kit at month 12
- Standard rate locked once the first three slots close
By month 12 your firm ships senior-grade work without you signing it, or the final quarter is free.
For context, a senior chartered engineer in UK power systems costs roughly £95,000 to £120,000 a year, fully loaded, and takes around 18 months to recruit.
Who Headroom is for
Owner-managed engineering and technical firms.
Narrow on purpose. HV is where we started, but the fit is firm shape, not a single discipline. If you don't fit, we'll tell you in the first call and refer you on.
This is for you if you run
- An owner-managed specialist engineering or technical firm
- £1m to £10m turnover
- 10 to 50 staff
- One or two senior chartered engineers signing every certificate, scoping every bid, holding every conflict meeting
- Growth gated by senior judgement, not by demand
This is not for you if
- You run a SaaS or product business with no senior-engineering bottleneck
- You want a generic AI consultant selling workshops
- You want a chatbot or a tool recommendation
- You are over 50 staff (talk to us separately)
One filter, stated in the open: we only take firms willing to let work ship without the owner's signature. It is the whole point of the engagement, and the guarantee depends on it, so we ask on the qualification call and we take the answer seriously. If that is not you yet, we will say so and part friendly.
The principle, and the proof
Judge us on the evidence.
Embedding senior judgement into systems is early work that few in this field have taken on, so we let the evidence carry it: the standards we help write, the hyperscale design we deliver now, and the agents you can watch running. No Headroom case study to point to yet. Come in at the start, and be the first.
The proof
30 years in HV, chartered (CEng)
The engineer doing the override pass has 30 years in high-voltage power systems and holds chartered status (CEng MIET). Senior judgement built over a career, not borrowed from a deck.
The proof
A seat on British Standards development committees
The same engineer sits on the British Standards development committees for earthing and lightning protection and contributes to their drafting. Standards fluency at native level, not a sales claim.
The proof
£1.5m of live hyperscale design, and 36 automations you can watch
Currently delivering £1.5m a year of design services into four major hyperscale operators, with 9 named agents and 36 automations tracked inside our own firm on a public read-only tracker.
FAQ
What owner-managers ask about Headroom.
What exactly do I get for £2,100 a month?
Why is the product called "Headroom"?
How is this different from hiring another senior chartered engineer?
How does the override-tracing actually work in practice?
What happens at month 12?
What if my fellow directors block this?
What if I want out?
What's the £3,750 a month standard rate after the first three sign?
Ready to talk?
Three owner-managers. Three slots. Then the rate steps up.
Headroom is a year-long engagement, working alongside you, that helps owner-managed engineering and technical firms turn your senior judgement into a system the firm runs without you. The first three firms to sign get the early rate of £2,100 a month. From the fourth firm onward, the standard rate of £3,750 a month applies. Either rate includes four bonuses you keep, the guarantee, and the senior-knowledge kit yours forever. We can run three engagements concurrently while delivering at the override-quality bar the offer requires.
The 90-Second Unlock is free and takes 90 seconds. If we can't help, we'll tell you in the first call and refer you on.