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Quotes from the people who signed the invoices, published as written. Two of them are fours rather than fives, and both of those name something we got wrong — a wall of perfect scores tells a buyer nothing except that somebody curated it.
- References
- 9
- Sectors
- 6
- Organisations
- 7
- Mean rating
- 4.8 / 5
The set, in numbers
- Published references
- 9
- Mean rating, out of 5
- 4.8
- Regulated sectors represented
- 6
- Client organisations
- 7
What clients said
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- Banking
Ingrid Sandvik rated the engagement 5 out of 5.
They found three integrations we'd forgotten we depended on. That's the part nobody else did.
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Group CTO · Nordvik Bank
- Healthcare
Thandiwe Mbeki rated the engagement 5 out of 5.
The cutover itself took a weekend. The eleven months before it went on proving, record by record, that 2.3 million patient files would land intact. Given the same choice I would spend the eleven months again.
Thandiwe Mbeki
Director of Clinical Systems · Orrery Health
- Logistics
Petra Lindqvist rated the engagement 5 out of 5.
Our dispatch system had one test when they arrived. Arcwright wrote 1,400 more before they changed a single line of it. Six months later a release takes twenty minutes instead of nine hours, and nobody stays late for it.
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VP Engineering · Vanta Logistics
- Energy
Rohan Agarwal rated the engagement 5 out of 5.
They spent the first three weeks reading SCADA logs rather than talking to us. The plan they came back with named the two failure modes that had actually been costing us money, and ignored the four we had been arguing about internally for a year.
Rohan Agarwal
Head of Grid Operations Technology · Kestrel Energy
- Energy
Elena Navarro rated the engagement 5 out of 5.
Close to half the engagement was documentation nobody wanted to write. It is also the reason our own team took the platform over in March with a one-hour handover and no follow-up calls.
Elena Navarro
Head of Platform Engineering · Heliostat
- Insurance
Fiona Doyle rated the engagement 5 out of 5.
In week two they told us that about a third of the programme we had scoped was not worth building. That conversation saved roughly £400,000 and I have never had it with a consultancy before.
Fiona Doyle
Chief Information Officer · Cambridge Mutual
- Pensions
Chidi Okafor rated the engagement 4 out of 5.
Twenty-six years of scheme data, four character encodings, and a benefit rule set that lived entirely in the head of an administrator who retired in April. They wrote it down, tested it against 40,000 member records, and got it wrong twice before they got it right. Both times we heard it from them first.
Chidi Okafor
Director of Scheme Technology · Pillarstone
- Banking
Marius Haugen rated the engagement 5 out of 5.
The payments cutover ran at 02:00 on a Sunday and we never touched the rollback. What I remember is the rehearsal. We had run it four times by then, and the fourth was boring.
Marius Haugen
Head of Payments Engineering · Nordvik Bank
- Healthcare
James Whitfield rated the engagement 4 out of 5.
They failed our penetration test on the first pass and told us so before our auditors found it. The remediation took three weeks and cost them the margin on the phase. That is the kind of supplier you want holding a clinical audit trail.
James Whitfield
Head of Information Security · Orrery Health
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