# Exponential Partners > Exponential Partners is an AI advisory and training firm. We get small and mid-sized teams using the AI tools they already pay for (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini) on their real work, then build the automations that follow. We train, and we ship. Engagements across the UK and North America. Exponential Partners was founded in 2023 by Riz Pabani (ex–Goldman Sachs, Nomura, Bank of England; MIT-certified in AI products) and Sacha Windisch (20 years across management consulting, blockchain ventures, and AI transformation). Every engagement is enquiry-led; the primary call to action across the site is "Schedule a Conversation" (https://meetings-eu1.hubspot.com/riz-pabani). All client case studies are anonymised by sector. ## Services - [AI Training for Teams](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/ai-training-for-teams): Hands-on, function-by-function sessions that get a whole team using Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot on the work in front of them. Built on the team's real tasks; materials they keep; adoption that sticks. - [1-2-1 Executive AI Coaching](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/executive-ai-coaching): Private, hands-on sessions for a founder or executive who needs to run these tools themselves — working their real decisions, writing and judgement calls until AI is part of how they lead. ## Case Studies - [Surveillance & Security](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/case-study/surveillance-security): A ~500-guard North American security firm. Rebuilt the invoicing and payroll pipeline — ~90% of manual back-office work collapsed; invoicing went from 2.5 days/week to seconds, payroll to minutes. - [Legal Services](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/case-study/legal-services): A Canadian high-volume litigation practice. Replaced unreliable OCR with direct vision-model extraction — intake accuracy from ~20% to near-perfect, recovering 10–20 billable hours a week. - [Immigration Law](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/case-study/immigration-law): A Montreal citizenship-by-descent practice. A 400+ field IRCC form turned from hours of manual cross-referencing into a seconds-long fill plus a field-by-field review step. - [Jewellery Brand](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/case-study/jewellery-brand): An owner-led, direct-to-consumer jewellery brand. A whole team trained in a single 90-minute Claude session, with five demos built on their own real workflows. - [Textiles & Trading](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/case-study/textiles-sme): An owner-led textiles house across the UK and India. Grounded the leadership group in AI fundamentals and equipped them to shape a strategy for the board. ## Insights - [What Agentic AI in Wealth Management Actually Looks Like When You're the One Building It](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/agentic-ai-wealth-management) (August 9, 2026): Deloitte says agentic AI could add $35tn of capacity to wealth management. Here's what it looks like from inside a real build: the spreadsheets, the 90/10 rule, and the compliance work nobody pitches. - [The CFO Question That AI Has Finally Answered](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/ai-roi-ch-robinson) (July 24, 2026): C.H. Robinson went from quoting 60% of inbound requests in 15–45 minutes to 100% in seconds — and the stock rose ~20%. What Q3 2024 proves about where AI ROI actually lives. - [The AI Sovereignty Trap: Why Your Model Provider Is Becoming Your Competitor](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/ai-sovereignty-trap) (July 5, 2026): Frontier labs are shipping the vertical apps their customers pioneered. If your edge runs on a rented model, you may be funding your own competitor — the case for AI sovereignty. - [Gege & Didi: Open-Source + Frontier AI for Small Business](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/composable-ai-models-small-business) (June 29, 2026): Token cost moved to the center of every AI build. The owner's playbook for composable AI: a cheap open-source model does the work, a frontier model checks it, and you keep the seat that matters. - [Before It Had a Name](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/before-it-had-a-name) (June 12, 2026): It's 2006. A first-year analyst at a top-tier London consulting firm, doing work nobody had named yet. Twenty years later it's called forward-deployed engineering — and AI just changed who can do it. - [The AI Washing Scapegoat](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/ai-washing-scapegoat) (June 1, 2026): AI isn't eliminating jobs at the scale claimed — it's the cover story for cleaning up bad management. What the Yale data, Goldman, and 130 years of history actually show. - [Most companies don't need an AI strategy. They need someone who can say no.](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/fractional-ai-cto) (May 27, 2026): Enterprises have 100 AI ideas and ship 10. The bottleneck isn't models — it's technical judgment. What a fractional AI CTO actually does, and when the mid-market needs one. - [Plug-and-Play AI Is a Myth: Why Enterprise AI Projects Stall, and What Works Instead](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/why-enterprise-ai-projects-fail) (May 22, 2026): 84% of enterprises have an AI budget; most can't show what it bought them. Why generic AI fails, what the build-vs-buy data says, and what works in regulated firms. - [7.5 X](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/7-5-x) (March 4, 2026): Block cut 40% of its workforce, cited AI, and gained $7.6 billion in market cap. The market is pricing efficiency, not savings — and the exchange rate is 7.5x. - [You Can Be Tom Cruise](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/you-can-be-tom-cruise) (March 2, 2026): 88% of workers use AI but only 5% transform how they work. The difference isn't the tool — it's whether you're the expert in the tunnel or the director in the briefing room. - [One-of-One. At Scale.](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/one-of-one-at-scale) (March 1, 2026): AI has made custom software economically viable for SMBs. The businesses that understand disposable software first will capture most of the value. - [AI's Paradox - Or How Are We Being Coerced Into Freedom?](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/ais-paradox-coerced-into-freedom) (August 29, 2025): The deepest technological shift in human history is forcing us to find our calling — whether we're ready or not. - [Agentic AI: The Strategic Imperative for Business Leaders in 2025](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/agentic-ai-strategic-imperative-2025) (August 20, 2025): How forward-thinking executives are preparing for the workforce transformation that's already happening. - [Chain-of-Thought in AI: Peeking inside DeepSeek R1](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/chain-of-thought-ai-deepseek-r1) (July 24, 2024): Explore DeepSeek R1's transparent Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. See how it provides auditable AI decision-making for regulated industries. - [Is your device trying to kill you?](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/device-trying-to-kill-you) (April 12, 2024): As IoT devices become ubiquitous, recent events involving weaponized devices raise serious questions about security and trust. Learn how zero-knowledge proofs could provide a solution. - [Blockchain's Role in Transforming Consumers into Brand Partners](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/blockchain-brand-partners) (June 8, 2023): How blockchain technology is enabling deeper brand-consumer relationships by facilitating co-creation, data ownership, and shared success. - [BlackRock's Vuitton Bag Moment](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/blackrock-vuitton-bag-moment) (May 12, 2023): How blockchain technology and tokenization are revolutionizing the investment industry by making luxury investments more accessible. ## More - [Insights index](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights): All articles and analysis from Exponential Partners. - [Case studies index](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/case-study): Real, anonymised AI training and build engagements with the numbers that moved. - [Schedule a Conversation](https://meetings-eu1.hubspot.com/riz-pabani): Book an introductory call.