ShabDigital | AI | Cyber

Independent consultancy

Decisions your board can stand behind.

Shab works with organisations that have outgrown their systems and are carrying more risk than they can see. Three practices, Digital, AI and Cyber, run by the people who do the work.

No pitch deck. We'll tell you if we're not the right fit.


Delivered across

  • Government
  • Construction
  • Manufacturing
  • Real estate

Three practices

Most problems sit between them. So do we.

A failed migration is rarely just a technology problem, and a breach is rarely just a security one. Underneath all three is the same thing: your data, and whether anyone can trust it.

  • Digital + AIAutomation the team can actually run
  • AI + CyberWho can see what, and who signed off
  • Cyber + DigitalSupplier risk, before you sign
  • Digital + AI + CyberData
Where two fields meet is where most of the work sits. Where all three meet is your data.
  • Digital

    Get the change delivered, not just designed.

    Every replacement is a data migration. The numbers have to survive the move.


    • Target operating model and roadmap
    • Legacy replacement and cloud migration
    • Migration that keeps the numbers intact
    • Reporting that survives the cutover
    • Delivery assurance on programmes in trouble
    Best for

    Leadership teams mid-programme who need an honest read before the next gate.

  • AI

    Know which problems are worth AI, and which are not.

    No model is better than the data beneath it. Most AI work is data work.


    • Use-case triage, and what to refuse
    • Data foundations: quality, lineage and permissions
    • Platform and warehouse architecture
    • Custom apps and automation your team can run
    • Assistant rollout without widening what staff can reach
    Best for

    Anyone being sold an AI answer before anyone has agreed the question.

  • Cyber

    Know what would actually hurt, and fix that first.

    Security is a data question: what exists, who can reach it, who signed off.


    • Security posture and control reviews
    • Data governance, classification and access
    • Where the sensitive data actually lives
    • Third-party and supply chain risk
    • Incident response planning and rehearsal
    Best for

    Teams facing a customer security review, an audit, or a board asking hard questions.


How we work

Short engagements. Clear handover.

We are not trying to live in your organisation. The aim is for your own people to carry the work after we leave.

  1. Read the ground

    Two to three weeks with your people, your systems and your contracts. You get what we found, including the parts nobody wanted to write down.

  2. Agree what matters

    A ranked, costed set of moves, with the ones we would not spend money on named just as plainly. You decide; we are not paid by the recommendation.

  3. Deliver and hand over

    We do the work alongside your team, then leave them the documentation, the decisions and the reasoning behind both.

Tell us what is keeping you up.

Thirty minutes, no charge. If it is not something we should take on, we will say so and point you somewhere better.