Acuity Bureau embeds a fractional AI Design Leader inside your team — turning AI tools from expensive experiments into lasting competitive advantage.
Most consultants do the work for you. We do something harder — we make your team permanently better at doing it themselves.
Acuity Bureau provides fractional AI Design Leadership: embedded strategic guidance that helps your team select the right tools, build the right workflows, and govern AI adoption with clarity and judgment that no software can replicate.
We don't take on production design work. We advise, train, and lead — until your team doesn't need us anymore.
A 2-day intensive that maps your current AI tool usage, surfaces gaps, and delivers a prioritised 90-day roadmap.
A 4–6 week engagement to embed AI tools into your design workflow, with hands-on training and a lasting playbook.
Ongoing embedded advisory — your senior AI design strategist, without the full-time hire.
Every AI design tool we've evaluated is extraordinary at generating output and poor at exercising judgment. They can produce a hundred wireframe variants in seconds. They cannot tell you which one is right — and why — for this audience, this moment, this brand.
That distinction is everything. It's the difference between a team that produces more and a team that produces better.
Wireframe generation, component variants, accessibility scanning, brief synthesis, prototype scaffolding
User psychology, interaction choreography, conversion strategy, ethical guardrails, stakeholder communication
Start with a free 45-minute Clarity Call. No pitch — just an honest conversation about where you are and what's possible.
All engagements are advisory in nature. We don't execute production work — we make your team permanently better at doing it themselves.
A focused 2-day engagement — remote or on-site — that gives you a clear, prioritised picture of how your team currently uses AI design tools, where you're leaving value on the table, and a concrete 90-day roadmap to close the gap.
A 4–6 week engagement with weekly working sessions. We work alongside your team inside their actual tools, redesign workflows for AI, build prompt libraries, and document everything into a lasting playbook your team owns permanently.
Scoped per team size, toolstack complexity, and number of sessions. Most engagements fall between $12,000 and $35,000. We'll scope this precisely after your Clarity Call.
Your embedded AI Design Leader, on a retainer. A standing presence inside your team — attending key meetings, unblocking AI adoption, keeping your toolstack current, and giving leadership someone to think alongside every week.
Acuity Bureau was built for the space between "we bought Figma AI" and "our team actually designs better because of it."
Most design teams are not short on AI tools. They're short on the strategic clarity to use them in a way that's sustainable, governed, and genuinely additive to the work rather than just to the invoice.
Acuity Bureau exists to close that gap. We work as an embedded Fractional AI Design Leader — not a vendor, not a trainer, not an agency. A strategic partner who sits inside your team, understands your context, and helps you build AI design capability that compounds over time.
Our approach is deliberately vendor-neutral. We don't take commissions, we have no preferred partners, and we don't recommend tools because they're popular. We recommend them because they're right for your team, your workflow, and your goals — and we'll tell you honestly when the answer is to use less AI, not more.
The name Acuity Bureau reflects what we believe makes great design leadership: acuity — sharpness of perception, refined judgment, the ability to see clearly what others miss — delivered with the structured, methodical discipline of a bureau. Not a studio. Not an agency. A practice.
AI design tools are extraordinary at generating output. They're poor at exercising judgment. Our job is to make sure judgment is never outsourced.
Most AI tool rollouts fail not because the tools are bad, but because teams weren't given the context, workflow, or permission to use them properly.
The right AI workflow makes your team faster. But we never optimise for speed at the expense of the quality of thought that goes into the work.
IP policy, ethical guidelines, and AI use frameworks aren't bureaucracy — they're what allow your team to move fast with confidence and legal clarity.
We're in our first engagements. Case studies will be published here as clients complete work and grant permission to share results.
How a 40-person product team went from AI tool confusion to a governed, productive workflow in 6 weeks.
How a boutique dev agency added AI design advisory to their service offering without a single new hire.
Building an approved toolstack and AI use policy for a 200-person design org with legal constraints.
We're taking on a small number of founding clients at preferential rates in exchange for the opportunity to document and share results — with full approval before anything is published.
If you're working through an AI design challenge and want hands-on advisory support, we'd like to talk.
45 minutes. No pitch. An honest conversation about where your team is with AI tools and what's actually possible.
Whether you're ready to engage or just exploring options, a Clarity Call is the right first step. We'll listen, ask good questions, and give you something useful to take away — regardless of whether we work together.
Tell us a bit about your team and what you're working through. Takes 2 minutes.
A brief response with a calendar link, or a question to better understand your context.
We listen, ask questions, and give our honest read on the situation — including if we're not the right fit.
If there's a fit, we'll follow up with a tailored proposal within 3 business days.
We respond within 1 business day. Your information is never shared with third parties.