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Why AltCo

Consulting built
for the AI era.

We operate a fundamentally different model. Lean, efficient and entirely client focussed, with deep expertise in delivering value from artificial intelligence.

Just the work that matters

We have no patience for the performative. Our people have the depth of experience to know work that serves a valuable outcome vs work in service of a deck that no-one will read. We focus only on what matters, meaning our clients pay for outcomes, not performance, and not the machinery of our business.

  1. Built for the AI era

  2. Proven on our business before it reaches yours.

  3. We know what stalls before you spend.

  4. We build your capability, not your dependence.

Consulting sells senior judgement and delivers junior execution. The pyramid exists to fund the firm, not serve the client. We don't carry it: a small senior team, working with agents, does the work directly — at lower cost, without the dilution.

Benefits
  • Senior depth without the big-team bill
  • Efficient and lean, no legacy model to carry
  • Shorter time to value, focus on efficiency of outcome

We have tried and tested every tool and platform we recommend. Our business is agentic in nature — AI runs our research, synthesis and production, and keeps us current as the tools and platforms change. That gives us a uniquely clear insight into what works and what doesn't, learned from being practitioners, not from theory.

Benefits
  • Insights from practitioners, not theorists
  • Up to the minute technical knowledge, first hand
  • Bias to action, working prototypes over documentation

We've led through platform shifts before, and encoded that experience into how the studio delivers. It's what lets us separate signal from noise, and know what lands in a real organisation from what stalls.

Benefits
  • Fewer expensive dead-ends
  • Signal separated from hype, so you back the right bets
  • No one learning on your budget

Traditional consultancy looks for long term engagements. We look for opportunities to rapidly add value. We built capability in your teams, the systems, the patterns, the judgement to run them.

Benefits
  • Gains that hold after we've gone, not fading once the pilot ends
  • Your team runs it — and can build the next one
  • One coherent plan across the business, not scattered pilots

The people

Jason Hooper

Jason
Hooper

Over a decade scaling digital businesses. As SVP EMEA at CI&T (NYSE: CINT) and Chief Client Officer at Somo before its acquisition, he ran transformation programmes for Audi, HSBC and E.ON, and helped launch cinch — now a UK unicorn. His read is commercial: where value sits, and what it takes to deliver it when the work is built AI-native, not bolted on.

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Graham Powell-Wood

Graham
Powell-Wood

A design leader and founding member of Deloitte Digital, then Creative Director at Somo and across EMEA at CI&T — growing the design team from five to thirty and leading work for clients and partners including Audi, Lloyds, Vodafone and Apple. His ability to translate design intent into problems solved through technology has positioned him to help clients master the value potential of AI.

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Carl Uminski

Carl
Uminski

A founder and operator who has run businesses, not advised them. He co-founded and led Somo to its acquisition by CI&T, was one of its seven global partners, and built cinch into a UK unicorn — with earlier leadership at Yahoo! and exits including SwiftKey to Microsoft. Work for Goldman Sachs, Vanguard, Audi and Coca-Cola behind him, he brings the view from the seat that owns the P&L.

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Interested in joining us?

We're early. Partner and practitioner conversations matter at this stage. If you're a commercial or delivery partner whose work might overlap with ours, or an AI practitioner who wants to build at the frontier rather than commentate on it — say hello on LinkedIn, or get in touch at hello@altco.io.

Foundations

Everything is built on a core set of founding principles.

OneBusiness value comes from systems.

Fragmented context gives fragmented output. Tools working alone make tasks faster; parts working as one system move the business.

TwoRebuild, don't just augment.

A copilot makes the current way faster — often the right first step. The structural value comes from redesigning the work itself. We start where risk is low but value is high.

ThreeKnowledge decays.

It depletes the moment the world moves — so ours is continually renewed.

FourJudgement and accountability stay human.

Agents do the work; a named person owns the calls — and defends them.

FiveNone of it lands without people.

Capability lives in the people who run the work — or it doesn't live at all.

SixShow, don't claim.

Prototypes over promises, evidence over opinion — open by default.

Build the value.

Our approach, enabled by our technology platform — this enables us to navigate your organisation and its context, then create and embed the systems that deliver value.

Build the understanding.

How we build the foundational understanding in your people — the capability and judgement that sustain the value after we've gone.

Let's talk.

Bring the problem. We'll tell you straight whether we can help, how, and how fast.

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