I make difficult technology work in the real world.
I join when AI ambition, data and operations stop lining up. I learn the work quickly, help leadership decide where AI and agentic systems will genuinely improve it, and stay close enough to delivery to make the result real.
- Learn the workPeople, process, data and the pressure behind the brief.
- Make the decisionEvidence, trade-offs and a route leadership can back.
- Deliver the changeA working result, governed properly and owned internally.
Bring me in when the work matters.
Howat is an independent practice led by Alex Wheatley. You work with the person you meet: no junior hand-off, no theatre, and no advice detached from delivery.
- Fractional
- Senior AI, technology or data leadership without a permanent executive hire. Clear priorities, steady delivery and an organisation that can own the result.
- Interim
- Accountable cover through a gap, recovery or transition. I take hold of the work, give it direction and leave a clean handover.
- Difficult projects
- Hands-on ownership of the awkward data, automation and AI work, including agentic systems, that crosses teams, suppliers and operational reality.
Close enough to understand. Senior enough to decide.
Good AI and technology work starts with how the business actually runs. I spend time with the people doing the work, fit the language and operating rhythm, and keep an independent point of view.
That means leaders get evidence they can use, teams get something practical, and suppliers get challenged on the details that matter.
Evidence, not theatre.
The thread through the work is simple: understand a complex operation, find where AI or technology can improve it, and build enough to prove it.
- Formula E
- AI and cloud discovery across deadline-critical global operations, shaping practical opportunities, requirements and working proofs.
- Jaguar Land Rover
- Enterprise data governance, a GCP data lake and decision tools serving more than 1,000 stakeholders.
- MotorIQ
- A vehicle-risk product taken from raw data and modelling through infrastructure, interface and live release.
- Operational businesses
- Dashboards, stock systems, process tools and commercial controls built around the people who use them.
Know the likely cost before the first call.
Build a transparent estimate around the commitment, onsite pattern and travel distance, shown automatically in your local currency.
Have a piece of work that needs an owner?
Start with the estimate. If the fit is right, we will turn it into a short, specific statement of work.
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