Tiller Global provides self-reinforcing intelligence capabilities across mission critical networks.
Pre-empt disruption, protect capability and stay ahead in a contested worldDecision superiority - delivered by fusing human expertise and sovereign AI
About Us
Tiller Global is an augmented intelligence company that secures mission critical networks and operational resilience in an evolving global political and economic order.
We provide expertise in supply chain resilience, network intelligence, adversarial threat monitoring, wargaming and cognitive warfare. Our solutions map complex networks, identify hidden dependencies and enable rapid decision-making in high-stakes and fast-evolving environments
The fusion of elite human intelligence and advanced, sovereign AI sits at the centre of our service. Human judgement and machine-speed analysis operate as a single capability, continuously sensing, modelling and informing action. The result is intelligence that does not degrade under pressure and decisions that remain defensible when stakes are highest.
Tiller Global is an augmented intelligence agency for the new Age of Risk.
The global political order and business environment has been disrupted. Predictability has been replaced with instability and uncertainty. Data reliability and veracity is undermined by misinformation and disinformation.
The way leaders make decisions has changed. Confronted with complex and fast-moving situations, and mistrust of data, decisions need to be made quickly, whilst being defensible to stakeholders.
As the global environment has become more complex, interconnected and uncertain, governments’ priorities have shifted from growth to resilience. The protection of supply chains, energy security, critical infrastructure, and the cognitive security of its population is paramount.
International business is navigating slower growth, inflation pressures, supply chain realignments, rapid technological disruption, and diverse reputational threats, forcing boards to balance cost control with investment in resilience and digital transformation.
But the timescale of responding to rising unpredictability has been slashed. Leaders cannot afford to take months, let alone days to alter strategic or operational course. Decisions need to be made imminently – but they must be grounded in auditable decision points to stand-up against increasing stakeholder scrutiny.
This is where Tiller Global comes in.
In an evolving and seemingly unpredictable global environment, we provide pre-emptive protection: insight and clarity early enough to act before disruption turns into damage.
Tiller Global is an intelligence technology company that places human expertise at the core of technological application. We are putting the human back into AI to produce augmented intelligence for operational resilience.
Tiller Global solves the challenges posed by the current geopolitical and geo-economic environment by changing the way intelligence is delivered and used by public and private sector clients. We do this by deploying augmented intelligence – human expertise enhanced by technological application, and technological application enhanced by human expertise. This is the Sandpiper Intelligence Engine, a continuous decision intelligence platform that combines:
- Deep human expertise drawn from intelligence, defence and complex operational environments.
- Advanced AI capable of modelling networks, dependencies and failure modes, at scale.
- Persistent analysis that evolves as conditions change
Through the Sandpiper Intelligence Engine, Tiller Global connects all relevant data, provides reasoning over a graph, and ranks decisions with quantified risks. Our technology combines machine-speed analysis with human judgment to enable Clients to test scenarios, quantify consequences and decide optimal courses of action. It enables smarter, faster and defensible decision-making when stakes are high.
This combination enables leaders to move faster than disruption, and it provides certainty in an uncertain world. We deliver ‘capability-as-a-service’ that strengthens with every deployment and every scenario tested.
Resilience is no longer about recovery. It is about maintaining operational and competitive velocity while disruption unfolds.
Tiller Global integrates intelligence, expert resilience advisory and advanced AI into a single operating model.
Our proprietary technology, Sandpiper Intelligence Engine, creates living digital twins of operational networks, including a wide range of supply chains. It ingests structured and unstructured data, models second- and third-order effects, and generates ranked, explainable courses of action at machine speed.
Our solution provides machine-speed analysis with human judgment that integrates ground-truth verification, contextual interpretation and decision accountability.
This enables Clients to test scenarios, quantify consequences and decide optimal courses of action. It enables smarter, faster and defensible decision-making when stakes are high.
Our operating model delivers decision superiority – clarity, speed and confidence under pressure.
Capability-as-a-service
Permanent decision advantage powered by human judgement and sovereign AI
The world is noisy, fragmented and opaque, Tiller Global turn complexity into clarity, and clarity into decisive advantage.
Tiller Global delivers Capability-as-a-Service: a persistent, integrated intelligence capability that fuses elite human judgement with sovereign AI.
We provide an always-on decision advantage designed for high-risk and fast evolving situations where speed, clarity and confidence matter.
Our proprietary approach can embed intelligence, advisory expertise and technology into an operational capability that compounds in value over time.
Tiller Global builds enduring capability for our clients. Our work strengthens teams, decision processes and operational resilience through our Sandpiper Intelligence Engine, and associated training, co-delivery and embedded support.
Tiller Global clients are empowered to interpret intelligence, challenge assumptions and make better decisions faster.
Augmented Intelligence Technology
Better, faster, reliable decisions
Augmented Intelligence Technology
- Tiller Global combines world-class human expertise with advanced AI to deliver insight and decisions that neither can achieve alone
- The purpose-built Sandpiper Intelligence Engine compresses decision cycles from weeks to minutes whilst maintaining explainability and governance.
- Combined with elite intelligence professionals with decades of operational experience in frontier and contested environments, the access and networks Tiller Global injects into its applications are unrivalled.
- Our talent turns advanced AI into a differentiating capability delivering technology shaped by practitioners who have operated at the sharpest edge of risk.
- The result is intelligence that is faster, sharper and defensible.
Sandpiper Intelligence Engine
From complex inputs to clear action, rapidly.
Sandpiper Intelligence Engine
- Tiller Global’s sovereign, augmented intelligence platform is purpose-built for adversarial and uncertain environments.
- It delivers machine-speed analysis with human-in-the-loop governance. Human expertise is woven through the design and deployment of the Sandpiper Intelligence Engine to validate AI outputs and provide situational context.
- The Sandpiper Intelligence Engine addresses supply chains, infrastructure networks, threat landscapes, and competitive environments – allowing our clients to test scenarios, quantify consequences and decide optimal courses of action.
- Our technological platform uses AI powered data discovery and scenario analysis to help clients make better decisions and understand second and third-order consequences of disruption in real-time.
- It compresses decision cycles from weeks to minutes, answering complex ‘what if’ questions at machine speed without sacrificing explainability.
- Finally, the Sandpiper Intelligence Engine builds adaptive capacity, not rigid plans. It maintains competitive capability under any disruption scenario.
- The Tiller Global Sandpiper Intelligence Engine represents a fundamental shift: from static contingency planning to dynamic, continuously learning resilience that compounds in value with every deployment.
Security, Resilience & Business Continuity
Operational resilience when disruption becomes deliberate
Security, Resilience & Business Continuity
- Tiller Global supports clients operating in contested, high-risk and fast-evolving environments. Our security and resilience advisory covers crisis management, critical infrastructure protection, supply chain network security, and national security advisory.
- We work across private and public sectors to identify vulnerabilities, expose hidden dependencies, and design responses that hold under stress.
- Tiller Global augments corporate business continuity capabilities by enhancing in-house capability and deploying best-in-class resilience software. This enables us to turn crisis into competitive advantage.
- Our focus is operational resilience – maintaining capability, continuity and advantage in the face of disruption, coercion or attack.
Nexus & Supply Chain Resilience
Uncover hidden dependencies. Act first.
Nexus & Supply Chain Resilience
- Modern supply chains are not linear – they are contested networks. Tiller Global specialises in nexus resilience: understanding how dependencies, chokepoints and second- and third-order effects interact in complex systems.
- Using the Sandpiper Intelligence Engine and expert human intelligence, we provide end-to-end visibility from raw materials to delivery, modelling disruption scenarios, including sanctions, sabotage, cyber incidents and geopolitical shock.
Strategic Advisory
Clarity from complexity. Access and judgment when it matters most.
Strategic Advisory
- We advise senior leaders facing geopolitical volatility, strategic disruption and board level risk.
- Our strategic advisory work supports executives, boards and governments by providing clarity under pressure. Tiller Global combines intelligence insight, scenario modelling and experienced judgment.
- We help leaders understand what is happening, why it matters, and what to do next.
- Our focus spans geopolitical risk, reputational exposure, governance, resilience strategy and strategic foresight, always grounded in real-world constraints and executable outcomes.
Use Cases
Leadership
Tiller Global was founded by five practitioners with deep experience designing, building and leading intelligence and resilience programmes and first-of-type intelligence platforms for government agencies and private enterprise.
Tamara Makarenko
Managing Partner
An expert in intelligence and risk, advising executives and leaders through reputationally sensitive & strategically critical situations since 1998. Recognised for her global network of in-country assets and analytical acumen, Tamara has a known track record for navigating complex markets and transactions.
She previously founded and sold a leading business intelligence firm, scaled two early-stage private military and risk management companies, and has served as an independent director in sectors including defence technology.
Paul Lodge
Founding Partner
Paul Lodge is a globally renowned national-scale technologist and data leader. As Chief Data & Analytics Officer at the UK Department for Work & Pensions, Paul led a £120m cloud and data transformation serving 23 million citizens, reducing cost-to-serve by approximately 40% and enabling real-time decision-making at scale. Formerly a senior leader at the National Crime Agency, Paul builds governed data platforms and AI operating models designed for high-consequence environments.
Tor McLaren
Chair
Tor has worked with state, corporate and private clients in complex, high-risk situations. Operating in frontier and contested environments, he has led sensitive intelligence and investigative programmes across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
His network and domain expertise support Tiller Global’s ability to obtain and verify insight, creating information advantage.
Charles Burbridge
Founding Partner
Charles is a widely respected expert in high-risk security, intelligence, capacity-building and military operations. A former CEO of G4S Risk Management and Scutum UK, Charles has delivered multinational programmes at scale for governments and major corporates. Charles’ experience solving complex, cross-border challenges provides Tiller Global with a unique ability to understand complex problem sets and deliver unique solutions at scale.
David Klain
Founding Partner
David Klain has been a career naval officer with senior operational and leadership roles in active service at sea and ashore, including at the highest levels of government. His career has been built in resilience, crisis management and decision support. David was Vice President International at Dynamis and Managing Director of Dynamis Europe, and a senior resilience civil expert at NATO.