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.

Delivered outcomes

Delivered outcomes

Engagements Leania contracted and delivered, anonymised, with every figure labelled for what it is.

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.
£3.00 → £0.42 per item
Unit processing cost per item, modelled at target automationModelled at target automation, not a measured result.
Approx. 20 minutes → 5–10 minutes
Handling effort per item, modelled for the redesigned workflowModelled for the redesigned workflow, not a measured result.

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Leania engagement · Rights management

PRS for Music

Enterprise-wide automation discovery and operational improvement at PRS for Music

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+ opportunities → 44 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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Anonymised client · Consumer goods

Multinational consumer goods business

An automation proof of concept scaled from the UK to seven global regions at a multinational consumer goods business

Leania led the automation analysis behind a proof of concept in the UK that the business then rolled out across its global regions.

7 global regions
Global regions the UK proof of concept was delivered toReported from the engagement; not independently verified.
20–30% sales uplift
Sales uplift the delivered rollout contributed toA contribution, reported from the engagement: the uplift had other drivers and is not attributed to automation alone.

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

Enterprise experience

Enterprise experience

Work Leania's founder did before or outside Leania, shown so you can judge the experience behind the practice. It is not presented as Leania delivery.

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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Experience of Leania's founder · Banking

Major UK banking group

Process intelligence and simplification across ten functions at a major UK banking group

Process intelligence across ten functions of a regulated banking group, used to find structural inefficiency and prioritise simplification.

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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. In rights management, he has worked at PRS for Music.

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