Indigo Labs · est. 2014 · UK & ES

We think,
we build,
we deliver.

Family of brands
indigo·labs
The consultancy. Strategy, advisory, fractional CTO.
indigolabs.ai
AI transformation arm. Education, strategy, agentic build.
Genie
A little lamp that knows when you’re busy. Q3 2026.
What we do

Three practices,
one team.

We move freely between them on a single engagement: strategy informs the AI work, the AI work uncovers what to build, and the build proves the strategy was right.

01 Strategy
Strategy

See further. Decide better.

Two decades of building, scaling, exiting and advising, distilled into the kind of strategic clarity that compounds. Fractional CTO when you need it; technology due diligence when investors do.

  • Fractional CTO
  • Technology Advisory
  • Due Diligence
  • Mentorship
  • Strategic Vision
40+ engagements since 2014
02 AI
AI Transformation · indigolabs.ai

Become AI‑native. Beyond ChatGPT.

We turn non-technical organisations into AI-native ones through education, bespoke strategy, and a team of agentic engineers who build the actual systems. Education first; engineering close behind.

  • AI Education programmes
  • Bespoke AI strategy
  • Agentic AI engineering
  • Custom integrations
Weeks to deploy a tailored programme
03 Products
Products · digital & physical

And then we build the thing.

Strategy that doesn’t ship is just opinion. Our in-house product studio designs and builds physical and digital products end-to-end. From industrial design and hardware to firmware, apps, and cloud. Genie is one of ours.

  • Industrial design
  • Hardware & firmware
  • Web & mobile apps
  • Cloud & data infra
  • Brand & marketing
Genie flagship · available Q3 2026
Selected work

The proof is
what we’ve delivered.

Discuss your engagement →
Genie Flagship product

A little lamp that knows
when you’re busy.

We took Genie from idea to industrial design, hardware, firmware, calendar integrations, brand and a working pre-order site, entirely in-house. Join the waitlist · available Q3 2026.

Hardware

CAD · PCB · FW

Software

Cloud · iOS · Android · Web

Brand

Identity · site · packaging

See Genie Product Site →
Genie: a small frosted lamp glowing warm red on a wooden desk beside a laptop, pen and notebook
Capability board

Six engagements, anonymised, that show the shape of how we work: from board-level advisory to building production software with an agentic AI workforce.

01 / 06

End-to-end strategic transformation

A UK telecoms operator delivering some of the most advanced telephony networks in Europe.

Led their first transformation in 2023 to simplify processes and reduce costs. Brought back to deliver an AI strategy and support the merger of Wholesale and Retail divisions into a single seamless unit.

Outcome Now designing and building the UK’s largest cloud-native voice platform.
02 / 06

Senior advisor to the C-suite

The consumer-healthcare division of a global pharmaceutical group.

One of only four external experts advising the Chief Scientific Officer and their team. Indigo Labs led the digital-technology pillar of a strategy that shapes the entire division’s direction.

Outcome Active board-style influence on a multi-billion-euro division.
03 / 06

A team of one, with an agentic AI workforce

An enterprise SaaS platform serving clients in the UK and beyond.

After leading the company end-to-end as Fractional CTO from inception, including ISO 27001 certification on first attempt, we’re now single-handedly building v2 of the platform using an entirely agentic AI team to design, build, deploy and operate the product.

Outcome A real-world demonstration of where consulting is going next: doing the work with AI, not just advising on it.
04 / 06

Technology due diligence at scale

Trusted DD partner to three of Europe’s leading investment platforms, including a private-equity fund with a $160B portfolio.

Tens of high-profile due-diligence exercises across early-stage start-ups to mature scale-ups, often followed by hands-on advisory inside the portfolio companies.

Outcome A track record across dozens of deals at the highest end of the market.
05 / 06

AI-native organisational redesign

A market-leading European SaaS company in compliance and supplier management, a portfolio company of a major European PE fund.

After a deep due diligence, led the implementation of measures to integrate AI tooling across product and engineering, restructure the team, and modernise processes.

Outcome Staggering productivity gains, modernised culture, and a clear path to international expansion.
06 / 06

Cross-pollination at the edge of what’s possible

A European space-launch programme. A motorsport-broadcast technology company.

Designed advanced real-time data platforms for two of the most demanding industries on Earth: launch-vehicle telemetry and simulation; live broadcast, telemetry and AI computer-vision pipelines for premier motorsport.

Outcome The motorsport platform is now in use by every team in Formula 1.
Sectors we’ve worked across
15 · selected
Space launch vehiclesReal-time data platform for one of Europe’s most advanced satellite micro-launcher companies
Formula 1 & MotoGPBroadcast and telemetry backbone now used by every team in F1
MedTech & diagnosticsMulti-disciplinary CTO leadership across hardware, AI and bioengineering teams
Consumer healthcareSenior advisor to the Chief Scientific Officer of a major global pharma division
TelecomsStrategy and build of the UK’s largest cloud-native voice platform
Restaurants & hospitalityVendor DD and digital transformation for one of the UK’s largest casual-dining chains
Commodities & trade financeDD and AI-native uplift for a blockchain-based post-trade platform backed by oil majors
Clinical researchMentorship and US-market scaling for a clinical-research data platform
Private Equity & VCSelected technology DD partner for multiple top-tier UK and European investment firms
Higher educationTechnology and process review for the first new UK university created since the 1960s
Mental health (digital health)Technology advisory for a same-day digital-therapy platform
EV & national infrastructureStrategic transformation from services co. to technology co.; multiple Innovate UK grants
Marketing & retail techOperational turnaround during peak season for a top intelligent-marketing platform
Veterinary & pet techHands-on CTO building an AI-driven tele-veterinary marketplace
Workplace wellbeing analyticsEnd-to-end CTO leadership; ISO 27001 certified on first attempt
Within three months we had the processes in place to take us through the most successful Black Friday in the company’s history. The change in operational rigour was felt immediately.
CEO, retail marketing platform
We’re a non-technical board, and they made the decisions explainable to us without dumbing them down. That’s rare.
Chief Scientific Officer, global consumer-healthcare brand
15+sectors served
40+engagements since 2014
$160BPE portfolio (selected DD partner)
UK · EU · USclients across two continents
  1. 01

    Understand

    We start the way investors do, like a due diligence. We take your business apart with permission, and put it back together with a map.

  2. 02

    Recommend

    A short, opinionated set of recommendations. The kind that compounds, the kind your next investor or board will recognise as serious.

  3. 03

    Build

    When recommendations need to become real things, our product studio takes over. Software, AI, hardware. Shipped, not slide-ware.

Alfonso Ferrandez, Founder of Indigo Labs
We empower tech businesses to thrive, and we guide non-tech companies toward becoming leaders in their field. Leveraging world-class expertise and mentoring, we help you grow high-performance teams. And when the team needs help, we build alongside them.
Alfonso Ferrandez Founder, Indigo Labs
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