Fractional CTO
A senior engineering lead for companies that need one but are not ready to hire full time. They own the architecture, run the hiring, and answer for the technical decisions that are hard to walk back.
Isle of Man · Software Studio
Building what's
Building what's
not seen.
We're an Isle of Man software studio. We build and run software for finance and regulated firms, and we lead the engineering teams that keep it working after launch.
01 · What we do
We build the software, and the
company around it.
Substance Set up and staffed on the island.
On-island development team
A development team based on the Isle of Man, building and maintaining your software here rather than somewhere you will never visit.
Company registration
We help you set up a company on the Isle of Man and get the technical foundations right from day one, so the IP your team builds here is owned by your island company, with the real substance behind it, not a brass-plate.
Software & AI The software and AI we build.
Custom software development
We build and run production software: Go and Java on the backend, Postgres or MySQL behind it, infrastructure as code on AWS and GCP. The kind of system that has to keep working when no one is watching it.
Agentic AI implementation
We build agentic systems that do actual work. We are building one ourselves, an automated marketing engine, and we wire the same kind of automation into client systems, with a person still signing off on anything that matters.
Engineering for finance companies
Software for finance and regulated firms, built by people who know that getting it provably right, and being able to show your working, is most of the job.
In-house product
PhantomTrace™
Our platform for IP and brand protection. It finds cloned and counterfeit apps before they damage your name: it watches the app stores where brands get copied, scores how close each match is, and packages the evidence so you can act on it. It is live and running today.
- Coverage
- App stores, worldwide
- Detects
- Clones & counterfeits
- Scores
- Visual & metadata similarity
- Output
- Evidence you can act on
02 · The group
Part of an established Isle of Man group.
We are part of a group of established Isle of Man firms, with a long track record across forensics, fiduciary and professional services. That is the experience and backing the studio is built on.
03 · How we work
How a project
actually goes.
i
Discovery
We dig into the real problem first: what is actually constraining you, and what a good outcome would change.
ii
Design
We agree the scope and the architecture up front, and we are honest about the trade-offs before anyone writes code.
iii
Build
We build in small increments you can see and use, and nothing ships until it actually works.
iv
Run
We do not disappear at launch. We keep the software running, fix what breaks, and improve it as you grow.
04 · Sectors
Who we tend to
work with.
01 Finance Banks and payment firms
02 Fiduciary & corporate services Trust and company administrators
03 Regulated firms Businesses with a regulator to answer to
04 Brand & IP protection Brands hit by clones and counterfeits
05 Founders & scaleups Early companies that need to move fast
Let's talk
Book a call.
Tell us what you are working on, and we will tell you whether we can help and how.