02 / The field record
What we built with no time to build it.
The call came at 8pm on a Saturday in May 2020, as the pandemic gripped the UK and the Government stood up what would become the Joint Biosecurity Centre. We were handed a blank sheet of paper, some very broad requirements and a deadline of “yesterday”. By midday on Monday our directors had rallied a team. Six working days later a demonstration platform with real analytics stood where that blank sheet had been, and within two weeks analysts from departments across the UK were working on it, more than 450 of them at the peak. That fortnight shaped how we have built every platform since: DASA-funded defence R&D, climate dashboards for the UK's UNESCO sites, and AI role-players that answer a soldier in around two seconds.
- From the call to a working platform
- 6 days
- Government users publishing their own dashboards
- 200+
- Open-source data feeds automated in a single year
- 45+
- To build the entire synthetic-data proof of concept
- <10 wks
- For an AI role-player to answer a soldier
- ~2 s
Recent engagements
All 22 case studies →- Government dataA synthetic email engine for records managementA UK government department needed to test archive analytics without touching real email, so we built an engine that invents organisations to write it.
- ElasticElastic log analytics for a financial institutionWe guided a finance research and technology firm's move from HDFS to Elastic for log analytics, keeping risk, compliance and real-time insight intact.
- ElasticFleet management telematics solutionsA fleet management and telematics provider asked us to upgrade their Elastic platform and build a SIEM environment, leaving their team ready to run it.
Field record · compiled 2019 → 2026
