Deliver the product your customers have been waiting for.
Assess, build, or embed. We build data and compliance products for regulated customers, from the first data pipeline to the security review that decides whether it ships. Fixed price, senior-led, team-delivered.
Trusted Across Missions
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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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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.
A US company (Spicule Inc), with staffed offices in New York and Alexandria, Virginia, and cover across US hours, 8am to 10pm ET.
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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Take a look at work we’re proud of.
A history of moving missions forward. See all case studies →
“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.”
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What we’ve been up to.
Our own builds, and the things we put out every week.
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See moreThe Largest Technology Modernization Effort Ever
Dan Lorenc of Chainguard says we're staring at the largest technology modernization effort ever, and nobody realizes how big or how fast it's going to be. I think he's right, and most of the organizations we work with aren't ready for it.
The Great LLM Bake Off
Eight models, one prompt, one screenshot: rebuild the Superhuman UI in SvelteKit. Four free models, four paid ones, and the cost per attempt ranging from nothing to $1.18.
Kubeflow: Running Machine Learning on Your Own Kubernetes Cluster
Not every ML team can move data into a cloud managed service. Kubeflow is seven projects that turn a Kubernetes cluster into a training, tuning and serving platform, and it is not for everyone.
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Concept to Cloud
Long-form conversations with engineering leaders shipping in regulated industries.
Our work
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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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Tell us what you’re building.
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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