TEKTON, systems architects. We survey, rebuild and run the software a business depends on. Built for speed. Hardened for security. Maintained for uptime.

TEKTON — SYSTEMS ARCHITECTS

We engineer bespoke full-stack infrastructure and mission-critical operating systems for high-revenue enterprises. Built for speed. Hardened for security. Maintained for uptime.

MOVE THROUGH THE LETTERS · SCROLL TO BUILD

12

Systems shipped

2019

In practice since

Fixed

Fee on every engagement, set from the survey

01 — THE WORK

Built and shipped

genesishq.net
Genesis — build preview
01Genesis

A company operating system that runs its own business day, unattended, in the cloud.

rlwc.org.uk
Restoring Lives Worship Center — build preview
02Restoring Lives Worship Center

Public website, church management system and installable app for a London church, on one codebase.

african-base.vercel.app
African Base — build preview
03African Base

Restaurant website with its own table booking, events, vouchers and a back office for the owners.

tekton-studio.vercel.app
This site — build preview
04This site

The site you are reading — spec to launch, and the proof of the craft.

academy of influence · launching 2026
Academy of Influence International — build preview
05Academy of Influence International

Bible college rebuilt from a template site into a full platform: prospectus, admissions, student portal and registry.

02 — CAPABILITY BLUEPRINTS

What we would build next

Reference architectures for the sectors we survey: cold-chain logistics, manufacturing and specialty lending. They show how we would engineer each system. They are not client engagements, and no client is named or implied.

blueprint · cold-chain telemetry

Capability blueprint

Cold-Chain Telemetry Matrix

Cold-chain & pharmaceutical logistics

Reference architecture: live temperature telemetry from every trailer and store, with excursions caught in seconds, not at the dock.

blueprint · shop-floor MES

Capability blueprint

Shop-Floor Execution System

Manufacturing (MES)

Reference architecture: one offline-first scheduling and CNC-uptime dashboard in place of a regional patchwork of spreadsheets and legacy screens.

blueprint · underwriting engine

Capability blueprint

Specialty Underwriting Engine

Specialty lending (FinTech)

Reference architecture: an encrypted document portal for every party to a deal, feeding a credit engine that shows its working.

03 — THE CRAFT

How a system gets built

01

Survey

Infrastructure diagnosis

INSTRUMENT · THE SURVEYOR

We read the estate before we touch it. The Surveyor measures your public systems from outside: response times, server and runtime versions, the libraries each page loads, certificates and security headers. With your logs, we trace the slow paths through the API gateway. Then we put a figure on what it costs you each year. Nothing is quoted before this is done.

02

Blueprint

Architecture & fixed scope

INSTRUMENT · THE QUANTITY SURVEYOR

The target architecture, the migration path and the fee, agreed on paper first. The Quantity Surveyor prices the work from the survey: the hours, the technical debt and how critical the system is. Every line of the fee is shown, so you can see what each part costs.

03

Build

Staged delivery

INSTRUMENT · STAGED RELEASES

Built to the blueprint and moved across one service at a time, so the business never goes dark. You follow every stage on a live preview, and tests gate each deploy. Go-live is a date in the contract, not an estimate.

04

Keep

Continuous hypercare & enterprise SLA

INSTRUMENT · THE FOREMAN

The estate stays under watch after launch. The Foreman re-runs the survey on a schedule and flags anything that slips. Security patches go in as they land, queries are tuned against real load, capacity is added before it runs short, and an engineer is on call inside the hours your SLA sets.

04 — THE SURVEY, LIVE

We measure before we quote

Every engagement starts with the same instrument. Below, it is running on this page: round trips from your browser, the origin’s first byte, and the security headers your own estate will be graded on. If we wrote to you, your figures came from these checks. What we look at, and what we never do.

LIVE · THIS PAGE, MEASURED NOW

ROUND TRIPS · YOUR BROWSER → OUR EDGE

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KEYSTONE CHECKS · THIS SITE

    These are this site’s own figures, measured just now from your browser and from our server, against the same thresholds our survey applies to a client’s estate. Nothing here is simulated.

    SURVEY DOSSIER · NORTHGATE COLD STORAGE LTD

    SAMPLE · FICTIONAL COMPANY · ILLUSTRATIVE FIGURES

    DEBT TIER
    HIGH
    FINDINGS
    6
    ESTIMATED WASTE
    £184,000 / yr
    BASIS
    Uploaded logs + headcount
    SEVERITYFINDINGEVIDENCE
    CRITICALPHP 7.2 in productionX-Powered-By: PHP/7.2.34 · out of security support since Nov 2020
    HIGHServer responds in 1.6smedian TTFB 1,620ms over 5 samples · target 200ms
    HIGHjQuery 1.8.3 on the order portalscript-src /js/jquery-1.8.3.min.js · known published CVEs
    MEDIUMBooking API stalls under loadPOST /api/slots p95 2,940ms in the uploaded request log
    MEDIUMNo Content Security Policyheader absent on every sampled page
    LOWTLS 1.0 still acceptedhandshake completed with TLSv1.0

    REMEDIATION ORDER

    1. 01Patch the runtime
    2. 02Cache and index the slot queries
    3. 03Replace the order portal front end
    4. 04Move to the target architecture, service by service

    An example of the dossier a survey produces. The company and every figure above are invented. A real dossier is built from your own site, logs and headcount, and the waste figure is an estimate you can check line by line.

    05 — ENGAGEMENTS

    Three ways we engage

    Every engagement opens with a survey of the estate as it stands. The fee is fixed from what the survey finds: scope, technical debt and what the downtime is costing you. No day rates, no open-ended invoices.

    START HERE · INFRASTRUCTURE DIAGNOSIS

    Know what it’s costing you before you commit to fixing it

    Two to three weeks with read-only access to your logs, monitoring and code. You get the verified annual cost of the problems, the target architecture and a phased, fixed-price roadmap your finance director can sign. Fixed fee from £3,500 by the size of the estate, credited in full against the build if you go ahead within 60 days.

    Free website check firstBook a diagnosis
    IENGAGEMENT

    Core Systems Migration

    Fixed fee · priced from the survey, by technical-debt scale

    Legacy estates moved off out-of-support PHP, jQuery and ageing server stacks onto a low-latency Next.js and PostgreSQL architecture, without a dark day for the business.

    SCOPE
    Legacy estate → Next.js · PostgreSQL
    BILLING
    Fixed fee · 30 / 40 / 30 milestones
    DELIVERABLES
    Target architecture · migrated services · runbooks
    ACCEPTANCE
    Record counts reconciled and signed off · performance budget met
    • —Infrastructure diagnosis before a line is written
    • —Strangler-pattern migration, service by service
    • —Data moved with verified, reconciled counts
    • —Performance budgets enforced at every deploy
    Request a survey
    IIENGAGEMENT

    Bespoke Operations Core

    Fixed fee per phase · milestone billing

    A unified operating system for the business, running unattended in the cloud: customer front ends wired natively to the databases, ERPs and shop-floor systems behind them.

    SCOPE
    One operating system across front end, ERP and MES
    BILLING
    Fixed fee per phase · milestone billing
    DELIVERABLES
    Data model · integrations · scheduled workflows · audit trail
    ACCEPTANCE
    Each phase run against your own data before sign-off
    • —One data model across sales, operations and finance
    • —Integration with ERPs such as Epicor Kinetic and MES nodes
    • —Scheduled, autonomous workflows with audit trails
    • —Role-based access for every team
    Request a surveySee Genesis →
    IIIENGAGEMENT

    Enterprise Infrastructure SLA

    Monthly retainer · agreed engineering hours

    Continuous hypercare for systems that cannot go down: monitored, patched, scaled and improved by the engineers who know them.

    SCOPE
    Production estate under hypercare
    BILLING
    Monthly retainer · agreed engineering hours
    DELIVERABLES
    Patching · query tuning · capacity reviews · quarterly report
    ACCEPTANCE
    Response windows and uptime targets as agreed in the SLA
    • —Monthly vulnerability scans and dependency patching
    • —Database tuning against real query logs
    • —Engineering availability window agreed in the SLA
    • —Quarterly architecture review
    Request a survey

    Running a local business? TEKTON Studio builds websites with a fixed price list.

    SAMUEL DEANGELO

    06 — THE FOUNDER

    A system is a building your business runs inside. I build ones worth working in — and I keep them standing.

    — Samuel Deangelo, Founder

    NEXT STEP

    Ready when you are

    Request a survey

    Send us the domain. We run the first pass on your public systems, then take you through it on a 30-minute call with the engineer who would do the work. No sales deck.