Executive Systems Diagnostic
A focused three-week engagement that turns a complex situation into an agreed problem, a coherent system view and an executable 90-day direction.
↗Direction. Structure. Delivery.
Complex businesses do not need more disconnected tools.They need an operating system.
Helmframe helps owner-led organisations connect technology, operations, finance and AI—then stays through delivery until the system works.
OPERATING SYSTEM / 01
01Direction
02Operations
03Data
04Technology
CONNECTEDOne operating viewDecisions → delivery → evidence
GovernedVisibleBuilt to run
2,000+connected assets
3European markets
30blended delivery roles led
Executive judgement with implementation close enough to matter.
01 / What Helmframe does
Build the structure between an executive decision and a working business.
We work where operations have outgrown their tools, ownership is unclear or delivery is falling between suppliers. Strategy is useful only when it becomes an accountable operating system.
Fractional CIO and Technology Leadership
Executive-level technology leadership without the delay or fixed overhead of a permanent appointment.
↗Systems Architecture and Integration
The operating design between policy, process, people, data and platforms—specified closely enough to build.
↗Transformation Delivery and Recovery
Practical mobilisation and delivery control for programmes that need momentum, clarity or recovery.
↗AI Adoption and Automation
Secure, useful adoption built around real workflows, human accountability and evidence of use—not an AI theatre project.
↗02 / When to call
The business has grown. The operating model has not kept pace.
- 01Critical work lives in spreadsheets and inboxes.
- 02Platforms overlap, but no one owns the whole system.
- 03Suppliers are active, yet leadership lacks a reliable view of progress.
- 04AI experiments are multiplying without clear controls or measurable use.
03 / Selected work
Evidence of systems thinking carried through delivery.
01
Connected field operations
A multi-country field operating platform
View the work 02Integrated venue operations
One operating view across a complex venue
View the work 03Commercial operating platform
A controlled consignment and sales platform
View the work 04Responsible organisational adoption
AI adoption connected to real work
View the work 05Restaurant ordering and fulfilment
A unified mobile ordering and operations platform
View the work 06Fitness booking operations
A booking platform designed around the whole timetable
View the work 07Service-led customer booking
A website that turns an enquiry into a controlled booking
View the work 08Editorial ecommerce
An artist portfolio with controlled commerce
View the work04 / Principal-led
One accountable lead from executive problem to working system.
Helmframe is led by Gordon Pullen, an experienced CIO, systems architect and transformation operator. Gordon combines board-level judgement with the ability to interrogate workflows, direct technical delivery and verify what reaches production.
About the Founder and PrincipalA useful first conversation