Your AI and data team, as a service.
Advise, support, deploy, or lead. We are a UK data and AI consultancy for mid-market businesses who want the upside without the sprawl, the lock-in, or the consultants who leave with the keys.
- Runs in
- Your own Microsoft tenant
- You get
- Full IP transfer
- Your data
- Never held ransom
- Support
- End to end
Our mission
Nobody should be held to ransom by their own systems.
We have seen too many solutions sold that cost a fortune and never deliver, quietly harvesting your data and holding your processes hostage on the way. That was not the AI programme you signed up to.
We exist to get you onto the right trajectory in this AI era, and to have you delivering quicker, at higher quality and at lower cost than any business without AI can compete with.
We want to be the partner you boast about to your network — not the one you are forced to stay with because of the spider's nest they built to keep you there. You keep the data, the processes and the keys. Always.
Our people are the difference.
We succeed where others fail because we cover all of it — governance, systems, process and strategy — rather than one slice of it. Our fractional C-suite consultants bring decades of organisational change experience, and they will tell you when the change you are asking for is not the change you need.
Four ways we get you further with AI
Most businesses don't fail at AI for lack of tools. They fail on strategy, governance and follow-through. We cover all of it.
- Strategy
- Where AI and data are actually worth the money for your business, and a plan to get there. Not a slide deck that gathers dust.
- Governance
- Policy, controls and a data foundation you can trust, so AI is safe, compliant and auditable from the first day rather than bolted on later.
- Consultancy
- Engineers who build alongside your team and hand back the keys. No dependency, and nobody leaves with the knowledge.
- Software
- Our own products — self-service reporting, AI agents and a governed data stack — running in the Microsoft tenant you already own.
From scattered data to decisions, layer by layer
Three products, one data core
Each runs as its own product, and they share the same governed data underneath. Behind them is the team to advise, build and run it.
StrategyStackOS
The window into your agents and data.
Self-service BI, agents and mini-apps in one secure surface — a cheaper, integrated Power BI alternative running in the tenant you own.
- Talk to your data
- Self-service dashboards
- Runs in your tenant
Stackhouse
One agreed data model, and the pipelines that feed it.
One agreed definition of your data, kept clean and current automatically — so every report, dashboard and agent is working from the same numbers.
- One agreed data model
- Raw data to trusted data
- Checked before it's used
DeptDB
Self-service tables on Dataverse, governed by IT.
An Airtable-grade experience on Microsoft Dataverse — your teams build governed tables themselves, IT sets the guardrails, and we store none of your data.
- Self-service tables
- Governed by IT
- Zero data stored
Products are half the story
Wherever you need hands — advisory through to fully managed.
- Consultancy
- Strategy, governance and a plan that actually pays off.
- Engineering
- Data and AI built right — in the tenant you own.
- Managed services
- We run it day to day, so your team doesn't have to.
One governed data core, behind every view
Every report, dashboard and agent reads from the same clean model — no copies, no exports, no drift. Connected to the systems you already run.
- Live connection to your operational systems
- Row-level security applied once, everywhere
- Data-quality scores on every table
| account | revenue | quality | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| northgate_group | Manufacturing | £1.24M | Active | 98% |
| northwind | Retail | £842K | Active | 95% |
| globex | Logistics | £2.10M | Onboarding | 91% |
| initech | Services | £560K | Active | 99% |
| umbrella | Healthcare | £1.78M | Active | 94% |
The usual way — or yours
The usual consultancy
- Large teams, large cost
- Projects that lack progress
- Half the problem solved
- You rent the platform forever
- Your data sits in their cloud
StrategyStack
- End to end, truly
- Software, service and strategy
- One team, accountable for all of it
- Full IP transfer — it is yours
- Runs in the Microsoft tenant you own
We deliver more than we cost
Start with AI and automation as the kickstarter. Done right, those first projects pay for the ones after them.
It pays for itself
We lead with AI and automation because, done properly, it is cost-neutral or better from the start. Efficiencies gained, risk cut, decisions made on data instead of gut. The programme funds itself.
Savings buy the upside
Once the back office is leaner, those savings pay for the work that makes you worth more to your customers. The unglamorous cost-saving comes first, and it is what buys the rest.
You end up on the right side of it
The businesses that get this right will run leaner and decide faster than the ones that don't. We would rather that was you than your competition.
Runs on the Microsoft stack you already own
Strategy, governance, delivery — and the software to run it.
We cover the whole thing: where to start, how to govern it, who builds it, and the software it runs on. We build it, we run it, and we hand you something you own.