About BoardNorth
Because technology only creates value
when it solves the right business problem.
Board North brings together senior commercial, finance and
technology expertise to help businesses identify where AI,
automation and better use of data can create measurable
value.
We don’t start by asking which technology you should buy.
We start by understanding what you want to
improve.
OUR APPROACH
We don’t start with the software.
We start with the business.
Before recommending technology, we look at what is actually getting in the way of better performance.
Where is time being lost?
Which repetitive tasks are consuming your team’s time?
Where are costs
unnecessarily high?
Which processes rely on manual work, duplication or avoidable administration?
What can’t you see easily?
Where are people spending hours producing information rather than using it?
What is slowing decisions
down?
What information arrives too late for someone to act on it?
Where could technology
create measurable value?
Which opportunities could increase revenue, reduce cost, improve capacity or give people their time back?
Commercial before technical
Technology should follow the commercial objective — not the other way around.
We start with the result the business is trying to achieve.
Increase revenue
Help sales teams identify and convert
more opportunities.
Reduce operating costs
Remove unnecessary manual work and
inefficient processes.
Create capacity
Give teams more time without simply
adding headcount.
Improve visibility
Make financial, sales and operational
performance easier to see.
Make faster decisions
Get useful information to the right people
sooner.
Improve control
Use automation and exception reporting to
identify where something needs attention.
Finance and
technology
together
Understanding what can be built is only half the
question.
The other half is whether it is commercially worth
doing.
Board North combines financial and commercial thinking
with technology capability.
That means considering:
What is the opportunity
worth?
Will it increase revenue, reduce
cost, release capacity or
improve performance?
What should be
prioritised?
Not every process needs
automating. We focus on where
the greatest value can be
created.
How should success be
measured?
Define the outcome before
implementing the technology.
What is technically
possible?
Use AI, automation, data and
integrations where they
genuinely improve the way the
business operates.
OUR PEOPLE
Work directly with senior experts
Experienced finance, commercial and technology professionals — not a junior implementation team. Here’s who you’ll work with, and the results they’ve delivered.
Selina Kirkham
CFO | Chartered Accountant
20+ years in finance creating value and driving growth. Expert in process improvement, systems/ERP and scaling companies. Data-led insights and improvements. Paddle, tennis & gardening enthusiast. Singer and lover of the outdoors.
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Jason Sammon
CTO | Full Stack Developer | Trainer
30 years in software development, digital and platform integration, turning complexity into clarity. Qualified Technology trainer in software development, AI, automation and Analytics. Dad of two, musician, videographer and lover of anything with wheels or a microprocessor.
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Trudie Newhouse
Director of TLN Consulting
As Director of TLN Consulting, I bring more than 16 years’ experience as an ISO consultant and lead auditor. I help organisations scale safely and efficiently by aligning strategy, management systems, AI governance and cyber-ready processes.
CASE STUDY
Winget Group
Strengthening manufacturing processes through management systems
Lesley Butchard
Executive Coach and ICF Team
Coach who helps leadership teams navigate change and transformation with clarity, confidence and high performance. With 25 years’ experience as a corporate executive in high-pressure, target-driven environments, she brings real-world leadership credibility together with psychology-backed coaching.
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AJ Karwa
Finance & FP&A Director; M&A vendor support
AJ is a finance director and M&A adviser who helps SME owners, CEOs and CFOs through periods of high growth, consolidation and exit bringing over 25 years of experience to bear. Working through Envy Advisory, he specialises in vendor-side M&A and FP&A support, building governed, reliable financial and business data that stands up to buyer due diligence and supports a well-run exit process.
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Want to talk to the team?
Tell us where your business is losing time, money or opportunity — we’ll tell you honestly whether we can help.
The right expertise
at the right time
You don’t need a large consultancy team sitting
in meetings.
You need the right people working on the right
problem.
Board North builds teams around the work required — from diagnosing the
commercial opportunity through to implementation, training and ongoing
support.
Senior people doing
the work
The people advising you are the people doing
the work.
Our clients work directly with experienced
professionals who understand business as well as
technology.
That means:
Faster decisions
Less time translating between layers of consultants.
More practical
recommendations
Advice grounded in how businesses actually operate.
Better commercial
judgement
Technology decisions considered alongside cost, value and business impact.
SCI-TECH DARESBURY
Connected to innovation. Grounded in commercial reality.
Based at Sci-Tech Daresbury, Board North operates at the intersection of business, finance, data and emerging technology. We translate new capability into practical improvements that create measurable value.
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Independent by design
The right solution may already be in your
business.
We are not tied to one AI model, software platform or
technology vendor.
We look first at:
- Your commercial objective
- Your existing processes
- Your team’s capability
- The systems you already have
- The quality and availability of your data
- Security, governance and risk
Then we determine what genuinely needs to change.
Sometimes that means introducing new technology.
Sometimes it means connecting systems that already exist.
And sometimes the biggest improvement comes from redesigning the process before automating it.
Practical delivery
From identifying the problem to changing the way the business works.
Diagnose
Understand the
problem, process and
commercial
opportunity.
Prioritise
Focus on the areas
capable of creating the
greatest value.
Design
Determine the right
combination of
process, people, data
and technology.
Build & Implement
Turn the solution into
something people can
actually use.
Enable
Give teams the
knowledge and
confidence to work
differently.
Measure
Track whether the
expected improvement
has actually been
delivered.
Built around
measurable value
If the business can’t see the improvement, what was the point?
AI and automation should produce outcomes the organisation can measure.
More revenue
Create more selling capacity and
improve visibility of opportunities.
Reduced manual work
Remove repetitive administration and
unnecessary processing.
More capacity
Free experienced people to concentrate on higher-value work.
Better visibility
See financial, commercial and
operational performance more easily.
Faster decisions
Get information to decision-makers
while there is still time to act.
Lower operating cost
Improve productivity without
automatically increasing headcount.
From strategy to capability
We don’t just implement change. We help your people become better at using the technology too.
Board North provides practical AI and automation training designed around real business activities.
Teams can learn how to improve:
Finance automation
Business workflows
Sales automation
or undertake custom training built around their own systems and processes.
GET STARTED
Where could your business create more value?
If your team is spending too much time on manual work, struggling to get useful information quickly enough, or knows AI could help but isn’t sure where to start, we can help identify the opportunities worth pursuing.