Ema Consulting
Architecture and AI consulting from our founder, Emanuele Pugliese — 15+ years in banking, payments and cloud.
Meet the consultant
Emanuele Pugliese
Principal Cloud Architect & AI Consultant
AWS and AI consultant who makes businesses more efficient, and founder of the SaaS products that do it. Fifteen-plus years of event-driven architecture in high-assurance payments at Discover and Capital One (to August 2026), now applied full-time at Puglieseweb LTD: a serverless AWS estate run entirely by pipeline, 100 written architecture decisions, and a measured cost behind every plan.
Our founder's 15+ years of experience includes
Engagements
Four ways we take the work on — each one scoped, priced, and handed back to your team.
AI adoption & custom AI solutions
We evaluate the models and tools that suit your work, then build and ship what uses them — assistants, automations, and the data pipelines behind them.
- Typical deliverables
- AI readiness assessment, tool and model evaluation, proof-of-concept build, production integration, team training
- Investment
- From £2,500 for assessment + PoC
Cloud architecture & modernisation
We review the architecture you have, design the event-driven one you need, and move you there incrementally on AWS — no big-bang cutover.
- Typical deliverables
- Architecture review report, event schema and system design documents, migration roadmap, infrastructure-as-code templates, automated fitness tests
- Investment
- From £3,000 per audit
Fractional engineering leadership
Senior architecture and engineering leadership on a flexible basis: we embed with your team, set the standards, mentor developers, and drive delivery.
- Typical deliverables
- Architecture strategy, team mentoring, code review standards, hiring support, delivery roadmap
- Investment
- From £750/day or monthly retainer
Compliance & regulated industries
GDPR, PCI DSS, and data residency built into the infrastructure and the pipeline — from someone who has shipped payments in high-assurance environments.
- Typical deliverables
- Compliance gap analysis, data flow mapping, encryption at rest and in transit, audit logging, policy-as-code
- Investment
- From £4,000 per implementation
All prices exclude VAT. Final pricing depends on scope — we'll confirm in the proposal.
How we work
Discovery
A free 30-minute call: your challenges, your architecture, your goals.
Proposal
A written proposal with scope, approach, timeline, and price, within 3-5 working days.
Delivery
We embed with your team and ship iteratively — a working result every sprint.
Knowledge transfer
We document it, train your team, and hand it over. No vendor lock-in.
The way we work is written down. The Engineering Handbook is the reference our consultants work from: cloud architecture on AWS, security, software design and delivery practice, published openly so a practice can be checked before it is bought.Open the Engineering Handbook
Who we work with
For Engineering Leaders
Scale your engineering organisation without losing control of architecture quality.
For Regulated Industries
Compliance built into your architecture — automated, auditable, and maintainable.
Ready to talk it through?
Tell us what you need and we'll come back with the approach, the scope and the price.
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