Category: MegaSorcery Limited

  • MegaSorcery Limited

    MegaSorcery Limited

    , ,

    Adrian founded MegaSorcery Limited on 11 December 2007, having exited Allegran Limited earlier that year following its acquisition by a major UK newspaper publisher in an eight figure deal.

    The new consultancy company was designed to charge out Adrian’s time advising businesses in the high technology sector. Clients included IQ Capital, Ordnance Survey and Trucost.

    • MegaSorcery

      MegaSorcery

      Adrian developed the MegaSorcery website when he ran MegaSorcery Limited, the consultancy company he established in late 2007, soon after leaving Allegran Limited. In many ways the MegaSorcery site is a precursor to this website, just without the Research and Teaching strands, which had not yet been developed! Several of the websites listed on the…


    • Tyres

      Tyres

      The Tyres website is another example of a What might have been concept. The intention, never fully developed in 2008, was to build a B2C website selling car tyres. Behind the scenes, after inputting a tyre size (e.g., 1955517V) the site found prices from a number of suppliers and selected the best value products. The…


    The business operated for a number of years before a change of focus towards farming and renewable energy development at Ascog Farm on the Isle of Bute and the pursuit of a PhD in Geography and Computational Social Science at the University of Portsmouth.

    Several of the projects listed on the old MegaSorcery site have now been restored on this website.

    MegaSorcery Limited was dissolved in 2011 when Adrian’s PhD research started to take priority.

    The company name, by the way, comes from a misheard lyric from On the Strength by Wu Tang Clan members Killa Beez.

  • Tyres

    Tyres

    , ,

    The Tyres website is another example of a What might have been concept.

    The intention, never fully developed in 2008, was to build a B2C website selling car tyres. Behind the scenes, after inputting a tyre size (e.g., 1955517V) the site found prices from a number of suppliers and selected the best value products.

    The website was left unfinished but illustrates the power of the web to ‘disintermediate’ certain transactions. Theoretically, many consumers could have searched for tyres on a website back-ended to a handful of major tyre manufacturers and distributors.

    If that sounds a lot like BlackCircles, founded earlier in 2001, it was.

    And Blackcircles.com was acquired by Michelin for £50 million in 2015!

    C’est la vie!

  • MegaSorcery

    MegaSorcery

    , ,

    Adrian developed the MegaSorcery website when he ran MegaSorcery Limited, the consultancy company he established in late 2007, soon after leaving Allegran Limited.

    In many ways the MegaSorcery site is a precursor to this website, just without the Research and Teaching strands, which had not yet been developed!

    Several of the websites listed on the What We Do page of MegaSorcery are now live on the Websites page of adriantear.com.

    The site also listed a few projects, including work with Ordnance Survey and UCL on strategising OS’ future direction, and database and web systems consultancy with Trucost, since acquired by S&P Dow Jones Indices for over £14 million.

    If you are interested in working with Adrian on a consultancy project please get in touch.