Independent consulting · United Kingdom · Est. 2011

Technology, programmes and people. At board level.

Fifteen years of technology leadership, programme rescue and board-level HR for growing companies. Now with Private AI built on your own material.

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You

What does our handbook say about carrying leave into next year?

Answer

Up to five days may be carried over, with written approval from a line manager before 31 December. Carried days must be taken by the end of March. The handbook does not say what happens if they are not.

Staff Handbook 2026 · section 4.3Leave policy note · March
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15years

Consulting to boards in the United Kingdom.

3

Practices under one roof: technology, programmes, people.

0

Of your data used to train anyone's model. Ever.

What we do

Senior help, for as long as it takes and no longer.

Three practices, one standard: the work is done by the person you spoke to, and finished when it is finished.

Technology

Technology and programmes

Technology leadership at board level, and programme rescue: a plan that holds and a delivery that lands.

People

People and HR

Board-level HR for growing companies: structure, hiring, pay and policy.

New

Private AI

An assistant for your organisation that answers only from your own material, names its sources, and runs on a server in the EU you can point at.

How it works

Start with a conversation.

Twenty minutes, no slides.

stewart.bennett@understood.co.uk