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Tommy Findlay// Chartered Engineer · Governed Ai
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PRECISION ISN’T AN ACCIDENT.

It’s engineered, governed, and maintained.

GOVERNED AiSYSTEMISATIONPOSITIVE IMPACTENDURANCE

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Process before technology. Digitisation before Ai.

Ai bolted onto a broken business doesn’t transform it. It scales the dysfunction.

I’m Tommy Findlay. Chartered Engineer, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and founder of iS3. I help UK businesses turn scattered tools and data into governed, Ai-enabled operating systems.

Tommy Findlay

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Most Ai strategies are backwards

Businesses buy the technology first and hope a transformation follows. It rarely does. What compounds instead is the slow accumulation of small missed opportunities: the process nobody mapped, the data nobody digitised, the decision nobody owns.

I work the other way round. Fix the foundations, digitise what matters, then apply Ai where it genuinely earns its keep. Governance is not the brake on any of that. It is the accelerator.

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years across engineering, quality and Ai
20+
measured productivity uplift for a client, 2025
200%+
product variants run through one governed Ai workflow I built
9,000+
patents on jet engine efficiency
2
ISO management systems in practice: 9001, 14001, 45001, 27001, 42001
5
MBA, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, change and project management
CEng
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