Our Story

We started Learnari to bring clarity to complexity. 

Our team has spent decades architecting, deploying, and securing mission-critical systems for global enterprises, regulators, universities, and government.

We bring that same discipline, security, scalability, and rigorous compliance to every modern platform we build.

By combining enterprise-grade engineering with modern development practices, we deliver platforms that are faster to build, easier to scale, and stronger from the ground up.

From education to regulation, every Learnari platform carries the same DNA, secure foundations, ethical design, and the capacity to evolve intelligently.

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How We Think

Technology should adapt to people, not the other way around.
We design systems that grow, learn, and stay accountable.

Every line of code, every design choice, reflects three guiding principles:

  • Trust is built in. Security, compliance, and governance aren’t optional.
  • Intelligence must serve. AI is only powerful when applied ethically and transparently.
  • Design creates clarity. The most complex systems should still feel simple.
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What We Build

Learnari creates adaptable ecosystems for industries that demand both innovation and reliability.

  • Integrated Platforms that connect people, data, and content through secure, scalable architecture.
  • Bespoke Portals tailored to specific needs; from compliance frameworks to member communities.
  • AI Enablement that helps organisations prepare, integrate, and optimise with intelligence and precision.
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Our Leadership

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Founder & CEO

Steve Odart

Steve is a highly respected technology leader and serial entrepreneur with over three decades of experience building world-class digital platforms, leading high-performance teams, and delivering large-scale transformation across global industries. He has a rare ability to understand complex sector challenges, define clear solutions, and translate strategy into practical, enterprise-grade architecture.
Steve has founded, scaled, and exited successful technology companies, delivering platforms and transformation programmes for some of the world’s most recognised organisations, including:
  • Pearson
  • Cengage Learning
  • Nike
  • Fox
  • Sony
  • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Penguin Random House
  • Wiley
  • RELX
  • Oxford University Press
  • …and many others across media, education, and enterprise markets

Known for attracting exceptional talent and creating environments where expert teams thrive, Steve blends commercial insight, customer-centric thinking, and advanced technology capability, particularly across AI, cloud, data engineering, and large-scale content platforms.

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Chief Operating Officer

Erica Pattison

Erica is a strategist, problem-solver, and delivery leader with deep experience building PMOs, transforming operations, and managing complex technology and change programmes. She excels at turning complexity into clarity and creating the systems that allow teams to deliver at scale, without losing creativity or quality.
Her background spans enterprise, public sector, and regulated environments, leading programmes for organisations including:
  • Royal Bank of Canada
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Bank of England
  • Aviva
  • NFU Mutual
  • Ministry of Justice
  • NHS
  • BUPA
  • St Andrews Healthcare
  • Multiple UK Police Forces
Known for her people-centred approach and operational precision, Erica designs high-efficiency workflows, governance frameworks, and cross-team collaboration models that enhance quality, accelerate delivery, and improve stakeholder outcomes.
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Head of Architecture

Andy Slade

Andy is a rare type of architect: deeply technical, commercially strategic, and trusted to deliver in highly regulated, mission-critical environments. With over 20 years of experience, he has led major transformation programmes as Transformation Lead, Global Head of Architecture, and Programme Lead Architect for organisations including:
  • Deutsche Börse Banking Group
  • Link Group (Global Lead Architect)
  • HMRC
  • BAA / Heathrow
  • Capita Asset Services
  • Irish Government initiatives
  • Multiple global cloud and systems migration projects
Notable achievements:
  • Led a €55m pan-European technology transformation portfolio
  • Migrated 89 systems and 5,000 mailboxes to Azure
  • Designed platforms managing £100B+ in assets and millions of users
  • Delivered enterprise architectures across 15 years in FCA-regulated environments
  • Designed DevOps and CI/CD adoption at HMRC

The Learnari Team

Learnari isn’t a typical development shop
Our platforms are built and run by senior engineers with deep experience in enterprise software, security, DevOps, and QA.  Every system we deliver is architected for resilience, scale, and performance from day one.  We use world-class engineering practices; microservices, cloud-native architecture, CI/CD, automated testing, full observability, ensuring every release is fast, reliable, and secure.  And we don’t just build and hand over.  Modern platforms, especially those powered by AI, must evolve constantly. Agentic AI, NLP search, personalisation, analytics and automation all require ongoing tuning and optimisation. 
We design it
We build it
We deploy it 
We run it as a managed service 
We continually enhance the AI
Every Learnari platform is monitored, updated, and improved, becoming smarter, faster, and more valuable over time. 

What We Stand For

Integrity. Curiosity. Clarity. Excellence. 

Innovation should never come at the cost of trust. Every Learnari platform is ethical at its core, secure by design, and built for impact.

The future isn’t just automated, it’s intelligent, adaptive, and human-centred. We’re building it by combining human insight with machine intelligence to create technology that’s purposeful and built to evolve.

We don’t just follow change. 
We design for it.