We Are Agentic - AI Transformation

09/11/2026

We’re back tomorrow with AI on Tap Episode 5, and this one is for marketers.

The topic is “The Brand, the Agency and the Algorithm.” Marketing now sits between three forces that shape what customers see: the brand, the agency, and the AI systems choosing what gets shown.

So we’ve put all three in the room:

Gerald Murphy, Search, AI & Consumer Behavior Lead at Semrush, on how brands get found when people ask ChatGPT instead of Google.

Nick Drake, Senior Director of Growth Consulting at WPP, on what’s changing inside one of the world’s largest advertising groups.

James Coombs, Head of Growth Marketing at Funding Circle, on how it looks from inside a marketing team.

A straight conversation about what’s working, what hasn’t, and what you can try the next morning.

📅 Tuesday 10 November 2026, 6pm to 9pm, drinks on arrival
📍 The Albany, 240 Great Portland Street, London W1W 5QU

05/11/2026

AI on Tap Episode 4 at The Albany was another full room, all about the human side of AI adoption.

A few findings stuck with us: nervousness about AI runs top to bottom, some clients now ban their suppliers from using AI altogether, and the biggest surprise was where the strongest resistance came from, the software engineers.

Thanks to Rico Surridge of Parser and Emma Cooper of System1 for the panel.

We pulled out 5 key takeaways from the night. Watch them in the video.

Episode 5 is happening on 10 November. Register now:https://www.realaiontap.com/aiot/ai-on-tap-london-episode-5/

03/11/2026

The CEO sat in the same AI training as everyone else, by design.

On the We Are Agentic podcast, Tarinee Wong, Chief People Officer at Puma Capital Group, says they’ve reached near-100% AI usage across their 150-person business. The part most companies skip: every single person did the training, the CEO included, in the room like everyone else. Puma makes very little mandatory, because they believe development is owned by the individual. They made this one mandatory, and uptake tracked almost exactly with how leaders felt about it.

Watch the full episode below.

Puma Capital Group achieved AI usage across virtually its entire 15...

31/08/2026

"Everybody else is doing this. I think the reality is nobody knows the answer."

That's a Chief People Officer talking about AI adoption and it's more honest than most of what gets said publicly on this topic.

What's one thing about AI adoption inside your organisation that nobody wants to admit out loud?

28/08/2026

Recruitment is a text-heavy business. CVs, job specs, candidate summaries. That's exactly why it was a good place to start with AI. 📝

Scott Brown, CEO of Heriot Brown, brought us in because he could see the potential but was not sure how to start.

In a single day, his team went from prompt novices to prompt engineers, each building their own AI agent tailored to their role. In his words: "The impact on productivity was immediate, and significant."

That is what a well-run training day is supposed to do. Not a demo. Not a slide deck. A team that walks out already using what they built.

What's the most text-heavy, repeatable part of your business that nobody has automated yet? 👇

See how we work at weareagentic.com

27/08/2026

The single biggest predictor of whether AI adoption sticks isn't the tool. It's whether leadership does the training themselves.

At Puma Capital Group, the CEO sat through every session alongside frontline staff. No exceptions.

Two years later: full company-wide adoption, and a shortlisting for Excellence in AI Adoption at the Personnel Today Awards.

26/08/2026

We don't ask clients to take our word for it. Here's what they actually say. 💬

"We engaged We Are Agentic after trying other providers. What stood out was how precisely they tailored the training to our workflows." - David Kaye, CEO, Puma GP

"We brought in We Are Agentic because we knew we needed to start with AI but didn't know where to begin. We now feel much more confident." - Kellie Leigh, Co-Founder, ICAB

"I was initially sceptical about how AI could be applied in a practical way within our firm. After the training session, I have no doubt our ability to build our own agents will be transformational." - Andrew Myers, CEO, Clintons

"In a single day, our team went from prompt novices to prompt engineers, each building their own AI agents tailored to our roles. The impact on productivity was immediate." - Scott Brown, CEO, Heriot Brown

Different industries. Same starting point: uncertainty about where to begin. Same result: real confidence and real capability.

Which of these sounds most like where your business is right now? 👇

See how we work at weareagentic.com

25/08/2026

An AI agent that now answers first-line HR, compliance and finance policy questions across an entire business, built not by IT, but by a portfolio-side managing director who'd just finished our training.

They called it "Ask Pounce." It's still running today.

This is what happens when you teach people how AI works instead of just what it does.

20/08/2026

People first is a story worth telling. It's what sets us apart. 💙

Anyone can sell you an AI tool. Plenty of people will happily sell you a platform, a dashboard, or a promise that everything will be different by Friday.

We do something slower, and we think more useful. We start with the people who already understand how the work actually gets done, because they are the only ones who can tell you where AI genuinely helps and where it gets in the way.

That is not a tagline for us. It shapes every phase of how we work: leadership clarity first, then training your people properly, then mapping the real workflow, before anyone touches a build.

Tools change every few months. The people doing the work do not. Build around them, and the rest holds up.

What does "people first" actually look like in your organisation right now? 👇

Learn more about how we work at weareagentic.com

19/08/2026

Most AI rollouts fail in the "movable middle" the large group of employees who aren't resisting change, but aren't leading it either.

Our approach: get early adopters winning small, visible victories first. Let those wins do the persuading. Then bring the rest of the organisation along.

Worked for Puma Capital Group. Two years in, they're at 100% adoption.