Ship Faster. With Governance. And Proof for Every Audit.
Your board wants velocity. Your auditors want evidence. Your developers want to ship without fighting the pipeline. Policy-as-code lets you have all three: governance rules that are version-controlled, testable, and automated—accelerating releases instead of blocking them. This isn't compliance theater. It's engineering excellence that happens to satisfy auditors.
RISKflo: 1,100+ active daily users at HSBC. 99%+ uptime over 24+ months. Event-sourced architecture with 100% submission correlation accuracy.
What's Breaking
Inconsistent pipelines
Different tools per team. Fragile deployments. 'Works on my machine' at infrastructure scale.
Audit friction
Can't prove what was deployed, when, by whom. Evidence assembly is manual and painful.
Fragile deployments
High rollback rates. Production incidents that take days to diagnose. Change fear.
Knowledge silos
'Hero' dependency. Only two people understand the deployment process. Bus factor = 1.
Governance as obstacle
Approval gates that block velocity. Compliance requirements that slow everything down.
What You Need
Governed CI/CD
Versioned rules, environment protections, reusable workflows. Consistency without rigidity.
Automatic audit trails
Every action, every approval, every deployment—permanently recorded and instantly queryable.
Faster, safer releases
Deploy 2-5x more frequently with <5% change failure rate. Confidence, not fear.
Developer experience
Self-service that works. Documentation that's accurate. Onboarding that doesn't take months.
Governance as accelerator
Policy-as-code that helps developers ship with confidence, not gates that block them.
RISKflo: Enterprise GRC at 1,100+ Users, 99%+ Uptime, 47-73% Cost Advantage
RISKflo
HSBC needed an enterprise GRC platform to replace legacy systems and compete with ServiceNow and Archer. We built RISKflo on event-sourcing architecture—every action permanently recorded, every approval instantly queryable, every deployment automatically traced. The result: 24+ months of continuous operation at 99%+ uptime, serving 1,100+ daily users. Support cases per user per year: 0.017—that's 30x better than industry average. Infrastructure cost: 27-53% of industry standard ($100-200/user/year). Event sourcing isn't just an architecture pattern. It's the foundation for audit trails that satisfy regulators without manual evidence assembly.
Governed SDLC: The Platform Engineering Approach
GitHub Enterprise governance, policy-as-code, and CI/CD standards—designed by engineers who've shipped enterprise platforms.
Typical DORA Metric Improvements
Results vary based on starting maturity, team size, and organizational context. These ranges reflect outcomes across our platform engineering client portfolio.
Enterprise Platform Engineering Without Enterprise Overhead
You need production-ready platforms that satisfy audit requirements and regulatory constraints. Big 4 delivers 18-month discovery phases. Agencies deliver prototypes. We deliver governed SDLC infrastructure that ships code and generates compliance evidence.
Principal-led delivery
Every engagement led by Gregory McKenzie (Systems Architect + Patent Attorney). No junior developers learning Terraform on your infrastructure.
3-6 months to production
Not 18-36 months of architecture documents. We ship working CI/CD pipelines, policy automation, and audit trails—not recommendations.
Compliance-native architecture
Event sourcing, audit logging, policy-as-code built in from day one. Your auditors get evidence exports, not manual attestations.
Law-to-code methodology
Regulatory requirements become executable controls with automated evidence capture. This is what happens when your architect is also a patent attorney.
Questions
Common Questions from Platform Leaders
We have internal platform team. Why external help?
Your team knows your systems. We bring specialized expertise in governance patterns, policy-as-code, and audit architectures that most platform teams don't encounter regularly. We work alongside your team, do knowledge transfer, and leave you with capabilities—not dependencies. Think of it as accelerated capability building.
Will this slow us down? Governance usually does.
That's because most governance is implemented wrong—manual gates, approval bottlenecks, policies in wikis. Policy-as-code is different: rules are automated, testable, and part of the pipeline. Our clients deploy 2-5x more frequently AFTER implementing governance. Speed and safety aren't trade-offs when governance is engineered correctly.
How do you handle our existing tooling?
We're platform agnostic. GitHub Enterprise is our most common context, but we work with whatever you have. The patterns are transferable—policy-as-code, audit trails, automated gates. We adapt to your stack, not the other way around.
Ready to Ship Faster—With Proof for Every Audit?
15-minute discovery call. We'll discuss your current deployment process, governance requirements, and what realistic DORA improvements look like for your context. No sales pitch. Just engineering conversation.