// Focus area

Advisory &
Consulting

Independent technical leadership for Financial Services. We bridge the gap between complex regulatory requirements and board-level decision making.

// Approach

We don't sell opinions. We give leadership decision-grade clarity on the technical questions that actually move the business - independent, costed, and built to be stress-tested.

// What we do

Why we're
trusted to advise.

We have senior experts in all avenues of technology from infrastructure to business resilience, data, software development, technology risk and governance processes and more. Overall, our experience spans over 120 years, all of which was gained at market leader Hargreaves Lansdown.

We understand your technology issues as we have lived through them ourselves. Having worked in a highly regulated and pressured environment, we have you covered for every eventuality. Understanding the whole technology picture is important and our team will provide you with impartial advice and guidance, to make sure you are making the best decisions for your business.

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Strategy & Architecture

Target operating models, reference architectures, roadmaps and the trade-off documents to back them up.

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Estate Audit

End-to-end assessment of what you run, what it costs, and where the risk and waste actually sit.

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Vendor Due Diligence

Independent technical, security and commercial review of suppliers, products, and proposals.

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Data Governance & Strategy

Building the foundations for reliable reporting. From Data Dictionaries to Data Warehousing that creates a single, auditable version of the truth.

// Principles

How we think about and
approach work.

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Commercial Logic

Technical decisions are business decisions. We focus on your bottom line and ROI, not just code and platforms.

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Radical Honesty

We'll tell you if a project or a vendor is a mistake before you spend a penny on it.

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Plain English

If a board member can’t quote our advice back to you, we haven’t finished writing it yet.

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Built for Reality

We don't give you 100-page reports that sit in a drawer. We give you plans your team can actually build.

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AI Strategy & Readiness

AI is only as good as the data underneath it. We help you move past the hype to find real-world use cases.

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Absolute Privacy

Discretion is a given. We act as an extension of your inner circle.

// Case Study
"We were blown away by their depth of knowledge and abilities to help us truly explore the data potential our technology held, which is now about to be a ‘game changer’ in our business strategy."
Chris Standeven
Managing Director, Firstpoint logistics ltd