Transform
Strategy. Capability. Culture

Consulting / informing

Strategy
We create holistic and strategic technology plans to to push businesses to the fore of AI.

Resourcing / developing

Capability
We connect clients to a global pool of development talent, collaborators and funding.

Connecting / transforming

Culture
Our solutions inspire and nurture an ongoing culture of collective engagement, innovation, agility and wellbeing.

Ringleading / a unique approach
The Ringleader is an apex consultancy identifying and mapping the most holistic software solutions to an organisation’s challenges and ambitions.
Holistic
Technology and data management is now so future critical and deeply integrated into every aspect of a business, we recognise each transform requires an holistic approach.Â
Creative & collaborativeÂ
We lead opportunity and competitor analysis, stakeholder consultations and and exceptionally creative discovery processes. From this we define a strong strategic spine.Â
Mitigating risk, controlling costs, securing successful outcomes
We define the best options for client delivery, whether resourcing your in-house talent, a hybrid SAAS environment or a bespoke  end-to-end development.
Matthew Rymer
Principal
January 2025
Why strategy, capability and culture will determine your success.
Only the businesses adopting an holistic transformation process will survive the AI revolution.
For the survivors, technology will no longer become such a point of difference.
The point of difference between success and failure will lie between those who have recreated their whole culture to be truly agile and performance driven, and those who have not.
It will sit between those who have invested in a flexible technology core and their ongoing speed of adoption, and those who chose not to.Â
The successes will fuse flexible AI powered technology with highly valued, retrained and focused human talent.
To become significantly more responsive, efficient and competitive is a decision of survival, not choice.
Our approach
Generating six positive outcomes
from the six AI impacts
The time to begin your journey is now. We work on minimum one to three year arrangements to work with the whole organisation to identify, develop and implement specific and agreed outcomes.

1 / Strategic DNA change
Organisation
Organisations must become more agile and continuously enterprising.
Successful enterprises will be those that are in perpetual motion, able to respond fast to continual dispruption.Â
We work on implementing an organisational agility and transparency, where new ways of thinking are actively encouraged.Â
We consider how an organisation can be re-orientated from a traditional siloed functional;ity.
We will identify opportunity for cross-functional teams.working through a unified data architecture.

2 / Value chain performance
Value
Most businesses that fail to gain dramatic whole cycle productivity gains through AI are likely to fail.
We work across all an organisation’s facets to identify where latest technologies can improve process and functionality, enhance performance and create opportunity.
This will in turn support performance cased options for digital core renewal.Â

3 / Competitive advantage
Advantage
Clever and dynamic application of AI is, can and will reshape most business sectors.
Could you reshape how your sector or niche operates?
We can and will consider opportunities for novel competitive advantage for your organisation.
Our programme may well include hosting brainstorming sessions at our Ringleader Centre, from the board to all heads of department to the whole 200 team!Â
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4 / Enterpise architecture
Digital core
Flexible ecosystems driven by data are critical to the future. Most IT operating models will need to change.Â
Data sets must no longer be disparate but stream through an AI-enabled, secure digital core.
Generative AI requires a fundamentally different enterprise architecture in which data is more fluid, and unstructured , with synthetic data ever more important.

5 / Talent management
Talent
People must be at the heart of change. Leaders must acquire necessary new skills along with the workforce to better drive reinvention across entire value chains and business processes.
We develop and apply continuous learning programmes across all levels of the team.
We recommend new talent and are able to source and monitor new AI talent where deemed necessary,Â
Our Ringleader Centre in Gloucestershire will become integral to transitioning and training teams to this fast changing future,
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6 / Secure frameworks
Risk
Given generative AI’s speed of evolution and adoption, risks need to be a focus now to avoid challenges later,
Processes must embed data security and protocols to mitigate risks.
We assess and implement protocols for
- Liability
- Compliance
- Unreliable outputs
- Confidentiality and security,
- Sustainability
- Workforce and software transition Â
Don't be the caterpillar
Start the journey with me.
Fly with talentÂ
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Arrange a free consultation
At our discretion, we will deliver an initial response in confidence and without charge.Â
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with direction
Levels of consultancy and project management options will organically emerge.
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with capability
The Software Farm can provide in-house talent to end to end development, funding & grant preparations
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with cultural change
We can help shape your workforce to improve collective engagement, innovation, agility and wellbeing.
Consulting / informing
Strategy
Contact Matthew
Start the Journey with some free advice
From an initial discovery call I am very happy to provide an initial advice response.

A natural marketeer, brand and communications strategist and and an accomplished ‘big picture’ holistic software solutions lead.
I own a successful track record across four decades of conceiving smart and critical points of difference for clients seeking sector lead, conceiving trend leading strategies and the latest smart technologies.
With and an ever young passion for innovation and a legacy of achievement across start ups to multi-national corporates, I have acquired a nose for client opportunity. Both expertise and experience is underpinned by an unwavering commitment to delivering KPI excellence.
If you’re seeking a proven leader to navigate the complexities of AI and data driven opportunity and mastermind holistic delivery for your business or organisation, I invite you to connect.
Even if yours is not a project I am able to pursue, I enjoy being challenged.
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Helping to shape your future
The impacts of a digital transformation can be as striking as a caterpillar turning into a butterfly.
However, without an integrated strategy, an organisation will likely remain a hungry caterpillar, if a little faster.
We design butterflies.

The Journey that never ends
Digital transformation strategies are now critical to delivering effective processes and productivity, customer and employee experiences, managing business risk and controlling costs.
The Journey that never ends
Technology adoption is the journey of continual renewal.  Budgets should only be appropriated with a complete awareness of your strategic objectives, stakeholder representations, forecast outcomes set against performance indicators, and the technologies available.
People, Strategy & Outcomes
Digital transformation is about people, strategy, and understanding the outcomes that will financially benefit and grow your KPIs.
Resourcing / developing
Capability
Talent, collaborator & funding introductions
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- Resourcing development teams with top computing talent
- Global pool, expert insights & technical oversight
- Funding & collaborator sources
- End to end bespoke development
Sourcing the talent, developing the solutions
We recommend and deliver on the most appropriate pathways for the cliernt.
We can connect clients with a global pool of development talent collaborators and funding.
We can advise on and support in-house solutions, recommend hybrid technology cores or indeed deliver on custom end to end development.Â

Intelligent introductions
- Fast sourcing of critical AI talents from AI arctitects to deep learning engineers
- Flexible deployments
- Introduction to potential development collaborators to share costs
- Seed and established software funding introductions and preparations

Tap into our 20 years’ expertise and experience in bespoke development
Drawn from working with tech startups, scale-ups, forward-thinking SMEs, to blue-chip companies, governments, and NGOs.
Connecting / transforming
Culture
Transitioning to an agile future
- Empowerment
- Transparency
- Retraining
- Shared involvement & purpose
- Cross pollination of ideas & innovation
Connecting, training and engaging
Change is only effective when people ‘own’ it.Â
The team ethos is more important than it has ever been.
It powers an organisation’s agility and transparency and fosters innovation.
We will support the management to lead a change towards a culture cross-functional teams working with greater fluidity and unison.Â

Our leadership and training centre
Head Office
Willow Hill, Apperley, Gloucestershire, GL19 4DJ
+44 (0)1242 222848
For resource and development requirements, Ringleaders works with:

Transforming digital & software delivery.
Established in 2004.Â
5 critical differences
Trusted outcome mapping
Immersive discovery processes
Rigorous scoping & benchmarked blueprinting
Global talent resourcing
In house or managed talent recruitment & oversight. Vetted for ability, attitude & passion.
Assured delivery governance
Audited performance & achievement conditioned development control
Transparent relationships
Clarity of agreements, performance related milestones, IP and billing
Flexible services engagement
Client focused solutions, from a single instaff placement to end to end development.
Loyalty. Cultivating enduring relationships through unwavering commitment and mutual growth.
Trust. Growing strong, lasting bonds by consistently delivering on promises and upholding integrity.
Communication. Yielding collaborative success hby encouraging open, honest dialogues to foster understanding.
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