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.
Our clients
Four disciplines. Zero duct tape.
Senior engineers only. Every system delivered tested, observable and documented, the way we'd want to inherit it.
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.
Secure enterprise applications
Systems of record and internal platforms for regulated and reputationally exposed environments, built to be audited as well as used.
Source-to-insight data platforms
Connectors, pipelines, warehousing and modelling: one accountable path from your source systems to decisions your team trusts.
Production AI, with guardrails
LLM integrations and agentic workflows deployed where wrong answers cost money: evaluated, monitored, accountable.
Cloud & distributed systems
Event-driven architectures, zero-downtime migrations and legacy modernisation, designed to fail well, not just run fast.
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
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
A large-scale data migration from on-premise systems to Snowflake, without disrupting the business.
189 datasets migrated
Understand → Specify → Ship
Most consultancies start building on day one and discover the problem on day ninety. We do it in the opposite order.
Understand
A short, intense discovery: your domain, your users, your constraints, your actual problem. Usually 1–2 weeks.
Specify
A written spec you own: architecture decisions, data flows, failure modes, and exactly what "done" means. Fixed scope, no surprises.
Ship
Senior-led delivery in weekly increments you can see running. Tested, instrumented, documented, and handed over clean.
The numbers we optimise for
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 callMost first conversations are with a founding engineer, not an account manager.