Technology leadership and a development team, on demand.
We advise leadership, build what the business needs, connect it to the systems you already run, and stay on as part of your team.
- 20+ yrsdelivering national-scale programmes and advising leadership teams
- 3 cloudsAzure, AWS and Google Cloud, designed, run and migrated between
- 10+ systemsintegrated, from Oracle Simphony to Microsoft 365 and Google
- 30+ projectsdelivered, from AI analysts to procurement, HR and data platforms
Three ways we help, one team accountable
- advisory
Technology leadership
Fractional CTO and advisory: IT roadmaps, ERP and vendor selection, architecture reviews, and a trusted voice at board level, until you hire your own or instead of hiring.
On a monthly retainer, alongside your leadership team
- development
Development team
A dedicated team that designs, builds and maintains your platforms: .NET, Umbraco and modern web, on any major cloud. A senior core team leads every engagement, and for larger programmes we scale up with a wider bench of engineers and specialists. You keep one point of accountability.
Built, then run alongside your team
- ai & data
AI & data
AI that reads documents, analyses data and answers questions, built on governed data platforms and connected to the systems you already run.
What we built, and what it connects to
Multi-site restaurant operatorAn AI analyst over live point-of-sale data
Staff ask questions in plain English and Claude answers from Oracle Simphony through a secured MCP server, with daily findings on top.
AI analyses sales data on request · flags daily anomalies
Large Kuwaiti IT systems integratorOne source of truth, with an AI agent leadership can question
Orders, revenue, backlog and department P&L from Dynamics 365, rebuilt on Microsoft Fabric and reconciled to the general ledger every night.
AI answers leadership questions from governed figures
Large Kuwaiti IT systems integratorAI-assisted talent acquisition
A careers site and HR console that turns new and historical CVs into searchable, evidence-backed profiles. A person makes every decision.
AI scans CVs into searchable, evidence-backed profiles
Large Kuwaiti IT systems integratorA governed procurement platform, built in 20 days
Sales pricing requests go through distributor sourcing, AI-assisted price capture and margin-checked release, with every step audited.
AI reads distributor quotes into price lines
Built to work with what you already run
Anyone can demo a chatbot. We connect AI and new platforms to point-of-sale, ERP, identity and productivity systems already in place. Pick a system to see where we've done it.
Fluent in all three major clouds
We're not tied to one provider. We design and run workloads on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, and migrate them from one cloud to another in any direction. We review existing architectures and refactor applications for the move, recommending the cloud that fits your data, compliance needs, costs and team.
Microsoft Azure
Data platforms on Microsoft Fabric, and identity and productivity integration through Entra ID and Microsoft 365.
Amazon Web Services
Production platforms hosted and operated on AWS, and architecture reviews for workloads already running there.
Google Cloud
Google partner. Workspace for teams, and Google Cloud AI, including Vision and Gemini, powering our document and CV processing.
- Architecture reviews
- Architecture & landing zones
- Cloud-to-cloud migration
- Refactoring for cloud migration
- Data platforms
- AI services
- Cost & operations
Certified partners of the platforms we build on
Google Partner
Google Workspace licensing, deployment and support, plus Google Cloud and Gemini for AI workloads.
Umbraco Partner
Websites and portals on Umbraco CMS, built, hosted and supported, including for the public sector.
A startup with mega-project experience
Octo is new. Our team isn't. We've spent 20+ years delivering large-scale technology programmes and advising leadership teams, and we bring that to every engagement, whatever its size.
National-scale delivery
Government-wide rollouts of infrastructure, devices and networks, delivered on schedule across hundreds of sites.
Innovation leadership
Led technology adoption across entire organisations, turning new tools into everyday ways of working.
BI & AI in production
Analytics and AI deployed across sectors, built to run alongside the systems businesses already depend on.
How a team is put together
- Consulting leadowns the relationship and the decisions
- Project managerruns delivery week to week
- Technical leadowns architecture and quality
- Developers & AI engineersscaled to the work
Every engagement is led by senior people. When a programme grows, we bring in the engineers, project managers and specialists it needs through our partner network, without changing who you deal with.
Not a vendor. An extension of your team.
We don't hand over and leave. What we build, we can keep running alongside your team.
- 01 understand
We embed with you and learn how the business really runs before we write a line of code.
- 02 build
Custom platforms and AI, delivered in weeks with AI-assisted engineering.
- 03 integrate
Connected to your POS, ERP, identity and productivity systems, so nothing lives in a silo.
- 04 run alongside
We stay on to operate, improve and extend what we built, as part of your team.
Ways to work with us
Fractional CTO
Technology leadership without a full-time hire. A monthly retainer, with a senior advisor working with your leadership team.
Talk to us →Dedicated team
You have a roadmap and need a team to own it. Scales from a focused squad to a full programme team.
Talk to us →Fixed-scope project
One platform, portal or integration, delivered against an agreed scope and timeline.
Talk to us →Run & support
What's been built kept live, secure and improving, with us operating it alongside your team.
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