We combine audit heritage, pragmatism, and data & AI leadership to deliver assurance that stands up to regulators, resonates with the CXO, enables innovation and sustained growth.
Pendle’s Promise
A data and AI firm that stops short of being ‘just another consultancy’.
Born from leading British Retailers (M&S, Halfords), Global Consumer Packaged Goods (Milson Coors), large multinational firms and Boutique Data Consultancies – our team brings a genuinely rare diversity in perspective and skill that leads to better outcomes for our clients.
Pendle is one of the first UK-based Data & AI Consulting firms which is majority founded and owned by women. We value all shapes, sizes, cultures and creeds. We are committed to continuing to proactively maintain and grow the diversity of thought and perspective we can bring to our clients.
Our promise:
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We will avoid unnecessary jargon, acronyms and tropes at all costs
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We will give you honest answers with your best interests at heart
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We don’t ‘land and expand’. We will be the first to tell you “you don’t need us anymore” – (we like to leave on a high).
What Pendle Offers
Transformation: We deliver outcomes. From unlocking £40M profit for a major FTSE our work makes boards braver and delivers returns.
Assurance: Our team isn’t learning audit on your time; we wrote the playbook. From Big Four experience to non-executive leadership, we’ve been where your board sits—and know what real accountability requires.
Boardroom Relevance: Unlike technical boutiques, Pendle speaks the language of the board – shaping data & AI thinking at the top table. Our frameworks are made for board packs, investor decks, and regulatory scrutiny.
Thought Leadership: Not just guests on the data and AI bandwagon—we have a seat at the table of the policy debate. Pendle drives practical standards with UKAI, academic forums and leading technologists.
How We Work With You
- To learn: Empowering your board and leadership teams with the confidence to lead in the age of AI.
- To plan and design: Crafting commercially-astute strategies and practical governance models.
- To enable and build: Guiding the construction and optimisation of Data & AI systems.
- To assure and trust: Providing independent AI assurance that satisfies regulators and builds unbreakable trust.
Meet Our Strategic Advisors
Our strategic advisory board acts as an external brain trust to ensure Pendle is delivering on its founding premise to drive impact with data and AI in an ethical and responsible way. The boards’ broad industry and functional experience at executive level in commercial and non-profit organisations guides our strategy and proposition to maximise outcomes for our clients.
Our Specialist Associate Partners
Pendle is proud to have a network of highly experienced specialists and industry experts to ensure there is always a deep contextual understanding to enable the best possible outcomes.
What you actually want to know
Let’s get down to the “nitty gritty“, we answer the tough questions (so you don’t need to ask… or trawl our website looking for answers).
Who are we?
We’re one of the first primarily woman-led firms in Europe. Our talent is right here in the UK (although we hail from all over), we are made up of trained Chemical Engineers, Finance Directors, Commercial Leaders and Data Management Directors
What makes us different?
We like to think of ourselves as the good guys. We are honest, ethical and bloody good at what we do.
Ultimately, you give us your organisation’s target state and we will clear the path for you to get there with improved data and AI capabilities.
More than a team of offshore engineers and analysts, typically 25% less than traditional consultancies.
Learn
- AI for Business Leaders Masterclass
- Board AI Oversight Training
- Regulatory and Compliance Updates
Plan
- Data & AI Maturity Assessment
- Strategic Business Case Development
- AI Compliance & Risk Assessment
- AI Pilot Rescue & Value Optimisation
Guide
- AI Art of the Possible Feasibility
- Data & AI Strategy Design
- Governance Framework Creation
- Strategic Roadmapping
- Policy & Procedure Development
Enable
- Technology Assessment
- Procurement & Selection Management
- Contract Negotiation & Supplier Risk Oversight
- Responsible AI Proof-of-Concepts
- Full Solution Development
- AI System Enhancement
- Operating Model Design
Assure
- AI Risk Identification & Mitigation
- AI Assurance & Auditing
- EU AI Act Conformity Assessment
We have all bases covered. We’re a diverse team who have been on the other side (i.e. the client of data consultants), we’ve managed large scale transformation projects, led organisational change and data literacy programmes, scaled data management capabilities and rolled them out internationally, and built internal finance and commercial functions from the ground up. Sometimes, we won’t be the best placed to help you with your challenge, if that’s ever the case, we will make recommendations for the best teams to support your goals.
Pendle’s Perspective
