Partners

Specialists we trust, with one name accountable.

We work with a small number of firms whose skills sit next to ours. Each brings depth we do not hold ourselves. On a joint engagement, one named 8GG partner stays accountable to the client for the whole piece of work.

Our partners
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OMNIADIGITAL

omniadigital.ai ↗
What they do

A UK digital and AI consultancy founded in 2019. It helps organisations get more value from the systems, data and AI they already have, and from the platforms they move to next.

Where they fit

Data strategy, technology and licence audits, and the leadership and culture side of change.

Matt Small

Founder and CEO

Matt founded OMNIADIGITAL in 2019 after a career at BP. As Chief Data Officer for Castrol, he set the global data and analytics strategy across more than 80 countries. He now advises businesses and charities on data, digital and AI change that starts from business priorities and leaves lasting capability behind it.

Full profile ↗

Lucy Lynch

Chief of Staff

Lucy works with the OMNIADIGITAL leadership team to keep strategy and delivery aligned. She coordinates work across projects, clients and partners, and leads the firm's brand and market positioning. She also runs its data community of roundtables and events, and manages its links with academic and research partners.

What they do

A data and AI strategy consultancy. It works on strategy, operating models, governance and implementation, with a focus on financial services leaders.

Where they fit

Strategy and operating model work that sits ahead of, or alongside, our governance design.

Samir Sharma

Founder and CEO

Samir has worked in data transformation since 2002. He founded datazuum in 2012 to close the gap between data and AI strategy and what actually gets delivered. He created the Data and AI Strategy Canvas and wrote a book on it, The Strategy Canvas: A Field Guide for Data and AI. Clients work with him directly.

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Data Nectar

data-nectar.com ↗
What they do

A data engineering, analytics and AI engineering firm with clients in India, the UK and Europe. It builds data platforms on Snowflake, Databricks and the major clouds, and builds governed generative AI applications.

Where they fit

Engineering capacity for platform builds where we design the governance and controls.

Dhiren Chodvadia

Co-founder, Data Nectar, GEN8 and Flux AI

Dhiren works where business strategy meets technology. He finds where technology can create measurable value, defines what a solution must actually do, and works with engineering teams to turn that into products people use. At Data Nectar he leads data, AI and digital transformation work. Through GEN8, the firm's enterprise generative AI platform, he helps organisations move from AI trials to governed business applications. With Flux AI he applies the same approach to engineering and EPC workflows in regulated industries, from design basis and drawings to compliance, tenders and vendor assessment.

What they do

An AI platform for front end engineering design (FEED) in engineering and EPC projects. It produces early layouts, checks drawings against standards and cites the exact clause for each finding. An engineer approves every output.

Where they fit

Regulated engineering clients, where every AI output needs a named human approver.

Dhiren Chodvadia

Co-founder, Data Nectar, GEN8 and Flux AI

Dhiren leads Flux AI alongside Data Nectar.

Read his profile under Data Nectar ↑

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