Ryan Ashton.
Humation was founded by Ryan Ashton: two decades in enterprise technology across sales, product and executive community building, and the creator of A Few Quiet Yarns (AFQY), the no-selling community that has connected more than 28,000 of New Zealand's senior technology leaders. His operating philosophy is the buying assistant: helping you buy what fulfils your objectives, even when it is not us.
A collective of former CIOs.
Now consultants.
Humation delivers through AFQY Advisory, a collective of former CIOs and senior technology executives who now consult. Some consult permanently. Some consult between CIO roles and bring you what the market is living right now. We pride ourselves on one thing above all: our consultants have walked a mile in our clients' shoes. They have owned the budget, fronted the board and lived with the promises vendors make.
Treated the way we wanted to be treated.
We treat you the way we wanted to be treated when we were in the role. Openly. Honestly. Transparently. We share our experiences and we are upfront about our limitations, because we do not bring egos to the table. We bring an authentic, genuine desire to help you achieve your objectives as if they were our own. Because that is how we see them.
The right individual. Or the right team.
A diverse range of people and diverse experiences means we can match the engagement to the objective, not the other way around.
Your industry
Consultants who have led technology inside your industry and speak its language from day one. No expensive ramp-up on how your world works.
Your clients and suppliers
Experience from inside your major clients and suppliers. We have sat on both sides of the table, so advice anticipates your whole ecosystem.
Your objectives
Relationships and experience built over decades, applied to one purpose: helping you achieve your objectives and goals.
No one working on your work is a stranger.
We believe in teamwork, so we engineered it. Every engagement runs on our connection-based project framework, built with our sister company AFQY and its meet-the-person approach: meet the person, not the suit.
Before and while we deliver, the people on your engagement connect as people. Your team and ours, by name, not by job title. Teams that genuinely know each other surface bad news earlier, hand over cleanly and back each other under pressure. Everyone working on your work will know each other by name. That is the standard.
Your objectives, treated like our own.
Tell us what you need to achieve. We will bring the experience that has been there before: one human, or a team who already know each other by name.