Consultancy & digital strategy
Understanding the challenge, shaping the brief and connecting business priorities with practical technology choices.
Strategy. Design. Technology.
Understand people.Rethink possibilities.Build what matters.
From web development and design to enterprise platforms, education and AI, I help companies turn complex challenges into useful digital experiences.
Idris Fabiyi
EdTech Architect & AI Transformation Leader
Manchester, UK
A different perspective
01 / Manchester after dark
A city that never stops building.
- 20+YRS
- Technical Pedagogy (PGCE) & Software Engineering Leadership
- 3BRANDS
- Unified Architecture Across BPP School of Tech, Estio & Firebrand
- L3 – L7
- Containerised Cloud Sandboxes & Automated CI/CD Lab Pipelines
- 100%EIF
- Audit-Ready Digital Evidence Architecture for Ofsted & IfATE
Idris Fabiyi
A little perspective
Technology is the tool.
People are the point.
An educator's instinct. A designer's eye. An engineer's discipline. Nearly two decades spent connecting people, ideas and technology.
As Head of Curriculum, Innovation & Technology at BPP Education Group, I bring qualified technical pedagogy, hands-on software engineering and pragmatic AI into one coherent strategy. From the boardroom to the learning environment, the ambition is the same: make complex systems work better for people.
Technology leadership across
- BPP School of Technology
- Estio
- Firebrand
A broader practice
From strategy to screen.
I've worked with companies and consulted across web development and design, software engineering and digital strategy. Different briefs and challenges; the same commitment to useful, well-crafted technology.
Web development & design
Bringing design and engineering together to create websites and digital experiences around the people who use them.
Software, systems & AI
Connecting full-stack development, platform architecture and pragmatic AI, from the interface to the systems behind it.
Experience includes
- UKFast.net
- Fab Media Solutions
- Bright Future Software
01Selected work
Not just a vision.
Built. Shipped. Working.
Selected platforms and systems from a wider practice spanning consultancy, web development and design, and enterprise technology.
01 / Flagship platform
In productionAITIY
AI Try It Yourself
Contextual AI that teaches people to think, not just find answers. An enterprise tutor embedded directly into the learning experience, with the guardrails institutions need.
Built for Articulate Rise, SCORM, Moodle and modern VLEs. Bring your own key across Claude, OpenAI, Gemini and Grok, with domain whitelisting and learner telemetry.
Contextual AISocratic pedagogyEnterprise guardrails
Live Architecture Telemetry
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Articulate Rise · Module 04Guardrails: On
Why does my
while loop never stop?AITIY Tutor · Socratic Mode
Vendors
BYOK · 4
Domain
Whitelisted
Answers
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02Enterprise Cloud Sandboxes
Complexity, engineered out.
A GitHub-first CI/CD delivery model for Level 3–7 apprenticeship labs. Reusable environments, automated provisioning and cost-to-serve circuit breakers replace cloud bottlenecks with repeatable delivery.
GitHub ActionsAWS CloudFormationDockerSkillable
Voice & accessibility
03Sileti
Knowledge, given a voice.
A native, cross-platform text-to-speech application. Rust, Tauri and neural voice synthesis bring a faster, more accessible way to work with technical knowledge.
RustTauriNext.js
Explore Sileti 02The playbook
Original thinking.
Repeatable impact.
Three frameworks that connect the big idea to the way an institution actually works.
01Framework
The Contextual AI Pedagogy Framework
Replacing passive e-learning consumption with guardrailed, in-module Socratic AI micro-agents that scaffold problem-solving without giving away assessment answers.
Socratic AgentsPrompt GuardrailsIn-Module Delivery
02Framework
Decoupled Cloud Lab Governance
Separating core curriculum authoring from cloud vendor lock-in through containerised Docker environments, reusable VM base images, and automated cost-to-serve circuit breakers.
DockerVM Base ImagesCost Circuit Breakers
03Framework
Compliance-by-Design Architecture
Engineering mechanical programme structures across ELMS, OneFile, and modern VLEs so Ofsted EIF evidence, KSB tracking, and EPA gateways are generated automatically as a byproduct of teaching.
Ofsted EIFKSB TrackingEPA Gateways
03Media & voice
Ideas worth
putting into words.
Conversations about AI, education and the systems shaping both. On the mic, on the stage and on the page.
Host & producer
The BPP Digital Edge
TechSphere
Exploring AI, skills and the future of digital apprenticeships through thoughtful, practical conversations.
Selected conversations & keynotes
Podcast Guest
The Exam Man
“The Future of Academic Assessments & AI”
Industry Panel
Open eLMS
“AI and Apprenticeship Reform”
Keynote Masterclass
The API Economy
Keynote Masterclass
The Edge of Innovation
Writing / Medium
The Cultured Digital Handyman
Where physical craftsmanship meets systems architecture and pragmatic AI. A publication about understanding how things work, and making them work better.
04Career architecture
Depth of experience.
Clarity of direction.
A career across consultancy, web development and design, technical education and enterprise leadership. Different environments; one connected perspective.
- →Unifies curriculum, platform and lab architecture across three technology training brands.
- →Owns the L3–L7 containerised cloud sandbox and automated CI/CD lab pipeline strategy.
- →Leads pragmatic AI transformation and audit-ready evidence architecture for Ofsted EIF and IfATE.
The foundations
- PGCE (Edge Hill University)·
- BSc (Hons) Multimedia Internet Technology / CS (University of Salford)·
- Google Cloud Skills Boost: Cloud Infrastructure, GenAI & Agentic Workflows (2026)·
- CompTIA A+
Rooted in Manchester. Looking forward.
A city built on
reinvention.
It's a perspective I bring to every brief, platform and digital experience: respect what works. Build what comes next.
02 / Salford Quays, Greater Manchester
05Advisory & engagement
Good things start with
a conversation.
For companies, leadership teams and education providers: a digital project, a complex transformation or an idea ready to be built. Let's find the right way forward.
01
Executive Leadership Appointments
Director of Digital Learning, Head of EdTech & Systems Architecture, or Head of AI Transformation roles.
Recruiters · Universities · Boards
02
Digital Strategy & Technical Consultancy
Digital strategy, web development and design consultancy, AI adoption and EdTech architecture, including cloud lab optimisation and Ofsted-ready VLE transitions.
Companies · Leadership Teams · Education Providers
03
AITIY Enterprise Pilots
Deploying contextual AI tutors across institutional courseware and Articulate Rise estates.
L&D Teams · Courseware Owners
Open to Q1 2027 strategic mandates
What are you
building next?