Senior engineering consultancy · Dubai · Bristol · Budapest
Turning ideas into reality.
Two consultant engineer managers, pulled along by modern AI tooling, shipping at the speed of a large team — and rescuing the projects that have stalled. We advise, architect and lead, as well as build.
Proof, not projection
See our own apps →A full cross-platform media client, built and shipped in ten days
tvOS, iPad, macOS and Android. Streaming, transcoding and cross-device sync. Native on both sides — SwiftUI and Kotlin, not a cross-platform shortcut. Built by two people and released to the App Store as TVApp.
Writing code is no longer the expensive part. Judgement is. That's the whole philosophy behind the practice — and we test it on our own products before we bring it to yours.
What you get, either way
The commercial part →- A demo every single week — working software from the first week, not a status report about working software. You see it running and say what's wrong with it while it's still cheap to change.
- Senior engineers only — the two people you talk to are the two who write the code. No juniors substituted in once the contract is signed.
- You own 100% of the code and the IP from day one — not on final payment, and not licensed back to you from us. If we stopped tomorrow you'd have everything, with nothing to untangle.
What do you need from us?
All services →That means building a product from nothing. More often it means joining something already in flight — and getting it moving again.
Rescue & acceleration
A project that's stuck, a bug no one can crack, a deadline slipping away. We diagnose fast, fix the "impossible", and give the project the boost it needs.
Rapid builds
Idea to working software in days, not quarters — a prototype, an MVP, or a full product. No ceremony, no backlog theatre.
Fractional CTO & AI advisory
Senior technical leadership at a fraction of a full-time hire: architecture, AI strategy, process, mentoring and the judgement to know what's worth building.
SDKs & platform work
Reusable SDKs, white-label apps and platform components — an area both principals have shipped repeatedly.
Who we work with
We keep the practice small — but the range is broad.
- Founders & startups — who need a credible product shipped fast, and often a fractional CTO to make the early architecture, commercial and hiring calls.
- Scale-ups & enterprise — adding AI to existing products, modernising ageing mobile codebases, or bringing in senior firepower for a defined, high-stakes build.
- Regulated & security-critical clients — in finance, payments and communications, where PCI-DSS, secure messaging and audited delivery matter.
- Hardware & connected-device teams — building IoT or robotics products that need equally strong mobile and AI front-ends.
The team
Full profiles →Dominic Frazer-Imregh
Consultant Engineer & Manager Co-founder and CTO of RECRDThree decades running from founding and selling a software company, through international sales and product commercialisation, into fifteen years of senior native-Apple engineering — and today co-founding a Social Video Media platform with AI.
Alex Frazer
Consultant Engineer & Manager Head of AI Systems and Mobile at RECRD GroupAn MSc in Artificial Intelligence and a Head-of-AI-Systems practice spanning mobile, robotics and IoT — from recommendation engines and computer vision, to the native Android and iOS apps they run in, to the robots and connected devices he designs and builds.
Selected clients
See all client work →In practice that has meant national-scale streaming and live sport, hotel and flight booking, regulated chip-and-pin banking, secure messaging, transport data platforms, and a long line of first products.
Clients have included TVPlayer, ITV, Sky Sports, Hotels.com, dnata Travel, Lloyds Banking Group, Santander, BlackBerry, Zalando, Tesco and Cognizant.
We ship our own
Browse the apps →Consultancies that only build for other people never feel the consequences of their decisions. We publish our own apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Android — a Jellyfin media player, an outdoor mapping app, a tree field guide, a teachable camera for children and a couple of games — so we live with every choice we make.
Our oldest was released 15 years ago!
How we think about the work
Read the articles →Eleven articles on what AI actually changes about senior engineering — the hiring funnel, the unbundling of the engineering role, and the habits that stop a team accelerating confidently in the wrong direction. If you want to know how we'd think about your problem before you email us, start there.
Most recently: AI made our measurement problem worse, not better.
Get in touch
Something stuck, something to finish, or something to start — tell us what you're working on.
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