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Recover the working day
Cut the admin overhead in reporting, document handling and routine drafting so teams can spend more of their time on the work they were hired for.
Digital transformation across the group
The RSK Synapse project aims to empower businesses within the group to collaborate and to improve their workflows in order to give time back to everyone
Preview
A space for putting questions to the Synapse team — a working preview. Submissions are not recorded yet.
About the programme
Synapse is run from the group, in step with the businesses that already deliver our client work. The point is not new technology for its own sake — it is taking the friction out of how the work gets done.
The brief is narrow on purpose. Synapse is not a single product, and it is not an attempt to centralise the way every business operates. It is a small set of efforts — picked carefully — where the same kind of work happens in too many places, in too many slightly different ways, with too little benefit from being separate.
Discovery has been deliberate: dozens of conversations with the businesses, an audit of the tools already in use, and an honest look at the gaps between where we are and where we could reasonably get to inside the next eighteen months. Each piece of work is owned with a business, sized to ship inside a quarter, and reviewed against measurable outcomes.
Governance, data handling and information security sit in the design from the outset — not as an afterthought. The programme is operated under the same standards RSK applies to its client work: sensible defaults, clear sign-off, and a paper trail that makes audit straightforward rather than painful.
What it is for
The first wave of Synapse work focuses on real, measurable efficiencies — chosen because the businesses involved asked for them, not because the technology fits.
Cut the admin overhead in reporting, document handling and routine drafting so teams can spend more of their time on the work they were hired for.
Three decades of RSK experience sits across 200 businesses. Synapse makes it easier to find what we already know, so good answers stop being a function of who you happen to email.
A more consistent route to client proposals — drawing on the breadth and depth of the group, with the right people brought in at the right time.
Standards, sign-off and audit trails built in from the outset, so working faster does not mean working looser.
Newsroom
Briefings, pilot results and milestones — published as they happen. Light on announcements, weighted toward what we have learned.
Four places we expect to see time back.