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a sustained engagement spanning product strategy, financial modelling, national data infrastructure, programme governance, investor readiness and the operational foundation of the in-house technology function.
national council data pipeline
A live data pipeline covering every English local authority, built to generate evidence packs that support site selection and partnership decisions. Each source has its own ingestion adapter writing into a single fact store where every value carries its provenance, so packs render fully cited and unloaded metrics are declared rather than quietly omitted. New metrics are added as catalogue entries rather than schema changes.
national and local sources
source adapters
fact store with provenance
cited council pack
every value keeps its source, so a pack can be traced line by line.
Data Architecture
Data Engineering
Public Data
Provenance
National source and metric catalogue
Per-source ingestion adapters with run-level provenance
Cited pack generation across all English authorities
Coverage and data quality verification
council targeting model
A national scoring model, built on the council data pipeline, that ranks English authorities as partnership targets. Each authority is scored one to five on housing need, temporary accommodation pressure, housing revenue account position, land value, freight access and scale, then ranked under both an equal and a weighted pass so the choice of weighting is a visible decision rather than a buried one. Small sites are screened out, and the resulting shortlist feeds the board's engagement strategy.
national council data
one to five scoring by factor
equal and weighted passes
ranked shortlist
both passes sit side by side, so the weighting can be challenged rather than taken on trust.
Data Analysis
Scoring Models
Public Data
Strategy
National authority ranking workbook
Equal and weighted scoring passes
Candidate shortlist for partnership engagement
Targeting section of the board engagement paper
development financial model
Translation of a consolidated development appraisal workbook into maintainable software. Assessment established that a workbook of this size and formula complexity could not be lifted wholesale into a browser calculation engine, so we specified typed calculation modules covering site, cashflow, grant, debt, equity and viability, with the workbook retained as the methodology and parity baseline. Every model item was classified as user adjustable, administrator controlled, fixed methodology or derived output before any build began. The typed engine and its first interface are now built against that baseline, composing programme, capital, funding, income, operating cashflow and returns, with line-by-line financial acceptance under way.
spreadsheet baseline
typed calculation modules
reconciled scenario outputs
the workbook remains the methodology baseline; the software is rebuilt against it module by module.
Financial Modelling
Systems Architecture
Requirements Engineering
Calculation engine feasibility assessment
Model reconciliation and control classification framework
Typed module architecture with spreadsheet parity baseline
Worked examples and numerical tolerance definitions
Typed calculation engine and first live interface
group financial reporting
Design of consolidated reporting across the group delivery structure, covering entity and accounting structures, special purpose vehicle splits, management fee treatment, retained profits and consolidation rules, with a least-privilege read-only accounting integration supplying source data.
Financial Reporting
Integration Design
Operations Consultancy
Group consolidation and reporting requirements
Accounting integration design with read-only scopes
Entity, fee and profit treatment definitions
Officer-facing reporting workflow
finance oversight portal
A full product assessment and go-to-market strategy for an oversight portal designed for local authority finance leadership, enabling officers to monitor and govern delivery vehicles. The engagement spanned market sizing, competitive analysis, a tiered pricing architecture anchored below council procurement thresholds, three-year financial projections, and pilot framework design.
Product Strategy
Data Architecture
Financial Modelling
Pricing Architecture
Investment deck for executive presentation
Four-tier pricing architecture
Three-year ARR and EBITDA projections
Budget breakdown with firm and contingent cost separation
Pilot deployment framework
appraisal and financial modelling
A bespoke property appraisal and financial modelling system supporting scheme viability assessment, site-level evaluation and investment decision-making across the delivery programme. The model integrated cost, revenue, financing and risk parameters to produce scenario-driven outputs for stakeholder review.
Financial Modelling
Property Appraisal
Scenario Analysis
Data Architecture
Bespoke property appraisal model
Site-level financial scenario analysis
Cost, revenue and risk assumption framework
Investment decision support outputs
governance framework
An interactive RACI matrix built in React, mapping governance responsibilities across a multi-partner delivery programme. The tool provides immediate clarity on decision-making authority, accountability chains, and consultation requirements across complex multi-stakeholder structures.
Platform Development
Governance Design
Data Visualisation
Interactive React-based RACI visualisation
Multi-partner governance mapping
Responsive component architecture
executive critical path
A single-page critical path for the executive team, setting out what each delivery stream must have achieved at each gate from today to the first homes and on to scale. It began as a ten-gate grid that uses the scheme workflow's own milestone names, so leadership and delivery teams read the same words, and now runs as a weekly plan with single target dates, links between streams, and the prototype, warranty and certification milestones from the asset delivery programme. It is reviewed weekly with the chief executive and finance lead.
Programme Governance
Planning
Operations Consultancy
Ten-gate stage grid across four delivery streams
Three-month weekly plan with single target dates
Prototype, warranty and certification milestones
Shared task plan for the delivery streams
board and advisory reporting
A standard reporting format for the board and the strategic advisory board, and the papers that run through it. We built a reusable report template, brought specialist papers from across the leadership team into one house format, compiled the advisory board pack and produced the supporting analysis, including tenure mix scenarios and lease-back structure slides drawn directly from live model runs.
Governance Design
Reporting
Financial Modelling
Reusable board and advisory report template
Advisory board pack and agenda
Council engagement and design quality papers
Tenure mix and lease-back scenario slides from live model runs
technology operations
Setup and structuring of internal technology operations across the programme. Scope included internal collaboration environment architecture, coordination with external IT providers, definition of seven data and technology workstreams, and design of an onboarding framework for incoming technical staff. The engagement established the operational foundation for the organisation's technology function.
Operations Consultancy
Infrastructure
Workforce Planning
Collaboration environment architecture
Seven-workstream programme structure
Technical onboarding framework
IT provider coordination
investment narrative and market evidence
A programme of research and narrative work supporting public sector and institutional engagement: sector and supply chain market analyses, regional funding landscape research, and a valuation note underpinning the claimed benefit per authority. The prospectus was restructured around a single narrative thread and issued in separate council and investor editions, generated from scripts so each version is reproducible.
Market Analysis
Research
Investment Narrative
Sector and supply chain market analyses
Regional funding and grant landscape research
Net gain and wellbeing valuation evidence note
Council and investor prospectus editions
Land partnership proposition for a national retailer
Affordable housing grant allocation analysis
investor data room and live model
Investor readiness for an institutional raise. We structured the funding data room into nine indexed sections with every file accounted for and drafts and unsigned documents flagged, wrote a plain-English guide to the consolidated model, and rebuilt the investor presentation so its financials run live from the model rather than being pasted in. Investors are given access to the model itself after calls, and due diligence questions are answered against it.
Investor Readiness
Financial Modelling
Data Governance
Indexed funding data room
Investor guide to the consolidated model
Investor presentation with live model financials
Due diligence responses and investor briefings
programme visualisation film
A demonstration film, now in production, showing the proposed community from the air and from inside a home. The masterplan was scripted into a 3D model directly from the source plan, covering homes, facilities, routes and landscape, with the home interior rebuilt from its architectural floor plan and section. Testing showed that restyling rendered frames keeps the modelled geometry intact, whereas generating motion from a still image invents it, so the film is built from the model outwards.
source masterplan
scripted 3d model
rendered plates
restyled film frames
the geometry comes from the model and ai only restyles it, so what is on screen matches the plan.
3D Visualisation
Generative Imagery
Production
Scripted 3D masterplan model from the source plan
Home interior rebuilt from floor plan and section
Refined 4K plates and production route testing
Board film, in production
a multi-strand programme spanning an internal system of record, a governed market intelligence layer, and a separate ai product taken to market alongside the practice.
operational workflow and digital strategy
Discovery ahead of the build. We facilitated workflow workshops with the whole team, documented the firm's operating model as a set of workflow diagrams, tested feasibility against it, and set a digital strategy covering internal operations, client-facing systems and security posture. The resulting delivery plan was phased and fixed price.
Operations Consultancy
Digital Strategy
Process Design
Operational workflow diagram set
Feasibility assessment
Phased, fixed-price delivery plan
Security briefing for firm leadership
recruitment operating system
A bespoke platform built as the firm's system of record, replacing the spreadsheets it had outgrown and keeping candidates visible across search, outreach, response, process, placement and long-term relationship value. It was built security first: a migration-backed schema, invite-only authentication with mandatory two-factor, row level security, audit controls and typed server-side data access, with no direct browser access to business data. Calendar and mail integration uses delegated per-user access rather than tenant-wide permissions. The platform is now live with the firm's team: candidates were moved across through a controlled migration that was dry run first, and staff were onboarded in person with their own mailboxes and calendars connected.
Software Development
Platform Architecture
Security Engineering
Data Migration
Migration-backed schema and typed data layer
Invite-only authentication with mandatory two-factor
Row level security, audit trail and role boundaries
Global search across candidates, firms and mandates
Delegated calendar and mail integration
Candidate migration from source workbooks
In-person staff onboarding and live acceptance
candidate and market intelligence packs
Three intelligence features for the firm's own system: a candidate pack that can be produced without a live mandate, cross-referencing of candidates against a specific role, and a modular market edition. We defined the deployment architecture, compared model and collection providers on cost for this workload, and wrote a build-ready plan against the live codebase with the no-mandate candidate pack as the first vertical slice. Collection is limited to approved public sources, with structured public data taken from direct feeds.
AI Engineering
Product Design
Systems Architecture
Product analysis for three intelligence features
Deployment architecture and provider cost comparison
Build-ready plan with a first vertical slice
market intelligence platform
A governed data layer separating public market intelligence from private client data. Scope covers source rights and approval, ingestion, entity resolution, provenance, quality control and change detection. The boundary is deliberately one way: approved intelligence flows outward into the products, and nothing confidential flows back. Collection is planned as a fleet of per-firm collectors, each running against a recorded permission, with raw captures held privately and only approved, resolved records published onward.
approved public sources
governed intelligence layer
private system of record
client-facing ai product
intelligence flows outward to both products. nothing confidential flows back.
Data Architecture
Data Governance
Entity Resolution
Source register with rights and approval recorded
Ingestion, entity resolution and change detection design
Provenance and data quality framework
Product boundary and data separation model
Collection fleet plan with per-source permissions
ai intelligence product
A separate product built for the firm's own market, taking the intelligence layer to law firm partners and hiring teams as a conversational research surface. We built the application and its server-side model gateway, and the commercial case around it: brand identity, product website, three-year strategy, financial model and phased roadmap. Answers are grounded only in an approved register of sources, with citations, confidence and honest refusal built in from the first commit rather than retrofitted. The product has since been re-architected around a single agent engine, with each feature a surface on that engine, clear hand-offs between people and agents, and approval gates wherever a person must decide.
Product Strategy
AI Engineering
Brand
Financial Modelling
Product application with server-side model gateway
Approved source register with enforced allowlist
Provider contract allowing the data platform to plug in later
Brand identity and logo system
Product website
Three-year strategy, financial model and phased roadmap
Agent platform architecture with approval gates
Investor presentation and funding case
a discovery-led engagement mapping how the business runs from instruction to completion, followed by a build that orchestrates its existing systems rather than replacing them.
systems discovery and process mapping
A fixed-fee discovery built on recorded walkthroughs of every system in use and written answers from the operations lead. We mapped the full route from instruction through legal packs, bidder approval and the auction itself to post-sale completion, recorded where each part of the record actually lives, and assessed automation against the auction platform's published interface. The central finding reframed the build: the existing platform was already the lot record, client file and compliance file, so the right answer was to orchestrate around it rather than replace it.
Operations Consultancy
Process Design
Systems Analysis
End-to-end current-state map, pre-sale to completion
Post-sale ownership swimlane
Record and system hand-off register
Automation assessment against the platform interface
Discovery close-out and fixed build boundary
auction control centre
A control and orchestration layer built around the existing auction platform, giving the team one live view of every lot, buyer and completion. The integration register covers the platform's interface, mail and calendar, identity verification and accounting, with each integration's ownership and limits recorded before any build. Delivery is staged, starting with an early lot and client pilot for the operations team ahead of the wider release, and the interface was reviewed with the client as a clickable prototype before production code.
auction platform, mail, identity and accounting
integration register
control centre
one live view of each lot
the auction platform stays the record. the control centre orchestrates the work around it.
Systems Integration
Platform Architecture
Product Design
Software Development
Control centre architecture and integration register
Life-of-a-lot workflow across systems
Clickable interface prototype
Staged implementation plan with an early pilot
Monthly build programme
a diagnostic of how work moves from first enquiry to cash, followed by a phased plan to bring the practice onto the same operating platform as an associated firm while each business keeps its records separate.
enquiry-to-cash operational review
A three-week diagnostic built on structured interviews with partners and staff across administration, accounts and audit, personal tax and credit control, and a day on site observing work as it happens. Every step from enquiry to payment was mapped and evidenced, findings were ranked by their effect on billing and cash, and the practice's route was compared side by side with the associated firm's. The review was written for partners with no technology background, as a plain-English baseline, implementation proposal and costed savings case.
enquiry and onboarding
work and review
fee decision and invoice
payment
the review followed one client through every hand-off, with billing and credit control at the centre.
Operations Consultancy
Process Mapping
Practice Management
Structured interviews and on-site observation
Mapped enquiry-to-cash route with evidenced findings
Side-by-side operating model comparison
Plain-English baseline review and costed savings case
practice systems alignment plan
A phased plan to move the practice onto the practice management platform the associated firm already runs, while each business keeps its own records, access and responsibilities. Phase one follows a client from onboarding and partner acceptance through file creation, the work itself, the fee decision, invoicing and payment, keeping specialist production and audit tools where they already work. Identity checks, engagement documents and failed-payment follow-up are given named owners, and a costed AI roadmap follows only once the operating changes are in place.
Systems Strategy
Implementation Planning
Process Design
Three-phase implementation plan
Phase one explanatory deck with named responsibilities
Executive summary of benefits by phase
Partner decision pack
Costed AI roadmap
about
MJE Advisory designs and builds proprietary software systems and advises on internal business operations. We work with organisations that have outgrown generic tools and need something built specifically for how they operate.
Our work spans data strategy, platform architecture, product development, and technology delivery. We have particular depth in social housing, local government, and the organisations that serve them.
We prefer to build than to advise in the abstract. Every engagement produces working systems, clear documentation, and operational clarity.