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Data Strategy and Leadership.

Data you can trust. Decisions you can fund.

We work with the directors about to commit money on data they don’t fully trust, from the client’s side of the table. Before the contract, business case or senior hire, you get an independent view of your data. It starts with five days and a roadmap: what to fix first, what it’s worth, what to leave alone.

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Overview

Five services. Start with any one.

Most organisations know their data is holding them back. Few know where, or what to fix first: capabilities nobody owns, siloed data with no joined-up view, and governance on paper only.

Not sure where to start? The Data Strategy Health Check tells you which service you need, if any.

Or go straight to the need. Each service stands on its own.

Services

Start where the need is.

Each service is designed for rapid time-to-value, available fixed-price and has a single senior lead. Not sure which you need? Start with the Data Strategy Health Check.

01 Start here

Data Strategy Health Check

Where your data stands, in five days.

Five senior days understanding where your data capability really stands: direction, structure, skills and platform, measured against DAMA-DMBOK and SFIA-aligned frameworks. The final report lands within ten working days.

  • Five senior days
  • Report within ten working days
  • Fixed price
CDOsCIOsCFOsCOOsHeads of Department
02

Data Platform Decision

A platform choice you can defend.

  • As little as four weeks
  • Fixed once scoped
CIOsCDOsCFOsHeads of Department
03

Data Trust Recovery

Figures you can defend, in eight weeks.

  • Eight weeks
  • Fixed once scoped
CFOsCOOsCIOsCDOsHeads of performance and regulatory reporting
04

Data Foundations Delivered

Foundations for AI, proven in eight weeks.

  • Eight weeks, one data product live
  • Fixed once scoped
CDOsCIOsCOOsHeads of Department
05

Fractional Data Leadership

A data leader in place, quickly.

  • Two or three days a week
  • Priced monthly, three months minimum
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Who you’ll speak to

Sam Richmond

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer · CITP FBCS

Led by Sam Richmond, co-founder & CEO, who has run data and technology teams in global transport and infrastructure. Sam sits on techUK’s Industry Advisory Group to the AI Assurance Consortium.

Read Sam Richmond’s profile

Where we’ve done it

Proven on the ground.

Transport operators, infrastructure providers and facilities services: analysis, options selection, business case, delivery and data foundations.

PaxCast: bus network analytics covering every stop, service and census area, built because the evidence authorities needed did not exist.

How to buy

Fixed before you sign.

01

Fixed price

Every service is fixed once scoped at a scoping call, before you sign.

  • Budget certainty for approval
  • We carry the overrun risk
  • Payment tied to delivery
02

Time and materials

For evolving scope or high-speed delivery.

  • Pivot priorities without renegotiation
  • Start immediately
  • Scale resource to real demand
03

Hybrid

Fixed price for the core deliverables, time and materials for what evolves.

  • Certainty for the roadmap
  • Room for change
  • One contract, two modes
Frameworks

Public sector clients can appoint us through the SparkDPS, AIDPS and SpaceDM frameworks.

Accreditations

Cyber Essentials · RISQS · JOSCAR

Independence

On this work we take no commission, hold no reseller or partner agreements, and our fee does not change with the recommendation.

Talk to the person who leads it.

Tell us what you need to decide. A short scoping call is enough to tell you which service fits, if any, and what it would take.

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