// Software engineering & technical advisory
Calad is a team of engineers from one of the world's largest banks. We design, build, rescue and run critical software for startups, scale-ups and enterprises, with a bank's discipline and none of its bureaucracy.
01 Practice
Bring us in for a project, or keep us on as your engineering team. The engineers you meet are the engineers who do the work.
01 Ongoing
Your software team, without building one in-house. We run, maintain and extend your systems month after month, with the same senior engineers and the same standards as a build engagement.
02
Architecture reviews, technical due diligence and fractional CTO leadership for companies at an inflection point: a raise, an acquisition or a scaling wall.
Due diligence · Architecture review · Fractional CTO
03
Client-facing products and platforms, engineered for scale, security and audit from the first commit.
Web & mobile products · APIs · Integrations · Payments
04
Data infrastructure that stands up in the boardroom and the audit. Machine learning and AI applied where they earn their place.
Pipelines · Warehousing · Applied ML · LLM systems
05
We take over programs that have stalled and retire systems that have outlived their makers, without disrupting the business that runs on them.
Program rescue · Legacy migration · Re-platforming
// Background
We built and ran systems at one of the world's largest banks, where downtime makes headlines. Every Calad engagement is held to that standard.
02 Approach
Plain terms at every stage. Where something is uncertain, we say so.
Step 01
Time with your systems, people and code. A written account of what exists and what it will take.
Step 02
Scope, cost and risk set out in writing, in language a board can read, before any build begins.
Step 03
Short increments, shipped by senior engineers, with tests, observability and documentation as standard.
Step 04
Your team takes full ownership, or we stay on as your engineering team. Either way, the system is documented and yours.
03 Work
Client names are withheld. Fuller accounts are available in conversation, with permission.