How we help
Legal judgment, carried through to the point where it works.
Most technology, data and AI matters arrive framed as legal questions. The answer usually has to live somewhere else: in systems, controls, contracts and roles. We help with both halves, the judgment and the work of making it hold.
What we help with
Four kinds of problem. One way of working.
The subject matter varies. The shape doesn’t: a legal requirement that has to become something an organisation can operate.
Technology contracting
Hardware, software, cloud and IT outsourcing agreements, from single-vendor deals to multi-party programmes. We draft and negotiate the contract and design the structure around it. That covers how obligations map to service levels, how risk sits across integrators and subcontractors, and how the contract is governed after signature.
Data protection programmes
Privacy programmes across one jurisdiction or many, including African markets with divergent regimes. We establish what each law requires, then build what compliance needs in practice: operator agreements, notices, consent and retention design, breach response, and the ownership that keeps it current.
AI governance
Governance for AI you are designing, buying or deploying, agentic systems included. That means acceptable use policies, risk and impact assessment, vendor due diligence, and oversight that works after approval, not only at it.
Policy and governance instruments
Policies, standards and frameworks that are legally sound, properly authorised, workable, auditable and clear enough to follow. We review existing instruments systematically and rebuild the ones that fail. We also design the lifecycle that stops them drifting.
How we deliver
Four channels.
Most of our work is advisory. Where a problem recurs, we package the answer so it scales beyond one engagement.
Professional services
Engagements and retainers, led by the principals.
Technology products
Tools and templates that carry our method into your environment.
Elearning
Self-paced training built for your learning platform, including SCORM modules.
Programmes
Structured capability programmes for teams and institutions, such as data protection officer training.
How an engagement runs
Each stage ends with something your team can hold.
Engagements follow the problem, not a fixed sequence. Not every engagement needs every stage: a contract negotiation may run through two, and a programme will run through all five. The pattern below is what usually happens.
01
The instruction
You bring the question as you have framed it. We take it seriously as framed and test whether it is the whole question.
You hold: an agreed scope for discovery.
02
Discovery
We map where the answer will have to live. That includes the processes, systems, data, owners and controls involved, and the people who will have to act on it. This is where a narrow instruction often turns out to be structural.
You hold: a current-state picture, a restated problem and a recommendation on scope.
03
Decision architecture
Legal judgment, operational analysis and delivery planning come together in one design. It sets out what is required, where it lives, who owns it, and what has to happen for it to become real.
You hold: a decision architecture your organisation can use, not a memo to file.
04
Build
We produce the artefacts the design calls for: contracts, policies, controls, procedures, records and training. Each one is built for the people who have to use it.
You hold: working artefacts, ready to deploy.
05
Embed and evolve
We support adoption, test what holds in practice, and refine what doesn’t. Later decisions are assessed against an architecture that already exists, so the value compounds.
You hold: a structure future decisions can be tested against.
What changes for your team
The translation work stops falling to you.
Legal, technology, risk, project management and the business each get an answer they can act on, and one team accountable for making it hold. Your people spend their time on decisions, not on coordinating advisers.
Three principals lead every engagement. When a matter needs specialist expertise beyond the core team, we bring in collaborators we have worked with and can vouch for. Accountability stays with us.
Bring us the question as you have it.
Initial conversations are exploratory and confidential. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you.
