Management consulting
KPMG
Technology risk, IT audit and business analysis work inside a Big Four practice.
About
The team is new. The people in it are not.
Ventora brings business analysis, technology risk work and software development together, so the person who understands your process, the person who assesses the controls and the person who builds the solution are on the same side of the table.
Track record
Where that experience comes from
What follows is the individual professional experience of our team members, earned at previous employers before Ventora existed. The organisations named are not Ventora clients or partners, and nothing here implies any relationship with Ventora.
European retail groups
PEPCO · Lidl · Tesco
New-market research, analysis of the competitive environment and the material behind growth-opportunity assessments.
Energy, oil and gas
Consulting projects for large energy-sector companies: oilfield-services market research and sector analysis for project teams.
International development
UNICEF · World Bank
Analytical work on a social-policy project — comparative research into national pension systems and the findings recommendations were built on.
Public administration
Objectives and performance indicators for eleven services of a national regulator: service-process analysis, stakeholder work and the measurement framework behind it.
Humanitarian logistics
Target operating model for the path from an offer of aid to a prepared shipment, covering ownership, request statuses and data requirements.
Volunteer coordination
An engagement model from first contact to repeat participation: database structure, skills and availability tracking, statuses and interaction history, coordinated in Excel and Monday.com.
Reporting automation
Reporting logic from the event that creates a task through owners, deadlines, statuses and documents, written up as functional requirements for development.
Platform ownership
Sole engineer on a data-heavy web product with 20,000 registered users: backend, frontend, database and infrastructure, built from nothing and then kept running.
Database performance
A production database of 400 million records and roughly 500 GB. Partitioning, pre-computed views and query tuning took the product's main screen from two seconds to 250 milliseconds.
Cloud cost reduction
Two AWS reviews: $500 a month down to $200, and $600 down to $150. Reserved database capacity, dev-environment features nobody needed, abandoned stages, forgotten databases, and an admin panel folded into a frontend that was already deployed.
Production operation
Running it afterwards: container services, managed databases, DNS and load balancing, backups, releases, and the customer support that arrives with them. Two hundred developers were taken through the same systems across four intakes.
What we hold to
Understand before prescribing
No proposal until we have seen how the work actually happens. The first conversation is free because its only job is to work out what the problem is.
Scope and price agreed first
Every step has a defined deliverable and a number attached before it starts. You can stop after any of them without losing what you paid for.
Build only what earns it
Some problems are solved by changing a process, not by buying software. We will say so, even when it means a smaller invoice.
Yours to run afterwards
Solutions are handed over with documentation and a walkthrough. Anything that needs us permanently on retainer is a design failure.
How an engagement runs
Free introductory call
Thirty minutes to hear the problem and say honestly whether we are the right people for it.
Review or plan
A focused look at one process, or a full current-state and target-state analysis with a roadmap.
Build and automate
Requirements, design, development, testing and implementation of what the analysis justified.
Handover and support
Documentation, a walkthrough, and optional ongoing help as the business keeps changing.
Start with the problem
Tell us what is not working
What takes too long, costs too much, or stops the business growing. We define the problem and name the most practical next step, on a free 30-minute call.
Fixed scope, fixed price
Agreed in writing before work starts.
Stop after any step
Each stage is useful on its own.
Yours to run
Every solution is handed over with documentation.
The cheapest software is the one you did not need to build. That is what the first conversation is for.