ailíniú was founded by two former Chief Architects who got tired of watching good strategy fail in delivery. We work with CTOs and technology leaders in regulated organisations to close that gap — and stay involved long enough to make sure it stays closed.
Clear, executable strategies connected directly to business objectives.
We close the gap between boardroom intent and delivery team reality — without producing architecture for its own sake. You get a strategy your organisation can actually execute, with the decisions made and recorded, not deferred.
We've delivered technology strategies for organisations including PTSB, Bank of Ireland, Waystone, and Laya Healthcare — each shaped by the organisation's regulatory context, maturity, and ambition.
Product-based, outcome-driven ways of working across complex organisations.
After the strategy comes the harder question — how do you actually work differently? We design operating models that improve flow, ownership, and delivery without the weight of traditional transformation programmes.
At Laya Healthcare and World Rugby, we designed product-based ways of working that improved delivery governance and team ownership.
A senior thought partner for CTOs who need one, without the full-time overhead.
You don't always need a full-time Chief Architect. You do need someone who has been one — present, opinionated, and accountable. We provide that. Many of our longest client relationships started here.
Our ongoing relationships with Canada Life and Compass Group began with this model — providing senior architecture leadership without the permanent headcount.
Building AI capability and governing it — in environments where getting it wrong has consequences.
We help regulated organisations adopt AI in ways that are both genuinely useful and defensible to a regulator. That means building new capability and putting the governance around it — simultaneously, not sequentially.
At Laya Healthcare, we govern AI implementation as part of a broader architecture partnership — ensuring new AI capability is both useful and compliant.