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NIXY

Future workplace consultancy · Manchester

We build the working habits of the future.

Potara starts with people, not technology. We help teams try new ways of working before they commit to them, then speed up the adoption of the ideas that stick.

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The dream

The future of work isn’t something that happens to us.

We get to dream it up.

Potara Technicity

Don’t read about it. Walk through it.

A playable city of the future. Meet Nixy, find the challenge you want solved, and leave with a plan. About five minutes, and everything in it is also further down this page if you’d rather scroll.

Potara presents

Nixy’s World

NIXY

Hi! I’m Nixy. Want the tour? I promise the walking is optional.

Click walk and talk WASD move Space next

For two decades we’ve been able to buy almost anything with a click.

Yet account managers, marketing managers and customer service reps are still here. Why?

Because human beings are complicated. Some things we still want a person for.

AI isn’t going to retire us. What’s coming back is the good stuff: creativity, ingenuity and a little bit of fun.

Meet Tom, account manager

Work used to be 80% admin, 20% creative.

Now it’s 20% admin, 80% creative.

Picture a small team that used to spend several hours a week compiling reports, now spending them building the thing nobody had time to try before.

AGENT

Your agenda’s ready: three client calls, notes from last week attached.

“Send me a quote.”

AGENT

Quote #0428 is drafted from this call. Ready for you to review and send.

REVIEWSEND
AGENT · ONLY TOM SEES THIS

Ask how the golf tournament went last week.

DASHBOARD

New order in from your 2PM call.

TOM · ACCOUNT MANAGER
MON9:00 AM
EXCITEMENT

9AM · Weekly stand-up

ADMIN

Our approach

We start with people, not technology.

Most people don’t sit around saying, “Hmm, we really could use some more AI in this place.”

So we help clients create and shape their own future working habits. In practice, that means trying new ways of working before you commit to them, then speeding up the adoption of the ideas that stick.

  1. Listen

    We sit with your people and map the habits worth changing, before anyone mentions a tool.

  2. Try

    Pilots in weeks, not quarters, with real users on the licences you already pay for.

  3. Measure

    Every pilot ends with evidence you could hand to a board, a governor or an auditor.

  4. Adopt

    Training built on how people actually learn, so the new habit is still there in six months.

Anthropotechnics

Peter Sloterdijk calls humans practising animals. We become who we are through training. A working habit is a practice, and a practice can be designed. That idea sits under everything Potara does.

Practices

Six practices. One team behind all of them.

Each one starts with a person and a problem, and ends with something your team keeps.

Futurist Training Workshops
TRAINING QUESTSALES TEAM
  1. Identify the bottleneckSam, buried in slides
    ✓
  2. Dream up the solutionA plan for Sam’s role
    ✓
  3. 2-hour workshopHands on, real decks
    ✓
  4. Follow up and tweakKeep what works
    ✓
Practice 01 · Workshops

Futurist Training Workshops

Custom workshops that teach a team new ways of working, built around one real job.

  1. Identify the bottleneckMeet Sam in sales. Sam is working flat out, building every presentation from scratch.
  2. Dream up the solutionPotara and Nixy design a custom training plan for Sam’s role, around the work Sam actually does.
  3. Deliver the workshopTwo hours, hands on, using the team’s own presentations and tools.
  4. Follow up and tweakWe check how well it’s working, then adjust the plan until it sticks.
MicrosoftTraining and content delivered on their behalf in Europe and North America
QTSDesigned by a qualified teacher, not a slide reader
Nixy, Potara’s company avatar
CHARACTER SHEET · NIXY
BrandPotara, Manchester. Wide-eyed optimists.
AudienceWorkplace leads, sales teams, teachers
Look8-bit glow
PersonalityCurious, cheeky, helpful
Practice 02 · Company avatars · Nixy

Digital Presentation

A company avatar like Nixy, designed around your brand: on brand, on message, on call.

  1. Understand your brand and audienceWho you are, who you talk to, and how they like to be spoken to.

    NIXYI was made for workplace leads, sales teams and teachers. So I keep it plain and friendly.

  2. Find your lookAesthetic preferences: colours, culture, style, and the one detail that glows.

    NIXYOur founder is a big gamer, so I came with headphones, a visor and a soft spot for 8-bit.

  3. Craft your digital personalityVoice, manners, and what your avatar will and won’t say.

    NIXYI’m cheeky, but I never talk over anyone. Professional was never meant to mean grey.

NixyYou’re looking at one. Designed, voiced and deployed by Potara.
0%50%75% 78% 93% Lesson 1Lesson 4each lesson planned fromthe last one’s exit tickets
Practice 03 · Schools, trusts and educational institutions

Education Accelerator

Futurist training for staff, interventions for students, and digital tools that give teachers time back for the creative part.

For
Schools, trusts and educational institutions.
Staff
Futurist Training Workshops, shaped around school life.
Students
Interventions, each session planned from the last one’s data.
Teachers
Digital tools that take on lesson planning and lesson structure, so there’s more time to be creative.
78→93%End-of-lesson attainment across a four-lesson sequence in a Salford secondary
Practice 04 · Gamified platforms

The Arcade

Gamified platforms that make customers and sales teams want to log in.

For
Sales organisations and customer success teams.
What we do
Points, levels, challenges and rewards, designed around the behaviour you actually want to see.
Example
Kitting out a hybrid meeting room, played as a character select screen.
Nixy’s WorldOur own pitch is a game. Play it ↗
Practice 05 · Synthetic Intelligence · GeekMoth

SI Academy

AI agents and apps built into your real workflows, on the tools you already license.

For
Teams buried in repeat work: sales, marketing, technical, operations.
What we do
Study a workflow, find where an agent genuinely helps, build a pilot inside your tenant, test it and iterate.
Timing
Pilots in weeks, not quarters.
35%Less training time for new colleagues after a Power Platform onboarding portal
53→95%Microsoft 365 adoption plan toward a 95% target
Practice 06 · Meeting Room Studio

Watch a room transform.

One meeting room, scrolled through all ten stages of a project: from the room everyone avoids to the room everyone books. Take it slowly.

01of 10 · Legacy room
Time to start a meeting10 min
Seats heard at the far end4 of 10
Echo (reverb time)1.2 s
Light on faces120 lux

Illustrative room · targets from our room design notes

Joined in 1 tap
Room health · live
DisplaysOK
CameraOK
MicrophonesOK
NetworkOK
Problems are flagged before anyone raises a ticket.
For
Facilities, IT and workplace leads with rooms people avoid.
You get
A design pack and kit list per room, a tidy install, and estate monitoring after go-live.
Timing
Start with a site survey. Pilot one room, then roll out across the estate.
11,000Staff hours a year returned, estimated, from our last hybrid meeting room programme.
On timeAnd on budget, for a national utility company.

Where are you now?

Any stage of the journey is a good place to start.

  1. Curious

    You want to know what’s possible and what’s hype.

  2. Planning

    Audit, design and a roadmap you can defend.

  3. Piloting

    An MVP with real users inside weeks.

  4. Building

    Custom apps and agents on the AI infrastructure you already own.

  5. Scaling

    Training, support and measurement so it sticks.

The odd one outFrom the founder story
Yasin, pixel portrait
YASIN

The founder

Hi! I’m Yasin.

“I’m excited, because things I could only dream up before are now within reach, thanks to these fantastic tools in our hands.”

Yasin spent eight years as a digital workplace consultant for organisations including the European Central Bank, NatWest and BT. Then he qualified as a secondary maths teacher. Potara is what happens when those two careers share a room.

He describes the job as cybernetic marriage counsellor. People and machines aren’t enemies. They need a better room to talk in, and someone to help them listen.

Hear the full founder story in Nixy’s World ↗

Book a call

Let’s dream together.

If you’d like to see what that could look like for you, book a call with Nixy and Yasin. Thirty minutes, no deck. Manchester and the North West in person, anywhere online.

Emailhello@potara.co.uk
Ask NixyLeave your details and Yasin will come to you.
Or play itTake the tour of Potara Technicity.
Play Nixy’s World ↗