Next brings the breadth. Your team brings the judgement.
Next connects knowledge of your systems and business with governed AI agents that plan and execute work. Teams work from a shared understanding, while leadership can see progress, costs and decisions across projects and business units.
Understand the systems behind your business priorities.
Bring together the source code, system documents, contracts, policies and organisational information for each system, in one place.
Add knowledge from the people who operate and maintain those systems. Use the combined evidence to assess dependencies, challenge assumptions, generate new requirements and inform investment decisions.
Read the code
Analyse available source code to map application logic and relationships.
Add the business context
Capture how people use the software, why processes exist, and what must be preserved.
Build on what you learn
Keep project knowledge connected to the work. Feed completed changes back into the shared information used for future planning.
Prioritise demand against business objectives.
Requests arrive from across the business. Next helps develop them into requirements and business cases using shared systems knowledge and the criteria you define.
Your teams review the detail, compare priorities, and resolve trade-offs. Defined approvals provide a clear route from a business request to an agreed commitment.
The paper-based, fragmented HSE equipment register at Site 12 creates compliance risk, hidden waste and key-person dependency. It prevents reliable audit evidence and real-time visibility of safety-critical tools.
This matters to shop-floor operators, who need quick offline barcode/QR scanning; to the HSE team, who assemble audit packs by hand and face a recent ISO 45001 non-conformance; and to site leadership, because the current process exposes the site to regulatory penalties and ties critical knowledge to a few individuals.
The initiative will deliver a centrally governed digital HSE register built on standard Dynamics 365 warehouse-mobile functionality, with offline sync and registration with competent authorities where required (REQ-0946). It will not address broader HSE process redesign or real-time integration beyond the planned offline-sync model.
| Field | Score / status | What it rests on |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | — | Site 12 operators, HSE team and maintenance: 184 users across 14 departments (HR org data) |
| Impact | — | Removes manual audit-pack assembly and closes the ISO 45001 non-conformance; benefit from Finance cost model |
| Strategic fit | — | Aligns with "Engineering governance and compliance maturity" theme |
Sources: KB-0412 HSE equipment procedures · ISO 45001 clause 8.1 · Site 12 asset list (2,140 items) · HR organisation data · Finance cost model FY26 · Dynamics 365 WMS mobile documentation
Gather the right information
Set the questions each request must answer, from business need to expected value.
Use your own decision process
Configure review steps, scoring criteria, and approvals to match how your organisation works.
Keep the reasoning
Carry requirements, feedback, and decisions into delivery so teams understand both the task and its purpose.
Keep delivery connected to the approved plan.
Next turns approved plans into workstreams and tasks with owners, deadlines, and review steps. The requirements and decisions remain connected as delivery progresses.
Follow work across software, infrastructure, data, procurement, and legal teams. See outstanding decisions and responsibilities without relying on separate accounts of progress.
Make ownership clear
Assign work to the people responsible for completing and reviewing it.
Follow the work
See task status and outstanding decisions in the same place as the plan.
Keep knowledge current
Use completed work to update the context for the next decision.
Agents do the work. You set the rules.
Next understands your systems, policies and organisation. Agents execute on planning and delivery tasks. You decide where review and approval are required. You define the workflows, models and budgets.
Apply governance across the platform.
Configure your policies and requirements within agent workflows. Choose what is enforced, how it is enforced and where people must review or approve the work. Controls can be mandatory or advisory.
Review the record of agent activity, decisions and approvals to understand how work was completed.
Every agent works inside limits you set.
Your policies set the rules. You choose the model and the budget for each agent pack. Your people approve at the gates, and one audit trail records all of it.
Policies set the rules
Your policies and regulatory requirements inform the work agents produce. You configure the controls and approval steps that govern how that work is carried out.
The right model for the task
Choose the AI model for each task. Larger models for planning and judgement, smaller and faster models for routine checks. Your keys, your cloud or on premise.
Token budgets
Set a budget per project or workflow. Usage and spend are recorded per agent, project and team.
One audit trail
Decisions, approvals and agent actions are recorded in the workflow. Status, throughput, spend and compliance report from the same context, at group and subsidiary level.
Common questions
How is Next different from a shared AI chat?
Next retains a shared understanding of your applications and business, then uses it within defined workflows. Requirements, plans, tasks and decisions remain connected, so teams and agents can build on work already completed.
Do we need to load information about the whole business first?
No. Start with one application or project. Identify the information it needs, check its quality, and expand from there.
What if our documentation is incomplete?
Available code, system information, and walkthroughs with experienced users can help fill gaps. The level of detail possible depends on the evidence available.
Where does leadership retain control?
You configure what agents can do, which controls are mandatory or advisory, and which steps require human review or approval. You can review agent activity and decisions and change the workflow as requirements change.
Can we keep our existing development tools?
Next is designed to work with your development process. We will review the tools and connections needed for your use case as part of the initial scope.
Can agents act in our other applications?
Yes, through client-specific configuration of the required integrations and workflows. You decide which actions are permitted, which run autonomously and which require approval.
Can we choose how Next is deployed?
Talk to us about hosted, private-cloud, and on-premises options. We will confirm the deployment and model configuration that fits your requirements.
Does Next guarantee compliance?
Next uses your policies and regulatory requirements to inform the work agents produce. You configure the controls, reviews and approvals, and retain responsibility for interpreting and meeting your obligations. Next records agent activity and decisions to support oversight.
How should we evaluate the value?
Choose a defined application or programme and agree the measures before starting. Depending on the scope, these could include time spent preparing requirements, gaps in system knowledge, or effort spent assembling management reports. Use the results to decide whether to expand.
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