Zyvra Studio · Birmingham, UK

Security-first software, shipped fast.

Architected to enterprise standards. Shipped in weeks. Signed off by your security team.

Most enterprise software is either properly architected or shipped fast, rarely both. I do both, using AI as the build accelerator. Real production architecture, secure by design, deployed where you choose (any cloud, on-premises, or hybrid), with code your team owns from handover.

Weeks not quarters Production architecture Your environment, your code
Who you'll work with

You work with someone who's walked the path.

15 years across IT, cyber security, architecture, databases, business analysis, and QA. I've seen what makes complex enterprise deployments fail at the security gate, in production, and in audit. The studio is built from that experience.

01 · Audience

Who This Is For

If you:
  • Have a build on the table (AI or not) that's stalled at security review, integration, or cost
  • Want enterprise-grade software shipped fast, without giving up control over data handling or audit trails
  • Need a plan your compliance team will sign off on before any code ships

If you're earlier than that, start the conversation anyway. We'll tell you honestly whether this is a fit, and if not, point you somewhere that is.

02 · How we work

How We Work Together

One engagement, one fixed price. No phases to climb, no separate invoices to approve.

Step 01

Scope

A free scoping call, then a short assessment: security boundaries, data residency, integration paths, and a 3-month cost model. We confirm your tier and quote one fixed price. An honest go / no / conditional answer before you commit.

Step 02

Build

The production architecture, built in your own environment and integrated with your real systems, behind your auth, with logging and cost guards from the first request. An early feasibility checkpoint in week one means either side can stop cleanly if something doesn't hold up.

Step 03

Ship & hand over

Live in your tenant with monitoring and alerting routed to your on-call. Full handover of code, IaC, and runbooks, yours from day one, plus 60 days of post-launch support. Zyvra has zero ongoing access after that.

How pricing works

One fixed price per build: £2,000, £5,000, or £10,000 by tier. Introductory launch rates, locked in for your engagement, rising after 30 September 2026. See the full pricing breakdown →

03 · AI cost discipline

AI cost is not a launch problem. It's an ongoing one.

If your build uses AI, the bill is rarely a surprise on day one. It surprises you six months in, when call volume grows, workloads drift toward a more capable model, or a cheaper model launches and nobody re-evaluates. The fix is lifecycle discipline, not a one-off cost estimate.

At scoping · selection

Models matched to the workload, not a default. Claude Haiku for routine extraction and classification, Sonnet for reasoning-heavy tasks, Opus for complex analysis. Embeddings (Voyage AI or similar) sized to the vocabulary you actually have. Costed at projected volume in the 3-month cost model scoping produces.

During the build · validation

Every request metered from the first day of the build. Actuals reported weekly against the scoping projection. If reality diverges from the model, you find out in week 2, not month 6. Per-user, per-tenant, and per-day caps are wired in so a single request cannot escape the budget.

In production · monitoring

Where most AI builds drift. The bit other shops do not talk about. Cost gets watched automatically by the system and manually on a calendar, with the cadence written into the runbook your team owns.

Automated · continuous

  • Per-user, per-tenant, and per-day hard caps. A single request cannot escape the budget.
  • Cost dashboards routed to your existing on-call. No new tool to learn.
  • Threshold alerts on daily and monthly spend. Two-stage: notify at 80 percent, hard stop at 100 percent.
  • Per-model spend breakdown. See which model is eating the bill.
  • Daily aggregate written to the operational logs you already keep.

Manual · cadence-driven

  • Weekly cost review during the 60-day support tail. The engineer who built the system walks through the numbers with your on-call.
  • Monthly cost review from day 60, baked into the operational handover. Your team owns the cadence.
  • Quarterly model-fitness check. Three questions, asked deliberately. Has the workload shifted toward a different model tier? Has a cheaper model launched that handles this workload? Has cost per outcome moved against you? This is the bit that goes missing without a calendar entry. The runbook ships with this scheduled.
  • Yearly architecture review. Cheaper to migrate to a new model now than to discover you should have done it twelve months ago.
04 · Why Zyvra

Why Work With Zyvra

You work directly with the engineer.
No account manager, no handoff, no dilution. I'm the person designing and shipping your system. Fewer hops, faster decisions, real ownership.
Enterprise infrastructure from day one.
The same cloud architecture and security patterns larger enterprises pay six figures for, deployed privately to your own account by one engineer who understands both infrastructure and AI.
Your environment, your data, your code.
Every system runs where you decide: any cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, or another provider), on-premises, or a hybrid setup we work out together. Your data never leaves your environment. You own the code and can hand it to another engineer the day we ship. We never keep a copy. You don't trust Zyvra's compliance posture. You trust the certifications of your chosen platform (cloud provider, internal IT, or both) and your own internal controls. Zyvra doesn't sit in the trust boundary.
No surprises on the cloud bill.
Every proposal includes a 3-month cloud cost model for compute, storage, networking, and observability, with the ongoing run rate called out. Typical monthly cloud bills run £40 to £80 for single-task automation, £150 to £400 for full workflows, and £300 to £900 for higher-volume systems with full observability. AI inference cost is handled separately in section 03 above.
05 · Work

What We've Built

Product · Open source · AWS
AI Audit Ledger

Production AWS infrastructure for the moment a regulator turns up in eighteen months and asks for the audit trail of every AI decision a system made. Three open-source repos that work together.

audit-ledger is the AWS stack. DynamoDB for live query, S3 Object Lock in COMPLIANCE mode for the immutable copy, 7-year retention by default. PII is hashed at the client so personal data never reaches the ledger. Designed with EU AI Act Article 12 and FCA SS1/23 sitting open on the desk.

audit-ledger-mcp is the Model Context Protocol server. Published to npm. Listed in Anthropic's official MCP Registry alongside the reference implementations from Anthropic and GitHub. Drop one config block into Claude Desktop, Cursor, or a LangGraph adapter and the agent can write to a tamper-evident audit trail. Zero-config public sandbox built in.

langgraph-loan-triage is a working demonstration of the full pattern. Triage agent, then risk agent, then a human-in-the-loop step. Each step records an audit event.

Article 12 sets a six-month floor on retention. Layer FCA model risk on top and you're looking at six to seven years. This is the architecture for that question. The compliance posture is the part you can't bolt on later, and that part is built.

Available as a product from £10,000. Hosted and managed by us, deployed into your own AWS account, or handed over as code. Or self-host the open source for free.

Repos: audit-ledger · audit-ledger-mcp · langgraph-loan-triage. Try the MCP server with zero config: npx -y audit-ledger-mcp.

See the product & pricing  ·  Read the full case study

S3 Object Lock COMPLIANCE Official MCP Registry LangGraph + MCP npm: audit-ledger-mcp
Product · from £10,000 · open source free to self-host
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Live · On this site
Zyvra Assistant: a RAG chatbot on this website

Visitors wanted quick answers about services without reading every page. Static FAQs go stale, and a generic LLM makes things up. The right answer was a retrieval-augmented chatbot grounded in actual content, with source citations on every answer.

A Node.js API, Voyage AI embeddings over the site's content, and Claude as the reasoning layer. The index updates automatically whenever content changes, so every answer comes from real site content. Nothing invented.

Try it: "What does a build engagement include?" or "How does Zyvra handle data under the EU AI Act?"

Node.js API Voyage AI embeddings Claude reasoning RAG architecture
Live on this site
06 · FAQ

Frequently Asked

Where is my data stored?
Wherever you decide. Any cloud in your own tenant (AWS, GCP, Azure, or another provider); on-premises in your own data centre; or a hybrid setup we work out together. Scoping produces a recommendation if you don't have a fixed preference yet. Zyvra never holds your production data.
Who owns the code?
You. Handover includes the repository, infrastructure-as-code, deployment scripts, and operational runbooks. You can take it to another engineer the day we ship.
How does Zyvra handle the EU AI Act?
Builds are architected with the data-handling controls your compliance team needs from day one. Deeper compliance infrastructure (Article 12 logging, tamper-evident audit trails, decision-record storage) is a separate scope, not bundled with every engagement. The attestation stays with you. Our free checklist walks through the requirements.
Do you sign NDAs?
Yes, before the first call if you'd like. We will use your NDA or send ours.
What is your typical lead time?
About two weeks from signed proposal to kickoff. Live availability is shown in the navigation when slots are filling.
What does a build engagement include?
Scoping (data flows, where AI typically breaks in your environment, industry-specific compliance, and security controls, with a yes/no/conditional recommendation and a 3-month cost model), then the build itself, deployed live in your environment, and full handover of code, IaC, and runbooks with 60 days of support. One fixed price by tier.
Can you work with our existing infrastructure, vendor, or tool?
Usually, yes. We've integrated with most major cloud platforms, databases, and third-party APIs. Scoping includes a detailed assessment of how to integrate with what you already have.
07 · Contact

Book a 15-Minute Conversation

Tell us the situation. What you've tried, where it broke, and what success would look like.

We'll give you an honest assessment of whether this is a fit and what the right next step would be. You'll get a reply within two business days from Shahid, the engineer who'll build it.