Rocketeer Orbit is a business growth consultancy that combines AI with human consultants to help Staffordshire businesses take flight.

Set up in Stafford by former teacher Richard Wood, it now has six human employees and six AI agents. Clients range from a business with a £25,000 annual turnover to a £200million company.

CEO Richard Wood’s diverse work background includes primary and special needs teaching, teaching ex-offenders and running a film studio before founding Rocketeer Enterprise, which has now become Rocketeer Orbit.

As an AI growth consultant he helps established business owners and education leaders in Staffordshire and beyond to cut through the noise around AI.

Richard and his team aim to demystify AI, creating clear, practical strategies that unlock potential, activate significant growth and drive real, quantifiable business value.

Services include AI audits to deep delve into organisations to find the highest impact opportunities for AI integration, strategic one-to-one consultation to build a robust and safe AI adoption roadmap and workshops for teams and organisations looking to understand the AI landscape.

The service is delivered by a combination of human staff and the Rockateer AI platform which has been created to help businesses gain clarity on the value of the business and to track its growth in real time.

Richard and his team often deliver their work through local authorities and business organisations so that they can support multiple businesses simultaneously, but also offer their services to individual businesses. He is also often called on to be a keynote speaker on AI.

“This is about helping businesses to stay focussed on growth but also to recognise that growth isn’t an art, it’s a science. We can help them to understand that science.

“If a business understands what it’s trying to do and where it’s trying to get to then AI can definitely help because it’s just a tool. The starting point is clarity about what they’re trying to do.

“We’re still very human focussed. What we’re developing is an eco-system of business growth including networking events and bringing in potential investors.”

The business is currently run from the Shire Hall Business Centre in Stafford. Richard has plans to start networks in Birmingham, Manchester and London and is then looking to make the business international.

Rocketeer Orbit has entered the Innovation Award category of University of Staffordshire Business Awards.