Recovery
Fix & Optimise
Independent diagnosis and hands-on recovery for technology that is slow, expensive, broken or stuck.
Something is slow, expensive, broken, stuck, or nobody agrees what the actual problem is?
A great deal of technology investment produces activity rather than outcomes. Platforms get delivered. Licences get consumed. Programmes get reported as green. The operating numbers stay where they were.
This work starts from the business result, not the technology. We identify where the measurable value actually sits, agree how it will be evidenced before anything is built, and then work alongside your teams to deliver it. Where a programme has already stalled, we go in and recover it.
We are equally willing to conclude that the answer is not more technology. Removing a system, renegotiating a contract or fixing a process is often the higher-return option, and we will say so.
Who this is built for
- Executives who cannot evidence a return on existing technology spend
- Organisations with a stalled or over-running transformation programme
- Businesses holding data they have never turned into a decision
- Leadership teams under pressure to reduce technology cost without losing capability
What you receive
- A short list of opportunities sized by value, effort and confidence
- An agreed measurement baseline, set before delivery begins
- Hands-on delivery alongside your teams, not a report handed over at the door
- A clear position on what to stop, as well as what to start
How engagements run
Usually a short diagnostic phase followed by delivery against agreed measures. Recovery work can begin immediately where a programme is at risk.
Typical investment
Fixed scope. Fixed price. Know what the answer costs before we start. All figures ex VAT; the final fixed fee is confirmed after scoping.
- Fixed diagnostic
- from £7,500
- Delivery and recovery phases
- fixed phases typically from £15,000
Two patterns come up again and again.
Technology & platform problem solving
Architecture, performance, programme and platform recovery, data problems, root-cause diagnosis. The work on this page.
AI rescue & economics
Token and API spend, model choice and routing, RAG and retrieval quality, agent behaviour, latency, reliability and value. Every workload ends up scaled, optimised, redesigned or stopped.
AI Rescue & Cost ReviewWhat you actually get
Illustrative example, not client data. The real thing carries your evidence and your numbers.
TechGuidr
Sample extract
An extract from a problem review
- Symptom
- Dashboard queries taking 4–5 seconds; users exporting to spreadsheets instead
- Root cause
- An unnecessary middleware layer re-aggregating on every request
- Options
- Cache layer (fast, partial), remove middleware (right, two weeks), rebuild (unnecessary)
- Recommendation
- Remove the middleware; query direct to the analytics layer
- Result when applied
- Sub-600ms queries in a comparable engagement
Illustrative example, not client data. The real document carries your evidence and your numbers.
Proof, not promises
Relevant track record
Workforce Intelligence's platform looked further ahead than its technical foundations really were. The turnaround rebuilt both principal applications, re-architected the data platform on a Databricks lakehouse with verified calculations, and took executive dashboard queries from four to five seconds to under 600 milliseconds.
Read the full storyRecognise the situation?
Two or three sentences is enough. You will get an honest view of whether and how we can help.