Give every project idea the challenge of an experienced director, before it reaches one.
Project Ideas Coach, from BKO Consulting, is a guided AI coach that asks the questions experienced sponsors and directors know matter. It challenges assumptions, exposes gaps and turns early thinking into a clear, decision-ready assessment.
Seven questions · Around five minutes · Mini dashboard included · Work email required after question two · No credit card
What you receive
Give every idea your best thinking, without being in every conversation.
Your teams are full of good ideas. What they often need is access to the experience and challenge that turns an idea into something you can confidently make a decision about.
As a director or head of service, you already know the questions to ask. Who have you spoken to? What will this cost? What evidence supports it? What happens if we do nothing? Who will deliver it, and what might get in their way?
The problem is finding the time to work through those questions with every person and every idea.
Project Ideas Coach makes that thinking available earlier. It gives people a safe place to test their ideas, identify gaps, act on recommendations and try again before bringing the proposal to you.
A general AI tool waits for someone to know what to ask. Project Ideas Coach leads the conversation, asks the questions that experience tells us matter and keeps the thinking focused on the decision that needs to be made.
By the time the idea reaches you, the thinking is clearer, the gaps are visible and the conversation can move forward.
Your experience, available earlier
Give teams access to the questions and challenge you would normally provide yourself.
Space to test and improve
People can explore an idea, receive honest feedback and strengthen it before formal approval.
Time back for leaders
Spend less time sending proposals back for missing information and more time making decisions and shaping priorities.
Better decisions, sooner
Receive a structured assessment of the idea, the evidence, the delivery risks and the actions needed next.
Built around your organisation
Tailor the coach to use your preferred methodology, language, governance requirements and decision-making framework. Your teams receive consistent challenge based on how your organisation wants ideas to be developed, not a generic set of AI questions.
Project Ideas Coach doesn’t make the decision for you. It makes the idea ready for one.
Your approach, built into the coach
Project Ideas Coach can be tailored to reflect how your organisation wants people to develop, test and present new ideas.
We configure the coaching style, questions and outputs around your own language, priorities and ways of working. The coach can incorporate your preferred project methodologies, investment criteria, governance requirements, decision points and organisational frameworks.
- Your own project or programme methodology
- Established frameworks such as PRINCE2, Agile, MSP or HM Treasury guidance
- Corporate priorities, outcomes and investment criteria
- Internal approval routes and decision-making requirements
- Preferred language, terminology and coaching style
- Organisational templates, policies, lessons learned and examples
- The information leaders expect before supporting an idea
Your team receives consistent, organisation-specific challenge from the earliest stage, while retaining the natural, conversational experience of a coach.
Four steps to a stronger idea.
Describe your project in your own words, no jargon, no templates.
Structured, open questions across scope, schedule, risk, benefits and more.
Upload research, case studies, lessons learned. The coach cites what it hears.
A one-page dashboard, confidence score, and a clear Route to Green.
- Run a short session with residents to test the problem.
- Sponsor sign-off on scope before writing a business case.
- Confirm data-sharing review with IG, flagged early.
Built for every organisation shaping change.
Test growth ideas before you commit funds.
Shape strategic programmes with rigour.
Sharpen service change and transformation.
Coach through curriculum and estates decisions.
Pressure-test build, retrofit and services.
Prove impact before you seek funding.
Sanity-check client proposals faster.
Standardise how good ideas get through the gate.
What people say about working with us
I had the opportunity of working with BKO in developing a light rail futures programme and a mass transit tram renewal project for SYMCA. BKO's proactive approach in providing advice and guidance to their client was exemplary. BKO's expertise and personal style make it easy for them to build productive, trusting, and effective relationships across the client team – particularly in securing buy-in for change from the Executive leadership. Their impressive knowledge and skills enhance both the quality and value of the additional capacity and support they provide. I have found that BKO relishes every challenge, are extremely focussed, hard-working and highly capable in delivering at pace.
We brought BKO into the team in 2022 to provide project direction to three initial projects within our environmental services team. The projects were set up, planned and delivered working with our team within several months. Several of these projects had failed to deliver for several years prior to this. BKO has been instrumental in our team development approach as we have sought to develop our team and retain the skills within the Council. They have provided training, mentoring and coaching while our teams have been delivering projects, resulting in really fast paced team development. They have also helped us to establish key project processes and reporting and provide strategic intervention across the portfolio. I would not hesitate to recommend BKO. I really value their expertise within our team and their patient and calm approach. In the, often challenging world of change they also add a sense of fun and a different way of thinking around complex issues.
Your idea remains yours
- You retain ownership of the ideas and documents you provide.
- Information is processed to operate the coaching service.
- Project Ideas Coach does not sell your data.
- You can request deletion of your information.
- Project Ideas Coach supports professional and organisational judgement; it does not replace it.
Information you enter into the coach is processed by the technology providers identified in our privacy notice.
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