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Regulatory fluency

We build with the rulebook open

Regulated products fail audits in the architecture, long before anyone reads a policy. We keep working fluency in the frameworks our clients answer to, from stablecoin regimes and the EU AI Act to PCI DSS and GDPR, and we design systems so the controls and the evidence are there from the first commit.

Your auditors and counsel own the signoff. We build so their job is straightforward.

Working coverage
Digital assets & stablecoinsMiCA · VARA
AI systemsEU AI Act
Payments & fintechPCI · DORA
Data & securityGDPR · SOC 2
The frameworks

Regulation we design against

Not a certification wall. A working list: the regimes we track, build against and hand evidence to, kept current as the rules move. If yours is not here, ask, because the method transfers.

Stablecoins & digital assets

Issuance, custody, reserves and transfer flows designed for the regimes defining the space right now, including the Gulf ones our clients launch under.

MiCA (EU)GENIUS Act (US)VARA (Dubai)FATF Travel RuleCBUAE guidance

AI systems

Risk classification, model documentation, human oversight and evaluation trails built into the system, not written after it.

EU AI ActISO/IEC 42001NIST AI RMFGDPR automated decisions

Payments & fintech

Cardholder-data boundaries, operational resilience and transaction monitoring that satisfy the frameworks banks ask about first.

PCI DSSPSD2 & SCADORAAML / KYCOpen Banking

Data, security & health

Privacy by design, access control and audit evidence for the baseline frameworks every serious buyer checks.

GDPRSOC 2ISO 27001HIPAA
How it enters the build

Compliance as an engineering input

Three moves, on every regulated engagement.

01

Map the obligations

Which regimes touch your product, decided in week one, before the architecture hardens around the wrong assumptions.

02

Design against them

Controls live in the system itself: data boundaries, retention, logging, oversight points and kill switches where the rules expect them.

03

Leave evidence

Documentation and audit trails your auditors, counsel and regulators can pick up and use, not reverse-engineer.

Where we stand

Fluency, not certification

We are engineers. Certification and legal signoff belong to your auditors and counsel, and the systems we build are what they get to examine. Fluency means the conversation starts at the detail of your obligations rather than at a glossary, and the product already speaks for itself when the examination starts.

If your compliance team has its own rulebook, that rulebook becomes part of the specification. That is the normal case, not the exception.

FAQ

Compliance questions

What founders and compliance teams ask before a regulated build.

Yes. We design issuance, redemption, reserve reporting and transfer monitoring around the regime you answer to, with VARA and FATF expectations in view for Gulf launches, and we work alongside your counsel from the first architecture session.

That is the normal case. Your rulebook becomes acceptance criteria: we build inside it, flag where a requirement and the architecture disagree, and leave the evidence your team needs for its own reporting.

Certification attaches to the operating company that runs the product, so it is yours to hold and ours to make easy. We build the controls, the documentation and the audit trail those frameworks look for, and we have shipped inside environments that hold them.

It depends on where you operate and what the system decides. We map your product against the EU AI Act risk classes, ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI framework in the first week, and the answer becomes part of the specification rather than a surprise.

Work with a partner who understands your sector.

Tell us what you’re building and the industry it lives in. We’ll come back within 1–2 business days with a scoping call, straight to our team, no sales runaround.

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