Services

Five practices, one accountable team.

Each practice stands on its own. Together they cover the full arc of a problem, from the network in the plant to the message on the podium.

The full catalogue

52 services across 6 practices.

Every service below has its own page. Jump to a practice, or browse the lot.

01Industrial & OT Technology6 services 02IT, Cloud & Software11 services 03Business & Management Advisory6 services 04Global Career & Mobility6 services 05Mandate: Political & Public Affairs9 services 06Media, PR, Entertainment & Digital14 services

Industrial & OT Technology

Keep the plant running, and keep it defensible.

Oil and gas, power, water and manufacturing operators run estates that were designed for uptime, not for hostile networks. We work at the seam where operational technology meets corporate IT, the place where most incidents, and most avoidable downtime, actually begin.

Our engineers speak both languages. We can read a P&ID and a firewall rule set, and we translate between the control room and the board so that security work does not stall production.

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Capabilities

OT/IT convergence architecture: Purdue-model zoning, DMZ design, segmentation and secure remote access for plant networks.
ICS/SCADA security assessment: Passive asset discovery, vulnerability triage and risk ranking against IEC 62443 and NIST SP 800-82.
Industrial identity and access: Machine and human identity, certificate lifecycle, least-privilege access for controls engineers and vendors.
Edge data and telemetry: Historian integration, edge gateways, MQTT/OPC UA pipelines and site-to-cloud synchronisation.
Incident readiness: OT-specific playbooks, tabletop exercises and recovery planning that account for safety systems.
Vendor and contractor governance: Third-party access control, change management and supply-chain assurance for plant equipment.

6 services in this practice

IT, Cloud & Software

Modern systems that your team can run without us.

Most organisations do not need more technology. They need the technology they already own to be coherent, secure and cheap to operate.

We design and build cloud platforms, integrations and custom applications, then hand over documentation and runbooks that make us replaceable. That is the point.

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Capabilities

Cloud strategy and migration: Landing zones, cost modelling and phased migration on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
Custom software engineering: Web platforms, internal tools, APIs and integrations built with modern, maintainable stacks.
Data platforms and analytics: Warehousing, pipelines, reporting and the governance that keeps numbers trustworthy.
Applied AI: Document processing, assistants and decision support scoped to measurable savings, not novelty.
Enterprise cyber security: Identity, endpoint, cloud posture, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 readiness.
Managed IT for growing firms: Helpdesk, device management, backup and continuity for teams without an internal CIO.

11 services in this practice

Business & Management Advisory

Decisions made with evidence, then actually executed.

Strategy documents are cheap. Execution is not. We work with owners, boards and executive teams on the decisions that move the number, then stay long enough to see them implemented.

Our advisory work is deliberately unglamorous: costed options, honest baselines, and a delivery plan with named owners and dates.

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Capabilities

Growth and market strategy: Market entry, pricing, competitive positioning and expansion planning across African and Canadian markets.
Operating model design: Structure, roles, decision rights and the reporting lines that make them stick.
Process improvement: Lean and Six Sigma-informed redesign of the workflows that cost you margin.
Internal controls and risk: Control design, testing, segregation of duties and remediation of audit findings.
Programme and project delivery: PMO setup, recovery of troubled programmes and delivery governance.
Business plans and investment readiness: Financial models, investor decks and diligence preparation.

6 services in this practice

Global Career & Mobility

Your experience is not the problem. Its packaging is.

Skilled professionals arrive in Canada with a decade of real responsibility and a résumé that reads as unqualified. The gap is almost never competence. It is vocabulary, format, evidence and search strategy.

We work with individual professionals and with employers hiring internationally trained talent. Practical, specific, and grounded in what Canadian hiring systems actually screen for.

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Capabilities

Career strategy: Target role definition, realistic sequencing and a search plan with weekly targets.
Résumé and profile rebuild: ATS-aware résumé variants per target role, plus LinkedIn positioning.
Credential and experience translation: Mapping foreign qualifications and job titles to their Canadian equivalents.
Interview preparation: Behavioural and technical rehearsal, compensation negotiation and reference strategy.
Job-search execution support: Application tracking, pipeline discipline and outreach templates that get replies.
Employer advisory: Helping Canadian employers assess, onboard and retain internationally trained professionals.

6 services in this practice

Mandate: Political & Public Affairs

Win the argument before you ask for the vote.

Mandate is our political and public affairs practice. It works for candidates, parties, campaign organisations, government offices and the institutions that have to explain themselves to a public that is not obliged to listen.

Campaigns are usually lost on fundamentals rather than tactics: no defensible message, no reliable count of who is actually persuadable, no discipline when the pressure comes. We work on the fundamentals first, then run the machine that delivers them.

We hold a firm line on how the work is done. Mandate runs on verifiable claims, disclosed sponsorship and lawful campaigning. We do not run disinformation, fake grassroots operations, bot networks or voter suppression of any kind, for any fee. That constraint is the product: a campaign built this way survives scrutiny, and scrutiny always comes.

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The Mandate practice

Capabilities

Campaign strategy and management: Path to victory, targeting, budget, calendar and the campaign structure to execute it.
Message and communications: Positioning, message testing, speeches, rapid response and surrogate discipline.
Research and polling: Opinion research, focus groups, public-record vulnerability studies and tracking.
Digital campaigning: Paid and organic digital, disclosed advertising, supporter growth and online rapid response.
Field operations and mobilisation: Canvassing, ward organisation, volunteer management and get-out-the-vote.
Candidate development: Debate preparation, media training, stump craft and performance coaching.
Public affairs and government relations: Stakeholder engagement, regulatory advocacy, coalition building and transparent lobbying.
Integrity, compliance and crisis: Spending compliance, disclosure, opposition attack readiness and crisis response.

9 services in this practice

Media, PR, Entertainment & Digital

Say the true thing, well, to the people who matter.

Our media practice is a full-service entertainment and communications house: broadcast production, public relations, digital and technology, event media, artist and athlete management, publishing, distribution, touring, film and television, and brand partnerships. It serves recording artists, athletes, entertainers, corporate brands, institutions and public figures.

Technical and industrial organisations are usually bad at explaining themselves, and it costs them contracts, talent and public licence to operate. Artists and entertainers face the mirror-image problem: visibility without an underlying strategy for what it is meant to achieve.

The practice sits deliberately alongside our technology and advisory work. We can write about a control system because we have configured one, and we can build the website, the SEO and the analytics because that is another practice down the corridor.

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Led by the Head of Media

Capabilities

Media & broadcast production: Radio commercials, voiceovers, jingles, IVR, podcasts and media content development.
Digital & technology solutions: Websites, SEO, digital marketing, Google Business Profile, analytics and digital consultancy.
Public relations & publicity: PR strategy, media relations, press releases, coverage, reputation and crisis communication.
Event & corporate media: MC and hosting, red carpet, panel moderation, event publicity and media coordination.
Artist management & career development: Representation, career strategy, distribution, promotion, booking and industry relationships.
Sports & athlete management: Commercial representation, endorsements, media and community programmes for athletes.
Publishing, distribution & touring: Publishing administration, worldwide distribution, tour routing, booking and settlement.
Film & TV production: Documentary, branded and scripted content from development through distribution.
Artist branding & digital identity: Brand development, EPKs, artist profiles, verification guidance, metadata and digital presence.
Brand partnerships & entertainment opportunities: Artist and brand deals, ambassadorships, sponsorship strategy and commercial opportunity development.
Social & digital media management: Strategy, account management, content planning, campaigns, engagement and performance analytics.
Media strategy & communications: Media and brand communication strategy, personal brand positioning, media training and strategic comms.

14 services in this practice

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