Software security and scale for SMBs · Hosted in London
Built it with AI? We’ll make it secure, reliable and ready to grow.
AI tools get your software working fast. We make sure it stays working: no exposed data, no surprise outages, no runaway cloud bills. Led by a former Capital One payments architect.
- 15+ years in enterprise payments
- PCI DSS and UK GDPR experience
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- Hosted on AWS in London
- Architecture Boundaries, data flows and the AWS building blocks chosen before the first line of code, and written down so anyone can pick the work up. What your software starts with
- Compliance UK GDPR as a design input: data kept in London, retention and erasure built into every store, and a data-processing agreement ready to sign. Where your data lives
- Operations Monitoring, backups, security patches and a pipeline that releases the same way every time. What we build, we can run for you. Run and support
- Stakeholders Plain-language updates and a working version to react to early, so the people who will live with the software shape it. How it works, in four steps
- Legal Contracts, data-processing terms and ownership settled in the proposal: the code is yours, and leaving is priced in from the start. If you move it elsewhere
- Product Features chosen by what your customers actually do, shipped in small releases you can measure, the way we run our own products. Products we run ourselves
- Security Security from the first commit: least-privilege access, data encrypted at rest and in transit, and every change scanned before it ships. Trust and security
It works on your laptop. Will it survive your customers?
AI coding tools are brilliant at making software that works. They are much less careful about making it safe, tested and able to cope with real traffic. Most teams find the gaps the hard way.
Exposed keys and data
API keys in the code, open databases, customer data anyone can read.
Missing access checks
Users can see or change records that aren’t theirs.
No tests, no safety net
Every change risks breaking something nobody notices until a customer does.
Slows down or falls over
Fine for 50 users; painful at 5,000.
Cloud bills that keep climbing
Inefficient queries and always-on servers paid for by the hour.
Failed security questionnaires
A big client, insurer or investor asks for evidence you can’t produce.
None of this means you chose wrong. It means your software is ready for its next stage.
From AI prototype to production-grade software
Software Health Check
Start hereReview of code, cloud setup, data handling and costs. Written report in 5 working days with a prioritised fix list and a 45-minute walkthrough.
Fixed fee, £1,495
Secure & Harden
We fix what the Health Check finds: secrets, access control, encryption, backups, automated security scanning, UK GDPR gaps. Cyber Essentials readiness on request.
From £3,995. Fixed quote after Health Check
Scale & Optimise
Load testing, database and query tuning, caching, serverless or autoscaling on AWS, monitoring and alerts, lower cloud bills.
From £3,500. Fixed quote after Health Check
Ongoing Care
We run it with you: monitored releases, every change scanned before it ships, monthly security and cost review, a named architect on call.
Monthly retainer from £1,500
Still building? We also review AI-assisted code as you go, so problems never reach production.
Enterprise-grade engineering, small-business pricing
Emanuele Pugliese spent ten years at Discover Financial Services and Capital One, latterly as a Principal Application Architect, designing payment systems behind Google Pay, Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, where security and uptime are not optional. He now brings the same discipline to SMBs, and does the work himself.
- 15+ years in payments architecture: tokenisation, event-driven systems, high-volume cloud platforms
- Regulated-industry experience: PCI DSS, PSD2/SCA, UK GDPR, data localisation
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect, building to the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Decisions written down: 100+ architecture decisions recorded, so you always know why your system is built the way it is
- We build with AI too: our own products run on the same standards we apply to yours
We build the way we describe in Architecture as Truth: what a system should do is decided and written down first, and AI builds from that.
What the people our founder has worked with say
Mike Knauff
Director, Application Architecture — Discover Financial Services
Read moreI have had the pleasure of working with Emanuele for nearly ten years, during which time he has served as a Principal Architect across several payment network platforms.
Arpit Shah
Senior Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Read moreEmanuele is very hard working and smart individual who continuously looks to change the norms to improve and reduce development/test efforts.
Kiranmai Goda
Principal Architect, Digital Banking & Wallet Enablement
Read moreI have had the privilege of working with Emanuele for several years, and he is unquestionably one of the strongest architects I have worked with throughout my career.
Spencer Mitchell
Java Software Developer, Discover Financial Services
Read moreI had the pleasure of working with Emanuele over the past few years, during which he served as the architect on an important project.
How it works
Free 30-minute call
Tell us what you’ve built, how it’s hosted and what worries you.
Software Health Check
Read-only access, 5 working days, a plain-English report with a prioritised fix list.
Fixed-price plan
You approve exactly what we’ll change, and what it costs, before work starts.
Fix, test, release
You approve every release before your customers see it. Then we keep it healthy, if you want us to.
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Want AI added to your own systems safely? We do that too: assistants, automation and integrations, built to the same standard.
Frequently asked questions
Do you only work with software built by AI?
No. We review any custom software, but AI-assisted projects are where we see the most avoidable gaps.
Do we have to rewrite everything?
Almost never. We fix what matters most first and keep what already works.
Which tools and stacks do you cover?
Code from Cursor, Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Claude, Copilot and similar; common stacks include Node.js, Python, Java, React and Next.js on AWS, Vercel, Supabase or Firebase.
Will you need access to our customer data?
No. The Health Check uses read-only access to code and cloud configuration. Your data is never used to train AI models.
Can you help us pass a security questionnaire or Cyber Essentials?
Yes. We close the gaps and help you prepare the evidence.
Who does the work?
Emanuele does, personally. No hand-offs to juniors.
Find out what your AI didn’t tell you.
Book a Software Health Check and get a clear, prioritised plan in five working days.