What we do
Four ways we engage.
We are not a consultancy selling hours. We engage as principals, partners or fractional executives. Each engagement is different; the common thread is that we take a position and we are accountable for it.
Merge
Acquiring and integrating tech and tech-enabled businesses.
Technical due diligence. Financial due diligence. Integration planning. Operational continuity. Cross-border and US GAAP reporting where relevant.
We have done this before, at scale. Integrity Software brought together 13 technology companies under a single operating group — different products, different codebases, different cultures, different contractual arrangements — and took the combined entity to NASDAQ. That experience shapes how we approach every engagement.
We know where integration fails. It fails on people, on systems that were never designed to talk to each other, and on the gap between deal logic and operational reality. We close that gap.
Integrity Software / 13-company merger / NASDAQ 2000.
Transition
For founder-led tech businesses where the next decade looks different from the last.
Succession. Ownership change. Exit preparation. Legacy estate modernisation. These are inflection points where the wrong advice — or no advice — is expensive.
Paul's work at CurrencyFair, Neo Financial Solutions and Theia Group involved different kinds of transition: funding rounds, restructuring, SPAC engagement, and the practical discipline of getting a business ready for external scrutiny. Alex's multi-sector operating experience covers what happens at the business level when ownership or technology fundamentally changes.
We are not here to validate decisions already made. We are here to help you make the right ones.
CurrencyFair, Neo Financial Solutions, Theia Group — restructuring, funding and exit preparation.
Harness
Applying new technologies to existing businesses — practically, not speculatively.
AI, automation, modern infrastructure. The conversation around these technologies is dominated by hype. The operational reality is more specific: which processes actually benefit from automation? Which data is actually good enough to train on? What does the integration with existing systems look like?
We work with established businesses — not startups — where the question is not whether to adopt new technology but how to do it without breaking what already works. The businesses that will benefit most from AI are the ones with deep operational experience and messy legacy estates. That is exactly where we operate.
Alex has spent 40 years building and running technology systems. He knows the difference between a technology that solves a real problem and one that creates new ones.
15 EBRD business incubators across 8 countries; 40+ years of technology implementation.
Partner
Fractional CIO and CFO, board roles, advisory.
Sometimes the right engagement is working alongside an owner rather than instead of them. We take fractional CIO and CFO roles, board positions, and advisory arrangements where we can genuinely add value — not where we are filling a gap to tick a governance box.
Paul is PCF-11 approved by the Central Bank of Ireland, which matters for Irish regulated-entity engagements — fund management, payment institutions, insurance intermediaries — where the PCF classification is a requirement.
Arrangements are agreed on a case-by-case basis. We are selective about where we commit time. If we take on an engagement, we take it seriously.
Paul Carroll: PCF-11, Central Bank of Ireland. Alex Porter: UWE Bristol Business School mentor.
If any of these descriptions match where you are, a conversation costs nothing. We are straightforward about whether we can help.
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