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.
Trusted Across Missions
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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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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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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.
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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.
What we do
Full capability, flexible integration.
Assess the state of your product, build what needs to exist, or embed with the team shipping it. We plug in where you need us, and handle what comes next.
Assess
Know what you have, and what it costs to fix.
We read your product across every layer, from interface to infrastructure to roadmap. You get a costed plan for what comes next, fixed price, written for humans.
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From plan to production.
We design, engineer, and ship the end-to-end solutions we've been shipping for two decades. Databases, platforms, product interfaces, production infrastructure.
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Leadership, for as long as you need it.
We integrate inside your team and share the code, or take on the full product cycle ourselves. When the build lands we stay on, in interim and retainer roles.
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What we’ve been up to.
Our own builds, and the things we put out every week.
Our work
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OLAP semantic analytics, open source.
AI-powered podcast publishing.
Motion-activated screen recorder for macOS.
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See moreZero-CVE in Ten Minutes: Migrating a Go Service to Chainguard Images
Most container vulnerabilities have nothing to do with your code — they come from the base image. Here's the migration I reach for: rebuild a normal Go service on Chainguard Images and watch the CVE count fall to near zero, plus the friction most tutorials skip.
Orbital Data Centres: SpaceX's Big Bet Still Has an Economics Problem
This week's AI Briefing: an Altman–Musk exchange about SpaceX being worth more than the planet turned into the more interesting question underneath it — can you actually run AI inference in orbit, and does the maths close? Not yet, and here's why.
Seven Investigation Tools, 45 Million Companies, One Weekend
We keep telling clients their AI project is really a data project — and that with the right semantic layer underneath, everything on top gets fast and cheap to build. So we proved it. Over a weekend we pointed Saiku and Ossie at 45 million companies of public beneficial-ownership data and built seven investigation tools on top: a live ownership graph, dashboards, a risk radar, cross-border flows, plain-English querying and a case desk. One model underneath; every surface almost free. Here's what each piece does and how they fit.
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Engineering Evolved
Long-form conversations with engineering leaders shipping in regulated industries.
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Start where you actually are.
Scorecards, checklists, and playbooks we’re happy to hand over for nothing. Take the pointer below, or see our free tools library
Step 1 Where are you?
Step 2 And where do you want to go?
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FAQ
Questions we get most often.
The real objections. Answered.
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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