Founded in 2018 by Chloe Wolff and Daniel Mueller, innovation, strategy and new ventures consultancy intandem specialises in helping clients to harness innovation and emerging technology to deliver meaningful change. It focuses on a wide variety of sectors including defence, space, government, healthcare, mobility and net zero; as Wolff points out, “all of which are heavily regulated industries that are having to navigate huge disruptions from tech – this is very much our sweet spot”. 

intandem’s government practice, intandem.gov – led by Oliver Spencer – brings this expertise and ambition to the public sector, helping it tackle some of the most complex, pressing challenges of our time – those that impact people, planet and nation. The company’s steps into the public sector were triggered when its founders were invited to be Government Innovation Fellows, sponsored by the Cabinet Office.  

intandem has been part of the Vivace community since 2022 and has worked on 12 commissions for ACE, for clients including the Metropolitan Police and the Home Office. Commissions regularly investigate the impact of emerging technologies on public sector priorities.

Recent examples include exploring future use cases and opportunities to utilise synthetic data in law enforcement, delivering tooling to facilitate innovation within the Home Office and investigating how open-source data can be used to identify supply chain vulnerabilities that could impact on net zero targets. 

 ”One of the things we love about ACE is working on big, impactful challenges that our clients are seeking to address. We enjoy and value collaboration – we’re called ‘intandem’ for a reason,” explains Wolff. 

intandem.gov supports the public sector to respond to growing social, economic and environmental pressures, all in the context of fast-moving technology. The company’s approach draws on innovation and venturing expertise to help explore and shape practical solutions, often starting with discovery work.

“Discovery work plays to our strengths in bridging the gap between possibility and action, translating ideas into tangible and actionable outcomes. Being technology agnostic, we focus on engaging a wide variety of experts to bring problems and solutions to life – the outcome should be on addressing the customer need and evolving environment, not the technology,” says Spencer. 

Key to intandem.gov’s approach is engagement with its extensive commercial, public sector and academic networks to inject lessons learnt and bring new perspectives and fresh thinking into the public sector.   

Spencer adds: “We often help with making sense of complex environments, seeking input from a wide variety of targeted experts.

“One thing we love about working with ACE is working closely with partners as part of a rainbow team – it elevates what we do, we elevate what they do and the customer gets a better outcome.”

Inspired in part by ACE’s track record in driving innovation, intandem.gov sees huge opportunity in new models to unlock funding and drive sustainability whilst budgets are limited; it is bridging this gap for its commercial clients through venturing and external capital and is seeking to apply this model to the public sector.