SFS Analytics

Turn the data you already hold into decisions.

Analytics and managed data services for UK law firms and investors. SFS leads the client relationship and the commercial thinking; specialist delivery teams do the build.

For law firms

Five service lines

01

Client & matter intelligence

A single view of clients, matters and profitability across your systems.

02

AI-enabled matter delivery

Repeatable matter work redesigned with AI, measured on time and margin.

03

Revenue leakage & working capital

Find unbilled time, write-offs and slow collections, and recover them.

04

AI economics & governance

What your AI tools cost, what they return and how they are controlled.

05

Legal economics & pricing

Pricing, fee arrangements and resourcing grounded in your own history.

Opportunity intelligence

Signals from court filings, funding rounds and the news, matched against your own client base to show where the next instruction is likely to come from.

Who leads it

Finance judgement and data science, together

Every analytics engagement pairs a former CFO with a data scientist who has taken AI from concept to production at national scale.

Dr Sach Karunaratne

Dr Sach Karunaratne

Lead, Advanced Analytics & Data Science

Former Head of Data Science at RACV and, from 2016 to 2025, at Coles Group, where he conceived Dynamic Markdowns, a world-first AI pricing system scaled nationally and a 2024 Melbourne Analytics Conference Practice Prize finalist. His machine learning and optimisation portfolio delivered more than AUD 70m in EBIT uplift.

  • Pricing, demand forecasting and optimisation
  • Churn, lifetime value and recommendation models
  • LLM, RAG and agentic AI, with evaluation and guardrails
  • Model risk, audit readiness and causal inference that Finance signs off

PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Melbourne · BSc First Class, University of Moratuwa

Priyan Manatunga

Priyan Manatunga, ACMA

Founder & Director

Former Board CFO & COO at Henley Investment Management and MD, Corporate Finance at Tristan Capital Partners. Priyan scopes each engagement, owns the client relationship and answers for the quality of the output.

  • Regulated asset management, FCA SMF 3, 16 and 17 held
  • Fund structuring, AIFM and tax
  • Finance operations and Record-to-Report

Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA, CIMA UK) · MBA (Distinction), Bayes Business School · BSc (Hons), LSE

How we deliver

Start small, prove the value, then scale

We begin with a short data pilot on two or three clients or practice areas, agree the outcome up front and show the result on your own data before any larger commitment.

  1. Scoping callThe data problem and the outcome you want solved.
  2. PilotA few weeks on a defined slice of your data.
  3. Managed serviceOngoing analytics, run and maintained for you.

Start with a data pilot.

Two or three clients or practice areas, an agreed outcome, and results on your own data before any larger commitment.

Discuss a pilot