Making AI Useful (and mildly tolerable)
AI consulting, Power Platform and training for Irish SMEs and public sector teams.
DataBridges helps Irish businesses connect people, data and process, turning “there has to be a smarter way to do this” into something that actually works.
Based in Kilcock, Co. Kildare · Working with teams across Ireland
The problem
Sound familiar?
Final_V12_UseThisOne(2).xlsx
The spreadsheet that runs everything, until someone sorts the wrong column and suddenly Dave's salary is attached to the wrong department. Instant chaos.
Copy. Paste. Repeat.
Time returns, attendance records, contact lists, manually copied between sheets every week because that's just how it's always been done. There's another way.
40MB and climbing.
That tidy little project tracker is now a monster that freezes when you hit filter. It was never a database. It was never meant to be.
There's a smarter way. It doesn't require a master's degree.
(Oisín has one anyway. But that's beside the point.)
Show me how →What I build
What I build for Irish teams.
Real problems, solved simply. No hype, no decks, no nonsense.
AI Consulting & Integration
Make Copilot, ChatGPT and your AI tools actually earn their keep.
Learn more →Power Platform Development
Replace the Excel chaos with apps and dashboards that work the way your team does.
Learn more →SharePoint Automation
Clean up the mess, automate approvals, make collaboration less painful.
Learn more →Training & Workshops
Practical AI sessions. The same approach used at UCD. Tools your team will open on Monday morning.
Learn more →Where it's worked
What changed for a wealth manager, a fit-out firm and a legal practice.
A regulated finance firm, a fit-out company drowning in sticky notes, legal teams, the health service, and a room full of people learning AI properly. Same job every time, find the grind, build the fix.
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Our framework
The gap where AI projects die, and the four bridges across it.
Most AI projects don't fail on the tech. They fall into the gap between a clever demo and a team actually using it. These are the four spans I build across, every time. Skip one and the whole thing wobbles.
- Design & explainabilitymake it legible
- Leadership & trustbring people with you
- Operations & implementationship it into the day job
- Strategy & infrastructurebuild for what's next
- Design & explainabilityAI you can open up and explain, not a black box you have to take on faith.
- Leadership & trustGetting the people who sign it off on board, and the people who use it comfortable.
- Operations & implementationThe unglamorous bit: building it, wiring it in, and making it survive contact with Monday.
- Strategy & infrastructureThe plumbing and the plan underneath, so it still makes sense in two years.
About Oisín
Not a consultant who learned some buzzwords.
Oisín trained in data-intensive astrophysics at Cardiff University, applying machine learning to astrophysical data, spent four years analysing data inside the HSE and Tusla, and started DataBridges in 2021 because digital transformation projects kept making work harder, not easier. He now also teaches AI at UCD Professional Academy. Oisín has worked inside the HSE and Tusla before consulting for organisations like them.
- MSc Data-Intensive Astrophysics (Distinction) · Cardiff
- UCD Professional Academy Lecturer
- Microsoft Copilot Certified
- HSE · Tusla · Senior Analyst
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