CTO leadership and AI-native engineering

    CTO leadership.
    AI engineering.

    Base64 helps businesses make sound technical decisions and build useful software. Our AI-native engineering process is designed for faster delivery and stronger quality.

    We’ve developed a software development lifecycle with AI built into planning, coding, review, testing and release. Rich and a trusted team of specialists direct the work.

    Get in touchWhat Base64 does
    KnowledgeDecisionsAction

    Human direction at every step

    Explore how the system connects

    Help people make informed decisions.

    Bring evidence and reasoning together. Make assumptions clear and keep people responsible for the decisions that matter.

    Our own AI-native development lifecycle.

    How we build

    Understand the business.
    Build what it needs.

    AI needs to work with your data, your systems, and the people using it. That takes careful design, integration, and testing.

    Base64 covers the work from deciding what is worth building to getting it running. That includes the product, the AI, the interface, and the infrastructure—with people able to check answers and approve important actions.

    Start with the businessStart with the work and the people doing it.

    Use what you already haveBuild on the knowledge and tools you already have.

    Keep people in controlMake answers traceable and approval points clear.

    Our AI-native development lifecycle

    How we build
    software.

    We’ve developed an AI-native software development lifecycle to reduce repetitive work, shorten delivery cycles and keep quality checks close to the work.

    Experienced engineers stay responsible for architecture, code quality and release decisions. AI helps the team move through the work; requirements, review and testing give each change a basis for approval.

    1. Understand and plan

      Use AI-assisted research to turn the business need into a clear plan, with engineers checking the requirements and design.

      What we checkClear scope and acceptance criteria

    2. Build and integrate

      Use AI to support implementation and integration, with engineers reviewing the code and how it fits the wider system.

      What we checkCode and integration review

    3. Review and test

      Combine AI-assisted review with automated tests and engineering checks for behaviour, security and important failure paths.

      What we checkTest results and AI evaluations

    4. Release and improve

      Release in manageable steps, review how the software behaves in use and use that feedback to plan the next improvements.

      What we checkRelease checks and feedback

    AI supports delivery. Our engineers remain accountable for the software.

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    Expertise

    Where AI
    can help.

    From finding information in your documents to building software that works with your data and tools.

    Knowledge and decision systems

    Make scattered documents, data, and expertise usable—with answers people can trace to their sources.

    Document search, source references, and shared knowledge.

    Agents and workflow automation

    Connect AI to business tools so it can carry work forward, with clear permissions and approval points.

    Tool integrations, permissions, and human approval.

    Voice and conversational experiences

    Create natural interactions that connect conversations to useful actions and informed human handovers.

    Voice interfaces, connected tools, and human handovers.

    Complex data and models

    Help people explore structured data, calculations, and scenarios while preserving the underlying logic.

    Data analysis, scenario modelling, and traceable calculations.

    Products and engineering

    Bring interfaces, integrations, infrastructure, and delivery practices together into coherent software.

    AI-native development, interfaces, integrations and infrastructure.

    Working together

    How we
    work together.

    We give clear technical advice, build the software, and support the team doing the work.

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    The people behind Base64

    Rich and a
    trusted team.

    Rich leads the work and brings the right people together.

    We bring together technical leadership and a trusted team of highly skilled specialists.

    Our work covers AI strategy, product design, architecture, and hands-on development. We bring in the right people for each project, with Rich leading the technical direction.

    You work directly with Rich throughout. He stays involved in the decisions and the detail of delivery, working closely with the team.

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    Press

    Rich co-founded ResponseTap, co-created MOJO-CX and contributes to Arrow Global’s AI work. These are their public updates, coverage and recognition.

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    work better?

    Tell us what your business is trying to achieve, where progress is getting stuck, and what you’re considering next.

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