It starts with growth getting harder to predict, or a raise eighteen months out, 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 growth-stage businesses in fintech, payments, SaaS and regulated markets.
None of them are technology problems on the surface. All of them turn out to have a technology decision buried somewhere inside.
Sales are promising one thing, the board another, and engineering is building a third. Everyone is working hard. Nothing is compounding.
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.
Dates move, quality drops, costs rise, and the explanations get more technical each quarter. Usually the cause is structural rather than technical.
Two fixed-scope pieces of work that give you a decision, not a relationship you have to commit to first.
Fixed scope · fixed fee · report and board-ready summary
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.
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.
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.
Advice that stops at the recommendation is half a job. We stay on through the part where it has to actually work.
Six engagements, anonymised. Full write-ups on the work page.
Cost reduction in six months at a trading firm, with quality up and time to market down, after offshore delivery had stalled.
Recovered on a regulatory platform redesign that was already half a year late when we were brought in.
Of planned releases had been abandoned over twelve months. We rebuilt the quality process and the release cadence.
Manual customer onboarding in a regulated environment, automated end to end.
Portfolio startups advised on technology strategy for an incubator, as their standing technology bench.
A fast-growing business whose IT cost curve was outrunning its revenue curve. We reset the economics.
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-upThe fastest way to judge an advisor is to read what they write when nobody is paying them for it.
Eight questions that separate a real business from a well-funded demo, in a market where everything is AI-wrapped.
2026What post-seed founders get wrong in the window between the seed round and Series A diligence.
2026Why the same misalignment shows up in almost every SaaS business we walk into, and how to close it.
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.
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, no long lock-in.
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.
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.