01 / 05The chaos
Every great system begins as chaos.
Spreadsheets, inboxes, twelve tools taped together. This is where our clients find us.
Syntax — a seasoned team and its own systems, accelerated by AI agents
02 / 05The atelier
We fold it into order.
AI agents do the heavy lifting. Senior engineers, prompt engineers and QA direct, review and sign off every line.
03 / 05The build
Built by agents. Approved by people.
Agents fold the interfaces together, piece by piece. Senior engineers and QA inspect every one before it ships.
04 / 05The systems
Enterprise systems, beautiful interfaces.
ERP, platforms and automation for corporates and public bodies.
05 / 05The launch
And then we ship it into the world.
Keep scrolling: the company behind the system.
01 — The story
Not a shortcut.
An investment.
A working prototype within the week does not come from AI alone. It comes from what we have built and the senior people who direct it. AI lets us do more, check more and ship more safely.
01 The first decade
Software people can’t
afford to get wrong.
Finance, healthcare, public services and enterprise operations. In every one: an audit trail, a rollback plan and a person’s name against every change.
Change recordTravels with every release
- Change
- One change, one record
- Audit trail
- What changed, when, and by whom
- Rollback
- A plan to undo it
- Signed
- A named person
02 Our own systems
Our own engines,
under every build.
Our own systems and AI engines support every build: agents draft, automated checks test the work, and senior engineers review and approve each release.
How we buildAgents + engineers
Draft · test ·
review · sign
One connected process, from the first brief to a supported system.
- 01Scope
- 02Build
- 03Review
- 04Operate
03 The investment
The week is built
on a decade.
Our own systems and AI engines are everything that makes a build quick, a screen beautiful and a release safe. That investment, plus the senior people who direct it, is what puts a working prototype in your hands within the week.
- The time
- About ten years
- Building software for regulated businesses.
- The investment
- Millions of dollars
- Put into our own systems and AI engines.
- The standards
- ISO 27001SOC 2
- Client companies we have helped achieve both.
04 The turn
Review replaced
typing.
When agents got good enough to write real code, we kept the senior engineers and put agents underneath them, then rebuilt delivery around review rather than typing. It is still a great deal of senior work. What changed is how much of it we can do, how much we can check, and how much safer we can make what we ship.
One changeAgents type · people sign
Typed by agents+214 −37 lines
Reviewed by people3 comments · signed
02 — The human layer
Four jobs an agent
can’t do.
One change-set, four owners. Scroll to watch it collect its sign-offs, then press Approve yourself.
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Product direction
- Owns
- Scope
- Sequence
- Saying no
In scope: approvals only. Sequence: two of five. Out of scope: bulk edits.
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Prompt engineers
- Own
- Instructions
- Context
- Evaluation
Instructions v7. Context pack: the payments spec. Evaluation 38 of 38 passing.
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QA specialists
- Own
- Automated suites
- The human pass
Automated suite: 1,204 passing. Human pass across six journeys.
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Senior engineers
- Own
- Architecture
- Code review
- The release
Design approved. Three review comments, all resolved. Release approved by you.
The rule
A release doesn’t go out until a named senior engineer has approved it.
That isn’t a policy on a page — it’s a step in the pipeline that can’t be skipped.
CS-2291 · Add an approval step to paymentsRelease 2026.10.17-03
0 of 4 sign-offs
Senior engineer · youApprover of record
On approval, this is hashed
sha-256( release | change-set | approver | your local time )
Waiting on 4 sign-offs. A senior engineer signs last.
Try the release gate. Your approval seals the change with a hash from your clock.
03 — Footprint
Founded in Jersey.
Built everywhere.
Our engineers work from six hubs on three continents, for clients in fourteen cities across six continents.
Why regulated
Built for regulated industries, because that’s where we grew up.
Where we work
- Europe
- Jersey, London, Berlin
- Americas
- Toronto, New York, Buenos Aires
- Asia & Pacific
- Dubai, Singapore, Sydney
- Africa
- Accra, Lagos, Nairobi, Windhoek, Cape Town
The engineering day — right now, computed live
Whichever hub writes the change, the same gate applies: nothing reaches production without a named senior engineer’s approval.
0 of 6hubs at work right now
- Nairobi
- Cape Town
- Windhoek
- Berlin
- Jersey
- New York
- Any hub
Working day 08:00–18:00 local, as on the globe, drawn against UTC and ordered east to west, the way the sun travels. The gold line is now. Between them the six hubs cover 17 of 24 hours. Computed live in your browser.