The systems are built in your tools, around your processes and your controls, with the people who own the work. What we leave behind runs without us - documented, checked and owned by your team.
About Clerq
Operators first. Technology second.
Clerq is an operator-led AI delivery practice in London. We build working AI systems inside businesses - and we publish the AI at Work series, so you can judge our method before you ever pay for anything.
Clerq is founder-run by operators, not vendors - people whose careers have been spent running the numbers and the operations of real businesses, from the operator's seat rather than the other side of the table. The work starts with how your business actually operates, not with a tool looking for somewhere to land: real workflows, exact methods, and the checks that tell you whether to trust what the system produces. Several Clerq-built tools are already in daily use inside customer businesses.
The practice
Embedded building, not advice from a distance.
Clerq takes on a small number of engagements at a time, building AI systems inside UK businesses - finance, commerce, customer and supplier workflows. Every price is published on the homepage menu, from a £799 assessment to full implementation - and every engagement starts with a conversation about what is actually slowing the business down.
The deliverable is the thing itself: the workflow running, the checks in place, the handover done. Not a recommendations document for someone else to implement later.
The AI at Work series and the free articles are the practice's thinking in the open - briefing, checking, judgement and controls. Read them first; they are the fairest test of whether we are worth a conversation.
Editorial standards
How the books are made.
A guide about using AI honestly should be honest about how it is produced. These are the standards every Clerq title is held to.
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Honest about how the books are written
We use AI tools in producing the books, exactly as the books teach: drafted with AI assistance, under human editorial direction, with every method, claim and example checked by the Clerq team before publication. We practise the briefing-and-verification discipline we sell - and we would rather say so plainly than let you assume otherwise. If that disclosure changes how you read the books, it should be on the first page, not buried.
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Judge us on the free work first
We publish a library of free articles on using AI in real office work - the same voice, the same method, the same refusal to oversell. Read a few before you spend anything. Start with how to use AI at work, which carries the whole method in a single piece - it is the truest sample of the standard you would be paying for. They are the work sample; the books are the same thing organised, extended and finished.
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Corrections and updates, free
AI tools change fast; the method is written to outlast them. When something goes stale, or you spot an error and tell us - reply to any email from us - the confirmed fix ships in updated files, free, to everyone who bought that edition.
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No oversold capabilities
If AI is unreliable at a task, the book says so and shows the check that catches it. No guarantee of outcomes, no "10x yourself", no revolution talk - just what works, and how to know when it has not.
The series promise
One flagship guide. Role editions that go deeper.
AI at Work: The Practical Method runs to four editions - Everyday Office Work, Finance and Accounting, Managers and Team Leads, and Marketing. All four share the same eight-chapter method, then carry three chapters written for that job family, so a role edition is the complete book plus role-specific depth rather than an abridged one. Each runs to roughly 25,000 words across about 70 pages. Every book is a digital download, PDF and EPUB, DRM-free - and updated free when it needs correcting.
Work with Clerq
Tell us what is slowing you down.
A few sentences are enough. Every enquiry is read by the founder and answered personally - and if the honest answer is that you do not need us, that is the answer you will get. The books launch soon; the reader list gets first access.