The Background
17 years in corporate finance. Budgets, financial models, and back-to-back meetings where every number had to be right. I was good at it. I ran things. But I was building someone else's business, and I knew it.
The person behind ConfigurAI
3 businesses. A mum of 2. A competitive public speaker. And the person who built ConfigurAI from inside her own working week.
ConfigurAI is a London AI training and implementation consultancy for finance teams, accountancy firms and small businesses, founded by Orgesa Meli after 17 years in corporate finance and banking.
The Background
17 years in corporate finance. Budgets, financial models, and back-to-back meetings where every number had to be right. I was good at it. I ran things. But I was building someone else's business, and I knew it.
Why I Built This
This is the training I wish someone had designed for me. Every AI training I found was either too technical, too theoretical, or taught by someone who had never had a real job with real deadlines and a real inbox. I wanted something a finance director could learn one day and use the next morning. So I made it.
Why AI
I came to AI the way you probably did. Opened ChatGPT. Typed something. Got a mediocre answer. Nearly closed it and moved on. But I do not close things until I have properly tried them. I spent months testing every tool, every prompting technique, every workflow. I figured out what actually saves time and what just looks impressive on LinkedIn. Now I use AI across 3 businesses for content, training, communications and research, and I still pick my children up from school at half three.
I figured out what actually saves time and what just looks impressive on LinkedIn.
The Change
In my late 30s, with 2 small children, I left. No tech background. No investors. No safety net. Just a decision I could not take back and did not want to. In the same year, I rebuilt my health from the ground up, not with a coach or a programme, just with the same stubbornness that got me through 17 years of finance. I proved to myself I could change something I thought was permanent. That mattered more than any job title I ever held.
Today
Today I run 3.
AI Training and Implementation
AI training and implementation for finance teams and accountancy firms, and AI audits for small businesses. Built around one principle: real results on real work.
Children's Education
Teaching children the skills school does not: public speaking, leadership, entrepreneurship. Real children building real businesses and selling at real markets.
Health and Lifestyle
A weekly newsletter on health, lifestyle, and the systems behind how you actually change. Written from lived experience, not theory.
The Personal Bit
I am a mum of 2. A competitive public speaker. I believe the ability to communicate clearly, whether that is to a boardroom, a 7-year-old, or a chatbot, is an underrated professional skill.
My finance brain means I measure what AI saves. Before any session I tell you honestly how much time it is likely to save, and sometimes that is only a few hours a week.
years in corporate finance
businesses founded and running
hours I save each week
From Cohort One
Next step
Book a 20-minute call and I will tell you plainly whether the finance training or the audit fits, if either does.