Software, infrastructure, and AI for banks, fintechs, insurance and investment firms — delivered by a small experienced team.
We work across software, infrastructure, and AI — and the connections between them. We deliver exponential value for our clients with meaningful outcomes.
Application development, platform architecture, and API design for regulated environments where reliability and compliance aren't optional. Greenfield builds, legacy modernisation, and the hard integrations in between.
Cloud architecture and migration on AWS, Azure, and GCP. DevOps, CI/CD, and a security and compliance posture aligned with FCA, PRA, BMA, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR from day one.
From strategy through to production. LLM integration, predictive analytics, intelligent automation, and the data foundations they depend on — applied where they deliver measurable business value.
Fractional CTO and product leadership, technical due diligence, and roadmap work for founders, scale-up exec teams, and investors. Independent, senior, and grounded in delivery experience.
Selected clients
Built a bespoke agentic AI layer for a consumer insurance platform that reads and reasons over policy wording, surfacing the clauses that decide a claim. Average claim-resolution time fell by around 60% — turning a multi-day review into the same afternoon.
Led enterprise security adoption for a national companies registry — achieving SOC compliance and clearing the bar for secure, intergovernmental connections to other public systems.
Authored the technology policy underpinning intergovernmental frameworks — the standards that let jurisdictions collaborate and exchange data with confidence.
Provided fractional technical leadership to a scale-up exec team — roadmap, architecture decisions, and due-diligence support, without a full-time hire.
You work with the people doing the work. We don't provide juniors learning on your time. Engagements are small and focused.
Fifteen years across FCA, PRA, BMA and Lloyd's-regulated environments. Security, compliance, and auditability are part of how we build, not an afterthought.
Coverage across UK, USA and the Atlantic financial hubs. Convenient time zones for clients across Europe, the UK, and North America.
Cahvren is named after the cahow — a seabird thought extinct for three hundred years before being rediscovered. It crosses thousands of miles of open ocean and always finds its way home. A small reminder that good things endure, and return.
We work with a small number of clients at a time, by design. If you'd like to understand how to create more value, write to us.
hello@cahvren.com