Forward-Deployed Consultants for Workforce Products
Sightline works with organisations using AI to run and adapt their workforce dynamically.
We focus on data, context, governance and user challenges.
Who we work with
Organisations: Adopting Workforce AI
You're piloting technology to transform how you plan, manage and understand your workforce. The gains look real — but so does the complexity across talent, operations and IT teams
Vendors: Deploying Workforce AI
You're building cutting-edge SaaS products that align your clients' staff, suppliers and agents with work and demand. The technology is ready, but many clients are not.
7%
of organisations say their data is truly ready for AI
HBR, 2026Our Focus
Fixing Foundations for AI in Workforce Planning, Management and Insights
AI enabled products can now plan, staff and understand work in real-time. This promises huge upside for organisations. Sightline supports workforce and talent technology vendors to ensure that their clients have the foundations for success. As forward-deployed consultants, we help ensure:
data behind operational workforce decisions is trusted, traced and well-sourced
agents and automations draw on real business context, processes and rules
inputs and outputs are compliant, governed and overseen understood
users engage with, trust and enhance prodcut capabilities
“Every AI is only as good as the data it can access.”
1. Diagnostics
where we start
Fixed-scope, 2–4 weeks. We blend quantitative and qualitative analysis that shows clients where to start.
2. Solution Design
technical roadmapping
We convert the diagnosis into a phased, prioritised solution, with clear options on what to fix, buy or build.
3. Project Delivery
outcome-based consulting
We run delivery projects in sprints, combining in-house tools, associates and curated technologies to close gaps.
4. Drift & Defence
managed services for risk
Ongoing monitoring to sustain product reliability, as regulations, business needs, staff and data keep shifting.
How we help
Sightline delivers services that ensure AI products work for users, buyers, and builders alike. Our four-stage process combines proprietary tools, consulting, and curated tech.
We deliver fixed-scope sprints, rather than open-ended, time-and-materials engagements. Our services are pre-packaged and priced for simplicity.
1. Diagnostics
where we start
Fixed-scope, 2–4 weeks. We blend quantitative and qualitative analysis that shows clients where to start.
2. Solution Design
tecnical roadmapping
We convert the diagnosis into a phased, prioritised solution, with clear options on what to fix, buy or build.
3. Project Delivery
outcome-based consulting
We run delivery projects in sprints, combining in-house tools, associates and curated technologies to close gaps.
4. Drift & Defence
managed services for risk
Ongoing monitoring to sustain product reliability, as regulations, business needs, staff and data keep shifting.
Our Partnerships
Enterprise AI platforms only perform to their potential when clients have the pre-requisite foundations, across data, context and governance. Without these underpinnings, product sales, success and adoption can easily stall.
Sightline works with an ecosystem of platforms, consultants and specialist point-solution vendors of data, skills and processing, to close gaps with clients.
Our Perspective
As more work is done by and with AI, some of the hardest problems in enterprise will come in the coordination of resources. Human creativity, nuance, and judgment will need be orchestrated with agents that can execute tasks at speed for a competitive edge.
This will be technically and ethically hard. We're working on the frontiers of that challenge.
Sightline is led by Olivier Vidal, who has spent fifteen years building, breaking and fixing enterprise workforce, talent and skill products.