# Atheni

> Atheni is a UK-based AI adoption company. It helps teams use AI on the work
> they already do, with guidance shaped around each person's role. Its core
> offer is the Atheni Accelerator: one team of up to 20 people, 90 days, from
> £7,500 + VAT. Capability is measured using the Atheni Scale.
> Founded in 2023 by Mackenzie Howe and Louise Ballard. Backed by angel
> investors including Alex Chesterman OBE and supported by Innovate UK.

## Core pages
- [Home](https://atheni.ai/): AI adoption for teams, built around real work.
- [About Atheni](https://atheni.ai/about/): Founders, methodology and backers.
- [For Individuals](https://atheni.ai/for-individuals/): Guided AI adoption for individuals.
- [Atheni Accelerator](https://atheni.ai/90-day-programme/): The 90-day programme for one team of up to 20 people.
- [Larger organisations](https://atheni.ai/larger-organisations/): Start with one team, then build.
- [Education](https://atheni.ai/education/): Confident, responsible AI use for leaders, staff and students.
- [Results](https://atheni.ai/results/): What changed for the teams we work with.
- [The Atheni Scale](https://atheni.ai/atheni-scale/): The five-level AI capability framework.
- [For Partners](https://atheni.ai/for-partners/): Partnering with Atheni to deliver AI adoption at scale.
- [Nobody Left Behind](https://atheni.ai/nobody-left-behind/): Inclusive AI adoption across the whole workforce.
- [AI Readiness Diagnostic](https://atheni.ai/diagnostic/): Assess your organisation's AI capability.

## Press
- [Press & News](https://atheni.ai/press/): Announcements from Atheni.
- [Atheni raises £350,000](https://atheni.ai/press/atheni-raises-350k/): Funding to move organisations beyond surface-level AI use.

## Key facts
- More than 90% of the people we work with regularly use AI in their work within 90 days (further education, professional services, manufacturing, financial services, energy).
- The problem Atheni solves: the gap between AI *access* and AI *capability*.
- Product: the Atheni platform, working inside tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot, giving role-specific guidance and measuring capability build.

## Contact
- [Book a demo](https://atheni.ai/demo/)

## More pages

- [Privacy Policy | Atheni](https://atheni.ai/privacy.md): How Atheni Strategy Ltd collects and uses personal data through this website, and your rights.
- [Contact Atheni](https://atheni.ai/contact.md): Get in touch with Atheni: email hello@atheni.ai, book a call, or take the AI diagnostic. London, UK.
- [Get Started | Atheni](https://atheni.ai/get-started.md): Two ways to begin with Atheni: book a call, or take the five-minute AI diagnostic for independent tool recommendations.
- [Frequently Asked Questions | Atheni](https://atheni.ai/faq.md): Clear answers on AI access vs capability, how Atheni builds AI capability, results, methodology, pricing and getting started.
- [Insights on AI Capability | Atheni](https://atheni.ai/insights.md): Practical thinking on moving organisations beyond access to AI, towards measurable capability.
- [Book Your Induction | Atheni](https://atheni.ai/induction.md): Get your team set up on the Atheni platform and browser extension, with first missions mapped to your roles and tools.

## Insights

- [Why Enterprise AI Adoption Fails (and How to Fix It)](https://atheni.ai/insights/why-enterprise-ai-adoption-fails.md): Most enterprise AI adoption fails because organisations buy access to tools but never build the capability to use them. Here is what the data shows and how to fix it.
- [What Is AI Capability Building? (And How It Differs from Training)](https://atheni.ai/insights/what-is-ai-capability-building.md): AI capability building is the work of getting people to use AI well in their real work, and measuring it. Here is a clear definition and how it differs from AI training.
- [How to Move AI from Pilot to Scale](https://atheni.ai/insights/how-to-move-ai-from-pilot-to-scale.md): How to move AI from pilot to scale: why most pilots stall, what changes when you scale, and the steps to reach organisation-wide adoption and value.
- [How to Measure AI Capability Across Your Workforce](https://atheni.ai/insights/how-to-measure-ai-capability-across-your-workforce.md): How to measure AI capability across your workforce: why usage metrics mislead, what to track instead, and how a capability scale shows real progress.
- [How to Increase AI Adoption in Your Organisation](https://atheni.ai/insights/how-to-increase-ai-adoption-in-your-organisation.md): A step-by-step guide to increasing AI adoption across your organisation: measure capability, embed guidance in real work, track progress, and reach 90% adoption in 90 days.
- [Best AI Adoption Companies in the UK (2026)](https://atheni.ai/insights/best-ai-adoption-companies-uk-2026.md): An honest 2026 comparison of the best AI adoption companies in the UK, covering consultancies, training platforms and capability-building partners, with clear best-for verdicts.
- [AI Adoption for UK Further Education Colleges](https://atheni.ai/insights/ai-adoption-for-uk-further-education.md): A practical guide to AI adoption for UK further education colleges: the sector bodies to know, the real capability gap, and how to build staff confidence with AI.
- [AI Summer School #4: On the Lookout for Wild Boar](https://atheni.ai/insights/ai-summer-school-4-on-the-lookout-for-wild-boar.md): Carrying on the way we always have is the easiest thing in the world. A Tuscan hillside on why it is worth taking the long way round.
- [Access Is Not Capability — The Most Expensive Gap in Enterprise AI](https://atheni.ai/insights/access-is-not-capability.md): AI access means employees can log into tools. AI capability means they can use them to do better work. Here is why the gap between the two is the most expensive problem in enterprise AI, and how to close it.
- [August Education Special: A Good Tech Childhood](https://atheni.ai/insights/august-education-special-a-good-tech-childhood.md): Socrates hated writing, the bell won't stop ringing, and my son does press-ups with Claude. On what we owe our children this summer.
- [Ask a Midwife What She Wants AI For, and She Won't Say Robots](https://atheni.ai/insights/ask-a-midwife-what-she-wants-ai-for-and-she-won-t-say.md): For most people AI won't be the job. It'll be part of how they do the job, and that is what technical education is still missing.
- [AI Summer School #3: Talk, Don't Type](https://atheni.ai/insights/ai-summer-school-3-talk-don-t-type.md): One of the simplest ways to get more from AI: stop typing and start talking.
- [AI Summer School #2: Naked AI](https://atheni.ai/insights/ai-summer-school-2-naked-ai.md): Most people judge AI on its default settings. That is like judging an assistant you have never briefed.
- [AI Summer School #1: Making AI Work for Me, Starting with Clearing the Faff](https://atheni.ai/insights/ai-summer-school-1-making-ai-work-for-me-starting-with.md): Start with the job you have been avoiding forever. That is where ninety seconds of AI effort feels like magic.
- [Groundwork: The firms preparing for agentic AI right now are doing three things that will put them years ahead](https://atheni.ai/insights/groundwork-the-firms-preparing-for-agentic-ai-right.md): Something is happening in a small number of organisations this summer that I think we will look back on as the beginning of a very large gap.
- [The Person Least Qualified to Build an AI Company](https://atheni.ai/insights/the-person-least-qualified-to-build-an-ai-company.md): Thirty years in communications, no computer science degree, fifty-six, and exactly the person AI adoption actually needs.
- [The Last Mile: Smallpox, Refrigeration, and where AI value is actually decided](https://atheni.ai/insights/the-last-mile-smallpox-refrigeration-and-where-ai.md): Smallpox was not defeated in a laboratory.
- [The 5% Club: how to tell if your AI rollout is building capability or just burning tokens](https://atheni.ai/insights/the-5-club-how-to-tell-if-your-ai-rollout-is-building.md): What's the difference between AI access and AI capability?
- [Leading AI: A motor where the steam engine was, and how task replacement is the least interesting thing about AI.](https://atheni.ai/insights/leading-ai-a-motor-where-the-steam-engine-was-and-how.md): Despite capturing headlines, task replacement is - to me - the least interesting thing about AI.
- [A Chicago Mayor, a Crash Historian and an AI Researcher Walk Into a Room](https://atheni.ai/insights/a-chicago-mayor-a-crash-historian-and-an-ai-researcher.md): The markets have been busy, and AI is now almost universally used in professional settings (even where it isn't approved; over 90% of people are using AI for work despite many continuing bans). Which raises…
- [There Are Two Futures for Jobs in an AI Era](https://atheni.ai/insights/there-are-two-futures-for-jobs-in-an-ai-era.md): PwC's 2026 data shows the labour market splitting in two. Which side you land on is a choice, not a fate.
- [Half Term Special - Your child and AI: are they using it like a violin or a radio? Plus a step by step how to guide.](https://atheni.ai/insights/half-term-special-your-child-and-ai-are-they-using-it.md): Most students, the research is starting to show, use AI badly.
- [How the Breakaway Pulls Away](https://atheni.ai/insights/how-the-breakaway-pulls-away.md): On the small group of organisations breaking away from the Peleton and winning at AI. What they're doing differently, and why the gap is getting harder to close
- [So Here We Are: Two Middle-Aged Female Founders in AI](https://atheni.ai/insights/so-here-we-are-two-middle-aged-female-founders-in-ai.md): After two years of building, Atheni's Accelerator goes live, moving teams from owning AI tools to actually using them.
- [Am I driving, or are you?](https://atheni.ai/insights/am-i-driving-or-are-you.md): On what AI offloads, what it can free us up to do, and how to get into the driver's seat
- [Human Instinct Is to Keep AI at Arm's Length](https://atheni.ai/insights/human-instinct-is-to-keep-ai-at-arm-s-length.md): To ski, you lean down the mountain, the thing every instinct fights. AI adoption asks the same of us.
- [The Dam, the Washing Machine, and the Ferrari](https://atheni.ai/insights/the-dam-the-washing-machine-and-the-ferrari.md): Why AI will lead to an era of unprecedented abundance and human flourishing. (It must).
- [Retirement Was Invented When Life Expectancy Was 45](https://atheni.ai/insights/retirement-was-invented-when-life-expectancy-was-45.md): We've added decades to our lives and updated none of our assumptions about when people stop being valuable.
- [AI - The Greatest Equaliser Since the Printing Press?](https://atheni.ai/insights/ai-the-greatest-equaliser-since-the-printing-press.md): Why I'm So Optimistic About AI, and Why It Might Matter a Lot That We All Are
- [The Most Expensive Line in the Budget Is What You Don't Know About AI](https://atheni.ai/insights/the-most-expensive-line-in-the-budget-is-what-you-don.md): PwC told its partners this month that AI sceptics "have no place" in professional services.
- [How Perfect is YOUR Information?](https://atheni.ai/insights/how-perfect-is-your-information.md): On what waste a £25 LLM licence can eliminate in 15 minutes, how one use case configured correctly in 15minutes can yield millions in annual value, and why measuring AI "usage" might be the worst KPI to adopt
- [Want to Be Part of the <5% of AI Projects That Work? Here's What Two Years of Research Shows](https://atheni.ai/insights/want-to-be-part-of-the-5-of-ai-projects-that-work-here.md): By Mackenzie M. Howe | Co-Founder, Atheni.ai & Zephyx.ai | Financial Times Contributor | AI Strategy & Human Capital Economist | MIT / KCL / UBC | Ex-GB swimmer | Mum x3 | 🇬🇧 🇨🇦

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