The Northern AI Collective

Compass

One-Month AI Sprint for Women Founders · North of England

Most founders have more ideas than hours. Compass gives you one focused month to put AI to work in your business: clearer positioning, sharper systems, and the headspace to lead. Four weekly half-days, the same twelve women in the room, then a results session a month later to prove it worked. No technical background needed.

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1
Month sprint
4
Weekly half-days
12
Women per cohort
+1
Online results session

Before the sprint begins, you get a short onboarding module

A short self-paced module covering the tools and prompting basics we'll use across the four half-days. It means we start properly in week one, and nobody begins from zero.

Is Compass right for you?

Built for women founders who
want AI to actually work

Compass is for women business owners across the North of England. It's practical, it runs in a small room of twelve, and every session is built around your real business.

  • You run your own business, as a founder, sole trader, or company director
  • You're based in or near Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, York or elsewhere across the North
  • You want practical AI skills you can use from day one
  • You don't have a tech background, and you don't need one
  • You want more than a one-day workshop. You want lasting change in how you work
  • You're ready to give one focused month to growing your business
The five Compass sessions

Each one deep.
All of them yours.

Four in-person half-days, one a week for a month, covering every area where AI can shift how your business runs: content and visibility, customer insight, operations, and strategy. Then a fifth session online, a month later, to see what actually stuck.

Session 01 · Content & Visibility

AI for Content, Visibility
and Conversion

Build a content and outreach engine that sounds like you. The full arc from getting found to getting hired, with AI doing the heavy lifting on writing and research so you stay in your own voice.

Content strategy Social media Blog & SEO Email marketing Personalised outreach Proposal writing

You leave with a repeatable system for showing up and bringing in work without it taking over your week.

Session 02 · Customer Insight

AI for Customer Insight
and Research

Understand who you serve and what they actually need, at a depth most founders never reach. Sharper customer insight makes everything else work better. Your content lands harder, your sales calls go better, and your decisions get easier.

Interview synthesis Review & feedback analysis Ideal client profiling Market & competitor research Positioning

You leave with a clear picture of your customer that you can act on.

Session 03 · Operations & Admin

AI for Operations
and Admin

Reclaim the hours you lose to the work that doesn't need you. The systems that quietly eat your week, dealt with, delegated, or automated.

Inbox & scheduling Meeting notes Client onboarding Document drafting Recurring task reduction Systems that run without you

You leave with fewer recurring tasks on your plate and more time for the work only you can do.

Session 04 · Strategy & Decisions

AI for Strategy
and Decision-Making

Use AI as a thinking partner for the decisions that shape your business. You step out of the day-to-day, pressure-test your direction, and lead from a clearer position, rather than reacting to whatever landed in your inbox that morning.

Pricing & financial scenarios Offer design Strategic planning Pressure testing your thinking Leading, not just delivering

You leave thinking like the person in charge of the business.

Session 05 · Results round-table

The results
round-table

One month after the sprint, we meet again online for around 90 minutes. Everyone reports what stuck, what saved hours, and what the month actually paid back. No travel to prove it worked.

Hours reclaimed What stuck What to do next

You leave with a measured before-and-after for your own business, in your own numbers.

Between sessions

You won't be left to
figure it out alone

Practical work to apply

Each session sends you off with specific, doable work tied to your real business. From week one you keep a simple ROI tracker, a running log of the hours you get back, and we review it every time we meet. Miss a week and you get the materials plus a short catch-up call.

Private cohort community

A private space for your cohort to ask questions, share what's working, and stay accountable. It stays open through the sprint and into the results month.

Investment

£599

That's the founding price for the Autumn 2026 cohort, which runs fully online: four Thursdays from 10 to 2, plus the online results session a month later. The standard price is £899, and in-person cohorts follow in Leeds and other northern cities from 2027.

Your place covers the onboarding module, all five sessions, the ROI tracker, and the private cohort community. Payment can be split on request, and if you've been to First Light, that fee comes off your Compass place.

Places are limited. Each cohort is capped at 12 women and fills from the waitlist. Add yourself below and I'll be in touch as soon as places open.

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Questions? Get in touch or email hello@marketiva.co.uk

Common questions

Good questions,
straight answers

Who is the Compass AI programme for?

Female founders, sole traders, and women business owners based in the North of England: Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, York and the towns around them. You don't need a tech background. You need a business you want to grow and the willingness to try a new way of working.

Do I need to know about AI already to join Compass?

No. The short onboarding module before week one covers everything you need. You can start with little more than a ChatGPT account. By the end of the sprint, the aim is AI working across your whole business.

What AI tools does Compass use?

Tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, plus a few others depending on your business. I stick to practical tools you can actually use today in a real business.

Where do Compass sessions take place?

The founding Autumn 2026 cohort runs fully online, so you can join from anywhere in the North. In-person cohorts follow in Leeds and other northern cities from 2027. Join the waitlist and pick your city, and I'll confirm when a cohort opens near you.

How much does the Compass AI programme cost?

£599 for the Autumn 2026 founding cohort, which runs online. The standard price is £899. Either way, that covers the onboarding module, all five sessions, the ROI tracker, and the private cohort community.

How many people are in each Compass cohort?

A maximum of 12 women per cohort. I keep it small on purpose, so every session has time and space for your specific business.

How is Compass different from a one-day AI workshop?

A one-day workshop gives you ideas. Compass builds the systems and gives you a month to embed them in your real business, then a results session to check they held. By the end, AI is part of how you actually work.

How to join

Join the Compass waitlist

Leave your details and I'll be in touch when places open. The founding cohort runs online in Autumn 2026, open to founders across the whole North. In-person cohorts follow in Leeds and other cities from 2027.

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Part of the Northern AI Collective

Compass is the deep work,
the community keeps it alive.

Compass is the serious programme inside the Northern AI Collective, a community of women founders across the North. Members get a discount on Compass and a monthly room to keep the systems you build from going stale. Joining the community is free.

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Talk it through
before you commit.

Compass is a focused one-month sprint, plus a results session a month later. Twelve women, five sessions, real work in between. If you'd like to talk through whether it's the right shape for you before joining the waitlist, a short conversation usually settles it.

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