Engprax provides scientific, investigative and communications services to address complex technology challenges, with a specific focus on cybersecurity and software engineering.
Whilst we come with vast technological expertise, alongside engineering solutions, we are capable of looking at broader socio-technical systems to truly understand challenges and achieve unparallelled solutions.
Our foundational hypothesis is that whilst problems may have a technical cause, failures in socio-technical systems cause them to snowball. Likewise, success can be found in considering non-technical factors.
Our projects have bought together expertise spanning PhD-level computer science, Silicon Valley innovation, and terminal regulatory engineering status paired with leading clinical psychologists and policy experts to achieve world-changing results.
Our work has been covered in outlets including Forbes, The Times and the BBC.
Our scientific and investigative work has allowed us to advise dozens of organisations who have secured multi-million dollar funding to find product-market fit, and offer communications and marketing support allowing these products to be successfully taken to market.
Our particular areas of expertise are in B2B SaaS businesses, in particular in cybersecurity and software engineering.
Clients we have supported include Haystack (YCW21), LambdaTest, p0.inc, Risk Ledger, Silence Laboratories, etc. It isn't just high-growth start-ups we work with either, technology our team has worked on has been used by companies including Meta, Microsoft, Apple and Google.
We are regularly called upon to support corporate and government clients in strategy around technology and risks in socio-technical systems.
On multiple occasions, we have been asked to provide information to lawmakers in national legislatures alongside advising professional bodies and high-risk corporate leaders on how they gain maximum benefit from technology whilst minimising the risks.
During the national Post Office Horizon IT scandal in the UK, which has been subject to significant media coverage and a documentary, our pro-bono work enabled the removal of professional credentials from an individual who had used those credentials to provide faulty evidence which led to miscarriages of justice (with those wrongly imprisoned including a pregnant woman). It was reported the individual concerned lost his professional credentials the day before he was due to give further evidence, this time at the public inquiry into the scandal. This has been, and remains, the only instance of professional credentials being removed from someone involved in the scandal. (See our press release and Computer Weekly for details.)
We have been instructed as experts and advisors in a variety of legal proceedings by counsel, solicitors and litigants-in-person.
For example, in one case we were instructed to evaluate a claim of evidence tampering made by a claimant seeking to secure no-win/no-fee legal services. A comprehensive investigation revealed the claims were fabricated, which the claimant subsequently admitted to and the solicitors firm were protected from taking on a potentially erroneous case.
In another case we were asked to review evidence in a case which resulted in a fatality to identify evidence tampering. Through forensic analysis we could not only confirm that the evidence had been subject to tampering but also identify who was responsible for such tampering.
We have worked on multiple cases involving complex multi-national hacking cases, including preventing escalations of complex geopolitical situations and protecting vulnerable individuals from harm.
At our disposal we have significant experience in engineering management, having worked in high-risk environments and successfully driven 95%+ improvements in metrics on delivery and quality. We are available to provide this expertise to customers in various forms and engage in hands-on work and training as required.
Our work on "Impact Engineering" has has challenged the dogmatic application of Agile practices and found an alternative approach which reduces failure rates by 6.5x and has been adopted in mission critical and high-growth environments. For further information read the pre-print paper: "So Am I Dr. Frankenstein? Or Were You a Monster the Whole Time?": Mitigating Software Project Failure With Loss-Aversion-Aware Development Methodologies
To learn more, please contact us at: contact@engprax.com
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