Oak & Nine is a small, senior team who spent their careers inside other people’s businesses, and built the thing they always wished they’d had.
Understanding how a business really runs has always taken time, and the result was usually a document. However good it was, it stayed a snapshot, and it went out of date within a quarter.
That clarity was hardest to reach for the businesses that needed it most, the ones without a strategy function to lean on. They made good decisions with less of the picture than they deserved.
We built Oak & Nine so that picture assembles itself from what a business already has, stays current, and belongs to the business. We measure ourselves on one thing: whether something in your business actually moved.
A transformation leader with twenty-five years in complex global businesses, most recently Global Process Owner for Core HR at Google as its workforce scaled into the hundreds of thousands across dozens of countries. He has led the move of hundreds of thousands of HR service requests to agentic delivery, and AI programmes returning tens of millions of dollars. At Park Lane his focus is helping organisations move from trying AI to committing to it, with compliance and control kept intact throughout.
LinkedInA transformation programme leader with more than twenty years’ experience. He started at Deloitte Ireland, where he became Director of HR Transformation, then moved in-house into global People Operations roles at Facebook, Glanbia and Aer Lingus. At Park Lane he helps organisations adopt AI quickly while keeping the risks clear and controllable, and designs operating models that are simple to run and to hand on.
LinkedInThe platform is opinionated because the people behind it have run these functions, not just advised on them. Between us we cover:
We start with one function and prove the value there. We measure ourselves on what changed in your business.
Your data, your agents and your knowledge base belong to you.
Your contacts remain the people who built your base and know your operation.
We call out where the evidence is thin and when the answer may not be the one you wanted.
Nothing counts until a person has confirmed it. We hold ourselves to the same standard we built into the product.
Oak & Nine is a Park Lane company. Park Lane is the transformation consultancy the platform grew out of, and the team you can bring in alongside it.
The fastest way to understand it is to point it at something you already know well.