Everything around the code
AI coding tools have made it far easier for investment firms to build their own software. A small internal team can now produce a working application in weeks. But writing the code was never the hard part. In-house projects usually fail on everything around the code: requirements that were never fully defined, testing that never reached the people who will use the system every day, and a rollout handed to a team that is already stretched. The result is an application that works in a demo and sits unused in practice.
I help firms bring the missing disciplines to in-house development. I translate how the team actually works into clear requirements, run structured testing with the people who will depend on the system, and plan the rollout, training, and ownership that turn a working application into one the team adopts.