Rather Sharp is a data and technology consultancy. We help SMEs and larger organisations understand their customers, plan change so it actually lands, and use AI safely and sensibly.
Work is scoped in short, fixed pieces so you see the value before committing to more.
Understand who your customers are, what they buy and why they leave.
Plan and sequence change so it lands, and take manual work out of the back office.
Use tools like Claude and ChatGPT safely for analysis, reporting and day-to-day admin.
We start with the business, plan the work in the right order and coach your people, so the change lasts after the project ends.
What's the problem, and is data or AI really the answer?
One-to-one sessions with the people involved, and a look at the data you already hold.
Agreed outcomes, a sensible order of work and an honest view of the limits.
Built with your team, documented, and handed over with coaching.
A practical pair of hands to get reporting in order, tidy up processes and start using AI without the risk.
An experienced product owner, business analyst or delivery lead to join a data, AI or transformation programme, or to steady one that has drifted.
Start small and prove the value, or bring Rather Sharp into your team for longer.
A short, defined piece of work with a clear output, such as a process review, a data health check or a working dashboard. Typically one to four weeks.
An experienced product owner, business analyst or data lead embedded in your team, on site or hybrid, across London and the South.
A set number of days each month for reporting, tooling and advice, so small improvements keep happening.
Alongside consultancy, Rather Sharp builds focused tools that solve one problem well.
A what's-on guide for Andover, Winchester, Salisbury, Southampton, Basingstoke and around. Gigs, theatre, comedy, markets and days out gathered from dozens of local sources into one searchable board, filterable by town, type and week.
Open the app →Small, reliable tools that save time: reporting datasets, data quality checks, automated reports and simple internal apps, built around how your team already works.
Talk about your idea →One clear view of how the business is doing: track sales, orders, complaints and every interaction with your customers, pulled together from the systems you already use and updated automatically.
See what yours could look like →Designed and coded DJ software used by more than 7,000 people, shaped through alpha and beta testing and steady improvements to the user experience.
Ask about it →Helps musicians, students and teachers work out the notes and chords in a recording. Get in touch if you'd like to try an early version.
Join the early testers →Client names are kept confidential.
Designed the target operating model and high-level architecture for a central machine learning hub set up to grow from two production models to around one hundred, and advised on how comparable organisations run AI delivery.
Joined a smart meter adoption programme mid-delivery as product owner and business analyst. Re-baselined its objectives, agreed around twenty business rules with every group, designed the reporting layer behind the dashboards and ran user testing before release.
Built and ran the monthly dataset behind revenue reporting, combining several source systems with quality checks at every stage, and found the billing activity behind a variance so the right teams could fix it.
Product owner for the data science team for around three years: turned Finance and Broadband needs into a backlog, valued the AI portfolio to inform a build-or-buy decision, and coached two graduates and junior analysts.
Led systems implementation and integration for global clients, redesigning processes and deploying dashboards that improved customer experience and raised Net Promoter Scores.
Analysed rate cards and services across 30 law firms for a panel review that identified significant savings, and rolled out a new resourcing process to an 800-person legal function.
Tell us a little about your business and what you'd like to improve, and we'll get back to you to arrange a free 30-minute chat.
Email hello@rathersharp.co.uk