We put a small, senior team on your problem, prove value fast, and hand you something you own. No pyramid of juniors, no lock-in, no bill until the value is shown.
Every organisation we work with is somewhere on the same path. Nobody is forced to start at stage one. Every offering sits at the point it earns its place.
How mature are we, and how do we compare?
Score your maturity across the pillars.
Your score against your industry.
The quarterly read on where the market is going.
Blog posts and newsletter briefs from plain:experts who are not afraid to take a position.
What should we do, and how do we fund it?
The first meeting and workshop. The front door.
Where you are heading.
How you get there.
The business case on the 5-Case Model.
Operating model and organisation design.
Set up teams, insourcing and outsourcing models, and access to innovation or funding routes such as DSIT and Invest NI.
Can you show value before we commit?
A working proof of value. One tight cycle, a working thing, evidence you can see.
Take the proof to production.
Proof to production through rapid incremental development.
Genuine, novel AI and data science, priced as research.
Operate it, without getting locked in.
Managed service, technology fully abstracted.
One sovereign layer over your data, compute and storage.
Governance and risk configured to your policies.
We want to run this ourselves.
Train your own people to run the services.
Certification in the method and the tools.
Gate plain:gate
Clear a compliance or assurance gate at any point. Clinical standards, GDS assessments, priced per gate type.
Method plain:method
Frame, make, show in cycles of days. Published in full.
Trust plain:trust
The governance and policy spine. The reason a regulated buyer can say yes.
Know exactly where your organisation stands on data and AI, and what to do next.
Most organisations cannot say how mature they really are. They buy the next platform because a vendor recommended it, not because a baseline told them it was the gap.
Assess gives you that picture. It scores where you stand, tells you what to fix first, and gives you the tools to plan the work.
Assess is the first thing you do. It leads into Frame the work, where Start, Vision, Strategy and Case turn the score into a plan.
plain:method
One-day cycles with a traceability spine, so work is shown, never reported.
plain:own
One sovereign layer over data, compute and storage. Freedom to leave is designed in.
plain:trust
The same policy spine that governs delivery and supports certification.
Everything is created, served and owned in plain:space. Your IP stays yours. Three zones, described as access you get, not hidden architecture.
Where the building happens.
plain:design · service design
plain:value · benefit mapping
plain:product · product and backlog
Where services are managed.
plain:own · sovereign layer
plain:control · governance and risk
Where the thinking is published.
plain:assess · plain:benchmark
plain:insight · plain:opinion
plain:establish · team and funding setup
plain:trust · policy library
The belief and the method are the same for every buyer. The commercial track forks by procurement route, and the buy-out formula is published.
Fixed annual licensing through the frameworks you already buy on.
G-Cloud · listed
FDP Solution Exchange · listed
fixed annual licence · published
buy-out formula · price list
A platform fee plus a capped value-share. Paid when it works.
platform fee · published
value-share · capped, evidence based
standing escrow · day one
buy-out formula · price list
The first meeting and workshop cost nothing. So does the assessment. By the time you spend a pound, you will have seen the method work on your problem.