Advisory Nexus

We fix messy operations, stalled programmes, and confused AI ambitions.

Four decades from City trading floors to WHO crisis rooms to FTSE 100 back offices. We turn chaos into clarity with practical AI, humane change, and systems that keep working when the lights flicker.

Book a short diagnostic call Based in Great Dunmow, serving the UK

Problems we fix

Too many hands, not enough flow

Hand-offs, swivel-chair tasks, and tickets bouncing like pinballs. We redesign the flow, then let software do the heavy lifting.

  • ✓Compressed a five day joiner and leaver process to five minutes across 35 business units.
  • ✓Self service automations reduced Service Desk calls by 34 percent.

AI projects stuck in workshops

Endless ideation, little production. We tie models to measurable outcomes and ship safely, quickly, and responsibly.

  • ✓Delivered £2 million annualised savings through targeted automation.
  • ✓Built working multi agent assistants for insurance and recruitment.

Legacy eating your lunch

Critical platforms that cannot stop. We modernise in motion, module by module, without switching the business off.

  • ✓Migrated a 1.3 million line trading platform VB to Java while live.
  • ✓Designed dual platform automation on Azure with privacy baked in.

If this sounds familiar

  • Your AI initiative has a slide deck, a pilot, and no owners.
  • You have ten tools for one job and none talk to each other.
  • Backlogs grow. People are tired. The good ones are leaving.
  • Risk and compliance have concerns and block everything late.
  • Leaders want results next quarter, not a platform next year.

What we do in week one

  • Map the real flow. Not the fantasy process, the lived one.
  • Find two high impact, low regret automations. Ship one.
  • Put humane governance in place so risk sleeps at night.
  • Set a three month plan tied to outcomes you can measure.

Mini case notes

Associated British Foods

Head of Automation and Analytics

Built a cloud native automation centre of excellence. Joiners and leavers reduced from five days to five minutes. 200 plus automations. 34 percent fewer service desk calls.

IBM Safer Planet

IOC Architect, WHO and NATO programmes

Designed crisis platforms for situations where downtime costs lives. Real time coordination, robust governance, and delivery under pressure.

NHS Blood and Transplant

Innovation UK funded

Introduced handwriting recognition to cut transcription errors and free staff for patient care. Balanced safety, ethics, and speed.

Macro problems we tackle

AI as critical infrastructure

Treat AI like power and telecoms. We design for continuity, not novelty. Resilience, redundancy, and graceful fallbacks.

  • Vendor independence. No single points of failure.
  • Clear data pathways and lawful use by design.
  • Human in the loop where judgement matters.

From experiments to estates

Move from a dozen pilots to a small estate that pays its way. Start with value, wrap with governance, grow with proof.

  • Quarterly value reviews and stop criteria.
  • Shared components, not snowflake projects.
  • Operational playbooks people actually use.

How we work

Think big, deliver small

Ambition is good. Waste is not. We ladder small wins into strategic change.

Open, plain and accountable

Clear language, clear measures, and a standing rule. No surprises.

Tools that earn their keep

LLMs, automation, and data platforms chosen for fit and value, not fashion.

Methods we draw on: Prosci ADKAR, Lean, TOC, Systems Thinking, EOS Traction, our Nexus Unified Improvement Framework.

Talk to Phil

Founder, Advisory Nexus. Former IBM and ABF. Built YourWorkLife.co.uk as a live example of applied AI that helps real people, not just presentations.

Email PBD@advisorynexus.com  |  Phone 07725 059151  |  LinkedIn philbd

Based in Great Dunmow, Essex. Available for fractional leadership, critical interventions, and short diagnostic engagements.