Success stories, and how each number was established

Every number Leania publishes carries two labels: how the evidence was established, and what kind of value it is. Client cases appear here only after clearance; synthetic demonstrations are always labelled synthetic.

Anonymised cases

Cleared case evidence

Anonymised client · Insurance

A leading insurance broker

Operational improvement and automation governance at a leading insurance broker

Leania led opportunity discovery, prioritisation, business cases and governed delivery across the broker's UK policy servicing, fiduciary and back-office work, showing where operational capacity could be released and where investment was justified.

Around 45,000 hours a year
Opportunities identified across policy servicing and fiduciary processesAn identified opportunity, not a measured result.
Reduced by 30%
Fleet certificate processing time, delivered by the redesigned workflowA processing-time improvement, not a cash saving.

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Anonymised client · Accountancy

Major national accountancy group

AI-assisted personal-tax workflow transformation at a major national accountancy group

Leania supported the redesign and implementation assurance of a high-volume personal-tax workflow, consolidated into a central team, with AI-assisted classification and extraction, exception handling and human approval controls.

>80% lower unit processing cost
Unit processing cost modelled for the redesigned workflow at target automationModelled at target automation. No cashable-saving claim is made.

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Anonymised client · Rights management

Major UK music rights-management organisation

Enterprise-wide automation discovery and operational improvement at a major UK music rights-management organisation

Leania helped identify, prioritise and deliver improvement and automation across the organisation's operational processes, data handling and controls, combining a large opportunity pipeline with practical initiatives to reduce manual processing.

200+ use cases / approx. 30,000 annual hours
Opportunity pipeline identified across the estateAn identified opportunity, not a measured result.
10,000 annual hours
Annual operational capacity released by three delivered initiativesThe programme released capacity; the client retained decisions on how that capacity was deployed.

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Experience of Leania's founder · Utilities

UK energy utility

The right answer was training — not more technology

Upstream prevention and a quantified business case instead of a back-office automation solution.

£150,000
Annual value forecast in the approved business caseForecast in the business case, not a measured result.
Approx. £5,000
Annual running cost forecast in the same business caseForecast in the business case, not a measured result.

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Further anonymised cases are in confidentiality review and publish as they clear.

Synthetic

Synthetic demonstrations

Worked end-to-end on synthetic operational logs, so the method is inspectable without client data.

Who leads it

Led personally, delivered with specialists

Tony Walker is the founder of Leania, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and the author of "Business @ the Speed of Bots". He has more than 20 years' experience across financial services and operational transformation, with work spanning banking, insurance, pensions, accountancy, utilities and rights management.

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