Four practices. Each one fixed-fee or retained.
Programme delivery
Senior judgement on programmes that must land. The programme stays yours.
Not an interim programme manager: a senior programme and portfolio practitioner on your side, assuring and intervening across a portfolio or a series of programmes, recovering the ones that have stalled, and reviewing the ones the board is worried about. Accountability for delivery stays with your senior responsible owner. PMO as a service where a firm needs the discipline without the department.
About programme deliveryVardonne Intelligence
Assess, plan, cost and govern AI so that it reaches production and pays back.
AI that earns its place: readiness assessed across use cases, data and risk; one enterprise AI strategy with a value objective for every use case; the cost to run understood before deployment and after it; and the governance required to make quality output enduring. Vendor-independent.
About Vardonne IntelligenceTender support
Win the technical and digital bids you can deliver.
Technical and digital bids across all industries and organisational verticals, under the Procurement Act 2023: registrations, certificates and evidence in place before a tender opens; bid analysis, strategy and writing through to submission; and delivery set up once a contract is won. We support bids we would be prepared to deliver.
About tender supportSystems build
When the answer is software rather than advice.
Built and hosted by ArcSystemsTechnology, the group’s build arm, under its own engagement letter, with Vardonne leading the delivery. Cadence keeps the reviews, decisions and risks running after we leave.
About systems build
Also offered, on their own or within an engagement: roundtables and market insight.
What we publish
A monthly brief, use cases in production, and reference guides. Every figure sourced and dated.
Ten or more employees (ONS) All businesses (Vardonne’s derivation) Source: Insights September 2026
The brief · September 2026
More firms use AI. Few use it deeply.
A third of UK firms with ten or more staff now use AI, from one in eight in autumn 2023. Adoption is no longer the gap; depth is.
Read the briefIn production · The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
An AI agent on the staff IT service desk
Help desk call volumes down 28%; “41% of IT queries are now handled via self-service and AI agents”.
See the use caseGuide I
The production gap
From pilot to production: five rungs, and the gate at the top of each.
Read the guide
The person you meet is the person who leads the work. Nobody is substituted for a junior after signature.
Three ways to engage: a fixed piece, with a stated outcome and a fixed fee agreed before it starts; a retained role, senior capacity on your side on a monthly retainer; or a scoped build, built and hosted by ArcSystemsTechnology with Vardonne leading the delivery.
Every engagement ends with a written close: what was found, what was done, what changed, and what is left with a name against it.
No vendor pays us to recommend it. Independence is the product.
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