Specialisms

Consultancy & Discovery

Cranmore is providing consultancy services at the heart of UK government, while our Discovery services have produced award-winning outcomes. 

Cranmore has been working with the public sector and regulated industries since 2008.

We have amassed an abundance of knowledge and experience, and today are helping shape the future of modern services.

Find out more about our other services. 

What we deliver

AI Governance and Assurance

Cranmore delivers comprehensive AI governance and responsible AI consultancy services, helping organisations establish frameworks, policies, and practices ethical, transparent, and accountable AI deployments.

Expert Discovery Services

Our proven Discovery methodology focuses on delivering tangible outputs, creating a pathway to success for your project. Our expert teams focus on collaboration and producing a clear statement of requirements for your project's success.

Cloud Landing Zone Design

Our system architects offer comprehensive Landing Zone advice services, helping you achieve foundational cloud environments on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) that maximise the technology and integrate seamlessly with your organisation's strategic goals.

Cloud Architecture Strategy

We provide architectural direction, strategic planning, and architectural governance for public sector digital transformation. We define target architectures, establish architectural principles, and creating robust architectural roadmaps.

Proof of Concept services

Our ASSURED Agile methodology combines structured Discovery with hands-on PoC activity, enabling informed decision-making based on validated technical feasibility and clear understanding of potential business value

Our services

Strategic Consultancy

Expert advisory for complex system design, architecture, and transformation roadmaps. Our consultants offer vast experience and expertise in system architecture, compliance, and modernisation programmes, helping you make the right decisions, make significant cost savings, and achieve exceptional outcomes.


Discovery

Cranmore provide a collaborative, structured Discovery process that defines your project with precision. Offering proven success, we work alongside your stakeholders to clarify objectives, identify risks, scope the MVP, and deliver the artifacts needed to proceed with confidence.

Shaping the future of critical systems

Your most pressing problems require deep domain expertise and strategic thinking, not just technical delivery. Our consultancy service provides access to specialists who understand complex regulated environments.

 

System architecture and design

We evaluate your current infrastructure, identify constraints, and design architectures that balance capability with compliance. Together we can help you find long term, future-proofed solutions for security, interoperability, scalability, and maintainability.


Transformation roadmaps

Moving from legacy systems to modern platforms requires sequencing, dependency management, and careful change control. We map the route, identify milestones, and help you prioritise investments.


Strategic advisory for health systems

Healthcare technology operates within unique constraints: clinical safety, data governance, integration with NHS infrastructure, and service continuity during transformation. Our health consultancy reflects this reality.

our Discover and Consultancy successes

Below are just some examples of our consultancy support and Discovery services. 

DHCNI

Digital identity

MyCare Portal

Cranmore is providing strategic consultancy and implementation services for the MyCare patient portal, helping users access their medical records.

Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority

Discovery services

Discovery services

Cranmore provided RQIA with a complete System Replacement Discovery process, helping them understand their current data flows and providing document processing solution pathways.

Department for Infrastructure

Discovery services

Application modernisation

Cranmore's Discovery for DFI provided strategic planning for new Microsoft Cloud capabilities, including Power Platform and Azure.

LEADING CONSULTANCY PROFESSIONALS

Solutions Director, Enda Reynolds, is one of the UK’s leading experts in delivering critical software transformation for the health sector. He has worked with health organisations across the UK and Ireland for over 20 years.

Enda’s was a leading consultant in development of the NHS Covid solutions and today continues to shape the implementation of critical health technologies, such as MyCare.

He is currently involved in the AI Steering Group at the Northern Ireland Assembly and is a leading figure in AI strategies and implementations.

Discovery: Our proven methodology

Collaborative throughout

Cranmore’s Discovery sessions involve your product owners, subject matter experts, technical team, and key stakeholders working collaboratively with our experts to find your solution.


Concrete deliverables

The process produces tangible outputs, designed to help you take your project forward with confidence. 


Experts in the room

Your Discovery is conducted by a team experienced in both project delivery and the Discovery process, ensuring you maximise each session and solve the problems you have set out to resolve.


Award-winning outcomes

Our Discovery methodology has led to multi-award-winning implementations across public sector organisations. Projects that began with our Discovery process have gone on to earn national recognition for their impact and delivery excellence.

Working with Cranmore

The Discovery Process

Engage Cranmore

Contact us to arrange a discussion on whether a Discovery is right for you and what you need to achieve. 

Pre Discovery briefing

We provide a complete briefing for you and your team. Who needs to attend, how long it will last, times, dates, and agenda. We'll introduce you to the systems we use to record information and provide a complete timetable. 

Phased engagements

Your team and stakeholders will be led through a structured, collaborative process, conducted over a number of distinct phases. These will include researching your working process, exploring options, constraints, and dependencies, before realising comprehensive recommendations.   

Move to procurement

Move confidently to procurement with a validated understanding of your requirements, a deep knowledge of the market, and a complete picture of the modern technological landscape, one that's hyper-relevant to your sector and its precise needs. 

Discovery Report

Your comprehensive and detailed Discovery Report is presented. You can use this to design your procurement, support your business case, and achieve buy-in for your desired project knowing your solution has been validated by experts and is supported by engaged stakeholders. 

Why Cranmore for Consultancy & Discovery

Proven methodology

Our Discovery process has delivered award-winning outcomes across public sector organisations. It works because it’s collaborative, structured, and delivers concrete artifacts.


Deep domain expertise

Working with Cranmore brings two decades of health sector experience. When you need strategic guidance for critical systems, you’re working with one of the UK’s leading experts.


Full-cycle capability

We don’t just advise or Discover, we deliver. Our consultancy and discovery services are backed by architecture, development, UX, project management, and testing expertise. Recommendations are grounded in delivery reality.

Start the conversation

If you’re facing a complex transformation, unclear requirements, or need expert guidance to shape your digital roadmap, we can help. We guarantee it.