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The industries we serve, every regulator named. before we write a line.

You don’t want a studio that learns your regulator on your budget — you want one that already knows it. Twelve UK industries, twelve regulators wired into the build pattern: FCA for fintech, NHS DSPT for healthtech, KCSIE for edtech, SRA for legaltech, AML for proptech, IR35 for HR-tech. Pick your vertical and read the page that already names yours.

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200+projects shipped since 2019
Senioronly, on the spine
(Why founders in regulated industries sign with us)

You don’t want a studio that learns your regulator. You want one that already knows.

Twelve UK industries with shipped builds and regulator-defendable evidence packs. Small N per vertical, deep N across regulators. The patterns we don’t have to Google are the ones that close your diligence call early.

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REGULATED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT UK · SENIOR-ONLY STUDIO

Four things a generic SaaS shop can’t hand you

This is what twelve regulated builds have hammered into the studio. Not a brochure. The reasons founders in named-regulator industries trust us with the data their regulator audits.

01

The regulator wired in, not bolted on

Your regulator’s controls are a day-one architecture decision, not a panic project the month before assurance. FCA, DSPT, KCSIE, SRA, AML, all designed into the spine.

02

Sensitive data, scoped at the layer

Access enforced at the data layer, not the application code. A misrouted query returns zero rows, not someone else’s record. IDOR-tested in audit week, every vertical.

03

An evidence pack at handover

Mapped to your regulator’s current assertions, ready for your assurance team to read cold. The same discipline that put zero findings in production across seven years.

04

A real reply in 24 hours

Mohit reads every brief personally. A real reply, not a calendar link, inside one working day. London time, every time.

The pains we hear in every regulated-industry audit call

The pain. The day-1 answer.

Every founder in a regulated industry who emails us is fighting one of these. Each one is impossible to fix cheaply once the codebase is live. Each one is a single architectural decision made on day one of our build.

  1. 01
    The regulator surpriseDay-1 architecture

    “Our regulator asked for an audit trail and we don’t have one. Now it’s six months of panic.”

    Append-only audit log on every mutation. Actor, tenant, IP, timestamp, before-value, after-value, logged from commit one. Your regulator’s evidence request becomes an export, not a rebuild.

  2. 02
    The data-residency flagDay-1 architecture

    “We have UK and EU customers and no idea where their data actually sits.”

    Region-pinned storage with a residency map. UK and EU data pinned to region, documented in writing. SCCs for any cross-border flow. The map your DPO hands the regulator without flinching.

  3. 03
    The DSAR scrambleDay-1 architecture

    “A customer asked us to delete their data and we can’t do it without breaking the app.”

    Right-to-erasure enforced at the schema. 30-day DSAR response defendable. Erasure cascades cleanly because the model was built for it. ICO audit-defendable, not a developer’s weekend.

  4. 04
    The questionnaire wallDay-1 architecture

    “An enterprise prospect sent a 60-page security questionnaire and we can’t answer most of it.”

    SIG-Lite and CAIQ pre-filled at handover. Pen-test report, architecture diagram, DR plan, SLA, uptime SLO, all in the pack. The questionnaire takes an afternoon, not a quarter.

  5. 05
    The diligence holdDay-1 architecture

    “Our acquirer’s CTO flagged the architecture and the offer is on hold.”

    An architecture brief and ADRs they read cold. The documents the diligence team asks for, shipped with the build. Series A founders we worked with passed acquirer reviews on first walkthrough.

  6. 06
    The lock-in fearDay-1 architecture

    “Our last studio held the code hostage. We can’t risk that with a regulated product.”

    Code in your GitHub org from commit one. IP assigns on commit, not final payment. 30-day walk-away both ways. Two handovers in seven years, both inside 48 hours.

PICK YOUR INDUSTRY · TAP TO READ THE PAGE

Twelve industry pages. Every regulator named in the hero.

Each card carries its UK regulator and a real shipped count. Where the full page is live, the card links straight to it. Tap yours and read how we wire the regulator into the build, not bolt it on at the end.

Vertical SaaS development UK · MERN + AWS

One spine, twelve regulators, no rebuild between them.

The same defensible spine carries every vertical. Tier 1 runs every build. Tier 2 is what we reach for when the brief needs it, Python for fintech back-office, Java for enterprise integrations. Tier 3 scales it to Series B without a rewrite.

T1

What we build every vertical on

MERN + Flutter
MongoDBExpress.jsReact + Next.jsNode.jsTypeScriptFlutterPostgreSQLMixpanelStripeClerk / Auth.jsTailwindPlaywright
T2

When your vertical actually calls for it

reach when needed
PythonJavaReact NativeSwift / SwiftUIKotlinGo
T3

The infrastructure that scales it

AWS + cloud-native
AWSKubernetes (EKS)DockerAWS LambdaAWS RDS / AuroraS3 + CloudFrontRedisApache KafkaGraphQLTerraformDatadog + SentryMicroservices
Diligence-ready, every vertical

Twelve industries,
one set of receipts, verified in 2025

The numbers a CFO, a VC, and an acquirer ask about, measured on production code we wrote. Not projections. Not adjectives. The figures your diligence team can check against the logs.

Scale

£540M+
GMV through our code
320M+
API calls a year, 2025

Trust

0
Breaches in seven years
SOC 2
Type II achieved Dec 2025

Outcomes

12
Founders raised Series B
28 mo
Median client tenure
How we work with you

Three ways to start. Pricing in the email back.

We don’t publish prices on a page. Every regulated build is different. Pick the shape that fits your vertical and Mohit will send your real number inside 24 hours.

AStart here

5-day regulator audit

Fixed at £8K. We strip the brief, name your regulator’s controls, pick the stack, write the architecture, hand you a signed scope.

  • 5-day senior audit
  • Architecture brief + ADRs
  • Regulator control mapping
  • No commitment to build
BMost common

Full vertical build sprint

Fixed-scope, fixed-GBP shipping. Same seniors all the way. Evidence pack and DPA at handover, mapped to your regulator.

  • Regulator wired in from day 1
  • Same seniors start to finish
  • 30-day walk-away both ways
  • IP assigns on every commit
CPost-build

Senior advisory retainer

After handover. Monthly retainer for a senior engineer plus architectural advisory. Most clients run this while in-house catches up.

  • One senior engineer dedicated
  • Architectural advisory from Mohit
  • 30-day notice both ways
  • Pause + resume any month
5-day audit £8K · audit + sprint quoted at audit end

“Their CTO read the architecture brief twice and stopped asking us for things. It was the document that closed our round.”

— Helena F., founder, UK HR-tech SaaS
Industries we serve UK · honest answers

What founders in regulated industries actually ask before signing

Pain-first, soft-second. The questions every founder in a regulated vertical asks after their third bad agency experience.

We already know it. The industries we serve in the UK each carry a named regulator wired into our build pattern: FCA for fintech, NHS DSPT and DCB0129 for healthtech, KCSIE for edtech, SRA for legaltech, AML and TDS for proptech, IR35 and RTI for HR-tech. We’ve shipped builds in twelve verticals with zero regulator findings in production across seven years. You’re not paying us to read your rulebook for the first time.

We don’t price by salesperson mood. The audit is fixed at £8K and takes 5 days. After that, every build is line-itemed into the scope document, and you can cut any piece. The audit plus sprint is quoted at the end of the audit week, against real scope, not a guess. If we can’t hit your budget, we tell you in week one and you walk away with the audit brief, no commitment.

Region-pinned storage with a residency map you can hand your regulator. UK data stays UK, EU data stays EU, with SCCs documented for any cross-border flow. Right-to-erasure is enforced at the schema, so a DSAR is a 30-day defendable export, not a developer’s weekend. Signed DPA and a versioned sub-processor list ship with the build. This is standard across every vertical in the industries we serve.

Yes, and we hand you the answers. SIG-Lite and CAIQ come pre-filled in the handover pack, alongside a pen-test report, architecture diagram, DR plan, SLA, and uptime SLO. We achieved SOC 2 Type II at Empyreal in December 2025, with Vanta evidence live, and we wire the same evidence pipeline for clients from Day 1. The questionnaire takes you an afternoon, not a quarter.

That’s the bar we build to. The architecture brief and ADRs we ship are the exact documents a diligence team asks for, and acquirer CTOs have read them cold and stopped asking for more. Twelve Series A founders we built with went on to raise Series B, two reached IPO, and three exited via M&A with full team retention. The receipts survive the call because they’re real production numbers, not projections.

Every project pairs two seniors, not one. Every decision is written into an ADR the same day, and every commit goes through Mohit’s review. If one engineer leaves, the other has full context the next morning. In seven years two engineers have left mid-project, both handovers inside 48 hours, neither client noticed in their sprint. On a regulated build that continuity is the difference between an audit you pass and one you postpone.

You walk away cleanly. Your code lives in your GitHub org from commit one, IP assigns on commit, and the handover pack includes the architecture brief, ADRs, runbook, evidence pack, and DPA. The £5K/month advisory retainer is optional and cancellable with 30 days’ notice, any month. Most clients run it for the first six to nine months while their in-house lead settles in, then end it without ceremony. No lock-in, no surprise renewals.

Usually, yes. The twelve are where we’ve shipped repeatedly, but the discipline travels: name the regulator, wire its controls into the spine on day one, log every mutation, scope data at the layer, ship the evidence pack at handover. Send a five-line brief with your industry and the regulator you answer to, and Mohit will tell you in one working day whether it’s a fit. If it isn’t, he’ll say so plainly.

Sector product / dashboard screenshot
Built for your sector

Regulation baked into the schema.

FCA, PCI, UK GDPR, NHS DSPT, safeguarding — each sector carries its own due-diligence baseline. We’ve shipped in every one, so your sprint doesn’t pay for the learning curve.

  • Fintech, healthtech, edtech, legaltech & more
  • Regulatory baseline in the data model, not bolted on
  • MVPs and rebuilds an acquirer can defend
Your industry, your regulator, our 5-day audit

One paragraph. That’s it.

Tell us your industry, your regulator, your current estate, and your deadline. Mohit reads every first email and replies inside 24 hours: a clear yes, a clear no, or the one question that decides it, with the next audit slot.

Write to mohit@empyrealinfotech.com Replies in 24hRegulator wired inDiligence-ready
What happens after the email lands
  1. < 24h

    A personal reply.

    Yes, no, or the deciding question. Straight to your inbox, not a team thread.

  2. Week 1

    5-day audit begins.

    We name your regulator’s controls, draw the spine, hand you a signed scope.

  3. Handover

    Evidence pack in hand.

    Mapped to your regulator’s assertions, ready for your assurance team to read cold.