Alpha Factory® is OWT's operational framework for lasting AI adoption in large businesses. It provides the structure to assess, design, deploy, and sustain AI, turning a one-off initiative into a permanent organisational capability.
Empowering you to lead
Some have run pilots. Some have bought licences. A few engineers use AI tools. The benefits do exist, but they stay local: they are never applied across the organisation. And the gap to those organisations that have already adopted AI is widening every quarter.
Alpha Factory® is how you close that gap. It gives organisations the structure to adopt AI that lasts, making sure that it is grounded in compliance and security.
AI handles a growing share of implementation, testing and documentation. Engineers spend their time on what only humans can do, architecture decisions, product thinking, the hard edge cases. Features that took months reach production in weeks.
3× feature delivery at Medgate, from day one of deployment
AI-integrated testing catches issues earlier, resolves them faster, and documents the fix automatically. QA effort shrinks while reliability climbs. The cost of quality, historically one of software's largest hidden costs, drops sharply.
90% faster bug resolution, 80% faster test development
AI compresses the unit cost of internal software by an order of magnitude. Projects closed for budget reasons, internal tools, niche workflow automation, deeper integrations, are back on the roadmap. The conversation shifts from "what can we afford" to "what should we build next."
50% improvement in code quality across deployments
Your senior people are spending time on coordination that a system should be handling. Alpha Factory® maps those workflows and removes them from human plates, so your best people spend their time on decisions, not administration.
Deployed across Medgate in 2026
01 Assess
Before building anything, you need to know where AI creates measurable return in your organisation.
We run a focused diagnostic and come back with a concrete roadmap of where to go first and why.
What changes:
You stop guessing and start deciding with a clear, prioritised plan your teams can execute immediately.
02 Deploy
Alpha Factory® for development:
Embed AI across the whole delivery chain so velocity increases everywhere, not just in the editor.
Alpha Factory® for business:
Let agentic AI handle the coordination work your senior people shouldn’t be doing.
What changes:
AI speeds up feature delivery, scales operations, and saves teams hours on tasks.
03 Sustain
AI initiatives do not transform organisations. People do. Alpha Factory® ensures AI fluency spreads across every team, so the gains never stay with the few who built them.
What changes:
AI stops being a specialist tool and starts being how everyone in the organisation works.
The ecosystem
Most firms wait for capabilities to become products. We work directly with the labs building them, so our clients see what's coming before it arrives.
Success story
Supporting 2.5 million patients and handling up to 3,000 consultations daily at peak demand, Medgate, Switzerland's leading telemedicine provider, needed a software delivery approach that could perform at scale. Following a three-month Alpha Factory® pilot across four teams, the organisation chose to roll it out across its entire software delivery chain.
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Yannick is a Partner and COO at OWT, where he leads the Watchmaking & Luxury practice. He works with brands in the sector and their wider ecosystem on strategic projects that combine new business models and technology to rethink the customer experience. The aim: a personalised omniretail offering, flexible enough to keep pace with a shifting market.
As Head of AI & Alpha Factory, he drives OWT's operating framework for taking AI from isolated pilots to enterprise-wide deployment.