Max is an engineer who ended up doing a lot of consulting, and he still does both. He spent a decade in enterprise automation and digital transformation inside some of the world’s largest financial institutions, building programmes that saved millions a year, and he still writes code on the systems Agency AI ships.
That decade taught him how institutions of that size put AI and automation into production safely: tested, secured, accountable, and built to run for years rather than to demo well. It also showed him how rarely that discipline reaches anyone outside the enterprise, because the firms that hold it seldom work anywhere else.
He founded Agency AI in Glasgow to take it to established mid-market businesses: companies that want premium, bespoke advice and engineering, and have no appetite for an enterprise-scale engagement to get it. Most of his week is still spent in the two roles he likes best, working out with a client where AI is genuinely worth applying, then building it alongside the team.
