01Fixed-scope production sprint or embedded FDE
AI productionisation
Take an AI proof of concept from convincing demo to reliable operating workflow.
- Evaluation and regression harnesses
- Guardrails and human review
- Tool/API integration
- Tracing, cost and latency control
- Production deployment and monitoring
Prior deliveryA retrieval-augmented knowledge system shipped for safe firm-wide use inside a regulated financial services firm.
02Workflow deployment sprint
Operational automation
Turn a repetitive manual process into software your team can actually run.
- Workflow and exception mapping
- Internal tools and AI-assisted operations
- Document/data processing
- Approvals and audit trails
- Adoption with the operating team
Prior deliveryInterest and FX reconciliation automation that unlocked ~£500k/year and removed ~2 days of manual operations per month.
03Fixed-scope workstream or embedded FDE
Data & decision systems
Build the pipeline and decision surface underneath a metric, model or operating process.
- API/database ingestion
- Data modelling and transformations
- Quality checks and observability
- BI and operational reporting
- Ranking, scoring and decision logic
Prior deliveryLiquidity pipelines that moved lender estimates from 13:00 to 08:00, and firm-wide reporting adopted by thousands of users.
04Integration sprint
Complex integrations
Own the last mile between products, suppliers, APIs and legacy systems.
- Partner and supplier APIs
- CRM/ERP/payment integrations
- Authentication and permissions
- Async workflows and retries
- Failure recovery and observability
Prior deliveryLive supplier and travel inventory APIs, SDKs and partner systems integrated end to end in MyEscapePlan production.
05Diagnostic + repair sprint
Technical rescue
A production system is slow, brittle, expensive or blocking delivery. Diagnose it and ship the fix.
- Architecture and bottleneck diagnosis
- Performance and reliability
- Data/BI trust failures
- Deployment and CI/CD repair
- Production hardening
Prior deliveryPerformance migration and standardisation across multi-terabyte PySpark pipelines on Palantir Foundry and AWS.
06Part-time or full-time embedded engagement
Embedded FDE
Senior engineering ownership for a problem that cannot be solved responsibly from a fixed brief.
- Direct access to operators and stakeholders
- Weekly production delivery
- Works in your repo and accounts
- Outcome-based prioritisation
- Documentation and knowledge transfer
Prior deliveryA data function led out of Operations into Technology, with roadmap, systems and ownership transferred to the client team.