Data, technology and AI consultant | Product builder | Founder of Node9

I build practical data, AI and technology products that help SMEs, procurement teams and hospitality businesses make better decisions.

I’m Toby Beevers, a Data & IT Consultant and founder of Node9.

My work sits somewhere between strategy, product thinking and hands-on delivery. I help businesses understand where data, technology and AI can make a real difference, then turn those ideas into practical systems, reports, tools and software.

Before starting Node9, I spent years working across hospitality, procurement, systems, reporting and data leadership. That background shapes how I build: I’m less interested in technology for the sake of it, and much more interested in solving real operational problems with tools people can actually use.

Today, my work focuses on SMEs, procurement teams, hospitality businesses and early-stage product ideas.

• Data strategy for SMEs — helping businesses understand what data they have, what they need, and how to use it better.
• AI and automation — building practical AI-assisted workflows, custom GPTs, reporting assistants and internal tools.
• Procurement intelligence — supplier risk, market monitoring, category reporting and decision support.
• SaaS and product development — turning business problems into usable products, platforms and workflows.
• Dashboards and reporting — Power BI, SQL, Python, data models and decision-ready reporting.
• Technology leadership — fractional CTO/CDO-style support, technical direction, delivery planning and product thinking.

Node9 is my consulting business, built to help ambitious SMEs access the kind of data, technology and AI support that is usually reserved for larger organisations.

Through Node9, I work across strategy, systems, analytics, automation, AI enablement, websites, reporting and product development.

TeRoc is a procurement intelligence SaaS product I’m building with partners.

It helps businesses monitor supplier risk, market news, procurement activity and emerging signals that might affect their supply chain. The product brings together supplier profiles, RSS/news monitoring, AI-generated summaries, workflow support and reporting.

A lot of my work is shaped by experience in foodservice, hospitality and procurement.

I’ve worked on market reports, category updates, supplier intelligence, pricing movement analysis, custom GPTs and internal tools designed to help procurement teams move faster without losing commercial judgement.

I’ve built reporting and data solutions across operational, commercial and strategic use cases.

That includes Power BI semantic models, SQL-based reporting, Python analysis, data pipelines, dashboards, executive reporting, and tools that help people move from raw data to useful decisions.

My route into data and technology has not been traditional.

After years working in hospitality, procurement, systems and data leadership, I returned to university and graduated from Bangor University with a First-Class Honours degree in Data Science.

My academic work focused on areas including machine learning, AI, applied analytics, data visualisation, data ethics and digital transformation.

I’ve also supported university teaching through Node9, helping students understand how data works in real operational settings. One example was a food procurement data session covering product data, allergens, SKUs, version control, traceability, supply chain stages and the gap between using technology and truly understanding the data behind it.

I use different tools depending on the problem, but these are the areas I most often work across.

Right now I’m especially interested in:

• practical AI for SMEs
• procurement intelligence and supplier risk
• private AI and document intelligence
• turning messy business data into usable products
• helping non-technical teams understand and trust data
• building tools that combine commercial experience with modern technology

I’m always interested in conversations around data, AI, procurement, SME technology, SaaS products and practical digital transformation.

Building practical data, AI and technology tools for real business problems.