Independent Data & AI consultancy: Better decisions Better systems Better performance

TechGuidr helps businesses make smarter technology investments, modernise their data and systems, redesign how work gets done and build and run the processes that improve performance. Independent advice and high quality engineering. Or we tell you not to spend the money.

Built for tomorrow. Delivering today.

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Who we help

Businesses that run on knowledge and data

Two specialisms, where we know the work, the data and the decisions. The same engineering serves clients well beyond them.

  • Research, intelligence & advisory

    Your publications, datasets and expert knowledge are the product, but finding, reconciling and reusing them takes the time your experts should spend on judgement.

    We turn that knowledge into governed AI systems, analytical workflows and products that answer with the evidence in view, with your experts in control.

    Answerable was built here first, and is in daily use at an economic research business across more than 78,500 publications.

    Data and AI for research and intelligence

  • Retail & consumer goods

    Category, buying, supplier and customer decisions depend on store, digital and supply-chain data that rarely sits in one place, and on processes that are slow and costly to run.

    We modernise the data and systems underneath, agree the measures with the people who use them and put AI into the workflows where the commercial value can be measured.

    Led by a founder who was Global Data & AI Lead for Microsoft’s Retail & Consumer Goods Solutions Team from 2022 to 2025.

    Data and AI for retail and consumer goods

We also work with technology and software companies, legal and professional services firms, private equity investors and their portfolio companies, and education, manufacturing and games businesses. All industries

Proof

Three AI systems, built and in use

We built these from scratch and run them in production. They show the engineering we bring to your own systems, whether or not you ever use our products.

AI product · In production

A production AI working environment over an organisation’s own knowledge and structured data. People research, compare and brief with a citation on each point, under permissions that follow who may see what, and experts keep control of the final answer.

78,500+publications, about 25 years of research, structured forecast data and around 89,000 chart assets in its first production deploymentMeasured The size of the archive in the first deployment. No usage or value figures are published.
Our own product, first built for a macro-economic research business. Available as our product, or built inside a client’s own environment.
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How to work with us

Advice, engineering and the running of it

Start with whichever fits. Each has published starting prices, and a review never commits you to delivery. Answerable is licensed separately, and you never need it to work with us.

Decide independent advice

Assess and advise independently

Before the money is committed: where data and AI will pay off, whether a proposal or platform stands up, and what a business you are buying really holds. A written answer you own, including “not yet”.

AI Review from £7,500 · Independent Review from £7,500 · Technology Due Diligence from £10,000

Decide services and prices

Transform engineering the change

Design and build

Data platforms, AI and agentic workflows and new products, engineered into production with the permissions, evaluation and human oversight they need, and measured against a baseline.

AI Sprint from £25,000 · Build & Productionise from £15,000

Transform services and prices

Operate run and improve

Run and improve

What you run kept reliable and improving month by month, against measures agreed up front, with a named person accountable.

Managed Improvement from £5,000/mo

Operate services and prices

Not sure which fits? Start from your situation Or take the free Value Check: a few plain questions, no email needed.

Dan Warrener, founder of TechGuidr
Dan Warrener · Founder

Why TechGuidr

Senior enough for the boardroom. Technical enough to build it

Dan Warrener founded TechGuidr after more than 25 years in technology, including time as Global Data & AI Lead for Microsoft’s Retail & Consumer Goods Solutions Team and building a data and advanced analytics practice in consulting.

He still does the architecture and the engineering: he conceived, designed and built Answerable and Foreseeable. The person you speak to first is the person who leads the work, with specialists alongside where it needs them.

We take no vendor commissions and disclose any interest in our own products, so the advice does not change with what we could sell you.

“Dan can cut through the noise, find the root cause, and clearly formulate solutions.”

Giles WalkerStrategy, Advisory & Technology

“That rare ability to lead by inspiration, and in doing so, lead his teams to exceptional results.”

Samuel SmithLead Regional AI Architect

About Dan and the team How we stay independent

Next step

Talk to the person who would lead the work

Book a call on Microsoft Teams; 30 minutes suits most first conversations. Bring the decision, the data problem or the system you want built. You leave knowing whether we can help, where you would start and what that first step costs.

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