A guided programme for senior executives who want to understand what today's AI is really capable of.
Your own AI agent, on your phone, running 24/7. Find where today's AI is genuinely brilliant - and where it falls short. By the end of six weeks, you'll have a first-hand view of what this technology can do and what it means for how you lead.
OpenClaw is an open-source framework for building AI agents that do things, not just talk about them. Yours will run on a dedicated server - fully configured and secured - and you'll reach it from your phone via Telegram, 24/7.
It's powered by Claude Opus 4.7, Anthropic's current flagship model. It can browse the web, read and send email, work with spreadsheets and documents, search the internet, and draft on your behalf. Unlike a chatbot, it can actually complete tasks.
Provisioned, configured, managed and secured specifically for your six-week programme. Your agent runs on it alone - no shared tenancy, no queuing behind other users.
A full account - Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive - completely separate from your company's network. Ask it to draft reports, build spreadsheets, summarise documents, or research a topic - and watch it work in real time.
Treat it like a colleague with an inbox. Forward it reports and briefings to read. Copy it on email threads you want to follow. Send it newsletters you'd like summarised. And it works the other way too - drafting replies, sending meeting invites, and chasing up on your behalf.
The best way to understand what this technology can do is to use it on something you actually care about. Here’s a spread of real things executives in the programme have tried.
Your AI agent runs on a dedicated server with its own Gmail accounts. Nothing in this environment is connected to your company's network, data or systems - and that's deliberate.
This is a playground, not a production tool. It exists so you can experiment without compliance, governance or data-protection concerns getting in the way. No corporate documents. No confidential data.
Instead, you experiment with ideas - public information, personal interests, half-formed thoughts, the things you're curious about. That's where the learning happens, and it's where the technology reveals itself fastest.
Each week has a theme, a few suggested things to try, and a conversation with Ewan - your guide and programme designer. The structure is light - 30 minutes per week - because the point is to build the habit of reaching for AI naturally, not to bolt on another commitment.
Your AI is set up and waiting before we even meet. A 90-minute onboarding call - we walk through everything together and you have your first real conversation with it, live, guided, no pressure.
After six weeks, these are the four things you take with you - regardless of what your organisation decides to do next.
Hundreds of real interactions across six weeks - working conversations, not demo sessions. You'll know what it feels like to use this technology for real.
You'll know where AI is brilliant and where it falls apart - because you've pushed it there yourself. Every AI conversation you have from this point is different.
A shortlist of grounded AI opportunities for your own work - pressure-tested against what you've learned the technology can and can't do.
A personal AI statement, written in your own voice - a short document that becomes your reference point with the board, your team, or your L&D function.
Every participant gets a dedicated AI agent and builds with it on their own real work. These are artefacts from the current cohort - not demos, not roleplay.
See the full cohort→Spotted her personal M365 integration was returning only 9 of 50+ calendar events. Traced the API issue and patched the CLI to use calendarView.
Built a full GTD workflow into the dashboard - Projects, Next Actions, Waiting For, Meeting Prep. Drag-and-drop, one-tap from email.
Sent an email from her personal account within seconds of being asked - end-to-end, not prompt-and-copy.
Ewan MacLeod has spent 20+ years in banking technology leadership. He's currently an Interim CIO at a UK bank, deploying AI in production every day. He is a regular advisor working with boards and executive teams across the UK and the Gulf.
This programme exists because he kept seeing the same pattern: the most senior people in the room were making the most important AI decisions with the least direct experience. OpenClaw - and this six-week structure - is his answer to that.
A team that builds and ships technology inside banks across the UK and Gulf. Not consultants who advise from a distance - practitioners who've led core banking migrations, built digital platforms, and deployed AI where it actually matters.
Six weeks with your own AI agent. One 90-minute onboarding call, six weekly 30-minute debriefs with Ewan, full Google Workspace and dedicated server, and your written AI position at the end.
Cohorts are capped at six. When a cohort fills, the next opens four weeks later. Reserving a seat starts with a short conversation.
Running this for a leadership team or looking for a bespoke programme?
Get in touch→Tell me a bit about your role and what you're curious about. I'll walk you through how it works, answer your questions and then get your AI agent ready for you.
Most executives who finish the programme want to keep going. Two structured paths beyond Foundation, for different kinds of ambition.
Your own AI agent on Telegram, a cohort of six, and a structured six-week journey from curiosity to confident, informed use.
Connect your agent to your own data and start building the personal productivity tools and systems that fit the way you actually work.
Take control of your own dedicated server with your own AI agent. Fortnightly dialogue with Ewan keeps momentum and horizon sharp.