Financial services & payments
API-first banking, FAPI-grade security, HMAC integrity and PCI-DSS-aligned delivery.
API · Integration · AI · Infrastructure · CybersecurityConnect the enterprise.
Connect the enterprise.
Secure every connection.
We design, build, secure and run the APIs, AI, event streams and infrastructure that move your business — and we protect every one of them, from the gateway to the cryptographic key.
0Years enterprise delivery
0Capabilities, one team
0Automated CI/CD
IT+OTIncl. national-grade CII
Engineering across
ApigeeAxwayKongGraviteeAzure APIMKafkaAxualKubernetesTerraformEntrust nShieldSalt SecurityAWSAzureGCPOpenAI / LLMsMITRE ATT&CK
The SBR Fabric™
One framework. Four disciplines. Zero gaps.
Every engagement runs on the SBR Fabric — our delivery framework that treats connectivity, AI, infrastructure and security as one continuous system. It's why nothing falls between vendors, and why the team that designs your estate is the team accountable for it at 3am.
01CONNECT
Map & join
APIs, event streams and partners joined into one governed graph — every interface discovered, owned and versioned.
02BUILD
Ship value
Gateways, integrations and AI applications built contract-first, in your sprints, with 100% automated delivery.
03SECURE
Harden everything
Identity, cryptography, runtime threat detection and red-teaming applied to every node — including the AI.
04RUN
Operate 24/7
SRE, observability and managed operations with SLAs — or full handover with IP and pairing. Your call.
Why SBR
One team, the whole lifecycle.
Most firms either connect systems or secure them — and almost none stay to run them. The seams between those jobs are where breaches and outages live: where an open API becomes an attack surface, where a key becomes a liability, where "it worked in the demo" meets 3am production. We engineer all of it — connect, build, secure and run — under one accountable team.
We connect & build
APIs, event streams and AI as first-class enterprise assets — designed, built and run on infrastructure we engineer.
- API management & gateway engineering
- API, GraphQL & SOAP development
- Kafka & Axual event streaming
- GenAI & LLM application development
- Cloud, Kubernetes & platform engineering
We secure & run
Every connection — and every model and platform — protected, then operated around the clock.
- API & application security
- AI / LLM security & red-teaming
- Applied cryptography, HSM & PKI
- Cyber range, red-teaming & training
- SRE & 24/7 managed operations
What we do
Eight engineering capabilities — end to end.
From a single proxy to a production AI service to a national-grade security programme, each capability stands on its own and compounds with the others. Every engagement is delivered by senior engineers, documented in full, and handed over to you.
API-01
API Management & Gateway Engineering
Platform selection, onboarding, migration and lifecycle for Apigee, Axway, Azure APIM, Gravitee and Kong — delivered with 100% automated CI/CD.
Explore service →INT-02Integration & Event-Streaming Engineering
Designing and building APIs and event streams — REST, GraphQL, SOAP and Kafka/Axual EDA — with a dedicated-engineer or on-demand factory model.
Explore service →AI-03AI Engineering & AI Security
AI strategy, GenAI and LLM application development, and MLOps/LLMOps platform engineering — plus the security and governance to deploy AI safely, from prompt-injection defence to the EU AI Act.
Explore service →INF-04Cloud, Infrastructure & Managed Operations
The platforms that run everything we build — cloud and hybrid infrastructure, Kubernetes and platform engineering, IaC, observability, SRE and 24/7 managed operations.
Explore service →SEC-05API & Application Security
Be open without being vulnerable — threat protection, OAuth2/OIDC/mTLS, API discovery and posture, and payments-grade security for APIs and event streams.
Explore service →CRY-06Applied Cryptography, HSM & PKI
Key management, HSM integration (Entrust nShield), enterprise PKI, mTLS at scale and post-quantum readiness — cryptography that holds up in production.
Explore service →RED-07Offensive Security, Cyber Range & Training
VA/PT and Red/Blue teaming — plus our flagship immersive IT/OT cyber range, delivered as a service, and the training programmes that turn your teams into defenders who have rehearsed the bad day.
Explore service →GRC-08Governance, Risk & Critical Infrastructure
Risk assessment, ISMS and ISO 27001/20000/9001 advisory, regulatory alignment and Critical Information Infrastructure protection.
Explore service →Pain points we resolve
Sound familiar?
These are the problems clients bring us most often — and what resolving them looks like. If yours isn't here, it's probably a combination of them.
“Our gateway is a black box — every change risks breaking production.”
→We bring it under version control with automated CI/CD, robust fault handling and real observability, so changes are safe, traceable and fast.
“We're locked into a platform that's being sunset, with a hard migration deadline.”
→Zero-downtime, proxy-by-proxy re-platforming with production-replay parity testing — so consumers never feel the move.
“Our APIs are the front door and we don't know what's actually exposed.”
→Continuous discovery of shadow and zombie APIs, OWASP-aligned posture scoring, and runtime threat detection across APIs and event streams.
“We want to ship GenAI, but data leakage, hallucination and the EU AI Act scare us.”
→Pragmatic AI implementation with guardrails and LLM red-teaming, governed to the EU AI Act and ISO 42001 — value in production, safely.
“Our cryptography and HSM setup is fragile, and only one person understands it.”
→Hardened key lifecycle, documented HSM operations and PKI/mTLS done correctly — plus knowledge transfer so it's no longer a single point of failure.
“We can't hire senior architects and platform engineers fast enough.”
→We allocate proven specialists — embedded or as a factory — and design every engagement to leave the capability with your teams.
“Audit is coming and our security can't be evidenced.”
→Risk-led ISMS and ISO 27001 / 20000-1 / 9001 readiness, with the evidence framework to pass it and the cadence to sustain it.
“Things work in the demo, then fall over in production — and no one's watching at 3am.”
→Infrastructure-as-code platforms with real observability, SLOs and 24/7 managed operations — so the bad day is caught early and handled, not discovered by your customers.
“AI, APIs and security are three different vendors who don't talk to each other.”
→One engineering team across all three — so your AI agents, the APIs they call and the controls around them are designed and secured together.
How we add value
Strategy, implementation, or the right people — your call.
Engage us for the thinking, the building, or the team. Most clients use all three over time, and the seam between them is where we're strongest: the architects who set direction also lead the build and stay accountable for it.
STRATEGY
Strategy & advisory
We assess your estate, threats and options, then hand you a costed, opinionated roadmap — reference architecture, target operating model and the decisions that de-risk what comes next. You get clarity before you spend.
IMPLEMENTATION
Implementation & engineering
Senior engineers build it — APIs, event streams, AI, security controls and the platforms that run them — with fixed-fee onboarding, 100% automated CI/CD and full handover, IP included. We own the outcome, not just the hours.
TALENT
Architects, platform engineers & specialists
When you need the right people more than another report, we allocate best-in-class solution architects, platform engineers and security specialists — embedded in your teams or as a flexible delivery factory. Capability that scales up and hands back.
What clients say
Judged by the people we deliver for.
They migrated our entire gateway estate with zero consumer impact — and left our own team able to run it. That never happens with consultancies.
Head of IntegrationEuropean retail bank · placeholder quote
The same engineers who built our APIs red-teamed them. The findings were sharper than two specialist vendors had managed combined.
CISOPayments scale-up · placeholder quote
We went from a GenAI slide deck to a governed, monitored service in production — with the EU AI Act paperwork done. Pragmatic is underselling it.
CTOIndustrial group · placeholder quote
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10+
Years engineering enterprise integration & security
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Connected capabilities under one engineering team
100%
Automated CI/CD on every platform we onboard
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27001 · 20000-1 · 9001 standards we work to
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How we engage
A delivery model built for handover, not lock-in.
Assess
We map your integration estate, threat surface and platform constraints in a focused working session.
Architect
Reference architecture, conventions and a costed plan — co-designed in your templates and standards.
Onboard
Platforms stood up with hardened defaults and 100% automated CI/CD, at a fixed fee.
Build & secure
APIs, event streams, AI and security controls delivered inside your sprints, secured by design.
Run or hand over
Full IP transfer and pairing — or keep us on for 24/7 SRE and managed operations. Your call, never lock-in.
Industries
Where connectivity meets consequence.
We focus where a broken integration or an exposed API carries real cost — regulated, high-availability and critical-infrastructure sectors.
FIN
ENR
Energy & utilities
OT/ICS security, SCADA hardening and critical-infrastructure resilience for the grid.
PUB
Government & public sector
Critical Information Infrastructure protection, ISMS and national-grade assurance.
LOG
Transport & logistics
API management and event streaming that connect partners, fleets and platforms.
HLT
Healthcare & life sciences
Secure integration of sensitive data with privacy and compliance built in.
RTL
Retail & manufacturing
Event-driven architectures linking commerce, supply chain and operations.
Critical infrastructure heritage
Proven where downtime is never an option.
Our security practice was forged in national-grade critical infrastructure — state data centres, energy load-dispatch and SCADA estates — with an immersive IT/OT cyber range and the training programmes that keep operator teams rehearsed. That discipline now protects every estate we touch, from a payments API to a power grid.
Free · no obligation
Get a free API & AI attack-surface review.
See your estate the way an attacker does. In a 45-minute working session with our principal engineers, we map your integration estate and threat surface and leave you with a prioritised, costed next step — whether or not you engage us.
- Your API, AI and event-stream surface mapped
- Top risks ranked against OWASP API & LLM Top 10
- A costed 90-day remediation & build plan