From Vision to Value
Empowering teams to execute and deliver.
We help organisations turn ideas into working software through clear decisions, strong delivery, and pragmatic engineering.
What we do
Product Management
From ideas to execution work.
The result is confidence - in direction, scope and outcomes.
We help shape product vision into clear, prioritised backlogs that teams can actually deliver against. Working closely with stakeholders, we ensure everyone understands what matters now, what’s coming next, and what trade-offs are being made.
Our approach focuses on:
Clear prioritisation and decision-making
Practical roadmaps grounded in delivery reality
Shared understanding across product, engineering, and stakeholders
Living documentation that supports continuity and onboarding
Delivery
Reliable progress, without drama.
Our goal is simple. Steady progress from build to production, without surprises.
Delivery is where most plans meet reality. We support teams in shipping working software in small, controlled increments, learning quickly from real usage and adapting as needed.
We bring structure and calm to complex environments by:
Establishing dependable release processes
Managing risk without slowing progress
Supporting teams through early production realities
Ensuring changes are intentional, visible, and understood
Project Management
Control without losing momentum.
This ensures projects stay viable, accountable, and move forward.
Even the most agile teams operate within real constraints — budgets, timelines, and resourcing. We provide project oversight that respects those boundaries while still allowing teams to work effectively.
We focus on:
Clear visibility of scope, cost, and progress
Proactive risk and dependency management
Supporting long-running or mission-critical systems
Keeping stakeholders informed without creating overhead
Who we are
Stace C
Co-FounderStace leads the technical direction of the consultancy. A hands-on software architect and engineer, Stace has over 15 years of experience designing and delivering secure, resilient systems across cyber security, blockchain, and complex distributed environments.
Stace works closely with product and delivery teams to ensure technical decisions support real outcomes — balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability. His strength lies in translating ambiguous requirements into clear technical direction, and in guiding teams through the realities of building and operating production systems.
Pragmatic by nature, Stace remains deeply involved in engineering work, ensuring solutions are not only well-designed, but workable, supportable, and fit for purpose.
Co-FounderAdam S
Adam leads the operational and delivery side of the business. With over 25 years’ experience across technical operations, delivery, and leadership roles, Adam has worked with startups, scale-ups, and large organisations across government, financial services, and regulated industries.
Adam specialises in turning complex, high-risk initiatives into dependable delivery. His experience spans mission-critical systems, security-sensitive environments, and long-running programmes where clarity, trust, and execution matter more than theory.
He brings a calm, pragmatic approach to decision-making and delivery, helping teams navigate uncertainty while maintaining accountability and momentum.
Technical Capabilities
Solutions Architecture
Clear technical direction, early
We design architectures that are appropriate for the problem being solved — not over-engineered, not fragile, and not driven by fashion. Our architects work closely with product and stakeholders to ensure technical decisions support delivery, cost, and long-term maintainability.
This includes:
Translating product intent into technical design
Making trade-offs explicit and understood
Designing for reliability, security, and change
Avoiding unnecessary complexity early on
DevOps & Development
Build and release with confidence
We support teams in building, integrating, and delivering software in a way that is repeatable, observable, and maintainable. Our focus is on practical engineering practices that keep teams moving without creating operational risk.
We help with:
Sensible CI/CD pipelines
Deployment and environment strategy
Hands-on development where needed
Enabling teams to operate independently after delivery
Testing & Quality Assurance
Quality that’s felt, not just measured
We take a pragmatic approach to quality, combining hands-on testing with automation where it genuinely adds value. Our focus is on ensuring software behaves as users expect — not just that tests pass.
Our approach typically includes:
Manual exploratory testing
Targeted automated testing
Integration and release validation
Supporting teams to build quality into their workflow
Case Studies
A selection of work where clarity, delivery, and trust mattered.
CoinCover
Early technical bootstrapping and security foundations
HiddenField supported Coincover during its early formation, providing technical and delivery expertise to help establish secure foundations for a digital asset protection business operating in a high-risk domain.
Working closely with the founding team, HiddenField contributed to early architectural decisions, development approach, and security posture — helping ensure the product and organisation were built with robustness and trust at their core from the outset.
Our role
Early-stage technical and delivery bootstrapping
Security consultancy and risk-focused guidance
Development strategy and engineering advice
Supporting the transition from concept to operational reality
Royal Mint Gold
Ensuring security, key management, and operational readiness for blockchain enabled Gold
As part of a global delivery team, HiddenField supported the Royal Mint’s digital gold blockchain initiative through to MainNet launch. We worked across multiple systems within the platform, leading and coordinating the testing initiative while contributing to the design and assurance of core security and cryptographic key management services.
Our involvement focused on ensuring the platform was operationally ready, secure by design, and supported by testing processes appropriate for a regulated, production blockchain environment.
Our role
Delivery support
Test strategy across multiple systems
Security architecture and key management services
Cardano Foundation
Ledger hardware wallet integration
HiddenField was engaged to prototype the secure integration of Cardano’s Daedalus software wallet with the Ledger Nano S hardware wallet. The work focused on validating both the technical approach and the user experience required to safely support hardware-backed key storage within the Cardano ecosystem.
Working closely with stakeholders, HiddenField designed and delivered a fully functioning MVP within six months, demonstrating secure transaction flows, key handling, and practical usability suitable for wider adoption.
Our role
Technical architecture
Secure wallet and hardware integration
MVP delivery and validation
Post Quantum
Supporting delivery and operational maturity in quantum-safe cryptography
HiddenField worked with Post Quantum to support the growth and maturation of their engineering and delivery capability as the business evolved from early-stage innovation into a production-focused organisation operating in a high-assurance cryptographic domain.
Our involvement focused on strengthening delivery practices, supporting technical decision-making, and helping the team balance research-led development with the operational demands of real-world customers.
Our role
Agile coaching and delivery support
Technical and operational consultancy
Supporting the transition from research to production systems
Enabling sustainable team growth and delivery practices
Ministry of Defence
Mobile FieldOps situational awareness platform
HiddenField built, delivered, and provided ongoing full-stack application and infrastructure support for Mobile FieldOps, a highly secure, mission-critical situational awareness platform used within defence environments. The work required close operational involvement, with a strong emphasis on reliability, availability, and secure operation in demanding conditions.
In addition to development and delivery, HiddenField supported the platform operationally on site, ensuring the system remained available, supported, and responsive to real-world usage.
Our role
Full-stack application and infrastructure delivery
On-site operational support
Reliability, availability, and ongoing maintenance
GotDis
Unlocking the value of academic research
HiddenField worked with the GotDis team from early concept through to MVP, supporting the definition, design, and delivery of a platform intended to improve access to academic research and strengthen connections between emerging and established talent.
Our involvement spanned early product shaping and hands-on delivery, helping the team translate a broad vision into a working product that could be tested with real users and iterated on with confidence.
Our role
Product definition and early direction
MVP delivery
Engineering and delivery support
Ministry of Justice
Identity and Access Management
As part of the HMCTS digital transformation programme, HiddenField supported the delivery of a critical identity management solution, contributing security architecture expertise within a large, multi-supplier environment.
Our role
Application security architecture
Delivery support
Stakeholder collaboration