We help founders build the operating machinery of their companies.

Product, systems and AI, from operators who’ve scaled Uber cities, run P&Ls and shipped production systems.

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When growth outpaces how the business runs.

Most businesses that need to change how they run already know it. Growth has outpaced the operating model, decisions bottleneck at the top, everyone is working ‘in the business’ with no space to work ‘on the business’. The usual answer is to bring in consultants who’ve read about operating at scale but never done it, or to buy technology and hope it changes behaviour. Neither touches the real problem: how the business actually works day to day, and who’s accountable for changing it.

AI has accelerated the pressure and the rate of change. You know it belongs in the business. Your investors are asking, competitors are claiming things, and standing still feels like falling behind. What you don’t have is a clear first move: where AI would actually pay off, whether your people can build and run it, and how to get the company to use it once it exists.

We assess how the business runs, then help you improve it.

Working through the people, the teams, and where it helps, AI.

I

People & teams

We work at the level most consultants miss: how teams actually function. The operating rhythm, the retros, who owns which decision, and whether your teams have the foundations of high performance in place.

II

The operating model

We help you think through how the company runs: decisions, accountability, cadences, blockers. Ideally, you design the system to run efficiently rather than being the bottleneck inside it.

III

AI & Automation

Where it helps, we build production AI to automate tasks or increase the efficiency of your teams. Sometimes the right answer is simpler than AI. When it is, we’ll tell you.

Delivering change in startups, scaleups and larger organisations.

Sanara is led by Huw Bevan. He spent fifteen years operating inside a broad variety of ventures and industries, including 6 years scaling Uber in the UK, through GM roles and the UK leadership team.

When TfL refused to renew Uber’s licence in 2017, he built the safety function from scratch and rebuilt relationships with the regulator and the Metropolitan Police. He’s delivered advanced accurate AI systems in regulated industries, healthtech and industrial companies.

Example Work

Client work, and the products we’ve built ourselves.
Client Work
01
Gateway 21
FCA-authorised AI RegTech

We built the product, technology and operations from zero for a bootstrapped AI RegTech firm, supporting revenue growth from £0.1m to £3m+ at 50%+ margin in two years. At the core is a compliance engine running an 80-plus step prompt-chained workflow at 95% accuracy, automating regulatory analysis that previously needed scarce junior analysts. We hired and led the engineering team, and stood up the operating model around it: finance, people ops and supplier management.

£0.1m → £3m+ revenue · 95% accuracy · 80+ step workflow
02
Family-office recruitment platform
AI recruitment · advisory

An AI-driven recruitment platform for family offices. We provided product support to help manage the offshore engineering team and train a junior team member up into a working product manager.

Product advisory · offshore delivery · capability built in-house
Our Own Builds
03
Tenderfly
AI tender analysis · construction

We built an AI tool that compresses several days of construction tender analysis into a structured pipeline, replacing a manual process estimators repeat on every bid. A full-stack build with a five-stage extraction pipeline across schedules, specifications and drawings. We took accuracy from roughly 39% to 98% through systematic prompt engineering and a correction system that lets the pipeline learn from each completed project.

39% → 98% accuracy · five-stage pipeline · full-stack
04
S+C.ai
AI strength & conditioning · own venture

An AI training coach that designs and adapts periodised programmes for serious athletes across 19 specialist disciplines, from powerlifting to ultra-running. The engine now powers ZAAG Intelligence, a nervous-system training and recovery system.

19 disciplines · adaptive periodisation · powers ZAAG Intelligence

Start with a conversation.

If you know the business needs to change how it runs but not the first move, then we’d love to speak to you and understand whether we’re the right people to help. If we’re not, we’ll point you somewhere better.