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Our customers, B2B software companies delivering complex enterprise implementations, use the platform to turn expensive manual effort into scalable AI workflows.\nMany of our customers’ best people already build powerful AI workflows for themselves, for example using Claude to read customer requirements in Excel and cross-reference them against Jira. The enterprise challenge is making those individual workflows reliable at scale. That’s where M-1 comes in: managing dynamic, often conflicting programme context across teams and customers, while providing the controls enterprises need around observability, evals, security, permissions and compute cost.\nWe’re early-stage, revenue-generating, and already live on critical multi-million-pound technology programmes in our beachhead segment: financial services.\nThe Role\nThis is a programme management role, operating in M-1’s forward-deployed model. 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