Enterprise software, without the enterprise drag.

Auric North is a London consultancy for software where failure is expensive. We understand your business before we build, write a specification you can hold us to, and deliver running systems in weeks — engineered to institutional standards.

No pitch decks. Just a technical conversation.

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specificationsigned off
buildweekly increments
testspassing · instrumented
handoverrunbooks delivered
production
spec → production✓ healthy
engineered to institutional standards

Our clients

Dr Martens
What we build

Four disciplines. Zero duct tape.

Senior engineers only. Every system delivered tested, observable and documented, the way we'd want to inherit it.

SPEC-FIRST

We write it down before we build it

Every engagement starts with a specification you can hold us to: architecture, failure modes, acceptance criteria. Read the approach.

ENTERPRISE

Secure enterprise applications

Systems of record and internal platforms for regulated and reputationally exposed environments, built to be audited as well as used.

DATA

Source-to-insight data platforms

Connectors, pipelines, warehousing and modelling: one accountable path from your source systems to decisions your team trusts.

AI

Production AI, with guardrails

LLM integrations and agentic workflows deployed where wrong answers cost money: evaluated, monitored, accountable.

CLOUD

Cloud & distributed systems

Event-driven architectures, zero-downtime migrations and legacy modernisation, designed to fail well, not just run fast.

Technology

Chosen for longevity, not novelty.

The stack is a decision, not an accident. Every tool here has earned its orbit in production — proven where failure is expensive, current where capability compounds.

  • Languages & frameworks

    TypeScript · React · Next.js · Node.js · Java · Spring

  • Data

    Python · PostgreSQL · Kafka · dbt · Snowflake

  • AI & infrastructure

    Claude · OpenAI · Bedrock · AWS · Terraform · Docker · Kubernetes

18 technologies · 3 layers · one accountable stack

TypeScripttyped end to end
Reactinterfaces under control
Next.jsthe web tier
Node.jsservices & tooling
Javalong-lived systems
Springenterprise services
Pythondata & automation
PostgreSQLsystems of record
Kafkaevent backbones
dbtmodelling you can test
Snowflakewarehouse scale
Claudeagentic systems
OpenAILLM integrations
Bedrockmanaged inference
AWSprimary cloud
Terraforminfrastructure as code
Dockerreproducible builds
Kubernetesorchestration at scale
Selected work

Where the stakes were real

A consumer search platform that surfaces revenue opportunities for the portal's customers.

53M daily searches

A greenfield data and analytics platform, from ingestion to modelled insight, with operational alerting built in.

14 source systems

Dr Martens

A large-scale data migration from on-premise systems to Snowflake, without disrupting the business.

189 datasets migrated

Approach

Understand → Specify → Ship

Most consultancies start building on day one and discover the problem on day ninety. We do it in the opposite order.

01

Understand

A short, intense discovery: your domain, your users, your constraints, your actual problem. Usually 1–2 weeks.

02

Specify

A written spec you own: architecture decisions, data flows, failure modes, and exactly what "done" means. Fixed scope, no surprises.

03

Ship

Senior-led delivery in weekly increments you can see running. Tested, instrumented, documented, and handed over clean.

Results

The numbers we optimise for

0critical incidents across systems we've shipped to production
100%of engagements delivered against a written, signed specification
12 weeksmedian time from kick-off to first production deploy

Tell us what must not go wrong.

A 30-minute technical conversation: your problem, our questions, no sales deck. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you who is.

Book a 30 minute call

Most first conversations are with a founding engineer, not an account manager.