Identify the real business problem
Look past the presenting symptoms, listen closely, and define the problem in terms people can actually act on.
Shreevaari Consulting Ltd
Okayma.com
A founder-led consultancy that identifies the real business problem, architects a practical solution, builds the MVP, and takes useful ideas out into the world.
The Belief
It is okay. Start from the problem. Build from experience.
Okayma rests on a simple personal conviction: anything can be approached with calm thinking, honest intent, and the will to find a way through. I am not here to prove myself to anyone. I am here to put to work what I have learned, what I can imagine, and what I can build.
After more than thirty years as a Director and Solution Architect, I know the title fits. Bring me a thousand problems and I will use every ability I have to understand them, simplify them, and chart a route toward a solution.
Who You Are Working With
Thirty years spent between the boardroom and the build.
I have architected across retail, energy, utilities, finance, life science and eCommerce, in the UK and across EMEA, APAC and the Americas. Most of that time has been spent in the same narrow place: between a board that needs an outcome and an engineering team that needs a decision, making sure both walk away with something they can act on.
Lately the work has moved toward AI — agentic systems built on the Claude Agent SDK, retrieval pipelines grounded in a company’s own data, and the human-in-the-loop checkpoints that make any of it safe to run in production. Okayma is where I do that work on my own terms.
The work, at a high level
- A global investment manager Took a substantial recurring cost out of the cloud estate, and shortened the production release cycle from months to weeks with no downtime.
- A national retail group Architected real-time payment fraud decisioning, and the identity and access framework behind a large outsourced contact-centre operation, through a full corporate separation from its parent.
- A supermarket’s online business Delivered the loyalty platform behind personalised customer engagement at scale, and was recognised internally for the delivery.
The Team
How Okayma Works
Architect a practical solution
Bring experience, technical depth, judgement, and out-of-the-box thinking together into a clear path forward.
Create an MVP
Turn the idea into something visible, testable, and useful enough to invite genuine feedback and support.
Take it to the world
Welcome the right people, from my network or well beyond it, then grow the idea together with purpose.
Backed by
“He began with the real business problem rather than the presenting symptoms, and turned it into a working product that reached users quickly.”
Work With Okayma
Start with a Problem Diagnostic.
Most engagements begin the same way. Someone knows something is wrong, and the argument about what to build has already started. The diagnostic ends that argument by writing the problem down properly first — and it is fixed in scope, so you are not signing up to open-ended discovery.
Problem Diagnostic
A two-week, fixed-fee first engagement. No retainer.
- Duration
- Two weeks
- Fee
- £2,500 – £4,000
- Basis
- Fixed price, agreed in writing
What happens
- Week one Conversations with the people closest to the problem, and an honest look at the systems, data and constraints you already have.
- Week two The problem stated in a single page, then two or three routes through it — each with its cost, its risk, and what it asks of your team.
What you keep
- A written diagnostic you can hand to a board, a lender, or an engineering team.
- A recommended route, with the reasoning shown rather than asserted.
- A costed outline of what building it would actually take.
Yours either way, whether or not we work together again.
The fee is confirmed after a thirty-minute call and before any work begins — scope first, price second. Architecture, MVP and build engagements are quoted separately once the diagnostic is done.
Ideas And Ventures
Okayma is a place for independent thinking.
This company is where I will shape my views into business ideas, build the proof points behind them, and share the results openly. Some ideas may become products. Some may become partnerships. Some may simply open a better conversation.
The work begins with curiosity, and becomes valuable the moment it solves something real.
You do not have to watch from the outside. If you have a business problem worth solving, or an idea that answers one, share it on the ideas board in about seventy-five words. Register with your email address, confirm the link, and your idea joins the board once it has been reviewed.
Collaborate
Bring a problem, an idea, or the will to back one.
If you see potential in an Okayma idea, or you have a business problem worth solving, let us talk. I welcome collaborators, clients, sponsors, builders, and thoughtful people from any network.