Programme & Delivery Management
We will govern the programme whether or not we are building any of it.
This rung is bought on its own. There is no requirement that Tenhaw builds any of the programme, and clients do appoint us to governance only. At the bottom of the band, £18,000 a month is roughly three days a week of a senior programme lead at the published day rate with partner oversight on top, and it is cancellable on 30 days' notice either way. If you want to see how we work before committing to anything larger, this is the cheapest way to do it.
30 days' notice either way
Monthly, cancellable on 30 days' written notice either way. Bought on its own with no build commitment attached, and handed over to your own people on an agreed date.
£108k–£210k over six months, £216k–£420k over twelve
Derived from the published rate card, so you can check the arithmetic.
One senior programme lead, an AI programme director or delivery director depending on the shape of the programme, with partner oversight from James Rooney and scaling with programme size. Available fractionally, from around three days a week.
No build engineer, deliberately: this rung governs whoever is building, including when that is nobody from Tenhaw. The lead is at the published senior practitioner rate of £1,250 a day, with partner oversight on top.
James Rooney provides partner oversight on every engagement, and leads the audits personally. The people on your engagement are not substituted without your written agreement. Access, data handling and screening are set out on our security page.
Tenhaw provides programme and delivery management for agentic transformation programmes, including programmes delivered entirely by other suppliers. In the words most buyers use, this is where you hire an AI programme director, an interim delivery director or a fractional AI delivery lead, supplied as an engagement rather than as a permanent hire or an agency placement. We are as willing to govern a mixed estate of systems integrators, internal teams and specialist vendors as we are to own the full stack, and we will say when another supplier is better placed to build something. It draws on a decade of running delivery at HSBC, Anglo American, Discovery and Sky, and runs at £18,000–£35,000 per month.
What you get
In scope for the £18k–£35k monthly fee.
- Programme governance a board will actually steer with, not a status pack
- Probabilistic delivery forecasting from real throughput, not single invented dates
- Cross-supplier dependency management, including where we are one of the suppliers
- Supplier performance reporting to one standard, Tenhaw's own workstreams included
- Risk and issue management with escalation that resolves rather than records
- Benefits tracking against outcomes priced in currency
What the board receives each month
Four sections, in this order, every month, with the figures drawn from your programme's own delivery data.
- 01
Delivery dates as intervals, not as a date
Every commitment carries a p50 and a p85 completion date simulated from the programme's own throughput, with the whole set simulated together rather than epic by epic. A single date with no interval around it tells a board nothing about whether to act.
- 02
Supplier-by-supplier performance, ours included
Each supplier's committed against delivered work, in the same table, to the same standard. Where a Tenhaw workstream is behind, it appears in that table exactly as everyone else's does. Where we hold both the governance and a build role, the board is told so explicitly.
- 03
Risks and issues with named owners
Every risk carries a named human owner, a current escalation state, and the date it was last moved. Items that have not moved since the last pack are shown as not having moved rather than restated.
- 04
Benefits tracked in currency
What each outcome was priced at, what has been realised so far, and what is now forecast at close, with the gap named while there is still a quarter left to act on it.
The cadence, the forecasting method and the outcome validation this pack reports against are published in full, so you can hold the reporting to a standard that existed before your engagement did. Read the delivery model→
How the engagement runs, week by week
Programme duration, drawn to scale so you can see how long each part actually takes.
- 01Weeks 1–4
Establish the truth: what is actually in flight, what each supplier has committed to, where dependencies sit, and what the board currently believes versus what is real.
- 02Ongoing
Run the governance. Forecast probabilistically, surface slips before deadlines, manage cross-supplier dependencies, and report to the board in confidence intervals rather than traffic lights.
- 03Continuous
Hold suppliers to account, ourselves included. Where a Tenhaw workstream is behind, it appears in the same report as everyone else's.
- 04Handover
Build the internal capability to run this without us, and hand it over on an agreed date.
- Weeks 1–4
Establish the truth: what is actually in flight, what each supplier has committed to, where dependencies sit, and what the board currently believes versus what is real.
- Ongoing
Run the governance. Forecast probabilistically, surface slips before deadlines, manage cross-supplier dependencies, and report to the board in confidence intervals rather than traffic lights.
- Continuous
Hold suppliers to account, ourselves included. Where a Tenhaw workstream is behind, it appears in the same report as everyone else's.
- Handover
Build the internal capability to run this without us, and hand it over on an agreed date.
Is this the right rung for you?
We would rather tell you now than three weeks in.
Right for you if
- Programmes running across multiple suppliers with nobody owning the whole
- Organisations who have already chosen their build partners and need governance over them
- Boards that need a programme director in post this month rather than at the end of a six-month search
- Businesses wanting a fractional AI delivery lead instead of another full-time hire
- Boards receiving programme reporting they do not trust
- Businesses where the delivery discipline, not the technology, is the constraint
Not right if
- Programmes that already have credible delivery leadership in place
- Organisations wanting a supplier who will only report favourably on its own work
- Anyone after a contractor placement or a CV for a preferred-supplier list: this is an engagement with partner oversight behind it
- Single-team initiatives that do not need programme-level governance
Prefer to talk it through? Ask us on a discovery call →
One view of a multi-supplier programme, independently governed.
£18k–£35k / month·Programme duration·Rung 05
- Delivery dates as probabilities you can plan against
- Supplier performance reported without commercial self-interest filtering it
- Early warning on slips, while there is still time to act
Programme & Delivery Management: your questions
Will Tenhaw manage a programme it is not building?
Yes, and it is a deliberate part of the offer. Tenhaw provides programme and delivery management across mixed estates of systems integrators, internal teams and specialist vendors, with no requirement that we build any of it. Delivery governance is where the practice originated and it stands on its own.
Can you supply an AI programme manager without building anything?
Yes. This rung is sold on its own and clients do appoint us to governance only. You get an AI programme director or senior programme manager, with partner oversight from James Rooney, running governance, probabilistic forecasting, dependency management and supplier performance reporting across whoever is building the thing. £18,000 to £35,000 a month depending on programme size and supplier count: the bottom of that band is about three days a week of a senior lead plus oversight, the top is a full-time lead with delivery support as the supplier count grows.
Can I hire a fractional AI delivery lead?
Yes. You get a senior delivery lead on a part-time engagement, typically two to three days a week, at a fixed monthly fee with thirty days' notice either way. The person is contracted by Tenhaw, not employed by you or placed by an agency: screened to BS7858 standard before they touch your estate, with James Rooney accountable for the work alongside them. At the published rate card, three days a week of a senior programme lead with partner oversight lands at the bottom of the £18,000 to £35,000 band.
How do you avoid a conflict of interest when you are also a supplier?
By reporting on our own workstreams in the same pack, to the same standard, as everyone else's, including when we are the ones behind. Where we hold both roles we say so explicitly to the board, and clients can and do appoint us to governance only, which keeps the governance entirely independent of the build.
What does programme management for an AI transformation cost?
Tenhaw prices programme and delivery management between £18,000 and £35,000 per month depending on programme size and supplier count, with partner oversight included. It is deliberately the lowest-cost rung: delivery governance is often where a programme is won or lost.
Why does an agentic consultancy offer programme management?
Because most agentic programmes fail on delivery discipline rather than on technology, and because that discipline is the deepest part of our track record: a decade running delivery at HSBC across 150+ teams and a $102M budget, at Anglo American across three continents, and at Discovery under a fixed launch date. Agentic transformation is a change programme with AI in it, and the change part is where programmes die.
Can you take over a programme that is already in trouble?
It is the most common reason we are called. The first four weeks establish what is genuinely in flight versus what the board currently believes, which is usually where the gap is. We will tell you what we find, including when the answer is that the programme should be descoped or stopped rather than rescued.
The other rungs
Each one ends in a decision rather than a dependency. If another fits better, we will say so.
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Fixed price · £20k–£55k2–4 weeks03Agentic Design Team
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£35k–£55k / month2–4 months04Agentic Build Team
A team of three who build and ship it, under partner oversight.
£70k–£85k / month6–12 monthsTalk it through before you commit.
Thirty minutes with James. We will tell you honestly whether Programme & Delivery Management is the right rung for where you are, and you will leave with a rough scope whether you engage us or not.
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What this engagement is called elsewhere
This is the rung people arrive at when they are searching for a person rather than a project. It is the only one that supplies senior delivery leadership without Tenhaw building anything, and it is the only one that can be bought part-time.
AI programme director
Also advertised as: programme director, AI programme manager, transformation programme manager
Owns the whole programme across every supplier in it, including the ones we are not. Governance a board can steer with, probabilistic forecasts built from real throughput rather than single invented dates, cross-supplier dependency management, and supplier performance reported without commercial self-interest filtering it, ours included.
Interim delivery director
Also advertised as: delivery director, head of delivery, interim head of AI delivery
Steps into a delivery leadership seat that is vacant, newly created or in trouble, usually because a permanent search will take six months and the programme will not wait that long. The first four weeks establish what is genuinely in flight against what the board currently believes, which is where the gap normally sits.
Fractional AI delivery lead
Also advertised as: fractional AI lead, part-time AI delivery lead, fractional programme manager
The bottom of the band, £18,000 a month, is roughly three days a week of a senior programme lead at the published day rate with partner oversight on top. That is enough to run governance, forecasting and supplier management on a single programme, and it is the right shape for an organisation that needs delivery discipline rather than another full-time salary.
Every role here is supplied as an engagement, not a permanent hire or a staffing agency placement. The person is someone James Rooney has already delivered alongside, screened to BS7858 standard before they touch your estate, contracted by Tenhaw under the same confidentiality and data-handling terms as an employee, and accountable to James Rooney as well as to you. They are not substituted without your written agreement. There is no introduction fee and no permanent-placement conversion clause, and notice is thirty days either way. If what you need is a permanent Head of AI on your own payroll, hire one; an interim holds the seat while you run that search, and writes the specification you recruit against.
How the associate pool is selected and screened is set out on our team page, and the day rates behind every figure here are on the rate card.