Strategic Unit4 consulting. AI built in.
Programme architecture, transformation governance, and bespoke AI for your Unit4 estate. Work directly with a senior specialist who combines strategic advisory with hands-on system delivery.
The Embedded Intelligence Method
Strategic ERP advisory, AI engineered to the system, and senior delivery embedded inside the client team.
Bear Consulting brings strategic ERP advisory and hands-on implementation into the same engagement: programme architecture, system configuration, SQL and AI engineering.
Work directly with a senior specialist inside your team, from the transformation roadmap through to the configuration, workflow and technical evidence needed to deliver it.
Strategic ERP advisory
Programme architecture, governance design, transformation roadmaps. Multi-stream, multi-year. Authored at the level decision-makers actually need to commit budget against.
AI engineered to the system
Bespoke AI applications and agents — RAG chatbots, continuous-monitoring intelligence, automated outreach — designed against Unit4's actual data model.
Embedded delivery
One senior specialist working as a peer inside the client’s team, with direct responsibility for the agreed advisory and implementation work.
Unit4 delivery across systems, sectors and assurance
A career built on test-managed Unit4 delivery across the public and private sector — from data migrations and cloud upgrades to payroll transformation, support turnaround, and strategic AI.
Unit4 implementations across the public and private sector
HR, Payroll, L&D and Finance delivery across local government, policing, central-government shared services, higher education, regulated environments, international organisations and financial services.
Unit4 test management and assurance
Test strategy, IST/UAT scripts, parallel payroll runs, defect triage and go-live readiness, with evidence to support decisions by the project team.
Data, cloud and web-client migrations; upgrades; greenfield
End-to-end Unit4 migrations and upgrades — legacy data migration, on-premise to cloud, Smart Client to Web Client, version upgrades and greenfield implementations — with mapping, reconciliation rules and cut-over governance authored for the engagement.
Payroll operating reviews and phased transformation
Operating reviews of public-sector payroll functions, phased improvement roadmaps, parallel-run assurance, statutory reporting, and automation of manual processes — with written deliverables for the internal team.
Curriculum design, delivery and self-service enablement
Concept-led training programmes, facilitator guides, workbooks and knowledge checks — designed and delivered as workshops — plus SOPs and self-service enablement that move organisations off manual processes.
ITIL-aligned support and service management
Service-desk, incident, problem, release and change management aligned with ITIL practice, including support backlogs, service levels and team procedures.
Programme architecture, governance, and bespoke AI
Transformation programme architecture and governance for UK public sector Unit4 estates, plus the Embedded Intelligence Method and AI engineered to the system — PolicyAI and the Unit4 X-Ray diagnostic.
Productised AI and diagnostics
Productised AI and diagnostics, with the scope, fees and delivery arrangements agreed for each engagement.
PolicyAI
An HR policy chatbot prototype using the organisation’s own policy library. Retrieval and generated responses form the proposed approach, with policy scope and access controls agreed for each deployment.
A working prototype was documented in March 2026. Production deployment is subject to scoping and information-governance review.
Unit4 X-Ray
A structured strategic diagnostic of a Unit4 Business World installation: configuration drift, defect inventory, control gaps, undocumented architecture, and capability deficit. Delivered as a written executive-grade assessment with prioritised remediation roadmap.
Commissioning is subject to your organisation's procurement rules and delegated authority.
Bear Consulting Services
A specialist consultancy operating as a sole practice — by design, not by stage of growth.
Founded by Mircea Rogojan-Rush, Bear Consulting Services combines strategic ERP advisory and AI engineering in a sole-practitioner consultancy.
Engagements are retained, embedded, and deliberately capped — typically one or two concurrent clients. The same senior specialist works with the client throughout the engagement.
The advisory is grounded in hands-on Unit4 delivery, including test management, migrations, payroll transformation and training across the public and private sector. The same person can set the strategy, write the test script and SQL, and develop the AI application.
- Specialism
- Unit4 Business World — HR, Payroll, L&D, Absence, Finance, AR; test management, migration, transformation, AI integration
- Experience
- Unit4 test management, implementation and transformation
- Sectors
- UK public sector primary — also policing, central government, higher education, regulated/nuclear, international organisations, financial services
- Certifications
- Unit4 Business World Certified Consultant; Payroll Professional Accreditation
- Engagement model
- Retained senior specialist, embedded with internal teams; inside-IR35 where required; references under NDA
- Location
- Chelmsford, Essex — UK-wide engagement
Start with a conversation
If your council's Unit4 estate carries strategic risk — failed transformation, audit exposure, capability gap, or AI ambition with no route to delivery — start with a thirty-minute call. No slides.
Direct
mircea@
LinkedIn: Mircea Rogojan-Rush
Or book a 30-minute call directly — no email back-and-forth.
What to send
A brief outline of the strategic problem, the modules involved, and the urgency. A personal response within one working day.
A Unit4 X-Ray scoped to a defined area of the estate is one entry point. Scope and fees are agreed in writing.
See Privacy for how personal information is handled. Professional indemnity insurance details are available on request.