Case Studies - 1/14
Abu Dhabi Digital Authority
Technologies are advancing at a rapid pace and forward-thinking governments globally are struggling to evaluate which of them warrant further investigation, intervention and investment.
We worked closely with senior ADDA stakeholders to understand and define their strategic priorities and create a robust evaluation framework for new technologies and a sophisticated stage-gate model to inform the government’s resourcing decisions. [...]
Case Studies - 2/14
An FCA authorised FinTech
Our client, a forward-thinking FinTech headquartered in London with key Chinese stakeholders, seeks to disrupt the lending market by offering low-cost borrowing with fast drawdown times and good user experience.
We worked closely with their C-Suite to understand their strategic objectives and devise a business strategy that employed blockchain technology, navigating a complex and rapidly changing regulatory landscape in the UK and other jurisdictions globally. [...]
Case Studies - 3/14
Berkeley Research Group
BRG is a global consulting firm, that is often required to advise large public sector clients globally on their advanced technology initiatives and activities.
We work closely with BRG to support their technology-related mandates. We have particular expertise in technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and blockchain, as well as deploying such technologies in legally and regulatorily complex areas. [...]
Case Studies - 4/14
An innovative TV and Film business
Our client is a technology business seeking to disrupt the television and film industry by making money-flows more transparent, auditable and timely.
We worked closely with our client's Founder and CEO to define the market opportunity, identify their strategic objectives, and devise a business strategy that employed blockchain technology, while navigating a complex and rapidly changing regulatory landscape in the UK. [...]
Case Studies - 5/14
A new, green, engaging approach to cryptocurrencies
Our client is a well-known and respected businessperson, looking to deploy their significant commercial expertise to redefine the crypto industry.
We hosted an intense series of workshops across several weeks with the client, to define their business model, identify the market opportunity and user personas, devise a product concept that met its' prospective users' requirements, and design the user journey through the MVP. [...]
Case Studies - 6/14
Fixing the music royalty problem
Our client is a forward-thinking incumbent in the music industry, seeking to improve the way in which artists and neighbouring rights holders are rewarded and receive their royalty payments, by analysing and improving the disparate and often mixed-quality datasets provided by collection societies.
We worked with our client to define the product concept and identify the most valuable components that we should design and develop first. [...]
Case Studies - 7/14
United Arab Emirates Government
The main barrier to the proliferation of AI and ML systems is the availability of sufficiently large, high-quality datasets upon which to train them. Datasets currently often reside in siloes and vary in quality.
We worked closely alongside senior government stakeholders to understand their strategic priorities and market opportunity, define user personas and devise a product concept that met its' prospective users' requirements. [...]
Case Studies - 8/14
A data-driven approach to carbon capture measurement
Our client is a leading environmental activist in the UK and is reinventing the way in which carbon capture is measured, calculated and transacted. The current system is woefully innaccurate and based on outdated models that expose buyers and sellers to accusations of "greenwashing" and, critically, fails to adequately serve the world's response to the climate crisis. [...]
Case Studies - 9/14
HM Land Registry
The conveyance process in the UK is slow, expensive and stressful. It often involves a series of linked transactions in a chain, and can be opaque to all parties involved. HM Land Registry embarked on an innovation project to explore how these issues might be addressed as part of its' ambition to “become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data.” [...]
Case Studies - 10/14
A new, green, engaging approach to cryptocurrencies
Our client is a well-known and respected businessperson, looking to deploy their significant commercial expertise to redefine the crypto industry.
Having conceived and refined the proposition with our Product team, we led the development of the new cryptoasset and an associated dApp on Algorand. We stood up related infrastructure and environments and managed the development to keep to time and budget. We ran the project using Agile and Scrum methodologies and delivered value early for our client. [...]
Case Studies - 11/14
Amplifi
Every day, millions around the world interact with dense legal material in the form of T&Cs, regulatory notifications and traditional legal contracts. These materials are often so complex that their users cannot reasonably be expected to comprehend them. This creates legal risk for their providers, who may struggle to rely on them. Amplifi are addressing this risk, by using machine learning to assess the intelligibility of legal material and providing alternatives to simplify them. [...]
Case Studies - 12/14
A data-driven approach to carbon capture measurement
Our clients are a leading environmental activist in the UK and is reinventing the way in which carbon capture is measured, calculated and transacted. The current system is woefully innaccurate and based on outdated models that expose buyers and sellers to accusations of "greenwashing" and, critically, fails to adequately serve the world's response to the climate crisis. [...]
Case Studies - 13/14
Independent Review of Administrative Law panel on Judicial Review
The IRAL called for evidence with regards to alleged growing influence of judicial review in the English legal system, following recent high-profile and successful judicial reviews such as Miller 1 and Miller 2 in respect of Brexit.
In partnership with vLex Justis4, through access to published judgments from the Queen’s Bench Division, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court over the past ten years, we analysed the data for trends in judicial review. [...]
Case Studies - 14/14
Physics of Law
There has been growing discussion among legal scholars over the past two decades of an emerging “global community of courts” composed of a network of judicial dialogue across national borders.
Our Data Scientists investigated the cross-border flow of judicial thinking by analysing over 1.5 million judgments from twenty-six common law countries. They modelled the use of persuasive authority as a complex network. [...]
