Independent software consultancy
Difficult problems,
solved properly.
Atlas Frost is a contract engineering consultancy studio working on privacy, security, performance and AI systems for clients with unusual, high-stakes requirements.
Practice
Four disciplines we work in.
Often all four in the same engagement.
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01
Privacy
Systems that collect less and leak less. Privacy is designed in from the first sketch, not bolted on before launch.
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02
Security
Threat-modeled from the first commit. We assume adversaries, including ourselves on a bad day, and ship code that holds up under external review.
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03
Performance
Fast is a feature. We set budgets, measure against them, and treat regressions as bugs. Performance is engineering discipline, not optimization theater.
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04
AI
Applied AI where it earns its keep. Cost, latency and failure modes are priced in before the first token is spent.
Adjacent
Capabilities beyond software: hardware, IoT and design.
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01
Hardware
Embedded systems, firmware and the code that sits closest to the metal. The constraints are physical, which we find clarifying.
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IoT
Connected devices that respect their owners. Minimal data surface, verifiable telemetry, and failures that announce themselves instead of dying quietly.
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03
Design
Industrial and interface design held to the same standard as the code. We care what things look and feel like.
Approach
We take on a small number of engagements at a time. Usually it's a problem somebody else has already failed at, or one that got written off as impossible. We work on contract, embedded with your team or on our own, and we write the kind of code we'd want to inherit.
For us, taste is not a finishing step.
It's a constraint we apply from day one.
- IntakeBy referral and direct enquiry only.
- ScopeWe turn down work we can't do well.
- DeliveryArtisanal software with great taste.
- HandoverCode, docs and rationale. Nothing kept hostage.
Work
Example areas we can help you with.
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Fintech / Data infra
Cut a market-data pipeline's latency by 80% while reducing infra spend.
Performance -
Health / Privacy
Build a de-identification layer that aces a privacy audit on the first pass.
Privacy -
Media / Web
Rebuild a publishing frontend to sub-second load times under heavy traffic.
Performance -
AI / Tooling
Architect a retrieval system that halves the hallucination rate.
AI