The problem you were handed is rarely the problem you have.
I go back to the evidence, find where the accepted reading breaks, and write up what to do about it.
NEW / SOFTWARE BY MARK POXTON
Clarity Bookkeeping.
Less paperwork. More possibility.Your business. Beautifully clear.
A narrated film, an interactive walkthrough and beautifully presented client documents.
For businesses and public bodies
What I would do with your data
Seven pieces of work built on public data and real documents, each showing a service you can buy: where your money leaks, which suppliers are failing, where your business case breaks, and software built around the person who has to use it.
Analysis / Gap review
Where public money leaks: a council spend audit
£877m of payments tested. £138m went to suppliers with no contract on the published record.
Analysis / Hostile read
Hostile read of a real business case
An £8.36m refurbishment approved as self-funding. It breaks if revenue falls 4% or costs rise just over 1%.
Analysis / Gap review
Storm overflows: monitoring gaps and repeat offenders
Every overflow in England over five years. 583 do 40% of the monitored spilling, and 306 spilled more in a drier year.
Analysis / Gap review
Supplier failure early warning
Three million companies tested a year ahead. What free records catch, and the 77% of failures they miss.
Analysis / Market analysis
Who pays their suppliers late
98,000 payment reports joined to sector. Who makes suppliers wait, who is getting slower, and what it costs.
Software
Simple Accounts
Bookkeeping for an owner who hates bookkeeping: three answers on one screen, proper double-entry books underneath.
Design
Website redesign: from portfolio to proof
Six menus down to one, every project one click from home, and the evidence on the first screen.
7 Client workRead all seven case notes
Each with its charts, the method, the limits and the questions I asked of my own findings.
My own projects
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Analysis / United Nations Development Programme challenge, final stage
Underwater ordnance survey
An autonomous boat that maps buried explosives from the bank.
Analysis / Defence
A three-metre requirement
Read as detection range. It is a nine-millisecond timing problem.
Software
XOP CNC controller
Stops a bad CNC job before the machine moves, and reports from any room.
Software
Holly Suite
Eight office applications, built to remove the per-user licence bill.
Systems
ABYSS mission control
One operator screen for a fleet of autonomous drones.
Software
Jarvis laboratory
A private AI assistant that picks its models on measured results.
Engineering
MP1 loudspeaker
A sculpted active loudspeaker built from 80-plus CNC-cut layers.
Analysis
F1 telemetry
A full-season database showing where one driver beats a teammate.
Engineering
Family VTOL
Takes off like a drone, cruises like a plane: Staffordshire to Spain.
Systems
TADS
A national air defence architecture, from hundreds of options to 56 documents.
Research
Alpha cancer discovery engine
Screens compounds against the published evidence to find lab-worthy candidates.
Research
Colosseum
Strategies must survive real costs, timing and their own losses.
Software
Kraken market visualiser
Bitcoin in focus, eight markets alongside.
Research
Longitudinal health
Thousands of women followed through menopause, visit by visit.
Software
Agent Field
A live map of AI agents: who is busy and where work piles up.
Creative
Aurora Worlds
An original game world, from concept art to playable prototype.
+9 ResearchNine further investigations
Data quality, model behaviour, costs and handovers.
What the analysis found
All nine investigationsWorking with me
Gap review
One problem that keeps coming back. I find what is actually failing and who owns it.
Hostile read
Your case, model, bid or spec, broken before someone else breaks it.
Submission support
The research, costing and written pack behind a proposal.
- You send the problemIn writing, with any documents.
- I reply with a scopeFixed fee and a date.
- You get the packSources cited, limits stated.
About
I am an independent analyst. I take problems that cut across organisations, systems and disciplines, establish what the evidence actually supports, and set out the decision it points to, in writing, with the reasoning and its limits in plain view.
My career runs from firearms policing with West Midlands Police into independent work across procurement, mechanical engineering and supply chain. Across those roles, I worked with incomplete information, practical consequences and the need to identify which factors mattered most to the decision.
That work now spans defence, water, health and environmental data. It includes an underwater survey system that reached the final evaluation stage of a United Nations Development Programme challenge, and a defence requirement rebuilt around its timing budget. Where an analysis needs a working tool, I build it; the software and engineering projects on this site are my own development.
I work from published sources and the material a client provides. Figures are traced to their sources, assumptions are labelled as assumptions, and where the evidence does not support the expected conclusion, the report says so.
Read the case notes or email mark@markpoxton.com about a role or a project.
Send me the problem in writing.
You get a written reply: whether I can help, and a fixed scope and fee.