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AI Strategy, Automation and Implementation for SMBs

Blackwood Advisory helps businesses identify the right AI opportunities, improve workflows, reduce admin burden and implement practical AI solutions that create measurable commercial value.

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FOR SMB OWNERS, DIRECTORS & OPERATIONAL LEADERS

TRUSTED BY LEADERS ACROSS INDUSTRIES

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WHY BLACKWOOD ADVISORY

AI Advice that Starts with Business Reality

Most businesses do not need more AI noise. They need clear priorities, a realistic roadmap, and practical support that improves workflows, reporting, and decision-making. Blackwood Advisory helps businesses identify the right AI opportunities, implement them properly and adopt them with clear governance from day one.

Where We Create Value

  1. Reduce admin-heavy work and workflow friction

  2. Improve reporting, visibility, and decision speed

  3. Build confident, practical AI adoption across leadership and teams

AI Executive
Coaching

Help leaders build practical AI habits, improve decision-making, and guide adoption with more confidence.

AI Readiness Audit

Understand where AI can create value, what to prioritise, and what to avoid.

Enablement

Design, build, and implement AI assistants, automations, and workflows.

AI Executive Coaching

Help leaders build practical AI habits, improve decision-making, and guide adoption with more confidence.

AI Readiness Audit

A practical plan for where to start, what to build, and how to govern AI safely.

AI Roadmapping

Design, build, and implement AI assistants, automations, and workflows.

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AI Roadmapping

A practical plan for where to start, what to build, and how to govern AI safely.

A clearer path to AI adoption

Our Services

Practical AI advisory, automation, and transformation support for businesses ready to improve how they work

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AI Readiness Assessment

Discover Where AI Can Create Value

Start with an assessment to identify AI opportunities, highlight risks, and clarify your next steps.

WHAT GUIDES US

Our Core Pillars

A practical framework for helping businesses adopt AI safely, commercially, and with confidence.

Clarity

Understand where AI can create value, what to prioritise, and what to avoid.

Value

Focus investment on measurable improvements in productivity, decision-making, and workflows.

Trust

Adopt AI with the right governance, data protection, and risk control built in.

Growth

Turn AI from experimentation into a repeatable advantage across the business.

Commercial Results

VALUE CREATED

Examples of value created through senior-led AI roadmaps and secure implementation models.

2x

Faster Decison Cycles

Leadership teams gained quicker access to clearer information, helping decisions move faster.

40%

Faster Response Times

AI assisted workflows helped teams reduce delays and respond to customers and internal requests more quickly.

60 Day

Roadmap to Implementation

Supported a medical business in turning AI ambition into a defined roadmap and live implementation plan.

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Discuss your Opportunities, Risks, and Practical Next Steps.

A seasoned technology executive with over 20 years’ experience as CEO, he has led and scaled large IT businesses with strong commercial, operational, and industry discipline.

 

He brings deep knowledge of enterprise technology, leadership, delivery, and business performance.

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Strategic Advisor

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FOUNDER & LEad Advisor

Conor J Hynes

Conor brings broad experience across AI, cybersecurity, operations, and business transformation, combining strategic judgement with practical delivery.

 

As Founder and Lead Advisor, he helps leaders identify high-value opportunities, reduce complexity, and adopt technology with confidence, trust, and commercial focus.

A seasoned technology executive with over 20 years’ experience as CEO, he has led and scaled large IT businesses with strong commercial, operational, and industry discipline.

 

He brings deep knowledge of enterprise technology, leadership, delivery, and business performance.

Led by experienced advisors, supported by a wider network of specialists across AI, cybersecurity, operations, and business transformation.

Meet the Team

Who we are

Precision Advisory, Built Around You

Blackwood Advisory brings together a dynamic group of senior advisors with experience across multiple industries, specialist skillsets, and geographies. 

This flexible advisory model allows us to match the right expertise to each client’s needs, combining strategic judgement, practical delivery, and sector-specific insight to support meaningful business transformation.

Specialist Expertise Network

A flexible advisory network built around each clients strategic, operational and commercial priorities. 

"Blackwood Advisory helped us cut through the noise and identify where AI could create real value in the business. Their advice was practical, commercial, and immediately useful"

Hunter Jones

CEO of BlueSquare

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"We needed a partner who could make AI clear for senior leadership and translate it into action. Conor and the team brought credibility, structure, and momentum from day one"

Brandon Tunes

Managing Director, Regional Business Group

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“Blackwood Advisory gave us a clear roadmap for AI adoption across operations. They combined strategic thinking with real world execution in a way that delivered confidence across the leadership team.”

Lauren Case

Head of Operations, Multi Site SME

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CLIENT REVIEWS

What People Say About Us

OUR CLIENTS

Contact Us

Enquire about our AI readiness audits, strategic roadmaps, and rapid implementation models built for commercial scale.

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Locations

Ireland    |   UK   |   Boston

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