Aldemis | Technology advisory for seed and Series A companies

The call never
starts with
technology.

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 seed and Series A businesses in fintech, payments, SaaS and regulated markets.

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50 yrsOf combined C-level experience, not observed from the outside

20+Start-ups founded, led or turned around by our partners

£30m+Raised across the rounds our partners have personally led

Pre-revenue to £250mThe range of businesses we work with today

Three moments when a business picks up the phone

None of them are technology problems on the surface. All of them turn out to have a technology decision buried somewhere inside.

The roadmap and the business plan stopped agreeing

Sales are promising one thing, the board another, and engineering is building a third. Everyone is working hard. Very little of it adds up.

A raise is coming and the technology story is thin

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.

Delivery is slipping and nobody can clearly articulate why

Dates move, quality drops, costs rise, and the explanations get more technical each quarter. Usually the cause is structural rather than technical.

Where people usually start

Two fixed-scope pieces of work that give you a decision, not a relationship you have to commit to first.

Technology Health Check Essentials

Fixed scope · £2,000 + VAT · AI-assisted first read

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. Built to be affordable at seed, and the fee comes off the full health check if you go further.

Architecture, delivery and cost reviewed together
Risks ranked by when they'll actually bite, not by abstract severity
A short list of what to do next, in order

See what's covered

Need the full depth, with interviews and a board-ready report? See the full Technology Health Check, from £8,000.

AI Business Readiness

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.

Tooling and usage assessed team by team
Risk, data and regulatory exposure mapped
Usage guidelines and business AI policy drafted

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Something else entirely

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.

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Think, plan, do, in that order

Advice that stops at the recommendation is half a job. We stay on through the part where it has to actually work.

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Think

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.

CxO and board advisory
Technology strategy
Roadmap definition
Business plan pressure-testing

Plan

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.

Process and quality improvement
Development management
Product roadmap sequencing
Team structure and hiring

Three members of the team working through a problem around a laptop

Do

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.

Full-stack delivery, web and mobile
Quality review and due diligence
Team augmentation
Interim leadership cover

What that has looked like

Six engagements, anonymised. Each one links to the full write-up.

Passed first time

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 → 6

A 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% → 0

Three 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 min

Customer onboarding took three months of manual work across operations, compliance and technology. We reduced it to a five-step automated process.

Read the write-up

What clients say when we're not in the room

Names 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-up

How we think before you hire us

The fastest way to judge an advisor is to read what they write when nobody is paying them for it.

13 October 2026

What AI-assisted development actually changed, and what it did not

We rebuilt the same software twice and measured both bills. The second build came in at around a fifth of the first. Here is what that number does and does not prove.

23 September 2026

Why is Technology Due Diligence not really about Technology?

It is not a review of your code. It is about whether the business has the foundations to keep growing after investment, and whether leadership can explain the decisions behind it.

16 September 2026

Beyond revenue: what really drives business growth

Peter Baxendale on why a good product creates the opportunity to grow, and why alignment across every team is what makes that growth sustainable.

The Aldemis Insight Series

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.

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When the answer is “build it”

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.

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Tell us what's actually going on

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.

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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.

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