About ddx: Smart-Real Estate Focused, Mobility-Minded, Gaming-Ready

ddx is a globally recognized, award-winning consultancy operating across Asia and Europe and specialising in strategy, digital transformation, systems integration, and project delivery. They focus on sectors that shape the future, including smart cities, mobility, and interactive gaming.

With main offices in London and Bangkok and diverse working teams in cultural hubs, ddx delivers fully integrated experience architecture and flagship programs for landmark developments such as One Bangkok and partners with leading Thai industrial groups on smart-initiatives.

Partnership with Perceptis: Scaling Technical Excellence Without Sacrificing Precision

ddx was scaling fast. Smart-city districts, mobility transformations programs, and interactive experiences were moving from concept to delivery across multiple geographies, and the cadence of work demanded clarity, consistency, and speed. The mandate was simple but unforgiving: keep the voice tight, guard the rigor, and make complex systems-integration work legible to senior decision-makers without slowing the team.

Partners Gareth Davies (CTO) and Pawel Michalski (COO) recognized the bottleneck. The team was winning increasingly sophisticated work: WiredScore certifications, PMI-compliant project management offices, IoT architectures for billion-dollar property portfolios across APAC . Their technical capability was world-class. But every proposal, every credential package, every executive summary demanded the same manual refinement: translating technical depth into board-level confidence, ensuring consistency across geographies, maintaining the precision that senior stakeholders expect from boutique firms.

The question wasn't whether ddx could continue delivering at this level. It was how to multiply that capability across more projects, more geographies, more concurrent engagements without burning out the team or diluting quality. Perceptis built the consulting operating system for that scale. Not generic templates. Not copywriting support. Infrastructure.

We codified how ddx communicates value: how a client challenge becomes a sharp storyline, how credentials and certifications anchor trust, how technical depth converts into executive-level takeaways. We implemented governed workflows for producing and refining ddx's consulting documents and executive materials, maintaining consistency and accuracy at every stage.

The Impact: Expertise That Scales

The impact shows up in the work. Turnaround times shorten, reviews tighten, and materials land with the right balance of precision and readability. Technical integration becomes operational clarity; data fabric becomes business outcomes; certifications become board-level confidence.

Perhaps most tellingly, ddx's win rate on complex, multi-geography engagements has fundamentally shifted. Not because their technical capability improved, but because they can now package that capability in a way that makes senior decision-makers confident, fast. When a real estate developer evaluating smart building infrastructure needs to move from RFP to contract in compressed timelines, ddx doesn't ask for more time to "polish the deck". They show up ready, comprehensive, and clear.

This consistency unlocks competitive positioning that boutique firms traditionally surrender to the MBBs. Where large consultancies bring factory-model delivery, ddx arrives with deep technical integration and the communication infrastructure to make complexity comprehensible. A client doesn't choose between engineering excellence and strategic clarity: they get both, at boutique speed with enterprise polish.

That's the unbundling in action: world-class expertise, minus the overhead, with the operational rigor that used to require a thousand-person firm.