Selected Past Work.

A featured case study from a four year operational transformation at executive level, alongside example automation and integration builds. Each engagement scoped to solve a specific operational problem with a measurable commercial outcome.

Featured Case Study

Operational Transformation at Scale

A four year operational transformation of a 34 person services group operating across South Africa, Kenya, Botswana, Angola, the UK, and Portugal. Led by Jeremy Thorburn as Group Chief Operating Officer. The methodology applied across diagnosis, automation, restructuring, and change management is the same framework now offered to LatenZ clients.

+70% Revenue growth across the four year programme.
−44% Headcount reduction through efficiency, not capability loss.
0.8% Out-of-SLA failure rate on flagship sub-project, from a perceived 8-12%.
10 hrs Daily manual labour eliminated on the same sub-project.

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A concise written summary of the engagement, the methodology applied, and the measurable outcomes. Free to read. The full case study is available under NDA for qualified enquiries.

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Example Automations

Selected automation and integration builds.

Two examples of LatenZ-delivered automation and integration work. Each was scoped to solve a specific operational problem with a measurable commercial outcome.

Sales Intelligence

LeadScout

A multi tenant intelligence layer that turns real time news and professional data into prioritised, contextual sales briefings. Built to remove manual research time in outbound sales by automating lead enrichment, scoring, and approach generation.

How It Works

Ingestion and Enrichment

LeadScout pulls the lead's profile using incoming data: industry, company size, and professional history.

Real Time Reconnaissance

Scans for current triggers: company news, funding rounds, hiring patterns, and location specific shifts.

AI Synthesis

Cross references findings against your specific value proposition to generate a relevant, personalised approach.

Briefing Delivery

Output: an A, B, or C graded lead delivered with enriched context to your CRM or messaging platform.

Stack: GPT-4o-mini | Make.com | Various Intelligence APIs
Live Intelligence Output: Grade A Lead Received
Why Now:

"Lead is expanding operations and the current manual recording of their shipping updates is their primary operations bottleneck."

The Hook:

"Jeremy, your expansion operations are being hit by a 48 hour delay in waybill parsing. We can drop that to zero."

Pain Points:
  • Manual supply chain tracking
  • Lead response time over 24 hours
  • Competitive data delay
Pitch Ideas:
  • Automated reconnaissance deployment
  • Instant shipping update sync
  • Real time OCR data extraction
Automated Waybill Extraction
Source:

Shipment: Example Ltd / Order: 2345681 / Tracking: #ZA-9921-X

Extracted Payload:

Tracking Number: #ZA-9921-X

Carrier: DHL Express

Status: Out for Delivery

Destination: Hampton, UK

Dimensions: 120 x 80 x 120cm

Weight: 1258 kg

Pallets: 3

Workflow Action:

"ClickUp Task #8821 status updated to 'Delivery In Progress'. Sales team notified in Slack."

Logistics Automation

Logistics Bridge

Closing the gap in supply chain communication. Automatically extracts courier data and unstructured shipping updates, then syncs validated information with your CRM, ERP, or messaging platform for real time logistics visibility. Zero manual data entry.

How It Works

Email Monitoring

The Bridge monitors courier notification accounts via secure API or email triggers.

AI Data Extraction

Advanced AI extracts critical information from email text and attachments, including unstructured formats.

System Injection

Validated data is instantly pushed to your CRM, ERP, or messaging platform, triggering internal notifications.

Zero Manual Updates

Logistics visibility is restored without human data entry. Status updates flow automatically from courier to your team.

Stack: Python | Power Automate | AI OCR | Email APIs

Every build is grounded in strategy first.

We diagnose the operational reality before we build. If you are weighing what to modernise next, and where AI and automation actually pay, the Operations & AI Strategy is the place to start.

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