Case studies
Every engagement delivers something tangible. Filter by the door the client came through. Clients are anonymised unless they have asked to be named.
Twelve business units, forty candidate AI ideas, one board that wanted a number. ARIA scored every idea; six were funded, with a GRACE governance baseline the compliance team could run.
6funded use cases from fortyAI Strategy DesignerRegulated financial services firmA lender had let AI into credit and collections faster than its policies could follow. Consumer Duty, the FCA and the EU AI Act all pointed at the gap. Five weeks closed it, and the board approved it in one meeting.
1board meeting to approvalTechnology Leader CoachFirst-time CTO, regulated fintechThe Hundred Days: a new CTO with the regulator's name on them under SM&CR. Identity, influence and judgement, fortnightly, until the board treated them as a peer.
100days to a seat the board listens toTechnology Leader CoachTechnology Director, professional servicesThe Seat: a cost centre in the board's eyes, a roadmap that never reached the money, and a regulatory agenda the board kept deferring. Three decisions won, one restructure done without losing anyone.
3board decisions won in six monthsFractional CTONational ombudsman serviceTwo days a month in the leadership team of a public-interest body: strategy, a security and data baseline, a supplier brought to heel and a case-management replacement its own people specified.
12months embedded, then handed overFractional CTOPublic sector bodyRed on every report, green in every supplier meeting. One honest baseline, three releases instead of one, and a rhythm the supplier could keep. Red to green in three months.
3months from red to greenClients are anonymised. The facts are kept.
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