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Leadership & advisory
Setting the direction of a piece of work, and staying accountable for it.
About
A consultancy built around how change actually happens
Priscient Ideas exists to help organisations make decisions that are expensive to get wrong, and then to help them carry those decisions through.
- Registered name
- Priscient Ideas Ltd
- Company number
- SC658244
- Registered jurisdiction
- Registered in Scotland
- Incorporated
- 25 March 2020
- Company status
- Active
Who we are
What we are, plainly
Priscient Ideas Ltd is a UK technology consultancy working across architecture, cloud, data, AI, security and engineering. We are engaged when an organisation has a technology decision to make or a build to put right, and needs a team that can both work out the answer and deliver it.
Architects, engineers, data and AI specialists work on the same problems here, rather than passing them between departments, because technology problems rarely arrive neatly divided, and answers should not be either.
We work with public-sector and central government organisations, with commercial clients, and alongside other suppliers as a delivery partner or specialist subcontractor. We are equally comfortable leading a piece of work and providing capability into someone else’s team.
The name reflects what we think the job actually is: seeing what is coming, and helping organisations act on it before it becomes expensive.
Our capabilities
The disciplines we hold
Five functions, drawn on in whatever combination an engagement requires.
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Technology & IT
How systems are built, connected and kept running.
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Data & analytics
Turning the data an organisation already holds into something it can act on.
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AI & data science
Working out where AI genuinely helps, then building and evaluating it properly.
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Security & engineering
Building software, and keeping the estate defensible while it changes.
Why Priscient Ideas
Built to be useful on the difficult part
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.
One team, not separate departments
Architecture, cloud, data, AI, security and engineering people sit in one team. Technology problems rarely arrive neatly divided, and answers should not be either.
Evidence before opinion
Every recommendation comes with the reasoning and the evidence behind it, so you can challenge it rather than take it on trust.
We build, not only advise
We stay through implementation and write the code. A technology recommendation that nobody can build has not solved anything.
Technology-literate throughout
Our advice comes from engineers and architects who have actually built and run systems in production, not just written about them.
Accountable for outcomes
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 alongside your teams
We work with your own people and your existing suppliers, rather than around them.
What we believe
How we behave on an engagement
Five commitments that we would rather be held to than described by.
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Say the difficult thing
Advice is only worth buying if it is willing to disagree with the client. We give the assessment we believe to be true, including when it is unwelcome.
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Show the reasoning
A recommendation without its assumptions is an opinion. We write down what we relied on, so it can be challenged and revisited when circumstances change.
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Respect the constraints
Funding cycles, governance, regulation and capability are not obstacles to work around. They are part of the problem, and any credible answer accounts for them.
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Prefer clarity to volume
A short document that changes a decision is worth more than a long one that confirms it. We aim to reduce what leadership has to read, not add to it.
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Deliver, then leave
Success is an organisation that no longer needs us for this. We design engagements with a defined end.
Approach
How an engagement runs
Five stages, kept deliberately simple. Most of the value is created in the first two.
Stage 01Understand
Understand
Establish what is actually happening, not what the reporting says.
Our people
The disciplines behind the work
Priscient Ideas brings together leadership, technology, data, AI and engineering capability in one team. Engagements are staffed from those disciplines according to what the work actually needs.
Leadership
Dr Yakubu Balogun
Founder & Principal Consultant
- Data analytics
- Business intelligence
- Digital transformation
IT & Engineering
Peace Bakare
Head of IT & Engineering
- Full-stack engineering
- Distributed systems
- Cloud & data-intensive platforms
Start here
Bring clarity to your next challenge.
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.