Tezzera — AI Transformation for Regulated Industries

The Transformation Gap

Most AI models work. Most AI initiatives are stillborn — killed by the change management no one led.

A model that works in a notebook is not a transformation. The hard part is everything around it — the adoption that never happens, the sceptical stakeholder with a competing analysis, the regulator's deadline, the board that wants the upside without the risk. That's where initiatives quietly die. Tezzera exists for exactly that gap.

01 — The adoption problem

A model nobody uses is not an asset

The hardest part of AI was never the build. It's getting people to change how they work — to trust the output, fold it into the day job, and not quietly route around it. Adoption is a leadership task, and it's the one most often left unowned.

02 — The credibility problem

The boardroom doesn't speak Python

Technical teams can build it. Few can also stand in front of a CFO and defend it in the language of EBITDA, risk exposure, and regulatory consequence — while an internal faction circulates a competing analysis. The translation layer is where value leaks.

03 — The regulator problem

"Innovative" and "compliant" rarely sit together

Wherever the regulator is a stakeholder in every design decision — gaming, banking, pharma, insurance, energy — AI that can't survive an audit isn't an asset. It's a liability with good PR.

04 — The execution problem

Advice is cheap. Delivery is rare.

Plenty of firms will hand you a roadmap and leave. Tezzera builds the team, negotiates the vendors, runs the governance, and stays until the impact shows up in the numbers.

The Practice

Three ways to bring Tezzera in.

Every engagement is built on one principle: transformation leadership that is technical enough to design it, senior enough to defend it, and accountable enough to deliver it. Most clients start fractional or interim — advisory is for a specific, bounded decision.

Fractional Chief AI OfficerOngoing · part-time · also: Fractional AI Transformation Lead

Board-grade transformation leadership without a full-time hire — typically one to two days a week, or a fixed pattern of days each month. Tezzera sets the AI strategy, owns the governance model, steers delivery, manages vendors, and reports progress to the board in language they can act on. This is the way most clients work with us, and how lasting impact gets built. Best for scale-ups and mid-market firms entering a regulated AI agenda.

Interim Head of AI3–12 months · embedded · also: Interim Transformation Director

A full-time operator dropped into a live mandate. Tezzera takes the title and the accountability — builds the team, runs the vendor strategy, lands the governance, and delivers the roadmap. For a capability gap, a stalled programme, or a transformation that needs someone who has done it before. Best for enterprises mid-transformation that need execution, not another deck.

AI Strategy & Due DiligenceDefined scope · advisory

A defined, scoped engagement for a specific decision: AI opportunity assessment, governance design, vendor evaluation, or technical due diligence on an investment or acquisition. The best way to start if we haven't worked together — most clients use it to take a sharp first look, and many continue into fractional or interim leadership once the picture is clear. Best for PE, boards, and exec teams facing a high-stakes AI call.

Track Record

Transformation that showed up in the P&L.

Selected outcomes from 25 years leading transformation inside Evoke, Ericsson, SEB, GE and Accenture — the experience Tezzera is built on. Not pilots: production systems and realised value, in environments where the regulator was always in the room.

Regulated Gaming · Evoke plc

£8.4M

Enterprise AI transformation, built from zero

Eight AI initiatives delivered in one year, six into production — personalisation, fraud prevention, developer productivity and compliance enablement. £8.4M annualised revenue impact, £5.9M EBITDA, and an AI team scaled from zero to ten in three months.

Enterprise Technology · Ericsson

100M SEK

Automation & AI strategy across four continents

Led cross-functional global teams of 30+ to drive enterprise-wide automation across Marketing, Sales and Sourcing — realising over 100M SEK in value and establishing the technology-scouting function for emerging AI platforms.

Banking · SEB

50%

RPA framework that halved manual transactions

Pioneered a process-improvement framework coupled with robotic process automation, cutting manual transactions by 50% and deploying a case-management system that delivered 50M SEK in program savings.

Developer Productivity · Evoke plc

600+

AI-enabled SDLC under one governance model

Designed and rolled out an AI coding-assistant programme to 600+ developers, with the AI Governance Committee and lighthouse framework to make adoption safe, measurable and defensible in a regulated environment.

The difference isn't the strategy. It's having already lost — and won — the fights you're about to walk into.

Leadership

A practice, not a pyramid.

Tezzera is built around senior practitioners, not layers of analysts. The person who wins the work is the person who does the work.

Dr. Simon Hancorn

Founder & Principal

Dr. Simon Hancorn

Founder & Principal · Tezzera

Simon founded Tezzera to do one thing well: lead AI transformation in the industries where it is hardest to land. He brings a PhD in Physics and 25 years turning ambitious strategy into measured business outcomes — across regulated industries — gaming, banking, pharma and beyond, leading teams of 30+ across EMEA, the US and Asia.

His approach is built on a physicist's habit: make sense of complex systems fast, reach clarity under incomplete information, and make high-quality decisions before everyone else has finished framing the problem. Tezzera doesn't just advise — it builds the team, owns the governance, negotiates the vendors, and stays until the impact is real.

That is the whole proposition: senior, independent, and accountable to the number.

Evoke plcIA&AI Transformation Director — enterprise AI across product, technology & customer operations
EricssonAutomation & AI Transformation Director — global automation strategy, four continents
SEBSenior Strategist, CIO Office — RPA & process transformation in banking
GE · AccentureEarlier career — outsourcing transformation and Big Pharma clinical & regulatory delivery
CambridgePhD Physics, Emmanuel College · MSc Physics, Queen's University · BSc Hons Physics, UEA

How ongoing engagements work

AI initiatives that survive contact with the regulator, move the metrics that matter, and can be explained in one slide at the board.

That is the outcome Tezzera is hired for. The way we get there is a relationship, not a project — and the shape of that relationship is deliberately simple, so a CFO or a board can read it in a sentence.

A typical fractional or interim engagement runs on a fixed cadence — one to two days a week, or a defined pattern of days each month — agreed in advance and held to. The remit covers AI strategy, governance, vendor oversight, and executive sponsorship of the programme, with a written monthly read-out for the board: what shipped, what's at risk, what the regulator should know, and what's coming next.

Many clients start with a defined strategy or due-diligence engagement — a sharp first look that establishes context and trust — and continue into a fractional or interim mandate once the direction is clear. That progression is deliberate, not coincidental: it's how leadership work earns its place rather than being sold into one.

How an engagement runs

Clarity fast. Then delivery.

STAGE 01

Diagnose

A short, intensive read of the landscape — the technology, yes, but equally the stakeholders, the governance, the regulatory exposure and the politics. You get an honest assessment of what's real and what's theatre.

Typically 1–3 weeks

STAGE 02

Frame

A defensible strategy and roadmap — sequenced, costed, and built to survive the board and the regulator. Not a 90-slide deck; a plan you can execute and a narrative you can defend.

Typically 2–4 weeks

STAGE 03

Deliver

The part most firms skip. Tezzera embeds — building the team, running governance, managing vendors — and stays accountable until the impact lands in the numbers.

Fractional or interim, by mandate

Start a conversation

Have an AI mandate that has to land?

If you're weighing a transformation, a stalled programme, or an AI call your board needs answered — a 30-minute conversation will tell us both whether Tezzera is the right fit.

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