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Stuart Davis.Nineteen years on the inside of the change.

Founder of Neurally. Formerly Head of Product (Data, AI, Apps & Ops) at Compare the Market and Head of Product (Banking & Payments) at Fresha.

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Stuart Davis, founder of Neurally

Most AI advice stops at the pilot.The hard part comes after it.

The hard part is deciding where AI changes the economics of your business, then reorganising products, workflows, roles and decision rights to capture that value, while regulators, boards, existing teams and live customers are all watching.

That's the work Stuart has spent more than nineteen years doing from the inside. Most recently he wrote Compare the Market's consumer AI strategy, won board backing for it and led the launch of its first consumer AI assistant. Before that he led payments, banking and data products at Fresha, with a 46-person organisation.

He brings that operator's judgement to CEOs, founders, and product and technology leaders of scaling and established businesses. Most often that's financial services, marketplaces and B2B SaaS. Professional services is a growing focus. You work with him directly, from the first leadership conversation through to the teams doing the work.

What Stuart brings to an engagement.Four things, mainly.

  • An operator's experience

    Stuart has built the teams, shipped the products and lived with the results. His recommendations are made for the people who will have to deliver them.

  • Boardroom to delivery, joined up

    He can take the work from the investment case through operating-model and product design into delivery, alongside your teams. The person who made the recommendation helps you carry it out.

  • At home where the stakes are high

    He has launched consumer AI under FCA and Consumer Duty rules. Regulation, accountability and accuracy go into the design from the first conversation, before anything reaches a board or a customer.

  • Accountable for the numbers

    He has owned commercial targets and led a 46-person organisation. Each recommendation comes with the investment case and the measures you'll use to judge whether it paid off.

Where the judgement comes from.Career, before Neurally.

  1. 2025–Sept 2026

    Compare the Market

    Head of Product (Data, AI, Apps & Ops)

    Wrote the consumer AI and app strategy, won board backing and then delivered it: the company's first consumer AI assistant and the first ChatGPT app for insurance, built within FCA and Consumer Duty rules. Built the Product AI and Product Operations functions and redesigned how the product organisation works around AI.

  2. 2023–2025

    Fresha

    Head of Product (Banking & Payments)

    Led payments, banking, insights and payroll at a global platform serving businesses and their customers, heading 46 people across London, Warsaw and Kosovo with profit-and-loss accountability. Launched a machine-learning and AI subscription data product, which taught him to judge AI by the revenue it earns or the cost it removes, not by the demo.

  3. 2021–2023

    ClearScore

    Product leadership

    Led growth and the core app experience for a consumer credit marketplace across six product squads, including an Open Banking product. New data only creates value when the product and the team change with it.

  4. 2019–2021

    Not On The High Street

    Product leadership

    Set the strategy to move a curated gifting marketplace towards inspiration-led commerce, and made the teams faster at delivering it. Changing what a business offers means changing how it is organised too.

  5. 2015–2019

    Gumtree (eBay)

    Product leadership

    Led seven product teams and launched a Jobs vertical that grew to a third of UK revenue. An early lesson in redesigning how teams work as well as what they build.

  6. 2013–2014

    HouseTrip

    Product manager, search

    Search at a European holiday-rental marketplace: matching people to the right option at scale, which is now one of the places AI earns its keep.

  7. 2010–2013

    Bloomberg

    Product manager

    Built for professional users who won't tolerate inaccuracy. It still shapes how he thinks about trust in AI products.

  8. 2006–2009

    Accenture

    Senior consultant

    He saw how big-firm consulting works from the inside, including where value gets lost between the people who sell the work and the people who deliver it.

  9. 1999–2003

    University of Bath

    M.Eng (Hons) Innovation and Engineering Design

With Neurally, the judgement you hire is the judgement applied to your business.

What the experience looks like in numbers.Career evidence, not client results.

These are outcomes from roles Stuart held before founding Neurally. They are not Neurally client results, and the wider commercial figures reflect the work of whole teams, not AI alone.

Regulated consumer platform

AI strategy and operating-model redesign at Compare the Market

Wrote the consumer AI and app strategy, won board backing and created a three-horizon roadmap. Built the Product AI and Product Operations functions, giving a single view of roadmaps, commitments and dependencies for around 50 people.

50%
reduction in discovery-to-development time reported for the AI-redesigned product lifecycle
First
ChatGPT app for insurance, and the company's first consumer AI assistant, within an FCA and Consumer Duty environment
9.3% → 11.0%
app revenue share, a wider app outcome
39th → 9th
iOS category rank, with around 918,000 monthly active users

Global platform for businesses and their customers

New revenue and data products at Fresha

Led payments, banking, insights and payroll for a platform serving more than 100,000 businesses, heading a 46-person organisation across three locations with P&L accountability.

$75,000
monthly revenue within six months from a machine-learning and AI subscription data product used by 2,000+ businesses
$20M
revenue growth (62%), a wider commercial outcome
50% → 80%
partner-onboarding conversion
97%
retention on a payroll product reaching 1,900 businesses and $52,000+ monthly revenue

Consumer marketplaces

Product-led growth at ClearScore, Not On The High Street and Gumtree

Led product strategy and multi-disciplinary product organisations: six squads at ClearScore, seven teams at Gumtree.

500,000
users added by an Open Banking product at ClearScore, with 60% monthly retention
28%
lift in marketplace conversion from a merchandisable app experience at ClearScore
45%
new-user growth at Not On The High Street, with an 8% conversion uplift and 130% growth in app monthly active users
⅓
of Gumtree's UK revenue came from the Jobs vertical as it grew

Talk to the person who does the work.Thirty minutes, free.

Tell us what you are trying to decide. If we can help, we will say how and what it would cost. If we can't, we will say that too.

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