The AI Hat

About The AI Hat

Your best people lose most of the week to work they were never hired to do. That's Admin Drag: roughly 70% of the work week spent on manual, repetitive tasks - data entry, meeting prep, reporting, onboarding - instead of the work that actually matters. It's not a talent problem. It's a work design problem. The AI Hat helps organizations fix it. Founded by Mike Allton - a practitioner, not a futurist - we redesign the work first, then build a Digital Crew: a governed team of AI agents that takes the busywork so your people get back to the clients, relationships, and strategic work only they can do. How we help: Keynotes - talks that name Admin Drag for what it is and show your room the real ROI of clearing it. Workshops - hands-on sessions where your team builds its first AI agent, live. Consulting - for teams ready to go further, we design and build the full Digital Crew. Along the way, we help leaders move past Pilot Purgatory and bring Shadow AI into the light with practical governance - built from what is working in the room, not what is being predicted on stage. The AI Hat is also home to The AI Hat Podcast: conversations with practitioners actually doing this work. Ready for an honest read on whether and how we can help? theaihat.com/ai-strategy-call/