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Case studies

Real organisations. Real numbers.

How we turn business questions into measured value, across the four things we do end to end. Client names are withheld where we're bound by confidentiality. The numbers are real.

(01)

The vision

AI strategy and operating model design

£76m+ realised in year one

From scattered projects to a question pipeline

A global retailer had talent, data and ambition, but no pipeline and no line from investment to value. We made the business question the unit of work.

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28 questions · year one100+ question pipelineHub live in 10 weeks
(02)

The plumbing

Data engineering and architecture

16.2m customers

Four years building the backbone

A global energy business had valuable data products, each built through heroic effort around foundational gaps. We built the foundations that turned heroics into repeatable delivery.

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Four marketsAWS · Databricks · GCPFirst cross-brand B2B view
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The intelligence

Data science and machine learning

60+ days → minutes

Machine learning that changed the decision

Range selection, forecasting, risk, site selection and EV planning, built around the person making the decision, not the dataset.

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14+ days → minutes2,000 hours saved a yearUp to 15% capex saved
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The transformation

Change, building capability and results

11,000+ users · 30+ countries

Equipping the business to run it

The measure we care about is what the client can do without us. Adoption, ways of working and the capability that stays behind.

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Under one year£146m from one pipelineCapability retained
Outcomes

Real organisations. Real numbers.

£146m value delivered

Manufacturing leader

"The ICS platform enabled us to solve a pipeline of complex problems and drive £146m of value."

11,000+ users, 30+ countries

Global retailer

"Rolled out to 11,000+ users across 30+ countries in under a year, supporting 1bn euros of value."

Global energy business

Four years embedded, from data foundations to live data products across four markets, including a single customer view covering 16.2m UK customers.

National charity

Helped reshape how allergy risk is assessed and managed in schools, and built the AI assistant that puts the best available guidance in front of every school.

Global retailer

Designed the data and analytics operating model, and built a pipeline of 100+ business questions tied to measurable value.

UK retail group

Site selection and asset optimisation work delivering up to 15% capital expenditure savings.

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