Strategic Advisory
Make the call before you commit the capital.
Strategy before execution
We help leadership teams decide where to invest, what to stop, and how to sequence growth, operating-model, transformation, and AI initiatives. The outcome is a clear recommendation, business case, or roadmap, whether or not software follows.
For consequential choices with pressure and incomplete evidence.
We clarify the problem, compare the paths forward, and leave leadership with a recommendation they can defend.
01
The organization has more growth initiatives than capital, capacity, or executive attention.
Which bets deserve funding, ownership, and permission to proceed.
02
Capital or operating attention is being spread across too many priorities.
Where to invest, what to pause, and what no longer earns its place.
03
Costs are rising, work is slowing down, or teams are compensating for broken workflows.
What is driving the gap, and which changes would actually matter.
04
AI ideas are accumulating, but leadership needs to know which ones are worth funding first.
Which opportunities have a real business case, and which can wait.
05
A transformation has direction, but the sequence, owners, and measures are still unclear.
What happens first, who owns it, and how progress will be judged.
06
Technology may be part of the answer, but the business choice has to come first.
Whether to build, buy, change the operating model, or wait.
The work turns uncertainty into an executable choice.
Diagnose the problem, size the opportunity, compare the options, and define what happens next.
01 / Direction
Growth & Capital Strategy
Choose where growth capital, executive attention, and operating capacity should go next.
02 / Performance
Operating Model & Performance
Find the operating constraints behind cost, speed, quality, or workflow problems.
03 / Transformation
Transformation & AI Strategy
Turn broad transformation or AI ambition into funded priorities, owners, measures, and sequence.
Senior strategy work, scoped to the question.
Engagements stay focused: resolve one high-stakes choice, diagnose a performance gap, or sequence a broader transformation.
01
Decision Sprint
Resolve a bounded, high-stakes question.
Frame the question, compare the options, size the tradeoffs, and recommend a path forward.
OutputA recommendation leadership can defend.
02
Operating Review
Find what is actually causing the performance gap.
Review cost, workflow, systems, ownership, and operating cadence to separate symptoms from causes.
OutputThe changes most likely to create measurable value.
03
Transformation Program
Turn direction into an executable sequence.
Sequence initiatives, define ownership, and identify the conditions required to execute.
OutputPriorities, owners, measures, and a practical roadmap.
Separate by design
Strategy is not a prelude to software. It is its own mandate.
An engagement may end with
- A recommendation
- An operating plan
- An investment decision
- A transformation roadmap
- A prioritized business case
When technology is the right next move, 0.5 Labs can build it. The recommendation does not depend on selling a build.
Selected advisory mandates
Concrete decisions, independent advice.
Each example links to the complete engagement record, including the problem, constraints, work, and outcome.
Insurance · Transformation & AI Strategy
Major UK Insurer
- Decision
- Which AI opportunities within motor insurance operations warranted further investment.
- Mandate
- Assess workflow value, technical feasibility, operating dependencies, and the conditions required for deployment.
- Output
- A structured view of the strongest opportunities and their implementation requirements.
- Outcome
- A practical foundation for targeted AI investment in motor insurance.
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BMO
Global asset management · Operating Model & Performance
Assess where infrastructure configuration and workload placement were creating avoidable cost, delay, and operating drag.
Identified a 22% efficiency opportunity across the reporting stack.
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Harvest ETFs
Asset management · Growth & Capital Strategy
Align the investor platform and internal reporting operation as products, audiences, and operating requirements evolved.
Investor experience and reporting aligned as one operating platform.
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Bring us the call leadership needs to make.
Growth, operating model, transformation, capital, or AI. We will help turn the question into a defensible recommendation.