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About us

A small team that has done this before.

Kolega Labs was founded by operators, not analysts. We spent our careers inside regulated institutions, running the migrations, owning the audits, and shipping the systems. We started Kolega because we kept watching AI programmes stall in the gap between a promising pilot and something a regulator would accept.

THE MANIFEST

Ship it, or it didn't happen.

Slide decks are not transformation. Every engagement ends in working software in production, or we have not done our job.

Proof beats promises.

We open-source our engines, we initiated the benchmark that ranks them, and our method produces evidence a third party can re-verify. Check us rather than trust us.

Safe is how you go fast.

Guardrails are not the brake. They are what lets a regulated institution move at all, so we build them in from the first commit.

Leave them stronger than we found them.

You own the repository, the tools, and the practices. A good engagement ends with your teams not needing us.

THE OPERATOR CREDENTIAL

We've sat in the seat we now sell to.

Before Kolega, our founders ran technology inside Arrow Global, the pan-European asset manager servicing roughly €125 billion across more than twenty platforms. At that scale, portfolio migrations are not a once-a-decade programme. They are routine work: books moving between platforms, servicers, and jurisdictions across Western Europe, every one of them under cutover pressure and regulatory scrutiny.

John was Group CTO. Evan delivered boardings on the receiving platforms. Between them they saw the same failure repeat in every jurisdiction: the data arrives, and nobody can prove it arrived intact. CAM™ is that experience turned into machinery.

How CAM works →

Talk to the people who'll do the work.

No pyramid, no handover to a delivery team you've never met. Tell us what you're facing and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people for it.

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