What would you do with the time AI saves?
Choose what you want to change about your business.
What AI does

Sort enquiries and draft replies

Check orders against stock and schedules
What people do

Follow up promising enquiries
Agree terms and delivery dates
Could you take more orders without hiring just to handle the paperwork?
Fictional business.
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- 0:00What does your 2030 company look like?
- 0:09Why the North East
- 0:33It’s not an easy question to answer
- 1:08You need to think bigger
- 1:44Smaller and new businesses
- 2:05A much bigger question than which tool
- 2:36Starting big
- 2:56Five humans and five digital workers
- 3:09Why I set up The 2030 Company
- 3:26The keys to a Formula One car
- 4:07Join us on 17 November
Your next customer may use AI to compare suppliers.
What would it need to know to choose you?
Can you meet our delivery date?

The buyer can assess whether you can deliver before speaking to sales.

Fictional business.
Managers need to decide what AI can do without asking them.
If every order waits for a manager, faster paperwork still leaves a queue.
AI checks the orderThe date, capacity and terms meet the agreed rules.
AI completes the agreed workIt confirms the order and updates the schedule within its permissions.
A manager reviews the workPeople check results and decide when the rules need to change.
Routine orders can move ahead while the team spends time on work that needs a conversation.
Fictional business. This requires suitable systems, permissions and checks.
See a worked example at Pellingham Foods
AI compares an extra order with the production and maintenance records. A planned stoppage changes the delivery date the factory can offer.
Explore the order and the decisionStart thinking bigger when it comes to AI for your business.
What could your business offer by 2030, and what would have to change to make it possible? Join other owners, directors and senior leaders in Newcastle to consider what AI could mean for your business.
- Tuesday 17 November 2026
- Coffee from 08:30, session 09:00 to 11:00
- Sintons, The Cube, Newcastle
- Free to attend
Register on Eventbrite. Places are limited, and we’ll email you to confirm yours.