Built to run.
Not just to grow.
ALLANEX helps organisations perform better through strategy, operations and technology. We work with technology businesses to build stronger, more valuable companies, and with organisations that need experienced leadership to design, optimise and lead critical technology functions.
Built Basis Networks from zero to exit, then scaled CyberCX through a major period of acquisition, integration and national growth.
Strategy and architecture engagements bring in one or two specialist experts, matched to the problem.
Every engagement is led and delivered by people who have carried the outcome before.
Growth exposes weaknesses.
Experience helps fix them.
Whether the problem sits inside a technology business or an internal technology function, the same patterns appear repeatedly. Growth outpaces operations, systems evolve without a plan, vendors begin shaping the strategy, and important functions operate without clear ownership.
Growth outpaced the business
Revenue grew, but the operating model did not. Founders remain involved in every decision, sales runs ahead of delivery, reporting is inconsistent and margins begin to fall despite a larger business.
Technology evolved by accident
Each platform solved a problem at the time, but the overall environment was never deliberately designed. Systems overlap, costs increase, ownership becomes unclear and nobody can explain how the full technology estate should work together.
Vendors became the strategy
Technology decisions are made one renewal, proposal and sales presentation at a time. Individual purchases may make sense, but without independent oversight they rarely add up to a coherent technology strategy.
Nobody owns the outcome
Technology, cybersecurity or business operations may be managed day to day, but nobody has clear accountability for improving the whole function. Problems accumulate until growth stalls, costs rise or an incident forces action.
Practical advisory. Executive leadership.
Better technology.
Whether you're scaling a technology business or leading technology inside one, we bring practical experience gained from building, running and transforming organisations, not generic frameworks or a vendor's agenda.
Technology Strategy & Architecture
Independent advice for organisations making important technology decisions. From strategy and roadmaps to architecture and cybersecurity, we help build technology environments that are aligned to the business rather than a vendor's product set.
- Technology strategy, roadmaps and transformation planning.
- Enterprise, infrastructure and cybersecurity architecture.
- Independent vendor selection and technical due diligence.
Operational Improvement
Growth often exposes weaknesses in delivery, systems and commercial performance. We identify the operational constraints holding a business back and work alongside the team to improve efficiency, profitability and customer outcomes.
- Service delivery and operating model reviews.
- Commercial performance and margin improvement.
- Process optimisation, systems improvement and automation.
Technology Leadership
Executive technology leadership without the commitment of a permanent appointment. We help leadership teams make better decisions and provide clear ownership across technology strategy, cybersecurity, infrastructure, vendors and major initiatives.
- CIO and technology leadership.
- Vendor and partner management.
- Executive governance and technology planning.
Interim Executive Leadership
Experienced leadership during periods of growth, transformation, acquisition or change. We step into executive roles with clear objectives, measurable outcomes and a defined transition plan.
- Business transformation and organisational change.
- Mergers, acquisitions and integration.
- Executive mentoring and leadership transition.
Two types of client.
One focus: better performance.
Founders & CEOs
You built the company. Now growth has outrun the plan you're running it on, and every week is triage. We take the operational and technical weight so you can get back to leading.
01Executive teams & boards
Your leaders are capable and buried. We bring outside pattern recognition, senior technical expertise and extra hands to shift the things the day job never leaves room for.
02Investors & acquirers
You need the technical truth of a tech business before you sign, not after. We run the due diligence that tells you what the data room doesn't show.
03Technology-dependent organisations
You're not a technology company, but you stop when the technology does. We put executive ownership, strategy and architecture over your network, cyber and infrastructure without the full-time headcount.
04Diagnose. Design.
Deliver.
Diagnose
Two to three weeks in your systems, your architecture and your meetings. We come out with numbers, not impressions: what's at risk, what's leaking, what it's worth to fix.
Design
A sequenced plan your team can actually run. Every fix or initiative ranked by value and effort, with an owner and a date. No initiative theatre.
Deliver
We stay to implement, or hand over a plan built to be run without us. Either way, we leave when it works, and not before.
Built by an operator.
ALLANEX was founded by Tom Allan, who has spent twenty years on the operating side of technology businesses: founding them, scaling them, integrating them and selling them. Advice here comes from someone who has personally carried the P&L, and the architecture, it affects.
- FoundedBasis Networks, built from the ground up and sold
- ScaledChief Operating Officer at CyberCX during a period of major acquisition, integration and national growth
- OperatingStrategy, architecture and interim executive roles inside client businesses today
From the field.
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One conversation, not a discovery workshop or a round of proposal theatre. Describe the problem and we'll tell you honestly whether we can fix it and what that takes.
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