About Ferantos
A technology consultancy and software studio for organisations navigating significant technical change.
Ferantos provides fractional and advisory technology leadership, and builds its own governance-aware tools in the same space. Our services area and our product area complement each other; the tools come from the problems we keep meeting in the field, and the field work validates the tools.
We typically engage on a defined-outcome basis. We are brought in to shape strategy, architecture, and ways of working through a particular period, rather than to fill a permanent role. And we're not just writing documents or creating slide decks; we're actively coaching leaders and engineering teams, and rolling up our sleeves to deliver work alongside you.
How we work
- New tools are a new capability, not a replacement for judgement. We help teams adopt AI-assisted development without handing over control of their own systems.
- We're honest about difficulty. Significant change is hard. We name the risks, take the no-regret moves first, and sequence the work so early steps stand on their own.
- Speed shouldn't cost you the thread. We favour deterministic governance — change reviewed where it matters and evidenced where it counts — so teams can move quickly without losing track of their own architecture.
- We build what we advise. The tools we develop, like Cadastral, grow out of the same problems we help clients with.
Kezia Crawford-Cousins
Founder & principal
Ferantos is led by its founder, Kezia Crawford-Cousins, a three-time founder and hands-on technology leader with 25 years building mission-critical systems in regulated environments, from airline reservations to core banking. An earlier company, grown over fifteen years to a management-buyout exit, built a series of products including a lending platform today managing a USD $2bn loan book.
His recent work goes deep on AI-assisted engineering in practice: co-founding a digital bank in Francophone West Africa and personally delivering its core lending platform; co-leading ProcessFactory, an enterprise orchestration platform whose Studio modeling tool was built almost entirely with AI agent harnesses under close direction; and publishing Holding the Thread, a thesis on governing AI agent work at team and enterprise scale — the thinking that underpins Cadastral. Earlier strategy work, including co-leading a USD $120m transformation programme at Accenture, anchors the advisory side.
Work with us
If you're working through serious technical change, we'd like to hear what you're up against.
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