A studio,

not a single seat.

Lewis spent a decade where the corporate world meets politics. He advised some of the world’s largest companies on reputation, growth and regulatory risk. Up close, he saw the structural advantage large organisations bring to deploying technology and handling regulation. He co-founded North Stack to put that same discipline within reach of the businesses that need it most and can least afford to get it wrong.

On an engagement, Lewis asks the questions a board and a regulator will ask, before they’re asked. He reads the operation for exposure as much as for opportunity: what’s worth doing, what protects you, and the workflows we should decline in writing. When the studio says a line never moves, it’s usually Lewis who drew it.

Matthew led complex change programmes inside Lloyds and HSBC, redesigning tangled workflows, modernising legacy systems and embedding change at scale without taking the core operation offline. He’s worked inside some of the most process-intensive organisations in the country, and he co-founded North Stack to translate that rigour into systems a smaller business can realistically run and sustain.

He owns technical delivery end to end. The discipline that scopes your operation is the discipline Matthew keeps on the work until it’s live, resilient and measurably paying back. He’s allergic to the kind of “transformation” that produces a deck and a dependency.

Myles has built a career across politics, insurance and financial services, turning complexity into something senior people can act on. That included a stint as a senior adviser at the Association of British Insurers. He carries the sector context that keeps a build grounded in how insurance and financial-services operations actually work, plus the discipline of briefing executives who measure their attention in minutes. On an engagement he leads stakeholder strategy and makes sure the external story lines up with what we’re building, whether the audience is a board, a regulator or a market.

Cho is the studio’s applied-AI engineering edge. He holds two patents in practical AI and has won multiple competitive AI awards, including a $100,000 global build competition. He is the youngest sessional lecturer ever promoted in the Department of Computer & Mathematical Sciences at the University of Toronto. His build capability runs through XY Space, the award-winning partner studio that gives North Stack senior delivery capacity the moment a build needs more hands.

He’s the answer to the obvious question: how does a five-person studio ship enterprise-grade software? The surge model is the trick. North Stack scopes and governs, then Cho’s XY Space team turns a scored workflow into governed, working systems on demand. You get the focus of a small studio with the throughput of a much larger one, and you never pay for a bench sitting idle between projects.

Kasra is a qualified doctor with over eight years of frontline clinical experience, and he’s contributed to MedTech work on AI-assisted healthcare data analysis and clinical decision support. He brings the practitioner’s understanding of clinical workflows and healthcare data that keeps our healthcare-admin work grounded in real practice rather than a flowchart.

He sits on a regulated-ops bench for a reason that has nothing to do with healthcare alone. The clinical instinct is the same instinct that governs every build we ship: a high-stakes decision keeps a human in the loop, you design for the failure mode, you never let the tool make the final call. Kasra is the living proof that “human-in-the-loop” is a reflex here, not a slogan. It’s a doctor’s caution, turned into governance.