01 · AI
AI, made useful
The room is full of AI ambition. The question is which two or three use cases would actually change a decision someone makes on Monday. We help identify them, choose the right combination of build and buy, put the data plumbing in place, and stay for the delivery. Where a use case is a distraction, we say so.
Use case selection
Model and vendor choice
Agents and workflows
Safety and evaluation
Production delivery
02 · Data & Analytics
Data that means something
An estate where the people who need an answer can find one. That is the goal. Getting there is a mix of platform, governance, modelling and taste. We help design the target state, sequence the migration, and make analytics something leaders trust enough to change what they do with it.
Modern data platform
Governance and lineage
Semantic and metric layers
Decision analytics
Migration and consolidation
03 · Cloud & Platform
Cloud, without the sprawl
Most cloud footprints grew faster than the operating model around them. Untangling them is patient work: real architecture, shared platform services, and clear ownership. Done well, the platform becomes a lever for the product teams that live on top of it, instead of a tax they route around.
Multi-cloud architecture
Platform engineering
Shared services and paved paths
Reliability and operability
Security by default
04 · Technology Economics
What the numbers actually represent
The person reading the cloud bill can see the number, but rarely the story behind it. A managed service quietly deprecated and migrated to a pricier successor. A default that changed at a minor upgrade and reprised a workload several times over. An instance family that stopped matching what it was meant for. Usage-based services and AI token consumption without the governance to explain either. Licences and vendor contracts renewing without a fresh view of whether they still should. Infrastructure built twice because adopting the shared version was harder than duplicating it. We bring visibility and governance behind the numbers, then, where invited, help put both in place so the run-rate stops surprising anyone.
Cloud FinOps & governance
Service & version drift
Usage-based cost control
AI token economics
Licence & vendor rationalisation
Infrastructure de-duplication
05 · Product, Delivery & Organisation
Teams shaped for what the business now needs
Engineering operating model, delivery cadence, the small structural choices that decide whether teams get to ship or spend the year in meetings. A considered read on the shape of the organisation: whether the balance of roles, seniority and specialisms still fits the business, particularly as the AI-era shift changes the mix of work an engineering team is actually doing. Fitment for purpose, not headcount arithmetic.
Engineering operating model
Delivery cadence
Platform and product boundaries
Role fitment and org shape
Post-AI team balance
Quality and reliability
06 · Advisory & Build
The written point of view, and where invited, the build behind it
Some engagements are advisory only: a short diagnostic, an architecture review, a technology due diligence, or an ongoing seat next to a CIO or CTO. Others are build engagements where the same senior people carry the recommendation into delivery. End-to-end AI implementation for organisations whose core business is not technology. Infrastructure and platform engineering. Product and mobile development. The quiet optimisation of implementations already in flight. We move between the two modes without a handover.
Diagnostics
Architecture review
Technology diligence
Fractional CTO
End-to-end AI implementation
Infrastructure & platform build
Product & mobile engineering
Optimising live implementations