Finance

Mostly, yes. Synthetic and masked datasets cover the build; where production data is unavoidable, access is least-privilege, fully logged, and stays inside your environment. Nothing lands on a laptop.

That is the starting point, not an accommodation. SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR and local data-residency rules are folded into definition, so your compliance team signs off the controls before the build — not after it.

You do. Trails, logs and evidence exports live in your systems under your keys. We never become a dependency for proving your own history to a regulator.

Yes. Most finance engagements run entirely inside the client’s own cloud accounts or data centre. We adapt to your network boundary rather than asking you to open it.

We arrive with the paperwork ready — DPAs, insurance certificates, subprocessor list and pen-test summaries. Most reviews close in days rather than months.

It is inside the first three weeks, not after them. Controls ship with the first deploy — which is exactly why the first deploy can go to production.

That is most of the job. We have wired into core banking platforms, card processors, payment rails and twelve-year-old policy admin systems — always behind versioned contracts your team can hold onto.

Every cutover runs dark first — old and new in parallel, differences reconciled — and every step has a tested rollback. “Wrong” means falling back cleanly, not going down.

Fixed price for the framing phase, then a flat monthly rate for the build. We don’t bill hourly — it pays us to be slow, and you shouldn’t have to audit a timesheet to trust the work.

As long as it is useful. Most finance clients keep us on for the systems we run; the full handover — runbooks, dashboards, paired sessions — is always on the table.