Complex problems,
turned into robust systems.
A systems engineering and commercial advisory firm, working in defence, finance, energy and industry. On a single problem we move across architecture, hardware, software, quantitative models and capital structure — rather than handing those interfaces to separate advisers.
How we workThe systems our clients depend on are not general-purpose.
They operate under constraints — latency, safety, assurance, physical process, regulatory scrutiny — that commercial platforms are not built to hold. We have worked on those constraints since 2017, initially in quantitative finance and subsequently across energy, industrial and public-interest infrastructure.
The common thread is not an industry. It is the point at which an organisation reaches the limit of what can be bought and has to build.
About the firmCapabilities
- 01 System architecture The structural decisions that are expensive to revisit — made early, written down, and justified.
- 02 Engineering delivery Working systems, built by a small senior team, handed over to yours in a state it can maintain.
- 03 Assurance and evidence Demonstrating that a system does what is claimed, to a standard a third party can check.
- 04 Commercial structures The corporate and financial form around a system, designed alongside the system itself.
Sectors
We work where the cost of a system failing is measured in something other than inconvenience.
- 01 Defence and national infrastructure Systems that must hold their properties under adversarial conditions, and demonstrate that they do.
- 02 Capital markets Where the difference between adequate and correct is measured in microseconds.
- 03 Financial services Where a model that cannot be explained cannot be used, however well it performs.
- 04 Energy, utilities and resources Where the system is physical, and a control decision has consequences in the world.
- 05 Industrial and advanced manufacturing Where custom hardware is the starting point, not an escalation.
- 2017
- Practising since
- 2
- Offices — London, Abu Dhabi
- 5
- Sectors served
Selected work
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A 25W sensor for drone detection, identification and direction finding
A deployable sensor that finds drones by their radio emissions, identifies them where they broadcast and classifies them where they do not, and takes a bearing on a target that is actively trying not to hold still — with everything, inference included, running on the node inside 25 watts.
RF signal processing · Edge AI · Embedded systems · Sensor fusion
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A passive micro-Doppler sensor for fused situational awareness
Prototype of a sensor that classifies airborne targets from micro-Doppler signatures without transmitting — PCB design, component selection under supply constraints, firmware, and the software that fuses its output with other sensors.
PCB design · Firmware · Signal processing · Sensor fusion
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Retrofit autonomy for existing crewed vessels
Design and prototype of an autonomy package fitted to vessels already in service — custom interface hardware, edge compute, protocol bridging and a communications path that degrades predictably offshore.
PCB design · Edge compute · Marine protocols · Communications
Enquiries
Start with the problem
If you are weighing a system decision that is difficult to reverse, we are glad to look at it with you. An initial conversation carries no obligation and no fee.