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We transform technology delivery — and prove it

We help IT, Platform & Engineering leaders turn complex organizations into faster, more predictable delivery engines. We work alongside your teams to identify what is holding delivery back, make the changes that matter, and prove the impact in speed, quality, cost, and predictability.

Led by people who have built and run technology and engineering organizations at Ford, Meta, Microsoft, Rivian and many others.

Our operators have run engineering at

  • Ford
  • Microsoft
  • Disney
  • FCA
  • Meta
  • Rivian
  • empwr.ai
  • Tesla
  • SpaceX
  • Sony
  • ExxonMobil
  • Aston Martin
  • Land Rover
  • Lockheed Martin
  • HSBC
  • NBC
  • Expedia
  • Honeywell
  • AT&T Wireless
  • Atlassian
  • Lucid Motors
  • Lincoln
  • Ford Credit
  • Magic Leap
  • OnStar
  • Toyo Tires
  • Daewoo
  • VinFast
  • Canoo
  • Faraday Future
  • Webasto
  • Autel Energy
  • Autonomic.ai
  • Altia
  • Pcubed
  • UMT Consulting Group
  • BlackBerry
  • Chariot
  • Continental Automotive
  • Deloitte
  • Funko
  • Harman
  • JustAnswer
  • Kugler Maag Cie
  • Ridemakerz
  • United States Army
  • Xbox

Agentic AI

Most AI programs don’t fail on the technology.

They fail because the organization underneath them cannot support what was promised — the data is not good enough, the roles are unclear, nobody owns the outcome, and there is no honest measure of whether it worked. We assess which of the five levels of AI capability you are operating at, work out which level the business goals you are chasing actually require, build the layer you skipped, and measure the return against targets set before the work starts.

You cannot skip the layers. Most organizations are stuck on level 1 or 2.

The five levels

  1. 1

    Machine Learning

    Analyzes and predicts

  2. 2

    Neural Networks and Deep Learning

    Recognizes patterns at scale

  3. 3

    Generative AI

    Creates content and code

  4. 4

    AI Agents

    Executes multi-step tasks

  5. 5

    Agentic AI

    Orchestrates entire processes

What we fix

Four problems. Said the way you would say them.

If one of these is the sentence you have used in a leadership meeting this quarter, that is the page to read.

“We can’t see what we’re spending, or whether it’s the right work.”

AI capabilityLevel 1Level 5

Includes AI budgeting and eval-driven measurement, so AI spend competes for portfolio funding on the same evidence as everything else.

Strategic Portfolio Management

Aligning investment with enterprise strategy — shifting from project-based funding to outcome-driven portfolio governance, and connecting financial efficiency, resource allocation and lean governance across the enterprise.

“Our products are late and the quality isn’t there.”

AI capabilityLevel 2Level 3Level 4

Includes AI in the development toolchain and in the product itself, and the agentic-first way of working that the teams above are built for.

Product & Technology Delivery

End-to-end delivery from concept to launch — the product operating model, cross-functional teams, CI/CD, Agile enablement, and a toolchain configured to carry it.

“I’ve inherited an IT estate I can’t explain to the board.”

AI capabilityLevel 1Level 5

Includes where AI belongs in the estate and where it does not: which applications are worth modernizing, which are worth retiring first, and what has to be true before an AI program is worth funding at all.

CIO & IT Advisory

Strategy, operating model and application portfolio for technology leaders — so the estate can be explained, defended, and changed.

“We’re shipping defects our own data should have caught.”

AI capabilityLevel 1Level 2Level 3

Includes the AI that genuinely pays here — pattern detection across warranty, test and field data — and the data quality it depends on, which is the layer most programs skip and then blame the model for.

Quality & Operational Performance at Scale

Connecting design, manufacturing and supply chain data into decisions — eliminating defects, modernizing the systems that hide them, and building engineering discipline that holds.

How we work

Evaluate → Improve → Confirm. We drive.

Three steps, in order, every time — and an operator of ours driving all three. The first is deliberately small and deliberately purchasable, because nobody should commit to a transformation program before anyone has established what is actually wrong.

  1. 01Scoped in a conversation

    Evaluate

    We start from what the business is trying to achieve, then assess your team’s talent, ways of working, tools, org structure, portfolio strategy, and where you genuinely sit on the five levels of AI capability — and tell you which of those is standing between you and the goal, whether or not you hire us to fix it.

  2. 02As long as the work takes

    Improve

    Our operators embed and do the work. Not a slide deck with recommendations — architecture, governance, hiring, migration, coaching, whatever the assessment says is required.

  3. 03Agreed up front

    Confirm

    On time, on budget, on content. We agree the measures before the work starts and report against them, so the improvement is a number rather than a feeling.

Proof

Engagements, with the numbers attached.

26 case studies across automotive, industrials, finance, energy, government, consumer technology, and sports. Each one names what was actually wrong and what changed.

Automotive

$1.2B

Built to Deliver, Proven to Transform

Unlocking $1.2B in new business

Delivery dates were missed often enough that customer confidence had become a commercial problem rather than an engineering one. Defects were surfacing in late-stage testing, contractual penalties were being paid annually, and the organization was competing for a major new contract it was not, on its record, credible to win.

A major automotive engineering organization

Automotive

1,800 → 14

Jira Reinvented

From chaos to clarity

Eighteen hundred custom Jira projects had accumulated over years, each configured by whoever needed it at the time. No two behaved the same way, no change could be made without an unknown blast radius, and assembling a portfolio report took six weeks of manual work — by which point it described a company that no longer existed.

An electric vehicle manufacturer

Automotive

$20M

Code to Component

Powering profits with digital precision

Digital parts content ran on a legacy system that was inefficient, error-prone, and — critically — could not produce an audit trail. That made compliance expensive, scaling impossible, and supplier billing effectively unverifiable.

A global OEM

Automotive

7×

Test. Commit. Win.

A factory of software excellence

Software quality depended on manual testing performed late, by people who were already the constraint on everything else. There was no engineering services function, no shared toolchain, and no way to coordinate release trains across teams that were nominally agile and practically sequential.

A global automotive company

Automotive

430

From Chaos to Code

Unifying 430 engineers across 8 sites

The acquisition of 430 embedded development and hardware engineers from BlackBerry, spread across eight North American sites, delivered talent but not capability. Processes were inconsistent site to site, integration was more complex than modeled, and the acquired teams were not aligned to the strategic objectives that had justified buying them.

A major OEM

Consumer Technology

100+

Solve It Once

How a recurring client problem became empwr.ai

Across engagements with automotive OEMs, Tier 1s, industrial manufacturers, consumer goods companies and silicon providers, we kept finding the same failure. The knowledge needed to run a large program existed, but only in fragments — in meetings nobody captured, in tools that did not talk to each other, and in the heads of whoever happened to be in the room.

Envorso — internal innovation, since spun out

Where we work

The delivery problems are the same everywhere. Only the regulator changes.

  • Finance: No case study published yet. We reach finance through the operators rather than a filed engagement — a board director at HSBC, and a former Interim CIO of Ford Credit. The bench

Two hours to find out whether we recognise your problem.

No deck, no obligation. We listen, we tell you whether we have seen this before, and we say what we think it would take. If a Jump Start is the right next step we will say so — and if it is not, we will say that too.

Training

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