East Village pixel-head logo East VillageSoftware Consultants
East London · 51.52° N, 0.07° W Est. 2018 — Independent

Agentic AI,
built properly.

We're a small team of computer and data scientists in East London. We design, build and lead the kind of AI systems that have to work on Monday morning — for governments, universities and ambitious companies.

CTO, Staff Level
Engineering only
4 continents
Delivery record
Governed
Secure & compliant by design
fig. 01 — the village head Move your cursor through it
OpenAI Anthropic Claude Google Gemini LangGraph Claude Code Cursor Windsurf Python Golang Neo4j Elasticsearch Hugging Face Vector DBs AWS · GCP · Azure OpenAI Anthropic Claude Google Gemini LangGraph Claude Code Cursor Windsurf Python Golang Neo4j Elasticsearch Hugging Face Vector DBs AWS · GCP · Azure
01ExpertiseEight ways we help

Deep work, done with you — not to you.

We pair academic depth with production scar tissue. Every engagement is led by the people who actually write the code.

01

Fractional CTO

Executive technical leadership on demand — strategy, hiring, architecture and a roadmap that holds up.

02

AI-powered SDLC

Beyond vibe coding: Cursor, Windsurf and Claude Code wired into a rigorous, reviewable delivery process.

03

Agentic AI & LLMs

Autonomous agents, sophisticated RAG and careful prompt engineering on frontier models.

04

Greenfield platforms

Cloud-native platforms in Golang and Python, architected from scratch to grow with you.

05

ML & data science

Advanced NLP, bespoke models and robust data engineering with modern ML tooling.

06

Modern data stack

Vector databases, Neo4j, Elasticsearch — the retrieval backbone agents depend on.

07

Cloud & DevOps

Hardened CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code across AWS, GCP and Azure.

08

Rapid prototyping

Complex ideas into working MVPs in weeks — without trading away the quality to scale them later.

02Agentic systemsPlan → Act → Observe → Reflect

Beyond chatbots: agents that get things done.

An agentic system doesn't just answer. It breaks a goal into steps, calls real tools, checks what happened, and corrects itself — a loop we engineer to be reliable, observable and safe in production.

Our honest take Most "AI agents" fail in the last mile: guardrails, audit trails, and what happens when step three goes wrong. That last mile is where we live.
01

Plan

Decompose the objective into verifiable sub-tasks.

reasoning
02

Act

Call APIs, query data, run code — grounded in your systems.

tool use
03

Observe

Read outcomes and validate against guardrails.

feedback
04

Reflect

Critique, correct and iterate until the goal is genuinely met.

self-critique
↻ continuous loopcycle 1 / 4 — plan
03Fractional CTOLeadership, by the slice

A CTO's judgement, without the full-time hire.

We sit on your side of the table.

Technical direction, honest second opinions, and a steady hand when AI ambition meets delivery reality.

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Strategy & architecture

A clear, scalable plan from prototype to production.

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Team scaling & mentoring

Hire well, then grow an AI-native engineering culture.

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Governance & security

Bias detection, data privacy and audit trails from day one.

Engagement models

Embedded

Weekly · in your team

Hands-on leadership inside your standups, repos and reviews.

Advisory

Monthly · strategic

Direction, architecture reviews and board-level translation.

Project

Fixed scope

A defined build, delivered end-to-end by our team.

04ClientsWhere data & governance matter

Trusted in rooms where "probably works" isn't good enough.

EducationUniversity of GlasgowA·01
EducationUniversity of SunderlandA·02
GovernmentUK Government · BEISB·01
InternationalUnited NationsB·02
InternationalILOB·03
MediaSifted.euC·01
DataSignal.FISHC·02
PolicyHeywood FoundationC·03
05QuestionsAsked often, answered honestly

You'll probably ask us these.

A system designed to act as an autonomous agent — it plans, uses tools, and executes multi-step tasks to achieve a goal. Unlike a chatbot, it can interact with and influence its environment to solve genuinely complex problems.
You get executive-level technical leadership without the cost of a full-time hire — technical strategy, team scaling, architecture reviews, and a technology stack that actually serves your business goals.
Our AI and LLM expertise is cross-industry, but we have deep experience in finance, education, government and high-growth startups — sectors where data complexity and governance are paramount.
Yes. We build long-term partnerships — ongoing maintenance, optimisation, and training your internal teams so the platforms we build keep delivering value as they scale.
Security and ethics sit at the core of our process: robust data privacy, bias detection, and comprehensive audit trails, so your AI systems stay compliant, secure and transparent.
06ContactWe reply within 24 hours

Let's build
something that works.

Tell us what you're trying to do. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people to do it with you.

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