For 28 years I planned how national programmes deliver. Then I built the tools I always wished I’d had.

M-PESA. Visa Europe. National identity and border systems. For nearly three decades I worked at the sharp end of enterprise delivery — planning programmes across twenty workstreams, designing the governance, owning the plan when failure wasn’t an option. Most of it at IBM; the last decade independently, on security-cleared public-sector programmes — with Sopra Steria across the Ministry of Justice and Home Office, and a UK policing transformation whose delivery framework is still in use today.

I’ve sat in the PMO. I’ve owned the plan, the RAID log, the board pack, the governance. And for ten years I watched the tools we were handed do almost nothing for the people actually doing the work.

That was Scoped — the delivery tool a real PMO always needed. Then three more followed, because the same gap ran through everything: Mellow for people and payroll, Inspected for quality you can prove, and LevelSwitch to orchestrate it all. One ecosystem, under SaltCore.

Enterprise programmes taught me what real delivery takes: rigour, governance, and numbers you can defend. neart brings that strength to every business — computed, not generated. The maths is real, every figure traces back to its source, and AI accelerates the work without ever making the decisions.