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Consulting that climbs the ladder with you.

Most consultancies sell you a model and leave you to integrate it. North Stack delivers a working operation: start where the payback is clearest, prove it, then climb.

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Job 1 of 3

Start with the map

Understand the regulatory layer before automating anything.

Operations audit and AI roadmapWe map your operation, score every workflow and tell you where AI pays back and where it does not.Explore the service

No build is priced before we have scored the workflow and proven the hard part works on your real documents. If the proof fails, you do not pay for a build, and we will say so in writing.

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Job 2 of 3

Get the data trustworthy

The inbound flood, the reconciliation, the write-back.

Inbox and document automationEmails, PDFs and forms become clean, reviewed data your team approves rather than retypes.Explore the service Reconciliation and data harmonisationWhen two systems disagree about the same customer, we reconcile them into a golden record.Explore the service Core-system integration and write-backReviewed, harmonised data written straight back into your core system, with no re-keying.See custom builds

Job 3 of 3

Put it to work, supervised

Retrieval, reporting and the closed systems no API reaches.

Knowledge retrieval and private AIA private AI that answers from your own documents, with citations and access controls. This is your North Stack portal.See the portal Compilation and reporting enginesDeclarations, returns, board packs and regulatory reports compiled by pipeline and approved by a person.See custom builds Supervised portal agentsFor closed portals behind multi-factor authentication, supervised agents do the swivel-chair work with a person approving every critical action.Explore the service

The North Stack Ladder

Each rung adds one thing to trust.

AI fails in regulated operations when nobody sequences the risk. We climb one rung at a time, with governance tightening as autonomy rises, and never automate past the point a person can still be accountable.

The full method
  1. 01

    Rung 1

    Mapped: you can see the work

    Before anything is built, the whole operation is visible and every workflow is scored. Humans decide; nothing is touched.

  2. 02

    Rung 2

    Assisted: AI reads, humans act

    AI retrieves, summarises and drafts. Your people still make every call.

  3. 03

    Rung 3

    Automated: pipelines type, humans approve

    Pipelines read the inbound flood and compile the periodic returns. People approve before anything commits.

  4. 04

    Rung 4

    Integrated: systems agree

    Your sources stop contradicting each other, and approved results write back into your core system.

  5. 05

    Rung 5

    Orchestrated: agents work, humans hold the gate

    Supervised agents operate the closed portals you cannot integrate with, with a person approving every critical action.

Selected work

Real operations, measured results.

Before the platform came the studio. North Stack rebuilds the workflows draining time, money and control from regulated businesses, and measures the difference.

mins a day
900mins a dayof operational time given back to one client (about £120,000 a year)
less manual effort
60%less manual effortacross operations at PMD Finance
less review time
70%less review timeon document-heavy case work at Marshall Peters
cases a day
70+cases a dayautomated from a legacy case system, live in production
North Stack's understanding of regulation, and how systems can be built with this in mind, is exceptional. I felt in safe hands throughout.
Tom Brown, Managing Director, PMD Finance

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Start with the audit, not the build.

A fixed-fee operations review maps the workflows draining time and control, scores each one, and hands you a costed plan, including the work we would tell you not to automate.

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