Engineering outcomes in regulated industries

We work in complex, regulated environments where engineering decisions carry real consequence. Here is what that looks like in practice.

Engineering by the numbers

Practice-level metrics across every engagement.

4months avg

Time to Value

Average time from concept to production-ready enterprise platform — including architecture, delivery, and go-live.

60-75%

TCO Reduction

Total cost of ownership reduction versus vendor-platform licensing, achieved through first-party IP, open standards, and reusable architecture.

3-5×

Delivery Velocity

Throughput multiplier compared to teams of equivalent size — driven by accelerators, code generation, and senior-only engineering.

A+grade

Architecture Fitness

Every delivered system scores against modularity, observability, reversibility, and governance — independently validated.

80%+

Innovation Index

Proportion of new systems using next-generation techniques: event-driven, AI-assisted, agent-ready, cloud-native.

Zero

Risk Eliminated

Unplanned production incidents across all go-lives. Every deployment is designed for zero-downtime rollback.

2-3×

Team Multiplier

Client engineering velocity improvement during and after engagement — through knowledge transfer, patterns, and embedded practices.

Day 1

Compliance Readiness

Audit-ready from first commit — non-repudiation trails, explainable decisions, and provenance tracking built in, not retrofitted.

100%

System Longevity

Every system we have built is still running in production. Zero rewrites, zero replacements, zero throwaway.

Near Zero

Technical Debt Score

Architecture rules enforced by pipeline. Automated quality gates prevent shortcuts from becoming permanent.

Featured engagements

Banking

Economic crime prevention as a shared orchestration platform

Unified orchestration layer replacing fragmented point-solutions for sanctions, PEP, fraud and transaction monitoring — with event-driven architecture and auditable decision trails across multiple bank brands and jurisdictions.

Banking

Modernising customer screening for agility and oversight

Re-architected customer screening as an event-driven platform with modern observability, non-repudiation audit trails, and pluggable provider adapters — capable of handling real-time screening as well as full-book rescreen powered by a distributed search architecture. The platform is designed to extend to group-wide screening requirements including batch, regulatory lists, and payments.

Fintech

Cloud-native credit decisioning for a digital-first bank

Designed and delivered a ~20 microservices credit decisioning platform in 4 months — event-driven, cloud-native, supporting multiple product types with explainable decisions and rapid policy experimentation.

Banking

Authorised payment fraud: designing for speed, signals and supervision

Multi-agent fraud detection prototype delivered during an FCA tech sprint — combining diverse signals through a single orchestration layer with audited explainability, winning the "Fastest" award.

Banking

Building a cloud-native payment and data foundation for a new digital bank

Co-architected a greenfield digital bank platform on Google Cloud with ISO 20022 payment services, BIAN-aligned data services, and open banking adapters — providing a reference architecture for the broader programme.

Recognition

APP Fraud TechSprint – Fastest Award

FCA/PSR (Financial Conduct Authority / Payment Systems Regulator) · 2023

Fastest solution with near-term impact potential — a multi-agent APP fraud detection prototype with explainable AI and human-in-the-loop governance.

ICA Awards – Innovation in Financial Crime

International Compliance Association · 2024

Shortlist finalist for the Economic Crime Prevention Platform built for Lloyds Banking Group — recognised for innovation in financial crime prevention, screening modernisation, and compliance outcomes.