Strategy & advisory
Conceptual proposals, technical due diligence, architecture review and roadmaps grounded in decades of real-world delivery.
Technology strategy & engineering
We design the systems
We design the systems
science runs on—
from strategy, to design and build
Fraktal is a boutique consultancy working at the intersection of life sciences, AI, secure data and high-performance computing. Deep technical competence and scientific rigour — from strategy through to shipped infrastructure.
8×
Provisioning engines
99.95%
Release-gate uptime
Five Safes
By construction
What we do
Strategy, then the engineering to back it
Four practices, one team. We move from the whiteboard to production without a handover — the people who set the direction are the people who build it.
Agentic engineering
Custom enterprise systems built with agentic engineering — knowledge platforms, validators and internal tooling.
Data & HPC platforms
Infrastructure and data strategy and design for the most demanding cutting-edge science.
Trusted research networks
Federated, isolated, attestable environments for sensitive data — Five Safes by construction.
How we work
From the real as-is to systems in production
A measured, evidence-led method. We start by understanding what genuinely exists, then design and build the thing that unifies it — and stay accountable for keeping it running.
01
Discovery
We map the real as-is: systems, data, contracts and constraints. Desk research plus interviews with the people who actually run things.
02
Architecture
A target operating model and technical architecture that unifies what exists, with risks and dependencies made explicit.
03
Build
We engineer the system ourselves — no handover. The people who set the direction write the code.
04
Operate
Service, security and continuity designed in from the start, so what we ship keeps running under real load.
Selected work
Research, prototypes and platforms
LATTICE - Federated trusted research network platform
Our flagship platform. A revolutionary new concept in management of trusted data across organisations, jurisdictions and projects. Provides truly federated governance and orchestration across technology and data siloes.
AI debugging - inspired by bugs
A novel distributed-context AI architecture and toolset, inspired by ant colonies, which allows for small AI models to self-organise and navigate very complex systems without context limitations
Model context certificate validator
A reference CLI and open standard (MCC-STD-001) for validating model-context certificates across tiers — shipped open-source and adopted as the conformance gate.
Who we work with
Where deep technical work matters most
Healthcare & life sciences
Institutes, hospitals and research programmes transforming digital services at scale, with particular emphasis on secure data management.
Infrastructure & data centres
Asset-heavy organisations modernising data, estimation and operational systems.
Technology start-ups
Teams who need senior engineering judgement and systems that ship.
Research institutes
Scientific computing, HPC and reproducible pipelines for serious workloads.
Start a conversation
Tell us what you’re trying to build
We take on a small number of engagements at a time. If the problem is technical and the stakes are real, we’d like to hear about it.