# Arun Wilson

> Helping small businesses and charities make time for the work that matters. Arun Wilson is a founder turned operator in Cardiff: fractional operations, project management and advisory.

Arun Wilson is an independent consultant based in Cardiff, UK. He co-founded the edtech company Learnium in 2013, ran it as CEO through a turnaround and its acquisition by Learnlight in 2023, then led the post-acquisition integration as a Senior Project Manager at Learnlight. Since 2026 he has worked independently on fractional operations, project management and advisory for small teams and charities, and he is a director of UNA Global South.

Arun trades as Izaru Works (sole trader). Diagnose-and-build work, meaning audits, automations and websites, runs through Izaru Works and is priced there, not on this site. Until izaruworks.com is live, build enquiries go through the contact form on this site. Whichever site someone starts on, they talk to Arun.

- Book a call or get in touch: https://arunwilson.co.uk/work-with-me
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arunwilson

## Ways to work with Arun

- [Fractional operations](https://arunwilson.co.uk/work-with-me#fractional-operations): A senior operator in your team a few days a month, or a founding partner for a new organisation. Setting things up, running them and keeping delivery moving. From £1,500 a month.
- [Project management](https://arunwilson.co.uk/work-with-me#project-management): One accountable person for a launch, a migration, or two companies becoming one. From £400 a day.
- [Advisory](https://arunwilson.co.uk/work-with-me#advisory): From someone who has built, run and sold a company. For founders, teams weighing up AI, and new charities. From £400 a day.

## Case studies

- [Contentifai](https://arunwilson.co.uk/projects/contentifai): A growing B2B content agency had more admin than hours. Five problems fixed in one sprint: two with small automations, three with no new code at all.
- [Open Routes Research](https://arunwilson.co.uk/projects/open-routes-research): A consultancy site for a participatory research practice, plus a pared-back personal site for its founder. Clear services, real case studies, easy to edit.
- [UNA Global South](https://arunwilson.co.uk/projects/una-global-south): UNA Global South works for a fair say and a fair share for the Global South, grounded in human rights. As a director I set up the groundwork: company registration, governance, the fundraising plan, a flagship event and the website.
- [Simulation Chamber](https://arunwilson.co.uk/projects/simulation-chamber): An AI-powered mock UN General Assembly. Each country is an AI agent, so students can rehearse diplomacy without a room of thirty people. Shown live at a UN80 event at King's College London.

## Writing

- [How this site works, and why it has a map of itself](https://arunwilson.co.uk/writing/how-this-site-works.md): The thinking behind this website: a graph of everything on it, a layer written for AI assistants, publishing straight from my notes, and an assistant that answers questions.
- [Where AI automation actually pays back in a small business](https://arunwilson.co.uk/writing/where-ai-automation-pays-back.md): Most AI automation fails at the selection stage, not the build stage. A practical filter for deciding what to automate, from someone who builds these systems weekly.
- [What running both sides of an acquisition taught me about operations](https://arunwilson.co.uk/writing/both-sides-of-an-acquisition.md): I sold the startup I ran, then delivered the integration from inside the acquirer. The deal was the easy part. Here's what the operational reality looked like.

## Optional

- [Full text of the site](https://arunwilson.co.uk/llms-full.txt): every way of working, case study and article in one file
- [About Arun](https://arunwilson.co.uk/about): background and how he works
- [Site graph data](https://arunwilson.co.uk/graph.json): services, projects, articles and their shared tags as JSON