TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANCY · REMOTE-FIRST · WYOMING LLC
Systems that cannot fail.
Akether works on the parts of a platform that carry money, messages and regulatory obligation. Architecture and technical due diligence, modernization of systems that cannot go down, and delivery on the critical path.
FIELD 01 · CAPABILITIES
What we are engaged for.
Below the API line, mostly. The work tends to arrive when off-the-shelf either does not exist or did not survive contact with production.
APPLIED AI & AGENTS
AI wired into systems that already work
Retrieval pipelines with vector search over your own corpus. Agentic tool execution with typed contracts, backpressure-aware streams and strict multitenant isolation. Customer support agents and LLM-assisted operations for anomaly detection, traffic protection and real-time remediation, one programme of which cut customer complaints by roughly 70 percent. Regulated data is handled as regulated data: personally identifiable information is redacted and tokenised ahead of retrieval and never reaches the model, which in payments and telecom is the difference between a project and a reportable incident. The hard part is never the model. It is evaluation, cost per call, failure modes, and what the system does when it is confidently wrong.
SIGNALING & MESSAGING
Telecom protocol engineering
SS7/SIGTRAN implemented from ITU-T and IETF specifications down to the octet: SCTP, M3UA, SCCP, TCAP, MAP. SMSC and SMPP servers, signaling firewalls, STP topologies at the carrier edge and inside the network, and USSD applications on top of TCAP.
PAYMENTS & REGULATED
Systems with an auditor at the end
POS and ECR protocol integration with byte-level conformance and idempotent transaction handling. Audit-grade regulatory reporting and reconciliation pipelines, built to survive an inspection rather than a demo.
MODERNIZATION
Migration without an outage window
Legacy platforms moved while they keep serving: logical replication, LSN-verified cutover, dual-write parity validation, staged traffic shifting behind feature flags, and a rollback available at every step. Modernization in stages, not a big-bang and a prayer.
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
Throughput that holds under load
High-throughput routing engines, event-driven architecture, and multitenant platforms with strict tenant isolation, usage metering and automated billing. Throughput measured on the same hardware before and after, which is the only comparison that means anything.
AUDIO & MEDIA TRANSPORT
Realtime audio over links that drop packets
Composite MPX audio carried from studio to remote FM transmission sites across connections that were never designed to be reliable: PLL-style clock recovery, jitter buffers, stream timing and packet-loss tolerance. Broadcast is the unforgiving case for realtime transport, because a dropped buffer is not a metric on a dashboard. It is audible on air.
MOBILE APPLICATIONS
Apps that reach below the API line
Native Android work where the application talks to the device rather than only to a REST endpoint: handset and SIM registration, routing decisions taken locally, and payout flows that have to reconcile against a backend ledger. Built alongside the service they talk to, so the contract between app and platform is designed once instead of negotiated twice.
DUE DILIGENCE
An independent technical read
Assessment of an acquisition target, a vendor, an outsourced build, or your own platform. It ends in a written report a board or an investor can act on: what is solid, what is technical debt and how urgent, what remediation costs in engineering effort, and which risks are real rather than theatrical.
FIELD 02 · ENGAGEMENTS
How the work is structured.
Low commitment at the front, so both sides find out quickly whether it is worth doing. Everything is month to month, and nothing is priced by the hour.
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Assessment
One to two weeks, fixed scope and fixed price. Code, architecture, data, delivery process, risk. It ends in a written document you can hand to a board or an investor, and it stays useful whether or not anything follows it.
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Retainer
An agreed number of days per week, month to month, with no lock-in. Architecture decisions, technical hiring and interviewing, code review, vendor evaluation, and hands-on work on the parts that decide the outcome.
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Advisory
Availability rather than presence. On call within a defined response time for decisions, design and code review, and escalations, without fixed days. Suited to teams that have delivery capacity but not senior experience, and to boards that want a technical read they can trust.
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Delivery
Staffed case by case rather than from a bench. Describe the shape of the work and you get an honest answer about whether we are the right size for it, including when the answer is no.
FIELD 03 · CONTACT
Reach out for enquiries or consultation.
Email works best. Three lines is enough: what you are building, what is going wrong, and what decision or deadline you are up against. Every enquiry is read and answered personally, usually within 24 hours.