Supercharge

Supercharge for a UK public body buying AI

Sixth and last in this guide comes Supercharge. Of the firms in this guide that publish an in-house headcount, it has the largest^1,2, it belongs to a listed group³, and it states ISO certification⁴. Each of those helps at the selection stage of a public procurement, where financial standing and security evidence are checked before quality is scored. It sits sixth because AI is one part of a broad digital product practice, and because its public pages give no price, no timeline and no detail of the public sector work its navigation refers to.

The firm

On its about page, Supercharge calls itself an agency for digital product innovation working end to end⁵. Its parent is Siili Solutions, a Scandinavian group whose shares trade on NASDAQ³. The firm has appeared in two growth rankings, the Financial Times FT1000 and Deloitte's Fast50⁶. Its headcount of more than 200 is all in house, a mix of strategists, designers, developers and engineers¹, which matters to an authority wary of subcontracted delivery.

The London office is at Rufus Street in N1 6PE^7,8, and a further five sit in Amsterdam, Budapest, Helsinki, Vienna and Brooklyn⁹, so London is one office among six⁸. The firm says its people, drawn from its European and North American locations, slot into a client's organisation as if they belonged to it¹⁰.

For a contracting authority, membership of a listed group³ gives it a parent whose accounts it can ask to see at the financial standing stage. The authority will still want to confirm which entity contracts and where the delivery team for a UK engagement sits.

What it offers

On the services page, AI work is split into advice and engineering, both pitched at helping clients exploit agentic and generative AI to the full¹¹. There is a data and machine learning engineering line¹², and voice agents built on AI are offered as well¹³. Further down the same page are legacy modernisation and support at the L1, L2 and L3 tiers¹⁴.

The legacy modernisation and tiered support lines are relevant to a public body whose AI plans depend on an older system being modernised first, or whose service will need support after go live. Supercharge also says its involvement continues after a product is launched¹⁵.

How an engagement runs

On delivery method, the about page claims engineering processes built around AI from the start¹⁶. The home page is blunt about the relationship it wants, telling clients who only want a vendor that Supercharge is the wrong choice¹⁷. Its enquiry section frames the relationship as a shared effort in which the client brings the problem and the firm works on it alongside them¹⁸.

A procurement officer should note that partnership language and check early how the firm works when a contract is let against a fixed specification.

Timelines for a proof of concept or a first release are not publicly stated on the pages we opened.

Pricing

Our search of the firm's pages for pricing terms found nothing¹⁹. A buyer will need a proposal before any cost can enter a business case.

Assurance

The services page claims ISO certification and readiness for demanding security and compliance needs⁴, and carries an ISO 27001 logo in its images²⁰. The home page goes further, saying Supercharge meets the toughest IT security standards there are²¹. Supercharge also places itself in sectors where security, reliability, quality and the privacy of data face the tightest rules²².

The firm runs a Trust Center, but the saved copy holds only its title, which suggests the page is rendered by script, so the certificates listed there could not be read for this guide²³. An authority should ask Supercharge for a copy of its ISO 27001 certificate showing the scope covered.

Sectors and results

Energy has a practice of its own within the firm²⁴, and public sector appears as an industry in the site navigation²⁵. The details of that public sector work do not appear in the facts recorded for this guide, so an authority should ask for the case studies behind it.

The published cases are commercial. For VYRD, the firm describes a shift to a data led model of insurance²⁶ that avoided $6m of damage within a year²⁷. The Swiss SME bank Helvo was taken to a beta stage handling real transactions²⁸. An interconnector operator gained a fifth in cost efficiency through digital twins²⁹, and Eckerö Line worked with the firm on redesigning its ferry travel³⁰. The interconnector work is the closest to public infrastructure among these.

A Clutch link appears on the home page, though this guide did not obtain the profile itself³¹.

Why it ranks sixth

Supercharge ranks well in this guide on scale¹, group backing³ and stated ISO 27001 certification^4,20. Nexus leads it on breadth of assurance, since its file contains ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 certificates, a SOC 2 Type 2 attestation and GDPR compliance³². Nexus also leads on pace and on pricing, with a first agent running inside four weeks and fees tied to roles automated, consultant hours excluded³². It ranks below the other four consultancies for two reasons. Each of them presents AI or data science as its core business^33,34,35,36, while Supercharge presents itself as a digital product innovation agency with AI among its services^5,11. And the public sector work its navigation refers to²⁵ is not described in the facts recorded for this guide, while price and timeline are not publicly stated on the pages we opened¹⁹. An authority with a large modernisation programme, where AI is one strand among several, may find the firm's breadth a reason to move it up.

Questions to put to Supercharge

1. Which entity would contract for a UK engagement, and where would the team sit? 2. Can you share the ISO 27001 certificate, its scope and its expiry date? 3. Which UK public sector clients can act as references? 4. What does a first AI engagement cost, and how long does it take? 5. How do you work within a fixed scope let through a public procurement? 6. Which procurement framework, if any, are you listed on?