Strategy.
Delivery.
Run.
Business acceleration by design.

We don't sell decks. We don't sell hours.
We sell what happens after the work is done.

The market has shifted

One firm to think,
one firm to build.
That model is over.

Advisory decks that leave you to implement alone no longer pass the test. Neither do integrators who execute without owning the thinking behind the work.

Kawari Digital closes that gap. We frame, we deliver, we run — as one continuous engagement. Acceleration by design.

What we are not

We built Kawari Digital against two models.

Senior Expertise only

Unlike the Big 4

No pyramid that bills juniors at senior rates. No handover between the team that sold the work and the team that delivers it. No rotating bench that re-learns your tenant every phase. You will recognise the people who signed the proposal when they walk into hypercare — because it is the same people.

We are experts in digital transformation

Unlike Workday-only shops

We do not live inside a single product. We frame the operating model before we configure the tenant. We extend into AI, automation and the adjacent ERP ecosystem — so you are not relayed to a third partner the moment the conversation leaves Workday. One design. One team. One accountability.

Why Kawari Digital

Four principles. Non-negotiable.

1.

Senior in every room.

Senior expertise only. Ever.

2.

One team, strategy to run.

No handovers. No finger-pointing.

3.

AI in the foundation.

Not retrofitted onto legacy practice.

4.

Rigor without the weight.

The rigor of a Big 4. None of the weight or the cost.

About

Senior by default. Small by choice. AI-native by design.

We founded Kawari Digital on a contrarian belief: the best consulting work of the next decade will come from small, accountable teams that stay close — close to the client, close to the code, close to the outcome.

We took that belief and built a firm around it. No pyramid. No rotating benches. No handovers between the team that promises and the team that delivers. One group of senior operators who frame what needs to be done, build it, and stay long enough to see it create measurable acceleration.

The name — Kawari — means change, or a turn, in Japanese. That is what we are hired for. That is what we deliver.

We spent twenty years inside the firms most of our clients have already hired. We left because we grew tired of selling strategy we could not deliver, and delivering programmes we had not been allowed to shape. Kawari Digital is the firm we wish had existed on the other side of the table.

Maud and Stéphane, Founding Partners

How we work

Six stages. One team.

  1. 01

    Scope

    We listen before we propose. We say no when we should.

  2. 02

    Frame

    We define the decisions that matter — and the ones that don't.

  3. 03

    Deliver

    We build what we framed. Ourselves.

  4. 04

    Run

    We operate what we built, through hypercare and stabilisation.

  5. 05

    AMS

    Multi-module stewardship, on demand. Surge or steady. No locked scope.

  6. 06

    Hand over, when ready

    On your terms. Not ours.

Chosen clients. Closed rooms.

What we can say without saying who.

Confidentiality is part of what our clients buy. No logos. Outcomes only — anonymised, so the work speaks for itself.

Retail · €2B revenue Workday HCM re-implementation

Zero P1 at cutover. Nine months, framing to go-live.

An inherited HCM tenant drifting into release debt. Rationalised security, org, and reporting layers without a big bang. AMS transitioned to us with no gap day.

Workday practice →
Financial services · 6 countries Multi-module AMS retainer

3 vendors consolidated into 1. ~30% run cost reduction.

HCM, Finance and Adaptive, previously split across three partners arguing over cross-module defects. One senior team, one SLA, one escalation path.

AMS practice →
Healthcare · 12k employees Agentic HR operations

From 100 AI ideas to 10 in production.

Employee lifecycle actions driven by agents inside Workday, with audit logs, override paths, and EU AI Act-aligned governance. No pilot left behind.

AI & Automation practice →

Full references — named clients, named outcomes — shared under NDA after a first call.

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We work with a chosen number of clients. Pick a slot. One senior on the other end. Thirty minutes.