High-Assurance Engineering
Engineering for systems where being wrong is expensive.
High-assurance engineering & managed ownership
The engineering that has to be right.
ICAN Consultancy delivers high-assurance engineering for systems where failure is unacceptable — and takes full ownership of the systems pulling your best people away from the core. The language of the boardroom, the craft of the engineering floor: builders at heart.
●Regulated life sciences●Financial services●Blockchain & digital assets●Critical infrastructure & logistics
$40M Tech estate transformed
1.3M Users scaled in a year
10k Transactions / second
25% Operational cost cut
Delivered by ICAN’s leadership in prior engagements and senior roles.
What we do
Three pillars. One bar for rigour.
High-assurance engineering for the systems that have to be right. Full ownership of the systems outside your core. And the advisory that gets organisations — and deals — from here to there.
Managed Engineering Ownership
Systems we take off you entirely, and run to contracted targets.
Transaction & Change Advisory
How organisations get from here to there — and how deals survive the technology.
Proven outcomes
All case studies A track record in the numbers.
Delivered by ICAN’s leadership in prior engagements and senior roles.
Web3
Web3 Divestment & Transformation
15%→5% Employee churn through the change
Employee churn cut from 15% to 5% through the change — while a $40M technology estate was carved out and divested, repositioning a loss-making product company into a profitable professional-services firm within 12 months.
Read the story Life sciencesGlobal M&A Technical Authority, S&P 100 Industrial & Life Sciences Group
Global M&A technical authority
Primary technical decision-maker for global M&A inside an S&P 100 group — assessing targets’ DevSecOps posture, cloud readiness, open-source risk and disaster recovery with automated codebase scans, before the price was set.
Read the story Life sciencesCloud Transformation at an S&P 100 Industrial & Life Sciences Group
140 Person engineering org migrated
Led a 140-person engineering organisation’s transition from legacy on-premise technology to AWS inside an S&P 100 group, restructuring vendor resourcing to cut operational costs by 25%.
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Always On.
The SRE playbook for platforms that can't afford to fail.
0 Downtime on Cardano since foundation
99.9%+ SLO-backed uptime targets
24/7 Monitoring, alerting & on-call
Leading AI Transformation.
AI adoption that is real, measured and enterprise-wide.
3 Adoption streams, run in parallel
5 Maturity stages, evidence-gated
90 Days to visible wins and real foundations
De-risking the Deal.
See inside a target's technology before you sign.
3 Deal phases: diligence, integration, separation
7 Diligence lenses — code to culture
0 Downtime in a well-run cutover
Builder at heart
We don’t just advise. We build.
We hold our own production systems to the standards we bring to every engagement. That discipline shows up in the outcomes.
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Let's build together.
Whether it’s quantum-safe readiness, a system you’d rather we owned outright, or a transformation that has to land — let’s start a conversation.