Enterprise-Grade Engineering

Enterprise-grade engineering meets four standards that consumer and startup-grade code often lacks: reliability (99.9%+ uptime with tested failover), security (penetration-tested, audit-logged, access-controlled), compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA, or ISO 27001 technical controls in place), and operability (full observability, on-call runbooks, and documented incident response). All four must be present for a system to be enterprise-grade.

An enterprise engineering engagement typically runs 3–6 months for a mid-sized system, depending on the scope of hardening required. Security and compliance remediation (SOC 2 controls, penetration test findings) typically takes 6–10 weeks. Infrastructure hardening (multi-region, auto-scaling, DR) takes 4–8 weeks. Legacy system modernisation scales with system complexity, plan 3–12 months for large monoliths.

Yes, we almost always harden in place rather than rebuild. Rebuilding introduces new risk and delays. We use the strangler fig pattern to modernise incrementally, adding compliance controls, observability, and resilience patterns to existing systems without a rewrite. Full rebuilds are only recommended when the existing architecture has fundamental blockers (e.g., single-region-only design, no test coverage, no separation of concerns).

We implement the technical controls required for SOC 2 Type II: audit logging, access management, encryption, change management, and incident response procedures. We work alongside your chosen SOC 2 auditor (we do not provide audit services ourselves). Clients typically complete their SOC 2 Type II audit within 6–12 months of our engagement start, depending on audit readiness at the beginning.

AI systems introduce unique enterprise requirements: model versioning and reproducibility, inference cost governance, data privacy for training pipelines, and bias/fairness documentation for regulated use cases. Our enterprise AI engineering covers all of these: we've hardened AI systems for financial services and healthcare clients where auditability and explainability are non-negotiable.