The FORGE Codex
Iterare ad Optimum — Value at every step, compounding over time
We are an advisory-led company that understands business. Our consultants work alongside your business leaders to evangelise and shape AI solutions — while our engineers bring those solutions to life through rapid proofs of concept that your stakeholders sense-check as they develop – not just in theory on slides. A working, governed solution that evolves with your input at every sprint.
Where possible, we build within your cloud and infrastructure — so that every PoC is production-realistic, governance-ready, and positioned to survive the scrutiny of your IT and security teams. The result: solutions your champions can take to budget holders with confidence, not caveats.
SynaptyXFORGE
Find & Frame
Primum Explorare — First, Explore
Every forward deployment begins with understanding. Our advisory teams engage directly with your business leaders and IT stakeholders — learning the strategic objectives, operational friction, and data landscape that will shape where AI can deliver the fastest, most tangible value.
Why Your Environment Matters
Where possible, we prefer to work directly within your cloud and infrastructure from the outset. This isn't about physical co-location — our teams operate effectively from anywhere. What matters is building on your stack so that every proof of concept is production-realistic from day one, not a sandboxed demo that collapses under real-world scrutiny.
Business-Led Discovery
We start with your business questions, not the technology. Our consultants work with your leadership teams to understand strategic priorities, operational pain points, and where intuition currently fills gaps that analytics could illuminate.
Joint Use Case Shaping
Collaborating with both your business and IT teams, we identify and shape the highest-impact PoC candidates — balancing ambition with feasibility, ensuring each use case ties directly to measurable business outcomes.
Data & Infrastructure Mapping
We assess your data landscape, cloud environments, governance policies, and security requirements — charting a path that works within your existing frameworks, not around them.
Mission Briefing & Readiness Assessment
A clear, honest evaluation: what's ready today, what will block progress, and what the first Two-Week Sprint will deliver. No inflated promises — a grounded plan with defined outcomes.
Exploratoria — The Art of Discovery
Marginalia
✦ Business questions before technology answers
✦ Business and IT aligned from the first conversation
✦ Honest assessment — what's ready, what's not
Orchestrate
Fabricare ex Lattice — Build from the Lattice
From discovery to creation. Using 60% pre-built Lattice accelerators and 40% custom business logic, our engineers and consultants construct production-grade proofs of concept in weeks, not months — with your business stakeholders sense-checking progress as it develops.
Why Your Environment Matters
We strongly recommend building directly within your cloud and CI/CD pipelines wherever feasible. The benefit is significant: every PoC inherits your security posture, your access controls, and your compliance frameworks from sprint one — meaning the solution that your business leaders review is the same one that will pass IT governance evaluation, not a sanitised demo that needs to be rebuilt.
Governance-Ready from Sprint One
Unlike typical PoCs that impress in a demo room but fail IT evaluation, our builds incorporate your security requirements, compliance policies, and data governance from the first line of code. What your executives see is what production will look like.
Lattice-Accelerated Delivery
Pre-built components — hallucination gating, audit trails, PII redaction, data connectors — reduce build time from months to weeks. 60% of the heavy lifting is already proven; we focus engineering effort on your 40% of bespoke business logic.
Two-Week Sprints
Rapid proof-of-value cycles with continuous business involvement: your leaders and subject-matter experts review progress throughout, not just at a final demo. The PoC evolves with their input, ensuring relevance and buy-in.
Advisory-Engineering Tandem
Our consultants sit alongside our engineers throughout the build — translating business context into technical requirements in real time, and translating engineering progress back into business language for your stakeholders.
Mechanica — The Science of Making
Marginalia
✦ PoCs that pass IT scrutiny, not just impress in demos
✦ 60% Lattice spine, 40% your business logic
✦ Business leaders sense-check as it develops
Release
In Actu Veritas — In Action, Truth
Solutions cross the production gap — the chasm that kills 80% of enterprise AI pilots. Because our PoCs are built with governance, security, and your operational context woven in from day one, the leap from proof of concept to production becomes a step, not a cliff edge.
Why Your Environment Matters
When the PoC has been built within your infrastructure, the path to production is dramatically shorter. There's no environment migration, no security re-certification, no governance re-approval. The working proof of concept your business leaders championed is already operating within the frameworks your IT teams require.
From PoC to Production — Without the Rebuild
The most common failure point in enterprise AI: a brilliant demo that needs six months of re-engineering to meet IT standards. By building governance-ready from the start, we eliminate this gap entirely.
Measurable Value at Every Step
Every sprint delivers demonstrable progress tied to your business KPIs. Transparent ROI tracking with clear attribution — giving your budget holders the evidence they need to fund the next phase.
The Recursive Loop
Engineering, advisory, and business feedback flowing continuously. Each sprint strengthens the enterprise AI spine — your foundation compounds, making every subsequent deployment faster and more robust.
Champion Enablement
We equip your internal sponsors with the narrative, the metrics, and the working evidence to take to budget holders. Not just an 'art of the possible' — a governed, secure, working solution they can point to with confidence.
Perpetuum Mobile — Continuous Value
Marginalia
✦ Governed PoCs shorten the path to production
✦ Value demonstrated at every sprint, not just the final demo
✦ Your champions armed with evidence, not just slides
Grow
Docere est Discere — To Teach is to Learn
The master's greatest achievement is creating new masters. We transfer knowledge systematically — ensuring your teams don't just inherit solutions but own them, understand them, and can extend them independently. The goal is always your self-sufficiency.
Why Your Environment Matters
When solutions are built within your infrastructure, knowledge transfer becomes natural rather than artificial. Your engineers aren't learning an unfamiliar codebase in an unfamiliar environment — they're inheriting a system that already lives in their world, follows their conventions, and respects their governance standards.
Learning by Building Together
Your engineers and data scientists work alongside our teams throughout the engagement. They contribute to the same codebase, participate in sprint reviews, and build genuine architectural understanding — not just documentation familiarity.
Progressive Responsibility Transfer
Each sprint shifts more ownership to your team. By the later phases, your people lead the engineering — our team supports. The transition is seamless because it happens gradually, not abruptly.
Governance & Operations Handover
Your teams inherit not just the solution but the operational framework: monitoring dashboards, alerting rules, runbooks, and escalation paths — all configured within your existing tooling and processes.
Budget-Holder Confidence
When your teams can demonstrate ownership of a governed, production-grade solution running within your own infrastructure — the conversation with budget holders shifts from 'should we invest?' to 'where do we scale next?'
Traditio — The Passing of Knowledge
Marginalia
✦ Self-sufficiency is the goal, not dependency
✦ Your teams lead, our teams support — progressively
✦ Ownership that budget holders can see and trust
Evolve
Perpetuum Evolvere — Evolve Without End
Value at every step — and compounding value over time. Proven solutions multiply across the enterprise: new geographies, new products, new use cases. The Software Spine deepens with each deployment, creating an ever-strengthening AI foundation that your organisation owns entirely.
Why Your Environment Matters
The enterprise AI spine — built within your infrastructure — compounds value with every new use case. What took eight weeks for the first engagement takes two weeks for the fifth, because the reusable foundation, the governance frameworks, and the organisational muscle memory are already in place.
The Compounding Spine
Every engagement enriches your enterprise AI foundation. Reusable data connectors, governance templates, business ontologies, and validated accelerators accumulate — dramatically reducing time-to-value for every subsequent initiative.
Value at Every Step, Scale at Every Turn
Each new use case delivers standalone value while simultaneously strengthening the foundation for the next. This isn't a long-term bet — it's incremental returns that compound, with measurable outcomes at every stage.
Expand Across the Enterprise
Replicate proven solutions across business units, geographies, and functions. The governance and security frameworks scale with the solution — no re-certification for each new deployment.
Continuous Optimisation & Learning
Drift detection, feedback loops, performance monitoring, and iterative improvement keep systems sharp and relevant. Models evolve because they learn from real operational data within your production context.
Expansio — Growth Without Limit
Marginalia
✦ The spine compounds — every sprint makes the next one faster
✦ Measurable value at every step, not just the endgame
✦ Your foundation, your IP, your competitive advantage
COMMON AI PITFALLS
SYNAPTYX: THE BETTER WAY FOR AI SUCCESS
Your AI Implementation & Growth Partner
COMMON AI PITFALLS
The Value Gap
30% of AI projects fail at POC due to "unclear business value" (Gartner, 2024).
The focus is on tech capability, not measurable outcomes.
The Data Barrier
92.7% of executives cite data as their #1 barrier to AI success (Wavestone, 2024).
The idea is right, but the data is scattered and inconsistent.
The Trust Deficit
Adoption stalls when users lack "psychological safety".
If users cannot explain an AI's output or find an audit trail, they will abandon the tool.
Low Adoption & Pilot Purgatory
SYNAPTYX: THE BETTER WAY FOR AI SUCCESS
Your AI Implementation & Growth Partner
PEOPLE
(Align Leaders)
PROCESS
(Define & Implement)
DATA
(Make AI Ready)
LATTICE
(60% Pre-Built, 40% Customised)
BUSINESS OUTCOME
(Tailored & Rapid)
RAPID ROI (3-6 Mo.) & INCREMENTAL GROWTH
PEOPLE
(Align Leaders)
PROCESS
(Define & Implement)
DATA
(Make AI Ready)
LATTICE
(60% Pre-Built,
40% Customised)
BUSINESS OUTCOME
(Tailored & Rapid)
Low Adoption & Pilot Purgatory
RAPID ROI (3-6 Mo.) & INCREMENTAL GROWTH
Incipit — Begin Your Journey
Enter the Forge
Two paths to begin. Both lead to measurable value and governance-ready outcomes.
Via Strategica
FDE + Advisory Engagement
A comprehensive engagement from strategy to production. Our advisory team works with your leaders to shape the AI vision while our engineers bring it to life — with your stakeholders guiding every sprint.
What we require:
- Stakeholder availability for immersion
- Current challenges and growth objectives
- Data & technology landscape overview
What you receive:
- Strategic AI Roadmap with prioritised use cases
- Program & change management support
Via Exploratoria
Two-Week Sprint
Give us your messiest dataset and one clear business question. 14 days to a governed, working proof of concept — built to impress your business leaders and survive your IT team's scrutiny.
What we require:
- Unstructured / Structured Data
- Specific business use cases to test
- Sample questions for intent
What you receive:
- Art of the possible demonstration
- Working POC on your data