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Elevate your product with expert guidance and robust execution

Assess, build, or embed. We're product and engineering operators who work in lock-step to ship critical systems. We drop in at any depth across data-heavy, regulated industries to unlock your next phase of growth.

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Trusted Across Missions

Mars 2020
Perseverance Pixlise
Voyager
Mission archive
NASA
Mission-critical systems
JPL
Internal Projects
DARPA
Safedocs PDF security
Princeton
The Accelerator
Global compliance advisory
OFAC screening NDA
Consilient
Fintech analytics
Kythera Labs
MMIT healthcare data
Celgene
Oncology pipeline

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Our audience

Who we work with.

Two clear paths in, depending on where you sit.

De-risk the deal. Ship the value plan.

Private Equity

Board-ready technical due diligence pre-deal, hands-on modernisation through the hold period, and exit-readiness before the sale. One team turning the technical part of the value plan into EBITDA, thesis to realisation.

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AI and data that survives audit

Regulated Industry

AI that ships to production because the guardrails sit in the data model, not the prompt. PII-safe pipelines that keep sensitive data inside the compliance boundary. Delivery calibrated to systems where every decision leaves a paper trail.

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Why we’re trusted

Reliability for the highest stakes

Every system ships with a tested answer for how it breaks and how you recover. NASA-grade failure-mode discipline.

AI inside the hard systems

Agentic AI built into production systems, held to the same reliability bar as the rest of the stack.

Senior leadership on every brief

The people who scope the work are the people who ship it. No junior handoff, no partner check-in that vanishes after the sale.

Capabilities

Full spectrum solutions where you need them.

With over 20 years in engineering and product, there's not much we can't find a solution for. Below is a small sample of our cross-disciplinary work. Click around.

Product& UXEngineering& CloudData &AnalyticsAI/MLFractionalLeadershipPodCopilotMMITBlackbrookSanctionsMuninnsaikuKinetic

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A slice of recent projects, mapped by discipline. Hover a bubble to see what went into it, or a capability to see how we approach it. There's more where this came from.

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“This is exactly what the field needs. We’ve been building the same crawlers over and over. Now we can finally focus on actual research questions.”

Research Scientist, Princeton Information Environment Studies

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What we’ve been up to.

Our own builds, and the things we put out every week.

Coming up soon Tom at Apache Hop Talk 10 November 2026 virtual and in person Details
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What Is a Portfolio Company?

A business owned by a fund rather than a founder or a corporate parent. Who actually owns a portfolio company, how it differs from a subsidiary, and what changes on the day the deal closes.

Aug 27, 2026 Read →
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What Is a Value Creation Plan in Private Equity?

The document that bridges the price a fund paid to the value it plans to sell at. What goes in a value creation plan, who owns it, when it gets written, and the ways they quietly fail.

Aug 27, 2026 Read →
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What Is an Operating Partner in Private Equity?

The operator the fund sends to make the deal perform. What operating partners actually do, how they differ from deal partners, how they get paid, and what it means for a portfolio company when one shows up.

Aug 27, 2026 Read →

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Tom leads every assessment personally, and is the person on your call, in your Slack, and named on the deliverable. When specialists are needed (data, security, cloud), you meet them before the engagement starts and they stay on for the duration. No senior-pitch, junior-delivery swap.

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Send a few lines about the system, the constraint, or the team. We’ll write back honestly about whether we’re the right fit, and if we’re not, we’ll point you to someone who is.

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