Jake Taylor
Founder, Evolved Intelligence
Jake has spent more than two decades at the forefront of technology, working inside some of the world’s leading technology and consulting organisations, including Apple. The constant across that time has been practical: understanding how complex technology change actually lands inside a business, and what it takes for customers to realise real value from it rather than just adopt something new. Evolved Intelligence is the next frontier of that same work, applied to AI.
Why this firm exists
Most AI engagements fail for reasons that have nothing to do with the technology. The wrong workflow gets chosen because someone was enthusiastic. Governance gets skipped because nobody owned the conversation. The team that has to run the thing meets it a week before launch. We started Evolved Intelligence because those are advisory problems, and almost everyone selling AI is selling software.
How we work
Independent means independent: no vendor alignment, no reseller margin, no software to push. The recommendation is the product. Every engagement runs on the same discipline — evidence before budget, governance before scale, and a team that can run the workflow without us as the definition of done.
Clear thinking. Practical AI. Real impact.