Trust
Modern software is a trust environment. From the code tools, to customer relationships, to “zero trust” security protocols. Do you trust something that you have no insight into?
Governance
It is always a matter of who “owns” the system, and that is a matter of who governs it. If you are the one choosing to create or destroy, you will own it. But is that actually you, or the tools you use?
Domain Knowledge
AI tools are great at understanding a system, but they don’t need to understand the whole of your business. You do. It isn’t just knowing the ‘how’, it is the ‘why’, the ‘when’ and the ‘who’.
Code Authority
Code authority is the term we use to describe knowing what the code is doing. We utilise tools, but we don’t let them replace humans making the choices.
“No technology since nuclear fission will shape our collective future quite like artificial intelligence, so it’s paramount AI systems are safe, secure, trustworthy and socially responsible.”
— Elham Tabassi
Director – Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative
Senior Fellow – Global Economy and Development
At Shadowcat Systems we believe that systems and businesses should be human led. We help you to control your development lifecycle; keep an understanding of the software environment; insert processes that enable you to manage deployment in an orderly, conscious fashion; and utilise modern technology as an assistant not a replacement.
We have decades of experience of software development and deployment: we understand not just the benefits and opportunities of a modern AI assisted world, but the risks and consequences of not being in control of it. Shadowcat can help you leverage the benefits of AI while helping to shield you from the pitfalls of not owning the results.
A few things we’re great at
Flexibility
We have proven skills in working in a range of software environments, from one man projects to large teams working on extensive frameworks.
Over the years we have worked with a number of in-house and remote teams to bring projects to completion and evolve existing codebases.
Our team is famaliar with software enviromments ranging from contemporary tech stacks which utilise JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS Frameworks and Rust, to more traditional languages such as Perl, C, C#, Python and PhP.
Development
We utilise best practices learned from decades of experience in projects and code environments using:
- Configuration Management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
- Containerisation (Docker)
- Test frameworks
- CLIs
- Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Continuous Integration and Deployment
- Pull Request Reviews
Data protection
We practice and respect a strong adherence to data protection and data privacy. Our team has experience working with DPIAs and DPOs, and as both processors and controllers.
Based in the UK and the EU. our teams are protected by, and respect, the GDPR, and work with your teams to show compliance to the regulations wherever you operate.
Deployment Management
We shine when it comes to working in, and evolving, a modern development to deployment environment. We can help transform or build processes and protocols that control your software journey from ‘conceptual design’ through to being ‘in production’.
We are constantly seeking to work with people who want to integrate AI in a sensible human-led manner.
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