Rocketeer

07/07/2026

BIG NEWS!

Richard Wood is taking the stage at the Festival of AI 2026!

Expect bold ideas, sharp insights, and probably a few "wait, WHAT?" moments as he unpacks where AI is headed next.

This is not one to miss👀

Mark your calendars, tell your colleagues, and get ready...

Don't forget to get your tickets today! There's £50 off at the minute - BE QUICK!

https://rocketeer--hazelskye.thrivecart.com/festival-of-ai-2026/

01/07/2026

🌳 Save the date: Upper Moreton Rural Activities Community Day!

We're proud to be supporting this brilliant free community event at Upper Moreton Rural Activities CIC

It's a wonderful chance to find out more about the wide range of free courses on offer through Community Learning and Community Based Day Opportunities provision, while enjoying a relaxed morning out in the countryside.

What's on:

🐴 Meet the donkeys and other animals
🧺 Handmade crafts, preserves and plants for sale
🌿 Views of the lovely garden and scenery
☕ Refreshments and homemade cakes

Best of all - it's FREE ENTRY, so bring the family and come along to enjoy a great day supporting rural community life.

30/06/2026

🚀 We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Founding Team) 🚀

Rocketeer Orbit builds digital workforces for businesses - real automated workflows that take the admin grind off business owners so they can get back to growing. Our Orbit platform is live, clients are paying, and demand is outpacing us. That's why this seat exists.

This is a founding-team role. You'll shape how we build, not just clear a backlog. When a project hits a wall, you're who the team turns to.

🛠 What you'll do:

Architect and build backend systems for bespoke client work, brief to delivery

Help build Orbit, the core product the business runs on

Put LLMs into real production - Claude & OpenAI wired in with retries, rate limits, structured outputs and human review (not prompt demos)

Harden AI-assisted prototypes into client-ready software

Ship iOS & Android apps through to App Store / Google Play

Build agent workflows linking AI to email, CRM & Slack

Run infra on Cloudflare & AWS, payments via Stripe, messaging via Twilio

Keep everything secure by design and UK GDPR compliant

💡 What we're after:

Depth in a modern backend stack, real experience shipping production systems on top of LLMs, and the judgement to pick the right tool for each job and defend that choice (including pushing back on us when we're wrong).

📦 The stack: PHP/MySQL, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Swift/SwiftUI, React Native, Claude for Platforms, Claude Code, AWS, Cloudflare, Stripe.

📍 Hybrid. Stafford HQ 1–2 days a week, remote the rest
💷 £40k–£55k DOE + EMI share options
🕐 Full time, senior, founding team

To apply: don't send a generic CV. Show us you build things. In your cover letter, give specific examples of projects, automations or architectural problems you've solved and how you chose your approach.

Location: Hybrid Stafford HQ and Remote

25/06/2026

When we deliver a CPD session, the goal is never to dazzle anyone with the technology.

It's to send people back to their desks thinking differently.

About where their business could grow.

About which emerging tools could quietly take the friction out of their day.

And, crucially, about how to adopt all of it responsibly, without losing the human judgement that makes a business actually work.

Judging by the feedback from our recent sessions at the University of Wolverhampton Science Park, that's exactly what happened.

Engaging, insightful, and genuinely useful, by all accounts. We'll take that.

If you'd like the same for your team or organisation, drop us a message and we'll tell you more!

24/06/2026

"Responsible and ethical use of emerging AI" and "the importance of the human element."

That's not our marketing line.

That's a quote from Dr Amy Blaney who attended our recent CPD sessions at the University of Wolverhampton.

Engaging, practical, and grounded in doing AI properly.

That's the goal every time.

Want to bring these sessions to your team or organisation?

Drop us a message and we'll tell you more...

23/06/2026

Spotted the AI section at Waterstones 👀

Encouraging to see, but there's a gap between reading about AI and engineering it safely into a business.

One makes good weekend reading.

The other moves your enterprise value.

We know how to get YOU to your next business goal...

09/06/2026

Our team is growing!

We are officially looking for a talented Workflow Automation Manager 💻

If you love solving problems and want to make an impact from day one, we want to hear from you!

https://rocketeerorbit.ai/jobs/

21/05/2026

Every business owner we've ever worked with has told us, at some point, that they don't have time for training.

The interesting bit is what they say afterwards... once they've actually done it.

- They talk about clearer thinking.

- Better conversations with their teams.

- Decisions that used to take weeks made in an afternoon.

The kind of growth that doesn't come from working harder, but from finally working on the right things.

That's what CPD does when it's done properly.

It doesn't add to the to-do list.

It quietly rewires how the whole business operates.

This week, we got to deliver one of those days at the University of Wolverhampton Science Park, with a room full of brilliant business owners.

If you've been telling yourself you don't have time for this kind of thing, that's probably the sign YOU DO.

Have a look around: https://rocketeerorbit.co.uk/cpd/ & see what's possible.

20/05/2026

How long do you think a rat will keep swimming if it knows it's going to be saved?

The answer (from Curt Richter's Johns Hopkins study) is 60 hours.

Not 6.

60.

That was one of the moments at our 5th session yesterday at the University of Wolverhampton Science Park - a room full of business owners getting under the skin of how AI can genuinely support their growth.

The Richter study lands because it's not really about rats. It's about hope.

The psychological belief that rescue was possible. In business, belief and hope multiply output exponentially.

A few of the other things we got into:

→ What's your organisation's "magic flower"? Dumbo (yes, the Disney elephant! 🐘) had the physiological ability to fly, but needed the psychological safety net to unlock his potential. AI is the modern Magic Feather for business. Your teams have the talent; AI gives them the power to fly, but the power remains inside your people.

→ What's your primary bottleneck? Because AI applied to the wrong constraint just makes you better at doing the wrong thing, faster.

→ Why a gated, private AI matters. Pasting your client data, contracts and IP into a public model isn't using AI - it's giving your business away. There's a real difference between AI you control and AI that controls what happens to your data.

5 sessions in and the conversations keep getting sharper. Owners aren't asking should we use AI? anymore.

They're asking "how do we use it without losing what makes us, us?"

That's the right question.