Case studies
Challenge → solution → outcome → metrics
We publish a structured write-up for every build — the brief, the architecture, the rollout and the measurable result. Here's where it starts.
Selected builds
Real systems, written up like client work
Proof build · This website
Consultancy in Action
Our own AI-accelerated demand-generation platform
A £95k–£130k agency build, delivered for about £33k — and shipped in roughly three weeks.
- What it cost to build
- £33k
- Time to build
- ~3 weeks
Capability build · Financial services
PaperTrade
A secure paper-trading simulator & AI-bot strategy lab
A secure, full-stack trading simulator — mobile, web and desktop — with a bot API for AI agents, built AI-accelerated and verified end to end for $0 to run.
- Engine tests passing
- 32 / 32
- Platforms from one codebase
- 4
Capability build · Developer tooling
AEGIS
Our guardrailed, provider-agnostic agentic coding tool
Security-grade agentic coding tooling — a guardrailed Rust agent with safety built into the architecture, shipped AI-accelerated.
- Safety principles enforced
- 10
- Running cost (local)
- $0
Travel & tourism · Consumer product
TFIA Aurora
Aurora forecast & alerts — “True Frontier In Action”
A six-feed aurora forecast app, designed and built from spec
- Acceptance tests passing
- 9 / 9
- Live data feeds fused into one score
- 6
Capability build · Kids' EdTech
Jess Drawing World
A local-first, privacy-first Flutter app that teaches a child to draw — guided lessons, camera-anchored AR tracing, and on-device image processing, all offline with no accounts and no cloud.
We built a polished, kid-safe drawing app — markerless AR tracing, on-device CV, encrypted local storage — for a real child, AI-accelerated and cost-disciplined.
- Guided lessons
- 250
- Tracing templates
- ~285 original
Capability build · Local-first AI
CIA N.I.C.K.E.D. Office
A full office suite whose AI runs on your own machine
Documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF and Markdown — with an assistant that writes into them, running on a model on your own computer.
- Tests passing
- 4,600+
- Cloud services required
- None
Capability build · AI infrastructure
Self-Improve
A governed memory & learning loop for AI assistants
An AI assistant that remembers you and learns from every session — consent-first, fully journaled, with a one-file kill switch.
- Build phases shipped
- 3
- How new skills go live
- Consent-first
Capability build · Education & publishing
Trueflow in Action
Performance-psychology education for traders — the flow state, trained
A complete education funnel — diagnostic quiz, free tools, course and content — built from a written spec pack in a single focused day, with compliance as a hard constraint.
- Built from spec pack in
- 1 day
- Routes delivered
- 20+
Travel & tourism · Marketing site
True Frontier in Action
A dual-funnel travel site — polar journeys + the TFIA Aurora app
One site, two funnels: aurora-journey enquiries for a human expert, and the waitlist for her forecast app — static, honest about its referral role, and ~£0 a month to run.
- Journey destinations
- 9
- Funnels on one site
- 2
Proof build · Client operations
CIA Client Portal
A self-service client portal — projects, files, tickets and resources
An AI-drafted portal put through a four-agent adversarial audit — 55 findings, a near-rewritten server, 18/18 smoke tests, and promotion to an always-on supervised service.
- Audit findings surfaced
- 55
- Smoke tests passing
- 18 / 18
Capability build · Consumer AI & trading psychology
Hey G
A local, voice-first AI trading coach grounded in your own library
A trading buddy you talk to out loud — coach, mentor, mind-trainer and news desk — that runs entirely on your machine, quotes your own books chapter and line, and by design never tells you what to trade.
- Runs on
- Your machine
- Token cost
- £0
We'd rather show real work than borrowed logos — ten real builds, from a secure paper-trading simulator to a guardrailed coding agent, an aurora forecast app, a client portal, a governed AI memory system and a local voice-first trading coach, plus the site you're reading. Each was built the way we build for clients. More publish as engagements complete. See how this maps to your sector.
Industries we're built for
Our delivery model is industry-agnostic, but the patterns repeat most reliably in these sectors:
- Legal & professional services
- Healthcare & clinics
- Accountancy & advisory
- Retail & e-commerce
- Recruitment & staffing
- Financial services
- Travel & hospitality
- Manufacturing & engineering
Want to see the working build?
We'd rather show you real systems than slides — ten real builds, including PaperTrade, AEGIS, TFIA Aurora, a local-AI office suite, our client portal and a local voice-first trading coach, plus this very site — and how we'd build the same way for your business, on a call, live.