For CTOs and Heads of AI at UK wealth and investment firms
You've got the use case, the pilot and the pressure to deliver. But the agent still can't safely access your live systems, act within your controls or survive a production incident. So your team is still doing the work.
I'm Peter Idah. I work alongside your engineers to get that agent into production: connected to your applications, tied to your identity and security controls, tested against real failures and ready for your team to operate.
Bring me the approved use case and the thing blocking deployment. I'll help you ship the first agent and build the foundations you can reuse for the next one.
For growing UK wealth managers. One defined process. Your existing systems. Founder-led delivery.
Why this matters now
The model can reason. The demo looks convincing. Neither tells you what happens when the agent gets the wrong record, loses access midway through a task or attempts an action outside its authority.
That's where pilots stall. Your team needs integrations, permissions, evaluations, audit trails, monitoring and recovery. That's the engineering I do.
Where production gets stuck
I start with the agent your business has already approved and the systems it needs to use.
I connect agents to your approved data, APIs and existing workflows without creating an uncontrolled second source of truth.
I connect agent identity to your access model, enforce action-level permissions and put approval gates around sensitive operations.
I build evaluations for your actual tasks, instrument the agent, test failure paths and make sure your engineers can trace, recover and operate it.
We use what your existing platform provides and build only the missing capabilities.
The engineering that makes this possible
Whose identity does it use? What actions can it take? How do you detect failures and shut it down?
I work with your CTO, security lead and process owner, then build the missing controls into your environment. The business owner approves the boundaries before live actions are enabled.
Example: an agent investigating a portfolio break
An illustration of how authority could be set. The actual limits come from your firm, not a generic template.
The offer
Bring me the pilot, the approved use case and the systems it needs. I'll work with your engineers to find exactly what's blocking deployment.
You'll get a defined delivery plan, production acceptance criteria, clear ownership and a quote. If your existing vendor can solve the problem more simply, I'll say so.
Talk through your blocked agent ↗First, a direct conversation with me. If there's a real opportunity, I'll scope and quote the review before we start.
Production Readiness Review
A defined review of one funded agent project. No open-ended strategy engagement.
You own the plan. Use your team or commission me to deliver alongside them.
Why work with me
I'm Peter Idah. I've spent more than twenty years building production platforms and cloud infrastructure, including in regulated financial services. My recent work is hands-on AI engineering in investment management, where a good idea still has to survive the firm's real security, identity and operational requirements.
I've spent years looking across applications, finding the repeated problems and building the platform capabilities that solve them once. That's how I approach agents too. The first job should work properly. The next one should be easier because of what we've built.
AWS gives you the tools. A large consultancy can run a large programme. I work with your team to get a specific agent into production, using what you've already got.
I'll discuss relevant engineering experience directly. Client names and confidential systems are shared only with permission.
Who this is for
The immediate buyer is a CTO, Head of AI or engineering leader with a funded project and not enough specialist capacity to ship it. The COO is waiting for the operational result. If you're still looking for AI ideas, this isn't the engagement.
Let's find the first job
Send me the use case, the blocker and your target date. I'll tell you where I can help and what I'd look at first.