Programme architecture, transformation governance, and bespoke AI deployed inside your Unit4 estate. Delivered by a senior specialist with eighteen years inside the system — not a partner-firm pyramid that learns on your time.
A deliberate combination most consultancies cannot ship: strategic ERP advisory, AI engineered to the system, and senior-level delivery embedded inside the client team.
Public sector teams running Unit4 have two consultancy options. Strategy houses who write convincing decks but cannot touch the system. Implementation partners who can touch the system but route every decision through a junior team and a project manager.
Bear Consulting is the third option: strategic-grade thinking from someone who can also write the SQL, configure the workflow, and deploy the AI — directly into the client's environment, on the client's timeline.
Programme architecture, governance design, transformation roadmaps. Multi-stream, multi-year. Authored at the level decision-makers actually need to commit budget against.
Bespoke AI applications and agents — RAG chatbots, continuous-monitoring intelligence, automated outreach — designed against Unit4's actual data model, not a generic LLM wrapper.
One senior specialist working as a peer inside the client's team. No partner-firm hierarchy, no junior consultants billing learning time, no methodology to sell around the work.
A career built on test-managed Unit4 delivery across the public and private sector — from data migrations and cloud upgrades to payroll transformation, support turnaround, and strategic AI.
HR, Payroll, L&D and Finance implementations across UK local government, policing, central-government shared services, higher education, regulated and nuclear environments, international organisations, and financial services — Test Manager on the majority, consistently delivering zero-critical-defect go-lives.
Full test lifecycle: strategy design, IST/UAT script authoring, parallel payroll runs, defect triage and go-live readiness. Parallel runs executed at 2,500+ employee scale and across multiple government departments.
End-to-end Unit4 migrations and upgrades — legacy data migration, on-premise to cloud, Smart Client to Web Client, version upgrades and greenfield implementations — with mapping, reconciliation rules and cut-over governance authored, not outsourced.
Operating reviews of public-sector payroll functions, phased improvement roadmaps, parallel-run assurance, statutory reporting, and automation of manual processes — delivered as production documents, not recommendations.
Concept-led training programmes, facilitator guides, workbooks and knowledge checks — designed and delivered as workshops — plus SOPs and self-service enablement that move organisations off manual processes.
Service-desk, incident, problem, release and change management to ITIL practice — backlog halved and 100% SLA compliance achieved on a Unit4 support function, with good practice and compliance embedded in the team.
Transformation programme architecture and governance for UK public sector Unit4 estates, plus the Embedded Intelligence Method and AI engineered to the system — PolicyAI and the Unit4 X-Ray diagnostic.
Where the same problem appears across multiple councils, the work is packaged. Fixed scope, fixed price, deliberately structured around how UK local government actually procures.
An HR policy chatbot for council staff. Retrieval-augmented generation over the organisation's actual policy library, built on Anthropic Claude Opus and deployed on Vercel with Azure AD single sign-on. Tiered domain framework controls which policies surface to which audience.
Deployed at first reference council with HR-Director approval. Available as a packaged offer for councils with comparable HR policy estates.
A structured strategic diagnostic of a Unit4 Business World installation: configuration drift, defect inventory, control gaps, undocumented architecture, and capability deficit. Delivered as a written executive-grade assessment with prioritised remediation roadmap.
Priced deliberately below typical single-officer authorisation thresholds in UK local government — so the engagement can be authorised without committee.
A specialist consultancy operating as a sole practice — by design, not by stage of growth.
Founded by Mircea Rogojan-Rush, Bear Consulting Services is built around a single conviction: that strategic ERP advisory and AI engineering are the same discipline, and that organisations get cheated when those disciplines arrive in separate consultancy pyramids.
The practice is sole-practitioner by design. Engagements are retained, embedded, and deliberately capped — typically one or two concurrent clients. The economics work because there are no juniors to subsidise, no methodology to sell around the work, and no partner-firm overhead to fund.
Behind the advisory sits eighteen years of hands-on Unit4 delivery: Test Manager across 10+ implementations spanning local government, policing, central-government shared services, higher education, regulated and international organisations, and financial services. The same person who sets the strategy can write the test script, the SQL, the AI prompt, and the audit memo.
If your council's Unit4 estate carries strategic risk — failed transformation, audit exposure, capability gap, or AI ambition with no route to delivery — start with a thirty-minute call. No slides.
mircea@bearconsultingservices.com
LinkedIn: Mircea Rogojan-Rush
Or book a 30-minute call directly — no email back-and-forth.
A brief outline of the strategic problem, the modules involved, and the urgency. A personal response within one working day.
For first engagements, the typical entry point is a fixed-price Unit4 X-Ray scoped to a defined area of the estate.
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