Technology, data & AI consultancy
Priscient Ideas works with organisations on the technology decisions that are expensive to get wrong, bringing together architecture, cloud, data, AI, security and engineering capability in one team.
Who we are
We bring together people who think clearly about strategy, know how technology really works, understand data, and have delivered change before.
Setting the direction of a piece of work, and staying accountable for it.
How systems are built, connected and kept running.
Turning the data an organisation already holds into something it can act on.
Working out where AI genuinely helps, then building and evaluating it properly.
Building software, and keeping the estate defensible while it changes.
What we do
Five of the areas we work in, and what an engagement in each actually involves.
Cloud architecture, migration and platform engineering, including the parts that usually stall: ageing systems everything else depends on, environments nobody can rebuild, and running costs that grow faster than the service does.
Who we work with
Different environments fail in different ways. These are the ones whose constraints, governance and delivery conditions we know well enough to be useful in quickly.
How we work
Most of what we are asked to change is already carrying real load: systems other services depend on, data under legal duty, and a budget that was set before the problem was understood. We plan for that rather than around it.
Our work
We publish work as challenge, approach and outcome, and only once the client organisation has approved what is said about them.
Professional learning & skills
An established Power BI training programme, built around the desktop application, adapted for learners working entirely in the browser.
Energy & commodities
Multiple machine-learning approaches developed and evaluated against the same trading problem, to establish which were worth pursuing.
Public sector
Cloud services configured and data prepared so that a Power BI reporting layer had something reliable underneath it.
Professional services
Client reporting spread across many Excel workbooks and pivot tables, consolidated into a single interactive Power BI environment.
Client confidentiality: Selected engagements are presented in anonymised form. Client identities, proprietary information and commercially sensitive project details have been omitted.
Why Priscient Ideas
Plenty of firms will tell you what to do. Fewer work out whether it can actually be done, and fewer still stay to help you do it.
Architecture, cloud, data, AI, security and engineering people sit in one team. Technology problems rarely arrive neatly divided, and answers should not be either.
Every recommendation comes with the reasoning and the evidence behind it, so you can challenge it rather than take it on trust.
We stay through implementation and write the code. A technology recommendation that nobody can build has not solved anything.
Our advice comes from engineers and architects who have actually built and run systems in production, not just written about them.
Every piece of work has a named lead, agreed measures of success and an end date. You always know who is answerable and for what.
We work with your own people and your existing suppliers, rather than around them.
Approach
Five stages, kept deliberately simple. Most of the value is created in the first two.
Establish what is actually happening, not what the reporting says.
Insights
Short, specific pieces from across the practice on decisions, delivery, technology and data. Published when someone has something worth saying.
Leadership teams rarely get the evidence they would like. The useful question is not how to remove the uncertainty, but which parts of it actually matter.
Dr Yakubu Balogun · Founder & Principal Consultant
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Ageing systems are rarely replaced in one move. The question is which part to change first, and what keeps running while you do it.
Peace Bakare · Head of IT & Engineering
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Most organisations produce more reporting than they use. Retiring the surplus is usually more valuable than adding another dashboard.
Dr Yakubu Balogun · Founder & Principal Consultant
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Most programme governance is good at documenting what went wrong. Rather less of it makes problems visible while there is still time to act.
Dr Yakubu Balogun · Founder & Principal Consultant
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Tell us what your organisation is facing. If we are the right team to help, we will say how. If we are not, we will say that too.
