Outcomes, not outputs

Outcomes, not outputs: explore 24 anonymised examples of Rodan's global client work, prototypes and products.

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Professional Services

Turning a complex advisory process into a governed workflow

Period
Q2 2026
Scale / geography
PE-backed UK advisory business
Work type
Client work
Status
Completed

Challenges

A growing advisory business needed to replace fragmented documents and manual hand-offs with a consistent operating model. The platform had to accelerate evidence-heavy work without weakening review standards.


Outcome

  • Work that previously took weeks can now be completed in hours
  • Reviewers retain clear oversight of evidence and AI-assisted outputs
  • A repeatable workflow supports growth across the advisory portfolio
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Public Services and Housing

Building an operating platform for public procurement and accommodation

Period
Since Q2 2026
Scale / geography
Multi-stakeholder UK public-service operation
Work type
Client work
Status
In delivery

Challenges

A UK provider needed a clearer way to coordinate public-procurement opportunities, temporary-accommodation supply and operational delivery across several stakeholder groups.


Outcome

  • Core procurement and accommodation workflows are being consolidated
  • Shared operational data is replacing disconnected working practices
  • Phased delivery is reducing implementation risk while the service evolves
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Public Sector

Governing review and scoring for a national programme

Period
Ongoing since 2025
Scale / geography
National multilingual programme
Work type
Client work
Status
Ongoing

Challenges

A high-profile national programme needed to process multilingual submissions faster while maintaining consistent scoring, committee oversight and defensible decisions.


Outcome

  • Review cycles run faster with less manual processing
  • Committee workflows and scoring are consistent across submissions
  • Every decision remains traceable and defensible
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Media and Entertainment

Migrating four internal applications into client ownership

Period
Q1 2026
Scale / geography
Four business-critical internal applications
Work type
Client work
Status
Completed

Challenges

A UK entertainment group needed to bring four operational applications and their cloud foundations under direct ownership without disrupting internal users.


Outcome

  • Four internal applications migrated to client ownership
  • Cloud access, deployment and support responsibilities clarified
  • The internal team received maintainable systems and handover documentation
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Women's Health and Commerce

Creating a trusted scoring and commerce platform for women's health

Period
Q1 2026
Scale / geography
UK specialist health product platform
Work type
Client work
Status
In delivery

Challenges

A women's-health business needed to turn fragmented product evidence into transparent scores and a coherent commerce experience without overstating what the evidence could support.


Outcome

  • Scoring logic and evidence workflows are being formalised
  • Product discovery and commerce journeys are being developed together
  • The platform is in delivery and no commercial outcome is claimed
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Housing, Energy and Wellbeing

Connecting healthier homes, financial resilience and wellbeing

Period
Since 2024
Scale / geography
Multi-service UK social-impact programme
Work type
Client work
Status
Ongoing

Challenges

A social-impact organisation needed to translate a multi-disciplinary vision spanning housing condition, energy efficiency, financial resilience and health into a coherent service.


Outcome

  • An integrated adviser platform connects previously separate service areas
  • Evidence and referral pathways support consistent frontline delivery
  • Pilot and funding materials provide a clear route for continued adoption
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Streaming Media

Giving commercial teams a clearer view of streaming audiences

Period
Since 2022
Scale / geography
Global streaming audience and distributed commercial teams
Work type
Client work
Status
Ongoing

Challenges

Commercial teams needed audience intelligence that could support specific buyer conversations rather than relying on generic viewership data.


Outcome

  • North American and UK teams use the intelligence in commercial workflows
  • Pitch teams can explore buyer-relevant audience patterns
  • Decision-makers share a consistent evidence base across markets
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Financial Services

Modernising mortgage intake and operations

Period
Since 2023
Scale / geography
End-to-end UK mortgage application operation
Work type
Client work
Status
Ongoing

Challenges

Paper-led forms, manual document checks and disconnected customer records made each application difficult to process and hard to see end to end.


Outcome

  • Paper-led intake moved into a joined-up digital workflow
  • Teams gained a unified view of customer and application progress
  • Automation reduced repetitive handling and improved operational visibility
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Facilities Management and Compliance

Joining facilities operations and compliance in one platform

Period
Since 2023
Scale / geography
Multi-site UK facilities operation
Work type
Client work
Status
Ongoing

Challenges

A facilities-management provider needed to replace fragmented records and reactive compliance processes with a clearer operational view across sites.


Outcome

  • Operational and compliance evidence is managed in one product
  • Teams can prioritise issues from a consistent site-level view
  • Structured workflows support clearer accountability and reporting
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Ecommerce and Gifting

Understanding customers through occasions, not just transactions

Period
Since 2024
Scale / geography
Scaled UK ecommerce customer and order data
Work type
Client work
Status
Ongoing

Challenges

A gifting business needed to understand the people, relationships and occasions behind purchases so that merchandising and communication could become more relevant.


Outcome

  • Teams gained a shared view of customer and occasion behaviour
  • Segments support more relevant merchandising and communication
  • Repeatable analysis replaced one-off data requests
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Education Publishing

Turning global education surveys into usable intelligence

Period
Since 2025
Scale / geography
Global multi-market survey programme
Work type
Client work
Status
Ongoing

Challenges

A global publisher needed to make large volumes of survey data easier for research and commercial teams to explore across markets, roles and topics.


Outcome

  • Global survey evidence can be explored through a consistent model
  • Teams spend less time preparing repeated cuts of the data
  • Market and audience comparisons are easier to communicate
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Membership and Stakeholder Engagement

Building a clearer picture of member and stakeholder needs

Period
Since 2025
Scale / geography
National membership and stakeholder network
Work type
Client work
Status
Ongoing

Challenges

A national membership organisation needed a neutral, structured view of member priorities and engagement across varied local contexts.


Outcome

  • Leaders gained a consistent view of member needs
  • Local and national patterns can be compared without partisan framing
  • Evidence supports more focused engagement and service decisions
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Trade and Retail

Comparing trade and retail opportunity across European markets

Period
2025
Scale / geography
Multi-country European market assessment
Work type
Client work
Status
Completed

Challenges

A cross-border partnership needed a comparable view of retail behaviour, channel conditions and market opportunity across several European countries.


Outcome

  • Market comparisons use one consistent analytical frame
  • Commercial teams can assess opportunity by audience and channel
  • Research is reusable across expansion decisions
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Legal Services

Turning legal case patterns into strategic evidence

Period
2021
Scale / geography
Thousands of historical legal matters
Work type
Client work
Status
Completed

Challenges

Senior legal leaders had strong intuitions about recurring case themes but no systematic way to validate them across a large historical caseload.


Outcome

  • Previously anecdotal themes were tested against historical evidence
  • Practice-area patterns became visible across the wider caseload
  • Leadership planning was supported by a shared analytical view
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Music and Entertainment

Turning fan response into artist and touring intelligence

Period
2022
Scale / geography
Over one million comments across global artist audiences
Work type
Client work
Status
Completed

Challenges

Two record labels needed a more rigorous way to compare fan response, identify momentum and support artist and touring decisions.


Outcome

  • Over one million comments were analysed consistently
  • Teams could compare artist response beyond headline engagement
  • Audience evidence informed artist and touring conversations
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Consumer Goods

Shaping a European market-entry strategy with consumer evidence

Period
2022
Scale / geography
Multi-country European launch assessment
Work type
Client work
Status
Completed

Challenges

A consumer-goods business preparing for European expansion needed to understand where existing positioning would travel and where local adaptation mattered.


Outcome

  • Decision-makers gained comparable evidence across target countries
  • Product positioning reflected local audience differences
  • Launch planning was grounded in market-specific insight
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Music and Entertainment

Prototyping artist momentum and opportunity intelligence

Period
Q3 2026
Scale / geography
Global multi-source prototype
Work type
Proof of concept
Status
Prototype

Challenges

An innovation team wanted to test whether fragmented audience and market signals could reveal emerging artist momentum earlier and more consistently.


Outcome

  • The work is explicitly an exploratory prototype
  • Candidate momentum signals can be compared in one place
  • Expert feedback will determine whether and how the concept progresses
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Materials and Industrial Technology

Testing computer vision for material classification

Period
2025
Scale / geography
Cross-market experimental image dataset
Work type
Proof of concept
Status
Prototype

Challenges

Materials-sector collaborators wanted to test whether image-based classification could support faster, more consistent identification under real-world variation.


Outcome

  • The prototype demonstrates candidate classification approaches
  • Error patterns and data limitations are visible to domain experts
  • No production performance claim is made
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Health Research

Exploring AI-assisted medical image analysis

Period
2025
Scale / geography
Constrained research image dataset
Work type
Proof of concept
Status
Prototype

Challenges

A health innovation team wanted to understand whether modern vision methods could identify useful patterns in a constrained medical image dataset.


Outcome

  • The work remains experimental and is not a clinical tool
  • Technical feasibility and data gaps were documented
  • No diagnostic, treatment or patient outcome claim is made
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Sports Technology

Exploring computer vision for tactical sports intelligence

Period
2026
Scale / geography
Match-footage feasibility prototype
Work type
Proof of concept
Status
Prototype

Challenges

A sports innovation team wanted to test whether match footage could yield useful tactical signals without relying entirely on manual coding.


Outcome

  • The prototype surfaces experimental movement and event signals
  • Analysts can inspect model outputs alongside source footage
  • The work is exploratory and carries no production claim
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Medical Devices

Discovering where AI could support a medical-device workflow

Period
2026
Scale / geography
Focused UK product discovery
Work type
Proof of concept
Status
Discovery

Challenges

A medical-device business needed to determine where AI might be useful, what evidence would be required and which risks ruled out premature product decisions.


Outcome

  • The engagement is discovery only, not a production system
  • Candidate use cases were assessed against evidence and risk
  • The team received a clearer basis for a go, change or stop decision
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Education Technology

Building an AI-assisted education assessment platform

Period
Since 2023
Scale / geography
UK education technology platform
Work type
Rodan product
Status
Ongoing

Challenges

Educators needed a more practical way to review student work, generate aligned questions and use AI within familiar assessment workflows.


Outcome

  • Educators can review work and create assessment support in one product
  • AI features are embedded in structured teacher workflows
  • The platform has evolved through direct use and forward-deployed delivery
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Robotics

Humanoid Index

Period
2026
Scale / geography
Global robotics market intelligence
Work type
Rodan product
Status
Ongoing

Challenges

The humanoid robotics market is developing quickly, but company, product and market evidence remains fragmented and difficult to compare.


Outcome

  • Fragmented robotics evidence is organised into a comparable model
  • Users can explore companies, products and market movement
  • The data and product layers can evolve as the sector changes
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Events and Market Intelligence

Creating a global event intelligence platform

Period
Since 2022
Scale / geography
Global multi-market event dataset
Work type
Rodan product
Status
Ongoing

Challenges

Event information is distributed across inconsistent sources, making discovery, planning and market-level analysis unnecessarily difficult.


Outcome

  • Global event records are maintained in a consistent data model
  • Users can discover and compare events through one product
  • The platform supports both operational journeys and market analysis
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