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About

Founder-led. From first conversation to working system.

Boring Future is an independent company from Redditch, Worcestershire, led by Keiaan McLean. We build AI, automation and connected systems around the people who make a business what it is.

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Keiaan McLean
Keiaan McLeanFounder · Redditch, Worcestershire

Deliberately contradictory.

There’s nothing boring about artificial intelligence today. That’s partly the problem. Boring Future imagines what happens afterwards, when the technology simply works.

The technology

Boring.

Dependable enough to disappear. The report is there, the history is gathered and nobody cares which model prepared it.

The people

Future.

More room to think, create, disagree and decide what happens next. The technology quietly works; the opportunity becomes yours.

Delivered inside complex UK operations.

Keiaan’s background spans service desks, operations, reporting, data analytics and automation. The work below was designed and delivered personally.

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McLeans IT

KTC Edibles

  • An IT service-management system, designed and put in place end to end.
  • Every ticket run as one managed process, from the first request to its resolution.
  • Service levels, notifications, routing and reporting handled automatically.
  • c. £560m group turnover
  • four production sites
  • around 450 staff
  • supplying major UK supermarkets
Employed roles

Major UK hospitality groups

Operational reporting and automation for some of the biggest hospitality estates in the country, working with large volumes of service data, business rules and suppliers.

Reporting automation, applied AI for work-order analysis and API integrations connecting operational systems, which led to involvement in an AI working party alongside senior leadership.

Keiaan on LinkedIn

This is experience gained through McLeans IT and employed roles, not Boring Future client work or endorsements, and employer-owned software stays separate. KTC’s turnover is group turnover for the year to 31 December 2023, as filed; its sites and headcount are as publicly reported at the 2022 acquisition.

Show us the parts of your job that waste your time.

None of this works if people believe automation is a polite way of extracting their knowledge before replacing them. So we build with the people doing the work, not around them.

Remove enough drudgery and a role can grow: more responsibility, time to improve the process rather than survive it, and sometimes entirely new opportunities.

Make the systems ordinary. Let people be interesting.

  1. 01

    Build with employees

    The people doing the work know the exceptions, the workarounds and what they wish they had time to do. They help shape the change.

  2. 02

    Give machines the chores first

    Automate the predictable work. Use AI to prepare. Keep responsibility and human relationships where they belong.

  3. 03

    Protect different perspectives

    People’s worth is not an intelligence ranking. Curiosity, disagreement and experience shape the organisation you become.

  4. 04

    Create possibility

    Measure the capacity released and decide what it is for. Then build systems dependable enough to disappear.

An empty cane armchair beside a small table at dusk, lit by a strip of warm lightThe manifestoFifteen short chapters on why the best technology becomes boring.Read the manifesto
Boring Future / LabsReal work in. Reusable capability out.How a request becomes prepared context, where the system stops, and the architecture underneath.Inside Labs
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What would your team do with their time back?

A free conversation, thirty to forty-five minutes. No deck, no obligation.

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