Now founding, and building with AI.
Ben Young is a design and AI consultant based in Bournemouth, UK. Twenty years in digital, most of it in senior design roles at agencies working with the likes of Channel 4, WWF, the UN Environment Programme and The Royal Society. Now founder of Cernago↗ and co-founder of Bookbag↗, designing and building products end to end with AI — without a development team.
Available two or three days a week for teams that need a senior operator at the design–product–AI intersection.
Fractional, remote, alongside Cernago and Bookbag.
Discovery, information architecture, wireframing, prototyping, interface and visual design, design systems, usability testing.
Designing and building production sites, web apps and multi-agent AI systems end to end. Content pipelines, image generation and workflow automations included. Concept to live without the cost or lead time of a development team.
UX and website audits, positioning, go-to-market, and AI search visibility (AEO / GEO) audits with prioritised roadmaps clients can act on.
Design is finished
when it ships.
AI-assisted build lets one person hold the whole loop: ideate, prototype, polish, build, deploy. Faster feedback, tighter iteration, and the design that ships is the design that was drawn.
The advertising channel that funds primary schools
Bookbag turns brand marketing spend into direct funding for primary schools — £1,800–3,600 a year per school, in no-strings revenue that would otherwise have gone to Meta or Google. Trusted businesses reach families through printed activity resources vetted by every school before print, with zero data collected from students or families.
Predictable pipeline for B2B companies
Cernago builds the predictable-revenue engine for B2B companies — positioning, structured outbound, paid media and AI-driven sales tooling as one joined-up system, moving established firms beyond referral-dependent growth. Retained clients include Philips, Solstice AV, Wholegood and Osmond Ergonomics.
Available two or three days a week for teams that need a senior operator at the design–product–AI intersection.
ben@benyoung.me