Our Mission

Making Best Practice Executable

The UK construction and infrastructure sector has more frameworks, standards, and best-practice guidance than any industry on earth. The Construction Playbook, IPA mandate, ISO 19650, NEC contracts, gateway reviews. The knowledge exists. The problem has never been knowing what to do. It has been making it happen consistently, at scale, across every project.

Synaform exists to close that gap. We combine 60 years of collective delivery experience with Project:OS, a governance orchestration platform that encodes best practice into executable digital workflows. Not another tool to learn. An operating system that makes your existing tools work together, automatically.

Objectives

Substance Over Slides

We deliver working systems, not PowerPoint recommendations. Every engagement produces measurable, operational outcomes.

Platform Not Payroll

We build capability that persists after we leave. Project:OS ensures our expertise scales beyond any individual consultant.

Transparency by Default

We believe programme visibility should be automatic, not achieved through heroic reporting efforts. Our platform makes transparency structural.

Institutional Memory

Lessons learnt should not disappear when teams rotate. We encode knowledge into systems that survive personnel changes.

Cognitive Load Reduction

Project professionals are drowning in admin. We obsess over reducing the burden so people can focus on delivery decisions.

Consistency Through Structure

Excellence should not depend on having the right person. We build frameworks that make consistent delivery the default.

Our Team

Meet the Synaform Team

Experienced delivery practitioners who have led major programmes across rail, highways, energy, and commercial construction.

John Lohan

Chief Executive Officer

With over 30 years leading construction and infrastructure programmes across transport, energy, and defence, John has witnessed the consequences of an industry that still lacks a systemic approach to project delivery - resulting in waste, excessive costs, and the repeated loss of hard-won project knowledge. He founded Synaform to change that, embedding proven delivery methodology directly into the tools teams use every day. A chartered member of RICS, CIPS, and CIArb, a member of APM, and John brings cross-disciplinary expertise spanning procurement, project management, quantity surveying, and dispute resolution. With a keen interest in AI, having recently completed the Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme, John ensures PROJECT:OS is shaped by that operational breadth - not theory.

Matthew Osment

Chief Technology Officer

Matthew brings a rare combination of engineering, data science, and hands-on construction experience to the design of PROJECT:OS - turning proven delivery methodology into an intelligent orchestration platform. With a background spanning manufacturing, main contracting, and commercial analytics, he specialises in turning fragmented project data - from cost systems, BIM models, field records, and programme tools - into structured, queryable intelligence. A practitioner of Lean and Six Sigma methods, and with applied training in AI and machine learning from Columbia and Michigan, Matthew builds technology that construction teams will actually adopt, not just admire in a demo.

Ready to Make Best Practice Executable?

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