Zenchise Academy
Hands-on AI training built around your team's real work, online or in your office.
- AI at Work half-day workshops
- The AI-Ready Practice for accountancy firms, with CPD hours
- AI Regulation Essentials (EU and UK) for leadership teams
AI, governed and proven.
Put AI to work in your business. Safely, and with proof.
Practical AI training, AI policies and workflow builds for firms of 10 to 150 people in Ireland, the UK and beyond. Fixed fees. Results measured against where you started: hours saved, faster quotes, more capacity for paying work.
Led by Dr Charles E. Nwankire, who builds AI systems and lectures in AI at UCD Professional Academy and Dublin Business School.
AI Readiness ScorecardSample result
54out of 100
Priority 01: write a short AI-use policy
See your scoreThe gap in Irish business
87%
of Irish SMEs have no formal AI policy, and a third don't know where to start.
Viatel and Amárach, 2025- Firms with a formal AI policy reporting major productivity gains, vs firms without30% vs 3%TCD and Microsoft, AI Economy Ireland 2026
- SMEs saving 2+ hours per employee each week with AI, vs large organisations25% vs 54%TCD and Microsoft, AI Economy Ireland 2026
What we do
Train your people. Govern your AI. Build what saves time and helps win work.
Three services that work alone or together. Each one leaves something behind that your business keeps using.
AI governance
Find out what AI is really in use, set workable rules, and document it, so AI pays off without surprises.
- 3-week AI Governance Sprint
- AI-use policy, tool register and training records
- Ongoing AI Governance Partner support
AI workflow builds
Pick one process that eats hours or slows down sales. We build a working AI workflow on the tools you already pay for, then measure it.
- Fixed scope, fixed fee
- Human review built in
- Documented, with a 30-day check
What “with proof” means
Every engagement is measured against where you started.
We don't quote other firms' results at you. We record your own baseline, measure again afterwards, and report the difference in hours and money.
Hours saved only matter if they go somewhere. Before we start, we agree where the freed time goes: more client work, faster replies to new enquiries, or the follow-up that keeps slipping. It's about capacity, not cutting jobs.
- Before: time per task, recorded with your team
- After: the same tasks, measured the same way
- Where a workflow touches sales: enquiry response time, quote turnaround and proposals sent, before and after
- At 30 days: a short report on what's used and what it saved
- If something didn't help, the report says so
How an engagement runs
Clear steps, no open-ended consulting.
Free briefing
30 minutes on where you are and where AI could save time or help you win work.
Written proposal
Fixed scope, timeline and fee within two working days.
Delivery
Training, governance or a build, done with your team rather than to them.
30-day check
We measure what's used, the time saved and the sales measures we agreed, against your baseline.
Why Zenchise
AI advice from someone who has built it and governed it.
Governance advice from people who have never shipped an AI system tends to stay theoretical. Builders who have never sat through a risk review tend to skip the rules. Zenchise brings both, plus years of teaching to make it stick.
- Built and commercialised AI products in financial services, through data, compliance, legal and risk sign-off
- Lectures in AI at UCD Professional Academy and Dublin Business School
- 500+ professionals trained; 100+ MSc dissertations supervised in analytics and AI
- We report what we measure, and only claim what we can show
Founder
Dr Charles E. Nwankire
Charles builds AI products in financial services and lectures in AI at UCD Professional Academy and Dublin Business School. Zenchise exists to give smaller Irish firms the practical, well-governed approach to AI that large organisations pay consultancies for.
- Industry
- 15+ years in data, AI and analytics
- Teaching
- 500+ professionals trained in AI
- Doctorate
- PhD, University College Dublin
- Business
- MBA (Distinction), Trinity
Start this week
Two free ways to get your AI use organised.
Take the 3-minute scorecard for your priorities, or download the policy template most Irish SMEs are missing.
Free download
The SME AI-use policy template
A two-page, plain-English policy you can adapt in an afternoon: approved tools, a traffic-light data rule, human review, transparency and training. Written for Irish SMEs.
Here it is
Download the AI-use policy template (PDF). We've also emailed you the link.
Insights
Plain-English notes on AI in Irish business
AI Act · 6 min read
The AI Act after the Omnibus: what a 30-person Irish firm actually has to do
The heavy rules moved to 2027 and 2028. Here's what applies now, and what to do this quarter.
Governance · 5 min readWhy an AI policy is your best productivity tool
The firms getting the most from AI aren't the ones with the most tools. They're the ones with rules.
Next step
Find out where AI can save your team time.
Start with a 30-minute briefing, at no cost. You'll leave with a clear next step, whether or not we work together.