About us
Educe builds custom AI assistants that help teams find and use their own institutional knowledge. We take what a firm already knows — the documents, the project history, the accumulated expertise — and make it accessible through a simple conversation in Microsoft Teams.
‘Educe’ is to draw out, and that’s what we do. The knowledge already exists inside your organisation - we draw it out and make it useful.
Educe started with a single project: building an AI assistant for a UK consultancy with 20 years of documents in SharePoint. The firm's consultants knew the answers to most questions were somewhere in their files - but finding the right document at the right time meant digging through folders or relying on colleagues' memories.
We built a system that changed that. It indexes the firm's entire document library, understands their clients and terminology, and lets anyone on the team get sourced answers through a chat in Teams. That project taught us what actually matters in making AI useful for a real business: rigorous data preparation, systems that earn trust by showing their sources, and ongoing attention as documents and needs evolve. We now offer that same approach to other firms.
Where this started
We start by reviewing your SharePoint - understanding what's there, what's useful, and what needs cleaning up. Then we build the search index, configure the system for your firm's terminology and structure, and deploy a working assistant to your Teams.
How we work
Once live, we manage and improve the system on an ongoing basis: keeping the index current as your documents change, upgrading the AI models, and building new capabilities based on how your team actually uses it.
Every system we deploy follows the same proven architecture, adapted to each firm's specific needs. We manage and maintain the platform, keeping it current and improving it over time.
Meet the Founder
Ed Turner founded Educe to help businesses turn AI's potential into working systems.
Before starting the company, Ed spent five years as an Economic Advisor in UK government, serving across the Department for Business and Trade and the Department for Transport. His portfolio spanned international trade, infrastructure investment, and freight decarbonisation, culminating in representing the UK at the OECD on AI policy and technology adoption.
Ed began his career as an analyst at Deloitte and Clarksons Platou, and most recently worked on AI governance with a pan-African technology non-profit. Across these roles, he saw the same recurring gap: businesses recognise that AI matters, but most lack the technical capacity to move from interest to working systems. Educe was founded to close that gap.
Ed builds practical, production-ready AI tools within the Microsoft ecosystem — primarily Azure AI, Copilot Studio, and SharePoint. He emphasises rigorous testing, structured engineering, and systems that earn trust by being transparent about how they reach their conclusions.
Ed holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Nottingham.