Consultancy on demand
A bench of senior operators across finance, blockchain, agriculture, engineering and product, working from Morocco, France, Spain, Belgium and China. You brief us on the problem. We put two to six people on it who have solved that exact problem before.
What we do
We assemble a small squad around one problem and take it apart when the outcome lands. Nobody stays on an engagement to protect a utilisation number.
01 / Finance
Core banking replacements and treasury automation, on balance sheets where the regulator gets a vote.
02 / Blockchain
On-chain architecture and contract review. Most of this work is tokenised real-world assets rather than anything speculative.
03 / Engineering
Full-stack squads that work inside your repositories, your standups and your release process. Not alongside them.
04 / Data & AI
Warehouse through to shipped feature. We build evaluations before we build models, which slows the first month and saves the sixth.
05 / Agritech
Traceability and yield systems for producers and aggregators, usually where connectivity is the hard constraint.
06 / Security
Penetration testing, identity overhauls, SOC 2 readiness. Aimed at teams who cannot pause shipping to do it.
07 / Cloud
Landing zones and platform engineering on AWS, Azure, GCP or a sovereign cloud if the data cannot leave the country.
08 / Strategy
Roadmaps written to survive a board meeting, and the embedded programme office that keeps them honest afterwards.
09 / Design
Discovery through rollout. Service design when the problem turns out to be the process rather than the interface.
Sectors
Each practice is led by a partner who spent years inside the industry before joining the bench. That is the whole reason the diagnosis phase takes a week rather than a quarter.
Retail, corporate and Islamic finance. Treasury operations.
Exchanges, payments rails, tokenised assets, stablecoins.
Proptech platforms, digital leasing, fractional ownership.
Cooperatives, provenance tracking, precision farming.
Port operations, fleet, last mile, customs digitisation.
Citizen portals, digital identity, tax platforms.
Omnichannel, loyalty schemes, merchandising, point of sale.
Grid analytics, renewables operations, smart metering.
How we engage
No ninety-day discovery report. We diagnose in a week, prove it in three, and you decide at that point whether there is a second month.
A week on site. We map the problem, the politics around it, and whatever the real measure of success turns out to be. It is rarely the one in the brief.
We compose the squad from the bench. Two to six people, chosen for domain fit before stack fit. You meet all of them before anyone starts.
A three-week sprint against one measurable outcome. If it does not move, you do not extend, and you owe nothing beyond the sprint.
We hand to your team, stay embedded, or step back to a fractional arrangement. Reviewed every quarter, cancellable at each review.
The firm
Our consultants live in five countries and take work worldwide. On most engagements that means someone senior is already in your timezone, already holds the right to work where you are, and does not need a visa to attend the kick-off.
Selected work
Happy to walk through the unredacted version on a call, under a mutual NDA. That tends to be a more useful conversation than this page is.
A fourteen-year-old COBOL core, retired in stages behind an event-sourced platform running in parallel. End-of-day reconciliation went from an overnight job to something the desk watches finish. The constraint throughout was the central bank's reporting schedule, which does not move for anyone.
Provenance recorded on-chain at the point of pressing, captured through an Arabic-first mobile app built for intermittent connectivity. The commercial point was never the ledger. It was meeting the evidence standard EU buyers now ask for before they will open an account.
We designed the custody model, the compliance perimeter and the on and off ramps, then shipped v1. The interesting problem was never the transfer. It was proving to a compliance officer that the transfer could be unwound.
Who we are
Founded in Marrakech in 2019 by a group of ex-bank, ex-practice and ex-founder operators who had sat on the client side of too many engagements that arrived as a deck and left as a deck.
We stayed small on purpose. A partner leads every engagement and the people who show up are the people you interviewed. There is no pyramid underneath them, which is also why we turn work down more often than we would like to.
The office is in Marrakech. The bench is not. Our consultants are based across Morocco, France, Spain, Belgium and China, and they join an engagement from wherever the work actually needs them.
The Avolship bench
Morocco · France · Spain · Belgium · China
Start a conversation
One email and one twenty-minute call is usually enough for us to say whether we are the right firm. If we are not, we will point you at whoever is.
Prefer email? contact@avolship.com