Services — four ways in
Build. Automate.
Apply AI. Advise.
Every engagement pairs our own engines and AI agents with senior engineers, prompt engineers and QA. The engines make it fast. The people make it dependable.
// every engagement, in three constants
const engines = "ten years in the making";
const prototype = "within the week";
const signedBy = "a named senior engineer";Before the four services
What you are paying forAI doesn't make it cheap.
It makes it possible.
Agents write at machine speed, so it is easy to assume the work got small. It didn't. Every engagement is still senior work, and a great deal of it. What AI changes is how much that work covers: more built, more checked, more secured.
Why a working prototype within the week is possible
A working prototype
within the week
Real screens on your own data model — something you can click, not a slide.
A decade of our own
systems and engines
About ten years and millions of dollars invested in the systems and AI engines behind every build — for speed, performance, interface quality, QA and security. Watch them work ↓
Senior people who
sign every release
Engineers, prompt engineers, QA specialists and product leads who direct the agents, review every change and put their name to what ships.
NotAI aloneThe agents are one part of the machine, not the machine
What AI changes
- More gets built. Scope that used to be cut for time makes the release.
- More gets checked. Every change is tested, profiled and scanned — not a sample of them.
- More gets secured. Security evidence is produced with every change — the same discipline that has helped our clients achieve ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification.
What it doesn't
- Understanding your business. Still conversations, judgement and time with the people who run it.
- Review. A senior engineer reads every change before it ships.
- Accountability. A named person signs every release.
01 — Build
Service 01 / 04The systems your
business runs on.
Client portals, systems of record, internal tools and multi-tenant platforms — permissioned, audited and genuinely pleasant to use. Built for regulated industries, because that's where we grew up.
One change, end to end
The systems and AI engines we have built and refined for about a decade. Every change passes through five of them — build, performance, interface, QA, security — and the sixth, compliance, keeps the evidence each one leaves behind. Then a senior engineer reads it and signs it. If any check fails, it goes back to be fixed, and everything runs again.
Sample run — the changes and their figures are illustrative; the stations are how we buildFive engines · one human gate · nothing ships unsigned
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01
Client portals
Investor reporting, onboarding, KYC.
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02
Systems of record
The single source of truth your team trusts.
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03
Internal tools
The back office, minus the back-office feel.
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04
Multi-tenant SaaS
One platform, many customers, cleanly separated.
02 — Automate
Service 02 / 04Software that
runs itself.
The process that lives in spreadsheets, inboxes and one person's memory becomes software that runs on schedule — reconciliation, reporting, filings — with a dashboard that proves the return.
Sample data — six workflows, one business day; roles, not peopleGold · a person approved it
What changes
- We map the process, find what's broken, then automate it.
- Human review queues for the judgement calls.
- Hours measured and given back, on a dashboard.
- Spreadsheets
- Inboxes
- One person's memory
One system
- Reconciliation
- Reporting
- Filings
- Hard-benefit ROI
- 139%
- Total-benefit ROI
- 174%
- Hard benefit to date
- £331K
Year-to-date hard benefit
Sample data: year-to-date hard benefit rises from £201K in early May to £324K by mid-October, week by week.
Sample data — illustrative figures, not a client’sHover to read a weekTap a week to read it
What every automation ships with
A dashboard that proves the return.
Hours given back and costs avoided, measured week by week from the automation’s own records. The return is evidence you can audit, not a forecast in a business case.
03 — Apply AI
Service 03 / 04AI wired into
your business.
Document processing, decision support and agentic workflows — connected to your data, governed by your rules, reviewed by people.
Which model, chosen with evidence
Before anything reaches your business, the candidates are scored on your own data — accuracy, speed, cost, a red-team pass and a check for personal data — against a bar you set. The cheapest one that clears it wins, and a person on your side signs the choice off.
Sample data — the candidates are generic classes of model; every figure is illustrativeThe choice is signed off by a person
- A
Documents that read themselves.
- B
Queues that triage themselves, with human sign-off.
- C
Agents that draft the routine so your team judges the exceptional.
D — Every output traceable
What was decided, on what input, approved by whom.
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What was decided
GL 5200
VAT at 20%Freight & carriage · £747.74 VAT · matches the total
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On what input
HF-20931
£3,738.70 netHarbourline Freight Ltd · scanned invoice · model D
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Approved by whom
A named person
Approved · named reviewer, 14:02
Sample data — one invoice, coded by the model chosen aboveHover or select a step to follow it throughTap a step to follow it through
04 — Advise
Service 04 / 04Borrow our
judgement.
Ten years of building, brought to bear before you commit to building anything.
- A
Operations audit
Processes, systems and data mapped in days.
- B
AI readiness
Where agents genuinely pay off, and where they don't.
- C
Technical due diligence
Acquisitions, vendors, legacy estates.
- D
Fractional CTO
Senior engineering judgement, on tap.
- E
Security & compliance
ISO 27001 and SOC 2 readiness, with evidence that keeps flowing after the audit. We have helped clients achieve both.
Illustrative programme — composite, anonymised; control titles from ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex ADrag the weeks · hover a controlDrag the weeks · tap a control
Consultancy usually ends in someone else's build — or in us telling you not to build at all.
Start a project
Tell us the process.
We'll bring the prototype.
Describe it in one sentence. We call within a day, and show you a working prototype within the week.
- T+0One sentence
- T+1dA call
- T+7dA working prototype
- ThenYour decision
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