Senior AI expertise. Direct access. Real outcomes.

Most AI consultancies send strategists who've never shipped a model, or developers who can't see the business picture. I provide both: PhD-level technical depth with 15+ years of commercial delivery.

Dr Colin Kelly

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Dr Colin Kelly

Oxford BA in Maths & Computer Science. Cambridge PhD in Natural Language Processing. 15+ years building AI systems across financial services, telco, and automotive. I founded Agathon to give organisations access to the kind of senior AI expertise that large consultancies promise but rarely deliver.

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Why Agathon

What you get when technical depth, commercial pragmatism, and personal accountability come together.

Technical depth that's rare in consulting.

I hold a PhD in Natural Language Processing from Cambridge. I've led applied AI research teams, built production ML systems, and delivered millions of pounds in quantified AI benefits across financial services, telco, and automotive. I understand how these models actually work, not just how to talk about them.

Commercial pragmatism that's rare in research.

Fifteen years in enterprise environments taught me that technical excellence means nothing if it doesn't ship. I've navigated funding rounds, managed complex stakeholder politics, and delivered under constraints that academic researchers never face.

Direct access, not delegation.

When you engage Agathon, you work with me. I don't sell then disappear. I don't hand you off to juniors. The person on the strategy call is the same person doing the work.

AI product pioneering collaboration between Agathon and client

Client story

AI Product Pioneering: From Concept to Market Leader

Agathon joined the founding team of an AI writing product as fractional CTO, shaping the product from early concept through to market. We designed novel interface patterns for human-AI collaboration that fundamentally changed how their users create documents.

This wasn't adding AI features to an existing workflow. We built something new — a product that established its own approach to AI-assisted writing and now leads its space.

Role: Fractional CTO covering product strategy, technical architecture, developer management and commercialisation planning.

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Intensive, practical sessions designed to build real capability, not just awareness.

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