• You have genuinely excellent SCADA, PLC and automation engineers, but you lack to knowledge to define the right path forward for your Data or AI projects.
• IT is knocking at your door asking for access to your data, and you’re not sure what saying yes actually commits you to.
• You’ve seen the videos about the Unified Namespace, and now you want one. You’re not yet sure whether you need one.
• Your operations manager has asked you to detail a plan to use AI to improve efficiency, reduce scrap or cut energy and you don’t know where to start.

• You need someone who can translate what you’re proposing into something Operations recognises — and translate their objections back into something you can act on.
• You went to the sites to collect requirements and came back with more problems than answers. 
• You have a perfectly good enterprise data platform, and time-series data with context that changes every batch does not fit into it.
• Your pilots demo beautifully and never reach the second line, the second plant or the second year.
• You’re about to standardise something globally, and you’d like to know now — not after go-live — where the shop floor will push back.

• Your customer needs a neutral moderator in the room: someone with no product to place and no implementation revenue at stake.
• You’d rather quote against a properly defined goal than against a vague RFP. A badly scoped tender costs you as much as it costs them.
• You want to give a customer real education on architecture and ways of working, and you know it lands better when it isn’t your logo on the slides.
• You are looking for an (advisory) board member

We’re happy to be brought in by a vendor. Our independence isn’t part of the negotiation, and your customer will know exactly what we are before we walk in.

Typically the RFI phase, or before there is even a project defined.

• Data Maturity Assessment Workshop. Current state, future state, next step, with IT, OT and Operations in the same room. We’ve run dozens of these (if you want to do this yourself: you can find our free Workshop Moderation Guide here).
• A grounded as-is assessment, technical and organisational. What you already have, what’s quietly working in pockets nobody knows about, and which of our eight cooperation patterns you’re actually operating today.
• A tailored ITOT.Academy for your team, aimed at the decision in front of you — for example, data architecture options specific to your goal, rather than the general programme.
• Getting management to commit. The value of enabling technology is real but indirect. We help you build the story that survives a budget meeting.

Typically the RFP phase.

• A business case for the platform, not just the use case. The savings come from reduced project risk, faster turnaround and reused knowledge. That argument needs to be made properly.
• Turning the Capability Map into an RFP that vendors can answer and you can compare.
• Selecting the right vendor and the right integrator. What to ask, what to weight, and which promises to discount.
• Designing the route from project to product organisation, before the project structure makes that route impossible.

As part of your (executive) steering committee.

• We take a seat at the table to make sure the right question gets asked at the right time.
• We challenge “we’ll fix that in phase two” while it’s still cheap to fix.
• We watch for the early plateau signals — new data sources getting harder to add, maintenance crowding out new work, growing key-person dependency — and flag them before they become a stall.

• We don’t implement. No integration, no configuration, no managed services.
• We don’t resell.
• We won’t hand you a ninety-slide strategy you can’t do anything with.

We will however introduce you to the right people. When you need an integrator, a vendor or a specialist, we know most of them and we’ll point you at the ones who fit your context. Then we either step back, or stay on as the independent voice in the room. Your call.