DCCO is one experienced consultant, Dave Carr, working directly for you. No account managers, no juniors learning on your time, no hard sell. Just honest help that gets things done.
Most technology decisions get made under pressure, with every supplier pushing their own answer. DCCO exists to give you a straight one. Dave Carr works directly with you to cut through the noise, tell you honestly what is worth doing, and increasingly to build the software that does it, often in days. No hardware to sell, no commissions to chase, no junior arriving after the sales call. Just experienced judgement and things that actually get delivered.
DCCO was set up in 2009 on a simple premise: there is a shortage of genuinely independent help in these industries. Plenty of people will tell you what to buy. Far fewer will sit with you, understand your actual problem, and say honestly what to do about it, including when the honest answer is to spend less, do less, or wait.
Every engagement starts with a conversation, not a contract. Dave listens first, because a technology problem almost always sits inside a business problem that matters more. From there the work is clear and specific: a findings document, a working prototype, a project plan, a piece of software, whatever genuinely moves you forward. Nothing generic, nothing padded.
Where a job needs installation teams, manufacturing, or field engineering at scale, Dave brings in established partners, so a one-person practice never means one pair of hands. And the manner stays the same throughout: approachable, direct, and honest, working on site or inside your systems rather than managing from a distance.
Dave has worked with AI systems for years, not as a vendor and not as an academic, but as a practitioner who uses them every day to solve real problems. AI tooling has changed what one experienced person can deliver: today DCCO both designs and builds working software, rapid tools, automations, dashboards, and multi-agent systems, with an architect's discipline underneath. Directing coordinated software processes, what the industry now calls orchestration, is something Dave has been doing since 2005, long before the term arrived.
This is not theory. Dave has invented two operations platforms: one that monitors and self-heals distributed screen estates, and Synncorp, a multi-tenant business platform in active build. He also researches how AI personas, characters with real knowledge, judgement, and priorities, make more reliable decisions than agents simply handed a job description.
When Dave advises on AI adoption, the basis is daily practice, not a certificate, and the focus is always the same: value and efficiency you can measure, not technology for its own sake.
The judgement on offer was earned over more than thirty years across broadcast, AV, IT, digital signage, DOOH, and AI, working on both sides of the table. Dave co-founded a venue-technology company that reached an AIM listing, ran international digital operations for one of the world's largest outdoor advertising companies, and served as COO of a European managed-services provider. He is a Chartered IT Professional (MBCS CITP), a PRINCE2 Practitioner, and a named inventor on a patent in personalised video orchestration. The full story is on the Work page.
That breadth is what makes DCCO useful to a small or medium business in particular: the same quality of thinking a large organisation pays a great deal for, at a scale that makes sense for you, and without the overhead of a firm that has headcount to justify.
You do not need to arrive as a confident technology buyer, or even be sure DCCO is the right fit. If you have a problem worth talking through, send an email or book a free half-hour call. Dave will tell you honestly whether it is something he can help with, and if not, point you towards someone who can. No obligation, no pressure, no aggressive follow-up. If the timing is not right, come back when it is.