About us

Founder-led. Practitioner-led. Built from the inside.

72 Solutions closes the gap between strategy on a slide and change in the world. We build and run an AI-native delivery platform, The Helm, and a method, Phi, then put them to work connecting AI investment to governed business value.

What we believe

We hold ourselves to what we sell.

We run it on ourselves

We run our own firm on Phi and The Helm before we put them in front of a client. The method is not a slide deck, it is how we operate every day, including documenting our own reversals.

Done means live

Our definition of done is not "shipped" or "merged". It is verified live, with evidence: a working endpoint, a real result, a record you can check. Code inspection is not evidence.

Governed by design

We build governance in from the start, not bolted on after: separation of intent and execution, independent assurance, bounded authority, and auditability and reversibility.

The team

Small, senior, accountable.

Chay Blyth

CEO and Founder, 72 Holdings

Chay is the founder of 72 Degrees and leads technology, architecture and product for 72 Solutions, shaping the proprietary agentic delivery method and The Helm platform that underpin the proposition.
He has over 30 years' experience across technology and management consultancy, enterprise transformation and AI-enabled delivery, with a background spanning solution architecture, global transformation and the design of agentic operating models in regulated, data-rich environments.
At 72 Solutions, Chay focuses on turning AI ambition into controlled, value-led execution, connecting architecture, delivery and governance so organisations realise measurable outcomes rather than experiments.

Richard Onslow

Commercial Strategy & Partnerships, 72 Solutions

Richard leads commercial strategy and partnerships for 72 Solutions, helping shape the proposition, go-to-market approach and client engagement model.
He has over 20 years' experience across strategic and business consultancy, data, analytics and AI-enabled transformation, with a background spanning enterprise sales, strategic partnerships and complex client delivery in regulated and data-rich environments.
Richard focuses on connecting business priorities, commercial outcomes and delivery models, helping organisations move from AI ambition into controlled, value-led execution.