Data, Analytics & AI Consulting

Turning Data & AI
Complexity Into
Real Outcomes

Advisory, contract, and hands-on consulting from C-suite strategy through to implementation and code. Whether you need executive guidance, embedded leadership, specialist delivery, or a combination of these, engagements are shaped for you.

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Depth of engagement
C-suite to hands-on
Strategy, architecture, team leadership, or direct implementation — wherever the work needs to happen.
What good looks like
Value and capability
Delivering near-term outcomes while building lasting capability, rather than trading one for the other.
Industry experience
10+ years, 6 sectors
Organisations large and small — domestic, international, and multi-national.

Experience Across Industry

BHP Compare The Market Flight Centre Travel Group Mastercard CLP Power Hong Kong Seven West Media Decoded
Where I can help

Delivering Outcomes Across the
Data, Analytics & AI Lifecycle

Across every industry and every level of data maturity, the same categories of work tend to define whether organisations succeed with data and AI. The specifics differ, but the patterns are often the same.

Strategy, Leadership & Operating Models

Getting data and AI to deliver value at an organisational level requires more than technology. It requires clarity of strategy, alignment of leadership, and operating models designed for how the work actually flows.

  • Balancing capability building with near-term value delivery
  • Prioritising initiatives when everything feels urgent
  • Securing investment and maintaining executive sponsorship
  • Aligning business and technology teams around shared outcomes
  • Designing governance frameworks that enable rather than obstruct
  • Measuring ROI on data and AI investment

Analytics, Data Science & Decision Making

Analytics capability spans a wide spectrum, from foundational reporting through to advanced modelling. The challenge is building capability that organisations actually use, and turning insight into action.

  • Enterprise reporting, BI, and analytics adoption
  • Measurement frameworks and experiment design
  • A/B testing and statistical analysis at scale
  • Predictive and prescriptive analytics
  • Marketing mix modelling and attribution
  • Customer segmentation and behavioural analytics
  • Translating analytical outputs into decisions and action

AI That Delivers Value Beyond Demos

AI should create measurable business value while appropriately managing governance, risk, privacy, and security. The gap between a compelling proof of concept and a production system that earns trust is where most AI initiatives stall.

  • Identifying high-value use cases and separating hype from opportunity
  • Building governance, risk, and oversight frameworks for AI
  • Machine learning — from model design to production deployment
  • Generative AI integration that solves real problems
  • Agentic AI: autonomous systems with appropriate human oversight
  • Scaling solutions that work in pilots to enterprise-wide value
  • Measuring and communicating AI's business impact
How we can work together

Flexible Engagement,
Serious Outcomes

Engagements are shaped around the work, not a fixed template. Whether you need strategic guidance, embedded leadership, or someone who can architect and build. The right model depends on your context.

Advisory & Executive Support

Strategic guidance, governance frameworks, roadmap development, and executive-level advisory that helps organisations make better decisions about data and AI investment and direction.

Fractional Leadership

Embedded leadership support for organisations that need senior data and AI capability without a permanent hire, covering strategy, team direction, and stakeholder engagement on a part-time or interim basis.

Delivery Leadership

Leading initiatives from concept to implementation. Scoping, planning, managing stakeholders, and ensuring that projects deliver the outcomes they were designed for, not just technical outputs.

Hands-On Specialist Consulting

Direct implementation, solution design, and coding across analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI systems. Comfortable moving between architecture decisions and writing production code.

Contract & Project Engagements

Available for fixed-term contracts, project-based engagements, and specialist support. Equally suited to short, focused interventions and longer-term embedded roles.

From the Boardroom to the Build

The best work often needs more than one lane. Many engagements span multiple modes — strategic one week, hands-on the next. No translation needed.

Not sure which model fits? Most engagements start with a conversation about the challenge, not the contract structure. Get in touch and we can work out what makes sense from there.
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What People Say

Conor O'Neill

Conor O'Neill

Executive Consultant — Data, Analytics & AI

Global Top 100 Data & Analytics Leader — Corinium, 2023

Conor O'Neill is a data, analytics, and AI leader who works at the intersection of strategy, technology, and delivery. Over the past decade he has helped organisations across financial services, travel, e-commerce, mining, media, and scientific research turn complex data and AI initiatives into measurable business outcomes.

What distinguishes his approach is the ability to move comfortably between executive discussions and implementation detail. Whether shaping strategy with senior leaders, guiding teams through delivery, or working directly with data and code, the focus remains the same: creating practical outcomes that organisations can sustain and build upon.

A recognised industry leader and conference speaker, Conor combines deep technical expertise with a strong understanding of organisational change, helping businesses navigate the opportunities and realities of data and AI adoption.

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Ready to make progress?

Whether you're navigating a specific challenge, looking to build capability, or working out what's possible, a conversation is the right place to start.

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conor@conor.ai
Brisbane, Australia
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