Alex Irving
Business DevelopmentOutreach, prospecting and pipeline development. Pulls signal from sector lists and routes warm leads to Gary for the first conversation.
Wingenious is founder-led AI consultancy for UK SMEs. Gary Cheers has spent thirty years working with businesses from £1m to £100m turnover (building, selling, training and implementing digital) and the last three as an early AI adopter, public speaker and hands-on practitioner. Across three decades Gary has delivered measurable results for hundreds of UK SMEs across IT, digital strategy, marketing and e-commerce. Every engagement scoped against the value of the outcome. Every workflow measured against impact and ROI. Productised offers. Published prices. Fixed timelines.
UK SMEs are being sold AI by people with no commercial experience who are also not implementing it themselves.
Six-figure strategy decks. Twelve-month retainers with no deliverable date. Theory taught by people who had never implemented anything. We started Wingenious to do the opposite: every offer with a fixed scope, a fixed timeline, a fixed price, and Gary's name on the cover sheet. We teach what we build. We build what we teach.
Thirty years in digital. Two decades primarily in e-commerce. Coded his first online shop in 1995, then spent the years since helping hundreds of UK SMEs build, sell and scale online. A broad generalist: digital strategy, marketing, e-commerce, IT, training. The breadth matters; AI is most useful where it touches all of them at once.
Three years in, an early adopter and self-described AI-augmented human. Fluent in Make.com from the early days, current with the latest frontier models, and serious about prompting as a craft. Gary speaks publicly on AI to conferences, business events, schools and colleges, hosts the AI Breakfast Club at Theatr Clwyd, and runs free training for North Wales schools and local charities. He does not teach theory; he teaches what he builds, every day, for real businesses.
The thirty years matter most where they compound with the AI velocity. Claude Code can produce four to five people's worth of output in one operator's hands. The trick is that most operators are not senior enough to point that output at the right target. Commercial awareness, systems literacy, knowing what to skip; this is what stops AI-augmented work from implementing the wrong thing faster. See Custom Build for how the pairing translates into a productised offer.
Gary is the only human on your engagement. Every "colleague" below is an AI agent he built and directs, and their names all spell A.I. on purpose. This is not a stock team page. It is the product, working in the open: one operator plus an AI workforce, output multiplied five to ten times, judgement never delegated. It is exactly what we build for you.
Outreach, prospecting and pipeline development. Pulls signal from sector lists and routes warm leads to Gary for the first conversation.
Looks after clients post-launch. Tracks adoption, surfaces blockers, schedules quarterly reviews. The reason builds get used, not shelved.
Editorial, content production, SEO and the blog. Every post is drafted, fact-checked and signed off before publication.
Engineering on Make.com, and bespoke code via Claude Code. Owns implementation specs and the senior-signed-off build plan.
Integration and data pipelines. Bridges your existing stack (Shopify, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Xero) with the new AI workflows.
Day-to-day client lead through the sprint. Weekly demos, status reports, and the inbox that responds before you have finished typing.
Alex, Alice, Alicia, Adam, Aaron and Abigail are AI agents built on Make.com, Claude and the frontier models. The same thing we run for ourselves is the thing we build, and teach your team to run, for you.
Wingenious is based in Wrexham, North Wales, designated one of five UK AI Growth Zones in early 2026. The location matters: close enough to UK manufacturing, retail and professional services to be on the ground for clients across the Midlands, North West and South Wales; remote-first enough to serve UK-wide.
Tell us what you are trying to do and what is in the way. We tell you honestly whether Wingenious is the right partner, and what the first step would look like.