Adapt your people faster with applied AI, leadership and technology expertise.

While technology tools are getting easier, technology choices are getting harder — especially with AI. The pace of change is accelerating. Adaptive helps you adapt your people, processes and technology, with a specialism in Applied AI in regulated markets.

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It has never been easier for organisations to build adaptive capability. The hardest part is human.

The WHAT & WHY: AI and Technology Strategy Formulation and Review

If you have a strategic aim, let's validate it. If you don't, let's build one — including identifying where AI brings the highest value and how to adopt it responsibly.

The HOW: Operational Efficiency, Resilience and CyberSecurity

Are the team doing the right things consistently? It's not always easy to tell, day-to-day. A fresh perspective can reveal useful optimisations as well as mitigate risks that routine had missed.

The WHO: High Performance Team Building

An engineering team is like an orchestra: the musicians may all have prodigious skills, but without a good conductor, they're not at full potential. Adaptive can assess the team, align the team and augment the team, where needed.

Unbiased, Objective, ADAPTIVE

It's about what you need and the value Adaptive can bring. If we can't help directly, we probably know someone who can.

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Why Work With Adaptive?

Adaptive helps businesses adapt to and with technology.

Our principles:

With the right people doing the right things, the technology should almost feel invisible.
Technology should enhance your adaptability and performance, not impede it.
Having worked with global firms as well as start-ups, we appreciate the need to move fast as well as the need to act responsibly.

20+

Years of tech industry experience, from hands-on development to enterprise architecture, from Fintech to FMCG, from City to offshore.

10+

Global businesses supported at C-suite level, including three CTO tenures, a co-founder role, and consulting and board advisory work with global executives.

$0-20m+

Budgets for technology projects or product delivery. Big or small, Adaptive finds and brings the value.

Agentic delivery

The AI SDLC Loop

How work moves through an AI-driven development cycle: explore, plan, build, verify, review, ship, and feed what was learned into the next lap.

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Explore

Stage names follow the explore, plan, code, verify, commit workflow Anthropic recommends in its Claude Code best practices, extended with review and a learning step that writes lessons back into CLAUDE.md.

Examples of Adaptive capability

Delivery 3 months ahead of schedule

Frontier AI Lab — AI for Tier 1 Investment Bank

Introduced Claude Code and applied AI to technology PM practices at a global tier 1 investment bank. Collaborated with the AI lab's FDEs to implement a complex prototype; trained staff and built agents to automate project processing, documentation, and reporting, completing the project 3 months early.

AI-driven delivery at enterprise scale

Technology Consultancy — Capability Building

Boosting clients' technology capabilities to tackle complex or scale-up challenges. Established the company's product lab and Hatstand, a spec and AI-driven software development framework (SDLC) for large financial enterprises. Guiding clients in understanding and adopting AI, sharing insights from real-world deployments.

An AI product from concept to market

PropTech Start-up — AI Provenance & Scoring

Coaxing and coaching this AI-based provenance and scoring start-up for landlords and homeowners from concept to proof, to product.

4,000+ people confident with Claude

AI Consultancy — Claude Training & AI Advisory

Part of a vetted AI talent pool, working on and sharing expertise on AI projects. Facilitating Anthropic Claude projects and workshops, training over 4,000 people in Claude, and helping clients identify best-value AI use cases.

A new healthcare service live in 5 months

Healthcare Start-up — Caribbean Telemedicine

Co-founding a telemedicine offering to the chronically under-served Caribbean region, starting in Barbados and spreading to Dominica, St Vincent and Guyana. Bootstrapped with a website plugging into various healthcare platforms. Launched in 5 months.

Confidence to scale, safely

Scale-up Telemedicine — Technology Function Assessment

An established telemedicine business was scaling up and the CEO needed an external assessment of the technology function to ensure it had what it needed to scale effectively and safely. A 3-month assessment of systems and people produced findings for the founders. The business went on to scale to meet NHS requirements and sold half the company to private equity.

Secure, scalable systems from day one

Financial Services Start-up — Multi-Family Office

Joined as employee #5 at this financial services startup. Established information architecture and procedures, including security and data governance. Ran selection for, and deployment of, a cutting-edge wealth advisor platform (D1g1t + FutureVault + Bloomberg). Established solid partnerships with vendors and transitioned the firm to best-in-class secure, scalable systems.

60% lower IT costs and a successful exit

Global Consultancy — Sold to Fortune 1000 Firm

Led the technology function including outsourced IT, development and support teams for 3 core SaaS products and mobile apps serving 70+ clients including Walmart, Diageo, Heineken, and JP Morgan. Reduced IT costs by 60%, increased margins by 25%. Helped the CEO sell the business to a Fortune 1000 firm.

$250,000+ saved every year

Caribbean Manufacturer — 17 International Markets

Oversaw all IT across this $50m turnover company operating in 17 international markets. Rescued a stalling ERP project, migrated IT to Google Cloud, re-negotiated international telecoms. Saved over $250,000 annually and delivered 20% YoY operational savings.

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