Advisory Services
Technology guidance that starts with listening.
Drawing on 25 years of field experience across humanitarian response, public health, climate, and international development. From the UK to Southeast Asia to Europe.
Book a Free Discovery CallWhat Jura Labs offers
All engagements are scoped to your organisation's needs and budget. Jura Labs reserves time each quarter for organisations that genuinely cannot afford commercial rates. If your work is impactful and you have no budget, get in touch anyway.
The same technical depth that goes into building ROOTED and Jura Trace is behind the advisory work. Independent, vendor-neutral, and grounded in 25 years of sector experience. Every pound earned funds the free tools. Jura Labs is a Community Interest Company: no shareholders, no private extraction.
All engagements start with a free 30-minute discovery call. No obligation, no sales pitch.
Technical Product Stewardship
Fractional CTO for organisations without an in-house technology lead.
Jura Labs acts as your technical lead: reviewing vendor proposals, joining agency standups, providing written feedback on architecture decisions. Built production systems for ActionAid International, the NHS, and Bliss.
- Vendor proposal review and challenge
- Architecture decision records
- Agency standup participation
- Risk escalation to board level
1 day per week, flexible. Also available at the half-day advisory rate.
Suited to: Charities with grant-funded projects. Public-sector teams managing external developers.
Book a free discovery call →Red/Amber/Green risk report, data governance review, roadmap, board-level presentation.
Scope depends on organisation complexity.
Book a free discovery call →AI Readiness Assessment
Before adopting AI, understand where you actually stand.
77% of UK charities now use AI tools, but only 16% have a formal policy. Jura Labs provides a structured, honest assessment: where AI can genuinely help, where the risks sit, and what you need to do before adopting anything. Not a sales pitch. An independent evaluation.
- Current AI tool audit across the organisation
- Data governance and GDPR exposure review
- Risk-tiered recommendations (RAG report)
- Board-ready presentation and roadmap
Technology Stack Audit
Know what you’re paying for, where your data lives, and what happens if a platform changes the rules.
Full audit covering costs, data jurisdiction, vendor lock-in risk, GDPR exposure, and alternative recommendations. Designed for organisations that haven’t reviewed their stack in two or more years.
- Full technology stack map
- Data sovereignty assessment
- Vendor lock-in and exit cost analysis
- Migration options and risk register
Full stack map, sovereignty assessment, risk register, and migration plan.
Suited to: Any organisation that hasn’t reviewed its tech stack in 2+ years.
Book a free discovery call →Direct access to 25 years of sector experience. Written summary provided after every session.
Suited to: Any charity, non-profit, or public-sector organisation with a specific question that needs expert input within a defined timeframe.
Book a free discovery call →Half-Day Bespoke Advisory
Focused expert input on a specific challenge. No ongoing commitment.
Not every question needs a full engagement. A structured half-day session, remote or in-person, concentrating entirely on your question. Topics include:
- Cybersecurity posture review
- Accessibility and WCAG compliance
- Website restructuring and content strategy
- Vendor selection and procurement support
- Digital strategy and roadmapping
- GDPR and data governance
- Open-source migration planning
Workshops and training
Coming September 2026Practical, hands-on sessions designed for teams, not just individuals. Delivered online, tailored to your context.
Carbon Reporting for Non-Technical Teams
Half-day workshop for charities who need to measure their carbon footprint but do not know where to start. Walk through setup, your first reporting period, and communicating results to funders. No carbon accounting expertise required. Just bring your energy bills.
Learn about ROOTED →Digital Provenance for Cultural Heritage
Half-day workshop for museums, archives, newsrooms, and cultural organisations. Covers C2PA content credentials, why they matter, and how to use Jura Trace to sign, verify, and watermark your digital assets. Hands-on: bring sample images and leave with signed, verified files.
Learn about Jura Trace →EUR prices are approximate equivalents. To register interest in a workshop or suggest a topic, get in touch. Organisations that participate in the ROOTED or Jura Trace pilots receive a discount on follow-up advisory work.
Track Record
Carbon Reporting at Scale
Designed and scaled the world's largest carbon calculator, Creative Climate Tools, for the cultural sector at Julie's Bicycle, used by over 2,000 organisations.
Global Digital Communications
Led digital strategy across ActionAid International's federation of 40+ country programmes, designing communications infrastructure for teams working in complex, low-resource environments.
Public Health and Palliative Care
Launched the UK's first national digital service for people with life-limiting conditions. NHS-funded. Digitalised the Baby Charter accreditation programme at Bliss, supporting neonatal units across the UK.
International Development and Peacebuilding
Designed and delivered the complete technology platform for the VUFO-NGO Resource Centre in Vietnam, serving 140 international aid agencies including UN, Oxfam, and EU delegations. CRM, web publishing, and sector communications built entirely on open source at zero licensing cost. Earlier work at International Alert, developing digital communications tools and full stack infrastructure for peacebuilding programmes in conflict-affected regions.
From Server Rooms to Strategy
Before any of this: enterprise IT. Building and maintaining servers in a managed data centre, configuring network infrastructure, and providing frontline support across education, legal, insurance, and banking. Twenty-five years later, that hands-on background still shapes how Jura Labs approaches every recommendation. The advice starts from how things actually work, not how a slide deck says they should.
Jura Labs is a Community Interest Company (No. 17117467). There are no shareholders. All surplus is reinvested in free tools for communities. Organisations that genuinely cannot afford commercial rates: get in touch anyway. Jura Labs reserves time each quarter.
Every conversation starts the same way
A free discovery call. Thirty minutes to understand your challenge and work out whether Jura Labs can help. No pitch. No obligation.