About
We've sat in your seat.
Now we encode what's in it.
Twenty-five years inside investment management — prop desk, electronic trading, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Risk Officer. Now helping investment firms turn their accumulated judgment into intelligence they own.
Why firms hand us their judgment
The hard part of this work isn't technical. It's that senior people have to hand over the judgment that makes them valuable — how they read the market, what they weight, what they ignore, what a good answer looks like at their desk. Nobody does that for a vendor. They do it for someone who has done the job.
We build, not just advise
We don't hand over slide decks. We make a firm's decision rules explicit and put them to work in real workflows — built around your data, with an independent verification gate before anyone relies on an output.
Regulatory credibility
A Chief Risk Officer background means we build inside the governance and compliance frameworks regulators and investors accept. That fluency is what lets a regulated firm say yes.
Portable by design
Everything we build lives in your tenant and exports as a right. If you ever walked away, it would keep running. We'd rather make leaving easy than hold your intelligence hostage.
Our Team
A founder who's sat in your seat, backed by a dedicated bench of engineers and data scientists who build and run what we design.
Liam OBrien
FounderTwenty-five years in investment management — prop desk, electronic trading, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Risk Officer — and a Harvard Business School alumnus. Liam works with each firm to make its decision rules explicit, owns the relationship, and holds the quality bar on everything we ship.
Engineering
A dedicated build team working under our own IP assignment — orchestration, full-stack, and secure cloud deployment on AWS and Azure, always inside the client's own tenant.
- Lead AI Engineer
- Agent Orchestration Engineer
- Full-Stack Engineer
- Cloud / DevOps Engineer
Data Science & ML
The model layer behind intelligence a firm can own — retrieval, evaluation, and the fine-tuning direction.
- Senior Data Scientist
- ML Engineer
- Evaluation & Retrieval Engineer
Governance & Delivery
Risk- and compliance-aware delivery — audit trails, permissioning, and the controls a regulated firm needs, from day one.
- AI Governance Lead
- Delivery Lead
- Compliance & Risk Analyst
Our delivery team scales with the work under Altitude's own IP assignment — so capacity grows without diluting the bar.
How we work
Three rules we don't bend. They're the reason the work compounds instead of stalling at a pilot.
Your judgment, not a generic feed
We start by making your firm's decision rules explicit — what you weight, what you ignore, what a good answer looks like. Two firms running the same workflow get two different implementations, because their judgment differs.
Working systems, not slide decks
Every stage leaves something running in your own environment that your team can judge on your own names. If we can't show you a changed state, we haven't delivered one.
Governed from day one
Audit trails, permissioning, source-level citation, and human review on unresolved items — built in at the start, not bolted on when compliance asks.
Start with an honest read.
Thirty minutes. We'll establish where your firm stands today — your data, workflows, tools, and controls — and name the first stage worth taking.
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