Practice 03 · Tech Advisory
Client-side Independent Vendor-neutral

Technology the public can trust.

Helping governments and enterprises design, procure and deploy technology that earns public trust and actually works in the real world.

The problem

Most public-sector technology fails for reasons that have nothing to do with code.

It fails on procurement, on governance, on trust and on the gap between what was promised and what was possible. We sit on the client side of the table, translating between the people who set policy, the people who build systems and the people who have to live with the result.

We are not a systems integrator and we do not sell software. We are the independent counsel that helps you buy and deploy the right thing, hold vendors to account, and keep the public on side.

Procurement is policy. How a government buys technology decides what kind of government it becomes.
Why we work client-side
Capabilities

What we do.

01

Public-Sector Technology

Strategy, architecture and delivery oversight for digital government, from service design to large-scale platforms.

02

Data, AI & Digital Strategy

Turning data and AI ambitions into governed, deployable programmes, with the guardrails that keep them trustworthy.

03

Product & Platform Counsel

Independent advice to leaders building or buying platforms, on the decisions that are expensive to reverse.

04

Procurement & Vendor Oversight

Designing the buy, running the process and holding vendors accountable to outcomes, not just deliverables.

05

Trust, Safety & Governance

Policy, risk and communications for technology that operates in public and cannot afford to lose confidence.

How we engage

Where we sit on the project.

PositionClient-side, alwaysWe answer to the buyer and the public, never to the vendor.
IndependenceNo software to sellNo resale, no referral fees, no integrator's incentive to oversell.
ScopeStrategy through deliveryFrom the business case and the buy to live oversight of what ships.
SectorsGovernment, regulated industry, platformsWherever a wrong technology decision is expensive to reverse.
TeamSenior, small, embeddedThe people who scope the work are the people who do it.
Where projects break

We are hired most often to prevent, or recover from, failures that were never really technical.

Procurement Governance Scope creep Vendor lock-in Public trust Data & privacy Change management Accountability
The other arms
Tech Advisory

Buying or building something that has to work?

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