Business & Tech Transformation Leader

Hi, I’m Armando Sanchez.

I help large and midsize complex organisations achieve their strategic objectives. By leading change initiatives, by independently assuring ongoing initiatives, helping recover them and bring them back on track, and by helping organisations build and improve their capabilities to change effectively and efficiently.

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20+: Years in transformation
£500m: Largest portfolio supported/overseen
14: Enterprise clients & employers
5: Countries lived & worked in

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Meet SARA

An agentic platform, built to learn AI by doing

SARA is our self-hosted, agentic research and experimentation platform. We built it from scratch so we learn AI by building real systems, not by reading about them. Real architecture, on our own hardware. Not a wrapper on someone else’s API.

Film: SARA, How Saner Builds with AI. A short film on our sovereign, self-hosted, agentic AI platform.

9: months, hands-on
50+: technologies integrated
~28: services, self-hosted

SARA lives at sara.sanerconsulting.co.uk

The theory of AI

The easy path

Attend the conferences
Read the articles
Watch the videos

Real understanding

The harder path

Build with AI
Get your hands dirty
Develop systems, AI-assisted

Theory alone does not transform a business. Building does.

Our lifecycle

Experimentation
Validation
Governance
Deployment

What she can do

Talks naturally

Listens and allows interruptions

Searches the web

Current answers on demand

Creates diagrams

On request

Generates & edits images

Visual content

Private RAG

Digests hundreds of pages, in full privacy

Builds documents

Presentations and docs from your content

AI video & voice

Video and cloned-voice speech

Improves her own code

Self-improvement, governed

Coaches my son at chess

With a Stockfish agent

One living system. Fully private.

Running on our own hardware (2× RTX 3090). Not a wrapper on someone else’s API.

HermesThe orchestrator

Worker LLMNemotron-3-Nano-30B

Vision LLMQwen3-VL-4B

Speech in / outfaster-whisper / Supertonic

KnowledgePrivate RAG

LLM ProxyModality router

LiveKitVoice, ~700ms

OpenCodeSelf-coding

Self-improvement

Propose, build, test, human review, merge and learn. Every autonomous change is governed by human oversight, audit logs and rollback.

Smart automation

Monitors the network and IoT, then acts on intelligence. “Isolate the camera until patched”, done and reversible.

AI-capable. Ready.

We help you adopt AI and build the transformation capability to use it. The lifecycle we run internally is the practice you get.

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AI, done properly

What AI can actually do for your business

I track the field so you do not have to. LLMs, agents, RAG, vector databases and agentic workflows, turned into automations that save time and money.

What I do

Supporting organisations in re-engineering their transformation functions to maximise ROI

AI adoption that sticks

LLMs, agents, RAG, vector databases and agentic workflows, built into automations that save time and money. I track the field so you do not have to.

Business & digital transformation

Strategy and execution. Redesigning how you operate so programmes produce value instead of busy work.

Portfolio & PMO leadership

Setting up and running transformation management functions that improve ROI. New teams or fixing what is already there.

Delivery assurance & governance

Second and Third Line of Defence experience. Good governance under pressure, and regulatory work without the usual friction.

Programme & project delivery

From business case through to benefits realised. Mobilising strategic programmes and closing them out with measurable outcomes.

Tech-enabled change

End-to-end platform and ERP rollouts, data, cloud, and regulatory or remediation work, run lean with a risk-based approach.

Career

20+ years getting my hands dirty with transformation

Jul 1999 – Nov 2001
Junior roles in Software / Technology Delivery & Quality Assurance
Schlumberger (Paris) · Meta4 (Madrid)
Nov 2001 – Mar 2005
Software Quality Assurance Manager, European Software Development Centre
Sony (Brussels)
Mar 2005 – Jul 2006
Technology Senior Consultant, UK Delivery Centre
Accenture
Aug 2006 – Apr 2008
Technology Quality Assurance / Test Lead Architect, Operations / Middle Office
Morgan Stanley
May 2008 – Dec 2011
Programme Standards Manager / Deputy Head of Global PMO, Finance Change
HSBC
Mar 2012 – Dec 2012
EMEA Technology PMO Senior Manager
GE Capital
Feb 2013 – Jan 2014
Internal Audit Change, Corporate Banking & Global Payments
Barclays
Feb 2014 – Oct 2016
Head of PPMO & Delivery Assurance, Business Change
M&G plc (formerly M&G Investments)
Nov 2016 – Present
Tech & Business Transformation Consultant / MD
SANER Consulting LTD
Independent consulting. Clients: UK Crown Prosecution Service, Direct Line Group, Prudential plc, LCH (LSEG).