Zahir Alward
Principal Architect & Founder
30 years architecting mission-critical systems across utilities, transport, government, and healthcare. A decade of AI specialisation. Architect of RelayQ and production infrastructure for organisations that can't afford downtime.
"Architecture first. Outcomes measurable. No vendor lock-in."
What We Build
We engineer production-grade infrastructure that makes AI, data, and industrial systems actually work.
Real-Time Platforms
We build high-performance messaging and data infrastructure for systems that cannot fail.
Industrial & AI Engineering
We engineer secure OT/IT integration and AI pipelines for industrial environments, backed by 30 years of hands-on delivery.
Security-First Architecture
We design zero-trust data architectures and secure pipelines — the same principles behind our RelayQ product.
Our Product
One faulty device shouldn't take down your entire operation.
RelayQ — Deterministic edge runtime for industrial data
RelayQ is a single small binary that replaces your protocol gateway, MQTT broker, integration layer and cloud connector. It sits between field devices and your SCADA, historian or cloud, isolates every device, and keeps data flowing when equipment or networks fail. It reads Modbus, DNP3, OPC UA and BACnet/IP from PLCs and meters, and MQTT and Sparkplug B from sensors and gateways.
- • Self-contained — one signed binary with no mandatory dependencies, on-premise, including air-gapped sites
- • Deterministic — responds the same documented way to each failure: a slow device, a malformed client, a restart, a power cut
- • Non-intrusive — deploys beside existing SCADA on hardware you already own; nothing in your control logic changes
- • Built to be audited — signed releases and a tamper-evident audit log
Engineering & Advisory Services
We build systems like RelayQ — and we build them for you
Agentic AI & Automation Frameworks
AI-powered automation solutions for improved operational efficiency.
Document Management Systems
Intelligent document processing and knowledge management solutions.
Data Architecture & AI Integration
Secure data infrastructure design for AI and analytics applications.
Cloud Security & OT/IT Integration
Cybersecurity solutions for operational technology and cloud infrastructure.
Industrial IoT & Smart Networks
IoT solutions for industrial monitoring and process optimisation.
Intelligent Transport Services
Smart transportation systems and mobility solutions for modern infrastructure.
Latest Insights
Expert perspectives on Agentic AI, industrial IoT, and enterprise technology
Benchmarking Small LLM Retrieval Augmented Generation
Comprehensive analysis of small language model performance in RAG scenarios for enterprise AI implementation.
Smart Water Utilities 2025 Conference
Speaking on AI, data architecture, and smart water infrastructure solutions for utilities.
Agentic AI Programming Frameworks
Ongoing research in automated agentic AI systems using LangChain, LLM Agents, and MCP Protocol for autonomous code generation.