Midlands Artificial Intelligence Advisory (MAIA)
An end-to-end pipeline enabling high growth potential but resource-constrained SMEs to adopt AI, unlock productivity gains, strengthen competitiveness, and scale within the UK economy
A diverse range of AI talent: Advisors will be drawn from a diverse pool including University academics, spinout founders, and successful alumni.
Beyond advice and training: Embedding an intern in the most promising SMEs fills an important gap in the current training ecosystem, accelerates AI adoption, and also provides a recruitment opportunity to permanently embed these skills in the company, whilst also boosting growth
Not lacking tools, lacking strategy: Most companies can access AI tools, but do not have the expertise to use them strategically. A lack of strategy, alongside a lack of relevant funding and expertise, has been established as one of the major factors preventing companies from successfully leveraging AI for growth. MAIA addresses all three issues.