Value driven innovation using The AK Way

We excel in creating outcome-focused capabilities and software solutions.

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From accelerating delivery to improving culture, business KPIs and DORA metrics, Armakuni has a history of building complex business critical platforms and delivering successful outcomes.

We offer a service that’s unique in the technology delivery space. We are neither a consultancy nor a hands on keys service provider. We’re a technology delivery partner that draws on the best of both using the AK Way. 

We help your teams with a range of operating models. We can help you plan and implement the structure/processes that are needed to empower and enable your teams to become high performance, modern cloud native engineering practices.

By embedding best-of-breed cloud technology, elite software practices, and scalable processes we empower you to accelerate the effectiveness of your business.

Detailed technology assessment

We begin with an in-depth audit of your technology stack, identifying bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement. Our goal is to deliver reliable, scalable solutions that enhance your customer experience and support your growth.

Accelerated delivery & time to market

With expertise in agile methodologies and rapid development cycles, we help you get products to market faster. Our approach ensures continuous feedback and alignment with your evolving goals, focusing on delivering value at every step.

Resilience products through automation and testing

We set up automated testing frameworks and establish data-driven metrics to speed up release cycles, ensuring high product quality and increasing customer confidence. Our focus on advanced tools, agile practices, and streamlined CI/CD pipelines improves team efficiency and accelerates delivery.

Comprehensive support

Whether you need urgent assistance for critical issues or planning and guidance for new projects, we’re here to help. Our skills in agile, DevOps, and scalable technologies ensure you stay competitive and achieve significant results.

What we do

As your strategic partner in achieving excellence, Armakuni is more than just a service provider.

Deliberately different technology delivery

Deliberately different technology delivery

We start by addressing immediate needs at the delivery layer and then consult up, ensuring solutions are strategically aligned.

Assessments

Assessments

Our consultants create a comprehensive view of your engineering capabilities. We evaluate team culture, technical skills, and your technology stack, providing reports with deep insights.

Outcome delivery

Outcome delivery

We take on the delivery of business outcomes. We provide teams to deliver specific business outcomes, owning the entire delivery, spanning the full stack.

The AK Pods

The AK Pods

Where needed, Armakuni can provide cost-effective teams/pods that will kick start or support projects - cloud native from the core. Compared to other outsourced/external teams this will adopt your culture and follow the AK Way of proven delivery.

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AWS Competencies

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Consulting Partner

  • Migration and Modernization Consulting Competency
  • SaaS Consulting Competency
  • DevOps Consulting Competency
  • Advertising and Marketing Technology Services Competency
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Consulting Partner

  • Healthcare Consulting Competency
  • Data & Analytics Consulting Competency
  • Supply Chain Services Competency
  • Resilience Services Competency

AWS Service Validations

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  • Amazon ECS Delivery
  • AWS Config
  • AWS WAF Delivery
  • Amazon RDS Delivery
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  • Amazon DynamoDB Delivery
  • Amazon OpenSearch Service Delivery
  • Amazon API Gateway Delivery
  • AWS Lambda Delivery
Premier Tier Services
  • Amazon DynamoDB Delivery
  • Amazon OpenSearch Service Delivery
  • Amazon API Gateway Delivery
  • AWS Lambda Delivery
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  • AWS Control Tower Delivery
  • Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Delivery
  • AWS CloudFormation Delivery
  • Amazon CloudFront Delivery

Partner Programs

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APN Immersion Days
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Our case studies

See how Armakuni Way has benefited these organisations

95%

Reduction in security patch application lead time

70%

Reduction in new feature lead time

HSBC bank

Cloud-First DevX Platform & Operating Model

A cloud-first API-driven runtime services allowing customer focused teams to get new environments within minutes, and the ability to get new features quickly to keep up with a fast paced market. Increased as resilience testing moved from a quarterly cadence to happening during every deployment.

Increased as resilience testing moved

Quarterly cadence to happening during every deployment

High quality user experience with performance monitoring

70%

Faster issue resolution

Daisie

High-Performance Platform for a Growing Community

Developed a frictionless platform to ensure that the user experience matched the vision for speed, scalability, and reliability. Utilised modern DevOps tools and methods to create more effective pipelines, enable faster issue resolution, and maintain consistent high performance.

High reliability with IaC, automated pipelines and tooling

Accelerated production

Faster, higher-quality services

3X

Increased delivery speed

RES

Enabling the Scaling Needed to Handle The Climate Emergency

Create the seed of a “Platform” that multiple areas within RES can integrate within an API first. To embed the usage of Cloud Native technologies to ensure RES moves away from older practices, such as on-prem.

2 Weeks

Product in customers hands

For faster feedback

Every 2 weeks

90%

Increase in awareness of modern software techniques

Enhanced alignment across all levels of the organisation

Office for National Statistics

Cloud-Native Capability Uplift for Enhanced Strategic Vision

With a new strategic vision in place, the Office for National Statistics required a major upgrade in departmental capabilities. Our innovative training initiative provided them with the tools to excel in cloud-native environments, accelerating project timelines, raising standards of delivery, and optimising budget efficiency.

Technology-agnostic learning and experimentation approach

Improved quality through small batch sizes, rapid feedback loops

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How is Armakuni different?

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We show people what good looks like (because we have experienced it, many times). We put metrics on the landscape to help understand where we need to focus and demonstrate the change. We enable your people to deliver the change, through coaching and pair programming. Success for us is stepping back out of a modern cloud native engineering/technology/digital function.

What is Armakuni Way?

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The AK way is a collection of approaches for “delivery with engineering agility” that we have used for many years as a baseline when we are engaging with clients. It’s not meant to be a fixed approach model, nor is it the only way we work - as we all know, operating in the world of software is about adaptation and pragmatism - but these approaches have served us well across a range of industries, projects and engagements, and are constantly evolving. If the client/team/dept we are working with doesn’t have a practice in place for any of these practices, then we have something to fall back on.

What is Armakuni Insights?

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Many of our clients do not have the insights to help them really see what is going on within technology. A technology practice within an organisation is a function of its people, teams, organisational structures, leadership, technical direction and strategic direction. No 2 organisations are the same, and their ability to perform is dependant on so many intangible factors. We’ve created a series of exercises based on industry best practices to help you better articulate the true state of your team. By using a combination of quantitative, data-driven metrics, as well as qualitative insights, we provide your teams with a sense of their strengths and areas for improvement.

How will you work with us?

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Most of our engagements with clients are about helping them change how they deliver technology, whether helping with the adoption of scalable microservices, or building self serve infrastructure platforms. However, in the most part we are helping our clients adopt the mindset, practices and approaches that will enable this approach beyond our time onsite - modern, cloud native engineering practices. Alongside this, we enable the change of the technology function as a whole (structurally) and how the technology function interacts with the rest of the business - whether that’s with business functions, governance, audit/security and others. Below is a “typical” engagement model, but our approaches and modular/productised and so we often just do one part of this. Step 1 - Understand the landscape/topography In order to work with a client, we need to understand what is going on in their organisation, with an external focus/viewpoint. Step 2 - Start to plan the roadmap Once we have a view on where the organisation is at, we start to work with leadership on where they are trying to get to, aligning to the organisation strategy and/or the engineering/technology strategy, and build out a roadmap. Step 3 - Educate In an ideal world, the entirety of the (technology) organisation understands what we are trying to achieve. Typically we find that there is a lot of “unconscious incompetence” - ie people don’t know what the don’t know - so we run sessions/workshops to demonstrate hands on what good looks like. This aligns the whole organisation to the approaches and mindset that we are trying to distil into the teams - and “should” create a sense of desire around that end goal. Step 4 - Start to drive change This can take many forms, but all are based around coaching individuals or teams through the change. Example: An Engineering Accelerator: we embed a pair of experienced practitioners into a team to coach and pair (rotating round your team) for 3 months, shaping that team into a modern cloud native engineering mindset and ensuring that the practices are embedded and desired by the team, not a chore. Step 5 - Observe, Orientate, Decide, Act Constant observation, sensing of what is working, what is not, learning and adapting as we go.

How do you measure business outcomes?

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At a technology/implementation level, Armakuni uses the Dora research and metrics, based on over 12 years of surveys, research and data collation, to benchmark and guide technology performance metrics to business outcomes. We combine this with our Engineering Insights which helps us look at broader environmental metrics - capabilities, approaches, psychological safety, cognitive load - all significant factors in a function's ability to respond to business/organisational needs. At a more holistic/contextual level, we identify the symptoms/issues that the broader business is experiencing and tie these back to the metrics we gather so we can demonstrate change over time.

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Growth Street

We are a small team and we want to keep our software engineers focused on product development. With AK we were able to ring fence the whole project and hand it over. Although the problem required a bespoke solution it didn’t feel difficult. The whole platform was designed, built, and managed with minimum input required from us

Greg Hinch
Greg Hinch

Head of Product, Growth Street

Daisie

Armakuni exemplify best practice. Our team is more confident, more effective and more knowledgeable thanks to our engagement with them.

Chris Bond
Chris Bond

Head of Engineering, Daisie

News UK

Armakuni made a significant impact. While they improved team productivity and quality, what stood out was their in-depth assessment of our engineering capability. Their report highlighted key risks we hadn't identified and guided our strategic decisions for years.

Armakuni is a professional and skilled consultancy in a field crowded with less reliable players.

Christina Scott
Christina Scott

CIO, News UK

Comic Relief

When I was COO of Comic Relief, I faced significant technology challenges, including outdated donation processes. I commissioned Armakuni to build a state-of-the-art donation platform, and they exceeded expectations. Delivered on time and within budget, the platform contributed to Comic Relief surpassing £100m in donations for the first time. Their work remains vital to this day.

I highly recommend Armakuni.

Derek Gannon
Derek Gannon

COO, Comic Relief

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