AI, leadership, and the operating system between them. Sanara is the consulting practice of Huw Bevan, fractional COO, product director and founder coach for ventures scaling through high-stakes, regulated environments.
Distributed teams, distributed decisions, distributed authority, and a single coherent direction. The mark is the practice, watching itself.
Ventures I’ve built and worked alongside include Gateway 21, where an 80-prompt AI compliance engine reached 95%+ accuracy; and Koyo Healthtech, where I led the product, ops and investor work that raised £1.2m across two seed rounds. At Uber UKI I spent six years in GM positions, building multiple teams and scaling the business across the UK. At Tenderfly, the AI tender pipeline I built saves an estimator 50% per bid.
Embedded operating leadership for founder-led ventures finding their shape. Operating model, finance, people ops, product cadence, investor materials. Sit alongside the leadership team, not above it.
Stand up production AI as a discipline, not a feature. Prompt-chained workflows, evaluation harnesses, supervision rituals, the team rhythm that keeps it accurate when the founder isn’t watching.
For later-stage and PE-backed businesses preparing for a step-change, transition or exit. Organisation-wide change with the politics that come with it. AI woven into operating model, P&L and team capability. Not as a side-project.
The unstructured hour. A thinking partner for the things that don’t yet have a name. Confidential, group-analytic in posture, drawn from a coaching practice in training. Standalone or alongside any of the above.
The hardest problems in a scaling venture are rarely a missing plan. They are the operational silences: the meeting that doesn’t happen, the metric no one owns, the founder or leader who can’t say the quiet thing out loud. These accumulate into drag, then into rupture.
Sanara’s job is to find those silences early, build the operating rhythms that surface them, and stay close enough to the work that the team learns to do this for itself. Healing, in this sense, is operational hygiene practiced consistently.
45 minutes, free, no obligation. We talk about what’s actually weighing on you, and whether I’m the right person to help. If I’m not, I’ll point you somewhere better.