Kirk J. Torrance.
Twenty-five years of putting new technology to work – first in film production, then in parliaments, and now in businesses that are done leaving it to luck.
Kirk Torrance has spent twenty-five years winning attention for causes, brands and campaigns – as the strategist who brought new and emerging technology into UK and European politics, and built the digital machine behind the SNP’s rise from 6 Westminster seats to 56.
He started earlier than most. As a schoolboy in KwaZulu-Natal he spent his summers auditing Telkom’s sites across the province, reinstalling networks in exchange buildings and offices from one end of it to the other. Before politics he helped build the fibre network that digitised film and television production, establishing its Los Angeles operation after its success in London. That work served Universal, Disney, Pinewood, IMAX, MTV and the BBC, and it still carries the industry’s traffic today. It is the same job he does now, in a different technology: taking something new and making an industry run on it.
He holds a BSc in Internet & Communication Technologies – including the study of AI – and has been deploying AI in business since 2015, training executives and teams across architecture, enterprise and the third sector. Digital strategist to two First Ministers; published in The Spectator.
The record has numbers attached: the 2011 Holyrood majority of 69 seats, won in a voting system designed to prevent one; the 2015 landslide that took the SNP from 6 MPs to 56 of Scotland’s 59 Westminster seats; a 2014 referendum campaign that took Yes from 27% in TNS’s December 2013 poll to a 51–49 lead in YouGov’s poll for The Sunday Times eleven days from the vote, the first Yes lead any pollster had recorded. The vote was lost at 44.7%. Channel 4 News called the operation “light years ahead”; The Times called it “a revolution”. Twitter embedded staff in his campaigns, and Facebook invited him to speak at their government events.
“…we came across a very bright, innovative young man called Kirk Torrance, who had some great new ideas on electronic campaigning.”Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland
BBC · Yes/No – Inside Scotland’s Indyref 2014
Today he applies the same method – sharp strategy, a story people repeat, and technology that multiplies effort – through Industrial Strategic, using the Triple Seven Method™ and the Triple Eight Method™: strategy you can score, delivery you can automate. You deal with Kirk directly. No juniors, no hand-offs, no reports that gather dust.
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The way in is always the same: a fifteen-minute call, then – if the fit is right – the audit, at a fee fixed in writing before work begins. No unpaid discovery, no pitch decks, no open-ended retainer. Everything we build runs in your accounts and belongs to you, so the decision to stay is always yours.