Strachan & Co is an AI advisory practice for organisations that have the mandate, the budget and the ambition — and need it turned into a working operation.
A short, structured engagement that leaves you with the operating model most enterprises spend a year discovering by trial: platform ownership, support structure, release and governance processes that satisfy security, privacy and legal without stalling adoption.
Senior AI leadership, part-time or fixed-term. Someone who has owned an enterprise AI platform, run the vendor partnerships, and reported to IT leadership — without the twelve-month executive search.
Independent evaluation of the frontier-AI vendor landscape from someone who has managed those partnerships from the enterprise side of the table: what to buy, what to build, and what the contract should actually say.
Partnered with a corporate litigation team to deploy an AI assistant for subpoena and document review — scoped, governed and adopted inside the constraints of a regulated enterprise legal function.
Took an executive AI mandate from a limited pilot to an enterprise-wide platform and operating model — ownership, support tiers, governance, vendor management and release processes — serving colleagues across every division of a 125,000-person company.
Strachan & Co was founded by Fraser Strachan after fifteen years at Thermo Fisher Scientific — Glasgow, then Singapore, then California — where he operated at the heart of enterprise AI for a 125,000-person, $44B company: owning the platform, running the operating model, and managing the frontier-AI vendor partnerships.
Before AI: digital commerce channels across EMEA and APAC that grew from single-digit millions to nine figures. The through-line is the same — infrastructure people rely on without having to think about it.
Scottish by birth. Based in Asia. Working worldwide.