Six practices, one senior team.
Most engagements draw on three or four of these at once — which is precisely why they live under one roof. Every one ends with something your team can operate without us.
Distributed systems
We design the service topology, the failure modes, and the migration sequence before writing a line of it. Systems are built to degrade in a way you chose, not one you discover at 3am — bulkheads, backpressure, idempotent retries, and a clear story for every partial failure.
- gRPC & event-driven
- Multi-region failover
- Zero-downtime migration
What you receive
- Service topology + ADRs
- Load and chaos test results
- Migration runbook with rollback
- SLOs wired to real alerts
Applied AI infrastructure
The demo is the easy part. We build the unglamorous half: evaluation sets that catch regressions, cost ceilings that stop a runaway loop, fallbacks when a provider degrades, and human review exactly where the risk sits.
- RAG & hybrid search
- Agent orchestration
- Eval + guardrails
What you receive
- Evaluation harness + baselines
- Retrieval pipeline with lineage
- Cost and rate governance
- Red-team report
Data platforms
From change-data-capture at the source to the dashboard that finance signs off on. Every number traceable to the row that produced it, every model tested, and nobody maintaining a spreadsheet in secret.
- CDC & streaming
- Dimensional modelling
- Sub-second OLAP
What you receive
- CDC ingest + schema registry
- Tested dbt model layer
- Semantic layer + docs
- Reconciliation suite
Product engineering
One type definition from the database to the button. Design systems your engineers enjoy building against, performance budgets enforced in CI, and accessibility treated as a requirement rather than an audit finding.
- Design systems
- Edge rendering
- Accessibility to WCAG AA
What you receive
- Component library + tokens
- Typed API client
- Performance budgets in CI
- WCAG AA audit
Cloud & platform ops
Nothing is clicked into existence. Environments are reproducible from a clean account, deploys are progressive and reversible, and the paved path is genuinely the easiest path for your team to take.
- IaC from day one
- Progressive delivery
- Cost governance
What you receive
- Terraform modules + state strategy
- CI/CD with progressive delivery
- Environment parity plan
- Cost dashboard + budgets
Reliability & on-call
Traces that carry a tenant id from the edge to the query plan, alerts that fire on symptoms rather than causes, and blameless reviews that actually change the system. We take the pager for as long as you want us to.
- SLO & error budgets
- Distributed tracing
- 24/7 escalation
What you receive
- SLOs + error budget policy
- Trace and log pipeline
- Runbooks per service
- On-call rota + escalation
Four stages, no surprises.
The same sequence whether the engagement runs eight weeks or two years. Predictability is a feature.
- 01
Technical discovery
Week 1We read the code, trace the hot paths, and interview the people who get paged. You get a written assessment of what is actually in the way — including the parts you did not ask about.
You receive: Assessment + risk register
- 02
Architecture & plan
Weeks 2–3Target architecture, migration sequence, delivery plan, and a fixed commercial shape. Enough detail to decide with your eyes open, and cheap enough to walk away from.
You receive: ADRs + sequenced roadmap
- 03
Build in increments
Weeks 4–16Two-week increments, each deployed behind a flag and demonstrable in your environment. You see running software, not slides about running software.
You receive: Deployed increments + CI
- 04
Handover & on-call
OngoingRunbooks, architecture decision records, and a rota sized to how much of it you want to own. We answer the pager until you would rather we didn't.
You receive: Runbooks + SLOs + rota
Tell us what is breaking.
Send the problem, not a polished brief. A principal engineer reads every enquiry and replies within two working days with a real technical opinion.
- Reply from an engineer, not a salesperson
- Fixed scope and price before any build starts
- Your code, your cloud, your repo — from day one