Keryx Labs designs and deploys intelligent systems for organisations navigating the next generation of enterprise technology. We work in small senior teams, with technical depth, architecture-first, with a product mindset.
Operational software used to record what people did. The next generation will execute on their behalf — and the architecture has to be designed for that, not retrofitted.
The interesting question is no longer how data is stored or modelled, but how it produces a decision that an organisation can stand behind. Lakehouses are plumbing; decisioning is the product.
Governance committees are necessary but insufficient. Real governance lives in code: policies-as-code, signed audit trails, and explainability that survives a regulator's interrogation by case ID.
Agents are the next operational layer above decisions. The same architectural rigour applies: tenancy, audit, drift, approval. We design for that future without waiting for it.
We don't take engagements unless we can apply these. They are a contract with our clients — and with each other.
Every engagement is led by a founding architect. No staffing pyramids. No juniors at the front line. The same team that designs the system deploys it.
The architecture is the artefact. Models change. Vendors change. We invest in what survives.
Every engagement output is a product: it has an owner, a versioned spec, an SLO and a roadmap. We hand over operating models, not slide decks.
Pilot to production in 90 days, with an audit trail that proves it. We move fast and we sign the work.
Second line, audit and security are designed into the architecture from day one. Compliance is not a phase — it's a property of the system.
Insight from the engagements becomes software in the labs. Software from the labs becomes leverage in the engagements. They are inseparable.
Keryx Labs is led by David Charnley. The wider delivery network of architects, engineers and risk specialists is intentionally not enumerated here — it is convened around each engagement, not staffed against a marketing wall.
Twenty-five years architecting, delivering and operating technology, data, analytics and AI at the largest scale in financial services. Most recently Director of Data & AI Customer Success & Transformation for Snowflake EMEA, advising CDOs and CIOs at Tier-1 banks and life sciences firms. Previously Managing Director and Group Head of Strategy & Transformation, Data & Analytics at NatWest Group, where he authored the bank-wide data strategy and led a £600m transformation programme of c. 2,000 staff serving 19 million customers — alongside tenure as Chief Information Officer for Data & Analytics, running the c. 1,000-person data technology function.
Earlier MD roles at RBS spanned banking operations, group transformation and Asia-Pacific markets integration. Career began as a trading technology consulting manager at Accenture Capital Markets. B.Com (Hons), University of Birmingham.
We'd rather talk to you about a specific decision your business depends on, than send you a deck. Bring us a problem; we'll bring an architecture and a 90-day shape.