Content Strategy · AI & Technology

Elliot Leavy

Thought leadership for enterprise AI.
I turn hard technology into arguments people act on.

London, UK 07308 978 822
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I stay ahead of what AI is doing to organisations, and write and speak about it in plain terms. At Elsewhen that means the reports, the talks and the internal tools, for FTSE 100 and public sector clients. In the press I cover AI and geopolitics for The Spectator, UnHerd and VentureBeat, and I run the Machinepower Index, a measure of which countries can actually build and control AI.

Now

Head of Thought Leadership

Elsewhen
Jun 2024 → present

Own the editorial narrative and go-to-market content for a London AI consultancy working with FTSE 100 and public sector clients.

  • Coined and editorially developed the Agentic Enterprise, now central to company strategy and client work.
  • Built the TRIAL framework for mapping enterprise workflows and finding where agentic augmentation pays.
  • Made AI optimisation the working successor to SEO: structure, semantics, metadata and llms.txt patterns.
  • Vibe-coded and shipped internal tools, from a public sector bid-writing assistant to content automation, saving hundreds of hours of manual work.
  • Lectures and strategy talks at client organisations and institutions including Oxford University.

Emerging Tech Consultant

Forest City 1
Nov 2025 → present

Co-authoring the Phase 1 Technology Report for a new one-million-person city east of Cambridge.

  • Modelling 30-year technology horizons around sovereign AI and compute infrastructure.
  • Writing the strategic case for agentic systems in civic governance and urban operations.

Writer and Commentator

Independent
2023 → present

Analysis on AI strategy, infrastructure and power for national and industry titles.

  • Bylines and features in The Spectator, UnHerd, VentureBeat and Quillette.
  • Author of the Machinepower Index, a sovereignty test built on 12 datasets, and of Machinepower: The Realpolitik of Artificial Intelligence (forthcoming).
Previously2013 — 2026

Founder

ACQUAINTED
2023 – Mar 2026

Europe's first generative AI consultancy. Showed leaders where AI creates value, how to adopt it safely and how to turn tooling into operational impact, across financial services, consulting, education and the public sector.

Head of Content

REDSOFA
Mar 2023 – Jan 2024

Launched the editorial arm of a creative recruitment company and ran AI training workshops for recruiters and clients, putting the firm ahead of a shifting job market rather than behind it.

Managing Editor

AI, Data & Analytics Network
Sep 2021 – Jan 2023

Led editorial strategy for a global AI platform and drove a 300% readership increase in six months. Grew the weekly newsletter past 10,000 members, produced sponsored reports and case studies, and hosted webinars on AI and Web3 for senior leaders.

Tech Writer

Contagious Magazine
Jun 2019 – Sep 2021

Strategic analysis on emerging technology and martech for a global creative consultancy, built on interviews with founders and industry leaders, plus speaking slots at industry events.

Founding Editor

maize.io · H-FARM
Dec 2016 – Jun 2019

Built maize into a tech and innovation magazine with 20,000 weekly readers, the editorial arm of an innovation consultancy. Launched the maize.LIVE events series and the maize.PLUS edtech platform, ghostwrote executive insight, taught innovation at H-FARM University and led corporate workshops.

Copywriter

AKQA
2013 – 2016

Brand and campaign copy for global clients at one of the largest digital agencies.

Also

Machinepower Index (2026). A sovereignty test measuring national capacity to build, control and deploy AI, drawing on 12 datasets across multiple countries.

The Divergence, my 2026 trend report on AI and technology.

Professional speaker, represented by Champions (UK) plc and London Speaker Bureau.

Expert Board Member, Startup Snapshot (2024 to 2025).

AI Mentor, UCL (2023). Guided computer science students on enterprise AI.

Capabilities
Editorial strategy Thought leadership Public speaking Workshops & training Content operations B2B storytelling GTM content Commissioning Analytics AI & infrastructure AI optimisation Vibecoding
Right to work: UK · No sponsorship required References on request