Technical Gains

Upgrade your technical know-how in three minutes per week.

Engineered practice to unleash potential.

Getting technical knowledge work done well is an increasing challenge.

Engineers and technical specialists are critical to solving some of the key challenges facing society today.

But…there are skills shortages and working practitioners face an increasingly challenging environment:

  • Distraction and information overload are common.

  • Information quality can be highly variable.

  • Practitioners can regularly be data-rich, but information-poor.

For organisations and leaders, competition for talent is fierce, and retaining people is a challenge. Corporate memory loss is a growing problem.

The capability of digital tools is rapidly increasing. But, it isn’t easy to choose which to select, trust and how best to implement.

Getting the most from technical people, in a healthy way, is a critical, urgent and fast-evolving problem.

‘We focus on the ‘how’, so you can better deliver the ‘what’.

Our Services

For Practitioners

Our services are designed to provide structure for career-long, high-performance technical knowledge practice.

We are building a community for individual practitioners - starting with a weekly newsletter, regular blog articles and resources.

We do the research and convert the best to an integrated framework for your technical practice.

Allowing you to focus on delivering results.

For Teams and Organisations

Our services focus on helping engineers and technical specialists apply AI and digital tooling to enhance decision-making and real-world impact.

With the aim of realising high-performance practice-based fluency, we are reshaping technical know-how to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

We deliver improvements to:

  • Integration of AI technical knowledge workflows.

  • Technical research and writing efficiency

  • AI risk identification and management.

  • Technical decision making and evidencing.

Our perspective:

The crux of technical knowledge work is getting to good decisions → for informed action → to make progress.

Better know-how → better decisions

We take a holistic approach to the practice of getting to, evidencing and making technical decisions. Bringing together the best from multiple domains for you.

Independent

We provide an independent perspective to inform technical practitioners of options to design and continually evolve their practice.

Flexible to context

Context defines constraints, opportunities and risks for our community. By working from first principles, the experience of others and designing in flexibility from the outset we support practitioners to adapt and thrive in their context.

Growth and digital mindset

Constantly learning and rapidly adapting to capability of digital tools is at the core of what help you do.

‘Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know…how they best perform.’

Peter Drucker

About Emlyn Square

Our mission question:

How can technical practitioners achieve and maintain a long-lasting, high-level, practice of knowledge work?

One that is highly adaptive and which consistently harnesses the capability of digital tools.

Our values:

  • Practical.

  • Approachable and open.

  • Always curious.

  • Get the basics right.

Our inspiration:

Emlyn Square is named after the home of the Mechanics Institution in Swindon, Wilts, UK. Founded in 1843 "for the purpose of disseminating useful knowledge" it was the UK's first lending library and early knowledge-sharing community amongst technical practitioners - the Great Western Railway employees.

Our inspiration comes from this pioneering spirit and approach to sharing useful knowledge, in pursuit of improving collective knowledge.

Our Founder:

Hi!

I’m Richard Waine, I have 15 years of experience in the energy sector working as a practitioner and leading small technical teams.

My curiosity has focused on technical know-how, and how we can master healthy practice based-fluency with digital tools.

Over the past 5 years, I've been researching and personally developing my own technical knowledge practice.

What started as a question has turned into a mission to help technical knowledge workers solve critical problems well. Creating value for society, organisations, and choices for individuals around a work-life balance.

I look forward to working with you.