Systems your team can still run after we leave.
Cloud, custom software, security, data engineering and modernization — delivered so the capability transfers, not just the code.
The buyer's challenge
Most organisations do not have an IT problem.
Most organisations do not have an IT problem. They have a system that was built by someone who left, documented by nobody, and is now the reason three other projects are blocked.
The usual fix makes it worse. A large integrator arrives, stands up something impressive, bills against a fixed scope, and leaves behind a platform your own staff cannot operate or extend. Two years later you are buying the same work again.
What we do
Capabilities in this practice.
Cloud engineering
Landing zones, migration, cost control and infrastructure-as-code on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Environments are reproducible from source, not from memory.
Custom software
Web applications, APIs and integration layers built to a documented interface contract, with the test suite delivered as part of the work rather than promised after it.
Cybersecurity engineering
Identity and access design, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, logging and evidence pipelines. We build the controls and the proof that they operate.
Data engineering
Ingestion, warehousing, lineage and quality monitoring, so that the numbers in a report can be traced back to the row that produced them.
Legacy modernization
Incremental replacement of systems that cannot be switched off, using strangler-pattern migration rather than a single cutover weekend.
Managed services & O&M
Ongoing operation, patching, monitoring and support with defined response targets set in the contract, not in a brochure.
What you receive
Deliverables.
- Solution architecture and interface contracts
- Working software, with its automated test suite
- Infrastructure-as-code for every environment
- Runbooks and operational documentation
- Security control mapping and evidence pipeline
- Knowledge transfer sessions with your named operators
- Post-transition support window with defined response targets
How we deliver.
Assess
We read the code, the tickets and the incidents before we propose anything. The output is a written statement of what is actually wrong, including the parts that are not our work to fix.
Scope
A fixed first increment with an explicit definition of done, so you can judge us on something small before committing to something large.
Build
Two-week increments, demonstrated to your team, with the test suite and documentation produced alongside the code rather than at the end.
Transfer
Your operators run the system with us watching, not the other way round, before the engagement closes. Transfer is a gate, not a phase.
Methods & technologies
What we build with, and what we build to.
Standards listed here are frameworks we design and document against. They are a description of how we work, not a claim to be certified against them — our actual certification status is published in full on the certification roadmap.
Cloud
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
Practice
- Infrastructure-as-code
- CI/CD
- Strangler-pattern migration
- Automated testing
Security frameworks we design to
- NIST SP 800-53
- NIST SP 800-171
- CIS Benchmarks
- OWASP ASVS
Accessibility
- WCAG 2.2 AA
- Section 508
- EN 301 549
Outcomes & sectors
What changes.
Stated as capability, not as a percentage. We do not publish performance figures we cannot attribute to a named engagement.
- A system your own staff can operate, extend and audit
- Environments that can be rebuilt from source control
- Security controls with evidence attached, ready for an assessor
- A documented interface contract, so the next supplier is not locked out
Sectors we deliver into.
- Government
- Health & human services
- Financial services
- Logistics
- Education
- Nonprofit
North American public-sector codes
- NAICS 541512
- PSC D302
- PSC D307
- PSC D399
Questions
Will you work alongside our incumbent supplier?
Yes, and we do it often. We will agree interface boundaries and escalation paths in writing at the start. We do not require an incumbent to be removed for us to be useful.
Can you take over a system somebody else built?
Yes. The first increment is normally an assessment that gives you a written account of the system's real state — including the parts that are fine. You own that document whether or not you continue with us.
Do you subcontract to larger primes?
Yes. We prime small and mid-sized contracts and subcontract to larger integrators on work beyond our capacity. Both directions are set out at /government/teaming.
The rest of the loop
This pillar is one part of a delivery loop.
Have a requirement in IT Services?
Send the solicitation, statement of work or role description. You will get a direct answer on fit, including when the honest answer is that we are not the right supplier.