A delivery model designed for your auditor as much as your CTO.
Every engagement is structured in named phases with named owners. Every phase has a written outcome and a clean exit. Below is how a typical engagement runs — adapted to the brief, never improvised.
Discovery
60-minute call. Scope plus budget shape. No charge. We learn what you are trying to do and tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it.
Diagnostic
Fixed-fee assessment. Written point of view, costed roadmap. A real working artefact — not a sales document dressed as analysis.
Design
Architecture, framework, or programme design — sequenced for delivery, costed in detail, signed off before any build begins.
Build / Deliver
Senior team alongside yours. Iterative delivery. Clean documentation as you go — not a rush-job at the end. Status visible weekly.
Operate / Handover
Runbooks, metrics, training. Clean exit by design — the goal is your team running the thing without us. We come back if you want; we do not engineer dependency to keep ourselves in.
Four engagement shapes.
Most briefs land in one of four shapes. We do not insist on these — the engagement is built around your outcome — but they describe what most of our work looks like.
Encryption / HSM delivery
End-to-end deployment, integration, and operational handover of HSM, PKI, key management, or digital signature infrastructure for a specific customer or programme.
- Vendor-led or customer-led
- Fixed-scope delivery
- Documented operational handover
Architecture / diagnostic
Fixed-fee architecture review, technical due diligence, or readiness assessment. Written point of view plus a costed roadmap delivered to your team and decision-makers.
- Fixed fee · written PoV
- Costed remediation roadmap
- Independent perspective
Capacity-building programme
End-to-end programme design and delivery — curriculum, sessions, materials, evaluation. Designed for parliaments, ministries, banks, and international-org partners.
- Curriculum + delivery + evaluation
- Train-the-trainer optional
- Multi-stakeholder facilitation
Custom build / integration
Senior team alongside your engineers, delivering a defined application, integration, or productized solution into production. Built to your operating standard, handed over working.
- Senior delivery team
- Working handover · documented
- Optional ongoing support
How we price.
Discovery (Phase 00) is free. We do not charge institutions to find out whether we are useful to them.
Diagnostics (Phase 01) and design work (Phase 02) are fixed-fee. You know the cost before you commit, and we carry the risk of scope drift inside the phase.
Build, deliver, and operate work (Phases 03–04) is scoped on outcomes wherever possible — what we will move, for what. Day-rate work is available where the brief genuinely demands it; we do not pretend it is something else.
We share indicative pricing in the diagnostic. If the budget conversation needs to happen earlier — which it often does with international-org and bank procurement — say so and we will be straightforward about it.
Have a problem you can’t put on a slide? Brief us in plain English.
Most of our work starts as a phone call from someone tired of glossy proposals. We listen first.