Go from messy, underused data, to multi-million pound commercial outcomes.
Leftshifted is a London-based data and AI consultancy. It takes firms from messy, underused data to multi-million pound commercial outcomes, covering Strategy, Data, AI and Cloud end to end. Engagements are fixed-fee, scoped upfront, and built to hand over to your own team.
We help London-based firms turn their biggest commercial problems into measurable business outcomes. We do this with tech (data and AI).
How? We hear you ask. By combining expertise across the entire end-to-end (Strategy, Data, AI and Cloud) to bridge value from source to outcome.
Why is hiring for data and AI so hard to get right?
There's a gap between where you are and where you need to be. Contractors, big firms, and a first hire all try to fill it - none of them quite meet your needs.
Contractors
Good ones aren't available at short notice, and you still have to manage the team yourself. Run this route and you can easily spend £250k with no guaranteed ROI.
Big firms
Need weeks just to resource a team, send juniors who learn on your time, and cost even more than the contractor route.
A first hire
A gamble before you know exactly what capability you need. A bad senior hire can cost £150-300k before you've realised it isn't working.
Meanwhile: six months into a platform build, the business still can't answer basic questions. The commercial value sitting in your data compounds every month you leave it untapped. Your competitors are already leveraging AI while you debate architecture.
Why Leftshifted?
Leftshifted delivers outcomes-based data and AI projects, designed to realise ROI and offboard to your team. Because the typical engagement takes too long, costs too much, and delivers nothing but dependency.
ROI focus
We hold relentless focus on your ROI. £231M+ in commercial results. We aim at 10x+ ROI (we've delivered 50x+ before). And because we don't take on anything if we can't see how to get you ROI, every engagement delivers.
Battle-tested: experts in data and AI
Direct access to senior data and AI experts with track records delivering massive commercial impact. You will never get someone learning on your time.
End-to-end
No gap between strategy and delivery, because there isn't one. We handle the entire journey from steerco to IT signoffs, getting sense out of 3rd party engineers to lines of code, so you never have to bridge a gap yourself.
On-demand: no contract lock-in
Good contractors aren't available at short notice. Big firms need weeks just to resource a team and need a large contract to justify the effort. Leftshifted starts when you need us, works to a fixed fee, and stays only as long as the problem requires.
Built for speed
We're remote-first for rapid onboarding, with on-site presence for the moments that matter. No notice periods, no handoffs to a delivery team, no agencies sat in the middle.
Built to leave, asked to return
We design every engagement to end from day one. Every engagement ends with a handover and a client who is less dependent on us than when we started. And because of that, we keep getting asked to come back. Most for 3-5 projects.
What commercial outcomes can I achieve with data and AI?
Leftshifted aligns to measurable business outcomes in every delivery. We typically help our clients achieve new and additional revenues, cost reductions across CAC and tooling, secure further funding and investments and in-housing capabilities for efficiencies and reducing 3rd party dependencies.
New and incremental revenues
Additional revenues by adding features to your existing products and cLTV campaigns. New data products and intelligence your clients pay for. Top-10 Global PR agency made £10M+ ARR from £2M investment.
Cost reductions
Spend less to achieve the same, across customer growth, tech stack (data, AI, cloud).
Funding and investment
Proofs of value (POV) and minimum-viable products (MVP) to secure further investment, sponsorship and funding / budget.
Capability in-house
We always embed capabilities in-house, so you're less dependent on 3rd parties by the end of each project. We plan offboarding from the start, so that we're the firm you want to get back in, not because you have to.
How does Leftshifted get measurable outcomes from data and AI?
Leftshifted understands that getting measurable outcomes from data and AI is all about the end-to-end value chain.
A single break in that chain, and none of the value is realised. Not a single drop. So wherever you are on your data and AI journey, we wrap around you and fill all of the gaps to realise that value.
Expert commercial to technical translation - the clarity, the priorities, and how to move forward.
Do you specialise in any particular sector?
Yes - PR & comms. It's where Leftshifted has gone deepest: an AMEC award-winning media intelligence engine, built for a top-10 global PR agency in 3 months, now generating multi-million ARR at 5x ROI. See the PR & Comms practice.
Leftshifted knows exactly what it takes to turn scattered monitoring data into commercial assets your clients will pay for.
- PR firms are sitting on more data than they know what to do with.
- Analyst work doesn't scale. Clients ask for more insight, faster, with more granularity than manual work allows.
- The firms that adapt to their clients' needs at pace will lead the market.
- Leftshifted understands the commercial model, knows the workflow, and has delivered AMEC award-winning work.
Read the PR media intelligence case study
Who's behind Leftshifted?
Leftshifted was founded by Jack, a data and AI expert and specialist at realising enterprise ROI from data and AI.
Jack founded Leftshifted because he saw too many senior leaders getting stuck navigating the complexity of data and AI projects that never delivered real value. He has personally helped firms turn £25M in investments into £231M+ in commercial results, by doing things differently.
Leftshifted's proprietary approach is tailored to each client, and built for their long-term success (with or without Leftshifted). Every engagement starts with the client's commercial goals and a clear, honest assessment of their current data and AI capabilities.
