It starts with growth getting harder to predict, or a raise coming in eighteen months, or something that used to work quietly getting worse. Technology is usually part of the answer. It is rarely the whole of it.
Aldemis is a partnership of operators: former CTOs, CEOs and commercial leads, working with growth-stage businesses in fintech, payments, SaaS and regulated markets.
None of them are technology problems on the surface. All of them turn out to have a technology decision buried somewhere inside.
Sales are promising one thing, the board another, and engineering is building a third. Everyone is working hard. Very little of it adds up.
Diligence will ask what the platform costs at ten times the volume, where it breaks, and who else could build it. Better to have those answers before somebody else finds them.
Dates move, quality drops, costs rise, and the explanations get more technical each quarter. Usually the cause is structural rather than technical.
Two fixed-scope pieces of work that give you a decision, not a relationship you have to commit to first.
Fixed scope · fixed fee · report and board-ready summary
An unbiased read on where your technology actually stands: what is working, what is fragile, what breaks first as you grow, and what it will cost to fix.
Fixed scope · fixed fee · policy pack included
Whether your team is genuinely getting productivity out of AI, where the real exposure sits, and what to put in writing before somebody in your business decides for you.
Most of our work is bespoke: interim CTO cover, board advisory through a raise, technical due diligence on an acquisition, delivery turnaround, team restructure. If you can describe the problem, we can tell you within a call whether we are the right people for it.
Advice that stops at the recommendation is half a job. We stay on through the part where it has to actually work.
Before anything gets built or restructured, we work out what has to be true for the business in eighteen months, and whether the current technology supports that or quietly works against it.
A recommendation nobody can sequence is just an opinion. We turn the direction into a plan with an order, an owner and a cost, including the parts that are uncomfortable to say out loud.
Then we stay until it is working. Sometimes that means building it, sometimes covering a seat, sometimes standing next to your team while they do it themselves.
Six engagements, anonymised. Each one links to the full write-up.
A new payment platform with critical quality issues and three months to pass external conformance tests. We took ownership of the delivery and it passed first time.
Read the write-up 20+Acting as the standing technology bench for an incubator portfolio, advising more than twenty start-ups on strategy, risk and process, and bridging the gap between founders and investors.
Read the write-up 11 months → 6A regulatory platform redesign estimated at eleven months against a six-month deadline, with 80% of revenue at risk. Delivered in time, with no revenue lost.
Read the write-up 60% → 0Three in five planned releases had been abandoned over twelve months. From the day we engaged, every planned release shipped, with productivity up 20% and cost down 15%.
Read the write-up 35% then 60%Growing fast and still not profitable, with hosting costs outrunning income. A twelve-month transformation programme cut costs by a third in year one.
Read the write-up 3 months → 15 minCustomer onboarding took three months of manual work across operations, compliance and technology. We reduced it to a five-step automated process.
Read the write-upNames withheld at their request. Happy to make introductions to references at the right point.
“They cut through complexity, challenge assumptions, and focus us on what will genuinely move the business forward.”
Founder & CEO, AI SaaS“Clarity and simplicity throughout, making sure nothing is overlooked, and nothing is over-engineered.”
Founder, AI start-up“Incredibly good at creating structure and process out of chaos. It got us out of tricky situations several times.”
CEO, fintech scale-upThe fastest way to judge an advisor is to read what they write when nobody is paying them for it.
Peter Baxendale on why a good product creates the opportunity to grow, and why alignment across every team is what makes that growth sustainable.
Adrian Cannon and Ellie Harrop on why revenue growth gets you into the room but rarely closes the round.
AI-assisted software delivery combined with senior technology leadership, on a monthly subscription.
Recorded conversations between Richard Ney, Peter Baxendale, Adrian Cannon and Giles Manger on the realities of building and growing a business: scaling, raising, restructuring, and knowing when something has quietly stopped working.
Aldemis Foundry is our build arm. AI-assisted development with a senior technologist attached to every engagement, so the right thing gets built, and gets built properly. Monthly subscription, no long lock-in.
A first call is thirty minutes, free, and genuinely non-committal. You will get an honest view on whether this is a problem we can help with, including when the answer is no.
Prefer to send something first? A short note on where the business is and what is bothering you is plenty. We will come back with questions, not a deck.