Who we are
Scail is a new breed of consultancy built for the AI era.
We exist to help businesses build AI capability with clarity, control, and commercial impact.
We work with regulated SaaS businesses to build AI capability with greater clarity, sharper governance, and stronger commercial purpose.
For us, transformation is never simply a question of technology. It is a question of leadership, judgement, and the ability to translate complexity into confident action.
Our team is shaped by expertise across AI, software engineering, governance, culture, brand, and creative That breadth allows us to combine rigour with fresh thinking, and strategic depth with practical delivery.
The outcome is not just momentum, but meaningful progress that can be trusted, measured, and sustained.
Alastair Cole
Value Partner - Governance
Repeat founder, AI innovator and award-winning technology visionary that delivered organisational transformation and industry firsts working alongside C-Suite and senior leaders from Clifford Chance, E.ON, Barclays, Santander, and Tesco Mobile. Now focused on building full-service AI capability for our clients.
Douglas Cole
Value Partner - Engineering
Product-focused engineering leader with two decades of experience, trusted by major organisations like the BBC and Bank of Ireland, to deliver complex, highly-available systems. Blending deep technical expertise with a pragmatic mindset, excelling at defining best practices, mentoring developers, and rapidly elevating engineering quality at scale.
Alastair Mackie
Value Partner - Risk
Repeat founder, former 11-year Lloyds Director, and MBA builder with deep finance and SME experience. Bridges corporate discipline with modern tech, turning powerful agentic AI pilots into scalable enterprise solutions with practical governance.
Tom Kegode
Value Partner - Culture
15+ years driving people, culture, learning, and adoption at scale. Grounded in the human side to tech adoption. From retail transformation to fintech innovation to partnering with the Chief People & Places Officer across a 65,000+ workforce. Recent delivery across civil service, education, charity, and media, building AI mindset and turning tools into embedded habits for our clients.
Elle Connolly
Value Partner - Brand
AI content and brand voice expert who helps brands use AI generated content and AI search to increase visibility, traffic, and growth. Drawing on more than a decade of conversion copywriting for startups, scaleups, and global brands, she blends sales psychology, customer insight, and neuroscience to create content that performs.
Jackie Fecitt
Value Partner - Creative
30 years of brand design experience across major FMCG and global B2B, and actively integrating AI into her design and workflows. She knows where AI genuinely changes what's possible, and where human judgement is irreplaceable. Leads visual identity with both in mind.
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The urgent challenges facing regulated SaaS as AI scrutiny grows
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