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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

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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.