# 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 - [Before It Had a Name](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/before-it-had-a-name): Forward-deployed engineering, twenty years before it had the name — and how AI just changed who can do it. - [The AI Washing Scapegoat](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/ai-washing-scapegoat): AI as 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): 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](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/why-enterprise-ai-projects-fail): 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): Block cut 40% of its workforce, cited AI, and gained $7.6B in market cap — the market is pricing efficiency, not savings. - [You Can Be Tom Cruise](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/you-can-be-tom-cruise): 88% of workers use AI but only 5% transform how they work — the difference is being the director, not the expert in the tunnel. - [One-of-One. At Scale.](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/one-of-one-at-scale): AI has made custom, disposable software economically viable for SMBs — and the businesses that understand that first capture the value. - [AI's Paradox — Or How Are We Being Coerced Into Freedom?](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/ais-paradox-coerced-into-freedom): The deepest technological shift in human history is forcing us to find our calling, ready or not. - [Agentic AI: The Strategic Imperative for Business Leaders in 2025](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/agentic-ai-strategic-imperative-2025): How forward-thinking executives are preparing for the workforce transformation already underway. - [Chain-of-Thought in AI: Peeking inside DeepSeek R1](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/chain-of-thought-ai-deepseek-r1): How transparent chain-of-thought reasoning 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): As IoT devices become ubiquitous, how zero-knowledge proofs could restore security and trust. - [Blockchain's Role in Transforming Consumers into Brand Partners](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/blockchain-brand-partners): How blockchain enables co-creation, data ownership, and shared success between brands and consumers. - [BlackRock's Vuitton Bag Moment](https://www.exponentialpartners.io/insights/blackrock-vuitton-bag-moment): How tokenization is making luxury and high-value 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.