Alec Beckett Say hello

Technology should pay for itself.

I’m Alec Beckett, a technology leader in London. I turn technology and AI into results a business can measure, from the strategy to the working build.

What changed

  • 70%

    of a 1,000-person professional services firm using AI every day, with the guardrails in place before it scaled.

  • 30%

    less time on a fee-earning team’s core process, from the day we launched.

  • 22

    offices taken off their own servers and moved to the cloud.

  • days minutes

    to process finance and HR work, once we automated it.

How I think

  • Start with where the hours go.

  • Pick the model that fits the cost, the speed and the data.

  • Agree the number first. Measure it after launch.

  • Automate the routine. Hand the exceptions to a person.

  • Put the guardrails in first. Then move fast.

What I work with

The tools change every few months. Knowing which one fits doesn’t. This is what I use today.

Leadership
  • Technology strategy
  • P&L ownership
  • Board and CEO advice
  • M&A technology integration
  • Supplier and budget management
  • Change and training
AI models
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • GPT (OpenAI)
  • Gemini (Google)
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Open-weight models such as Llama and Mistral
AI engineering
  • Agentic and multi-agent workflows
  • Search over company documents (RAG)
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • CrewAI
  • AI evaluation and testing
  • Claude Code and Codex
Corporate technology
  • Microsoft 365
  • SharePoint
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Entra ID
  • Intune
  • Microsoft Purview
  • Service desk and IT operations
  • Office networks and infrastructure
Business systems
  • Deltek Maconomy
  • Greenhouse
  • ERP and HR system automation
  • Power Platform and low-code apps
  • Time tracking and billing
Security and governance
  • AI policy and governance
  • Data classification and labelling
  • Data loss prevention
  • GDPR
  • NIS
Cloud and platforms
  • Microsoft Azure
  • AWS
  • Cloudflare
  • Supabase
  • Neon
  • Railway
Building
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Swift
  • Next.js and React
  • Node.js
  • Postgres
  • Figma

Say hello

If something here sparked a thought about technology, AI or the way work gets done, I’d like to hear it.

hello at thinkbeckett.com LinkedIn GitHub

Alec