The Alignment Index
What your workforce actually thinks about AI.
Halford & Wren Consulting · Baseline, May 2026
Trusted By 1000+ Organisations
Measure What Your Workforce Thinks. Then Change It
A company-wide AI behaviour change programme. It measures what your workforce really thinks about AI, then changes it.
Measure · The Alignment Index
See Where Your Workforce Stands
A five-signal read of where your workforce really stands, captured through Ada, the AI interface in every lesson, and reported only at the workforce level, so people answer honestly.
Move · Foundations
Move Them From Anxious to Capable
Foundations builds on what the index reveals: designed video lessons that change attitude first, then build the skills. They also teach how AI works underneath, so the capability lasts when the tools change.
Twelve lessons, four themes
- Mindset & confidence
- How AI actually works
- Using it safely
- Putting it to work
See all twelve lessons
Mindset & confidence
- Building confidence: start your AI journey
- Using AI without losing your professional identity
How AI actually works
- What is AI? Demystifying artificial intelligence
- Hallucinations and confabulation
- Generative vs agentic AI
Using it safely
- Data privacy and security essentials
- Ethics, bias and responsible AI
- Your organisational AI policies and governance
Putting it to work
- Prompt engineering
- Setting up your tools: Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini
- Simple AI: five minutes that save hours
- Peer review: getting second opinions
Live classes, led by James Wann
60 minutes each. Keynotes, workshops or executive briefings, structured into the programme with you.
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Prove · The Alignment Index, again
Prove the Shift to the Leadership Team
The same index, re-read every quarter through Ada’s brief check-ins, so the movement is visible. Leadership-ready proof the workforce moved, not a data export.
Re-measured every quarter
Measure, then move, then measure again. This is what makes it an effective behaviour change programme.
Book a discovery callThe measure behind all of it
The Alignment Index
A five-signal read of where your workforce really stands with AI, surfacing the anxiety, the shadow use and the quiet enthusiasm before anyone tells them what to think. A baseline you take to leadership, re-read every quarter.
- SentimentHow the workforce feels about AI
- CapabilityWhat they can actually do with it
- RiskWhere the organisation is exposed
- KnowledgeWhat they grasp about how AI works
- BehaviourWhat they do, openly or in secret
The engine behind all of it
Ada, Inside Every Lesson
An AI interface, trained on your own policies and tools, that teaches by asking. It runs the check-ins behind the Index and the teaching inside every lesson. Learning AI by using an AI is the Assemble You instinct, applied to AI.
Lesson 04 · Data Privacy
Built by a Company You Can Trust
The programme comes from Assemble You, an established learning company. The same people, the same standard, now made for AI.
1,000+
organisations trust the team with their training.
Built with care
Evidence behind every claim
Each claim about how people and AI work together is anchored in high-quality, named sources. The full reading list is yours on request.
Presented by a real expert
Every lesson is presented by James Wann, on camera, not a synthetic voice or AI avatar narrating about AI.
Pseudonymised and secure
The data Ada captures is pseudonymised and reported only at the workforce level, never traced to an individual, on Cyber Essentials Plus infrastructure that is independently audited.
What users say
It felt more like watching a documentary out of choice than a training video for compliance. The approach to AI was balanced, in contrast to the extreme hype, especially from tech vendors.
The conversations with Ada really helped exemplify what AI can do. The videos were excellent quality, with a human presenter and helpful on-screen information.
Who presents the programme
Meet James Wann
Director of AI and Innovation
James authors and presents every lesson, and leads the live classes. The people who have worked with him put it better than we could.
James does what he says he’ll do, and what he produces actually works. He has consistently provided training that shattered engagement expectations.
Andrea SennettDirector, Content Partnerships · Docebo
I’ve known James for over a decade. Exceptionally curious and insightful, particularly with AI, from well before the GenAI explosion.
Marc Zao-SandersWrites on AI for Harvard Business Review · Founder, Filtered
Easy to Roll Out at Scale
Designed to be simple to adopt, whatever your size and whatever you already have in place.
Into your existing LMS
Delivered as SCORM, into the platform your people already log into. No new system to roll out or manage.
One organisation-wide fee
Priced for the whole workforce, not per seat, because the shift is needed right across the organisation.
Built for how people actually learn now
Short, designed lessons with an AI companion built in, so people learn by doing, not by sitting through slides. The format that made our name, now applied to AI.
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On its own, or alongside
A complete programme in its own right, or the measurement and behaviour-change layer that complements what is already being done with AI.
Built for how people actually learn now
Short, designed lessons with an AI companion built in, so people learn by doing, not by sitting through slides. The format that made our name, now applied to AI.
Book a discovery call
