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Site Reliability and software engineering leadership for large-scale, mission-critical systems - now delivered on one transparent platform. Describe your project; I review it myself, then either direct the agents that build it or build it by hand.

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Flavien Berwick
Flavien Berwick Defence & public sector
Sovereignty in mindSandboxed buildsPaid knowledge accessMCPBest security practices

01What I bring

Three things every engagement gets.

Technical leadership

Leading Site Reliability Engineering teams and projects, with expertise in building and operating large-scale, mission-critical infrastructures.

Digital transformation

Guiding organizations through technological evolution while fostering secure collaboration and continuous improvement.

Strategic vision

Translating complex technical concepts into actionable insights that align with organizational objectives - for C-level executives and military leadership alike.

02Services

How I can help you.

Having helped organizations across defence, start-ups and enterprises, here is what I do - and which door on the platform each one opens.

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Product & MVP engineering

A working product built by agents under my supervision, visible live from the first brief to the delivery.

  • Guided intake, honest estimate before any code
  • Live build, demo on a subdomain, code as pull requests
  • Senior structures and secure defaults from the first commit
Curated AI build
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Forward-deployed engineering

Embedded technical expertise for mission-critical deployments in secure and restricted environments.

  • On-site engineering support at operational sites
  • Air-gapped and disconnected environment deployment
  • Rapid capability delivery in austere conditions
Direct quote
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Secure infrastructure & DevSecOps

Hardened systems built with defence-grade security practices.

  • Air-gapped CI/CD pipeline architecture
  • Security accreditation support (RGS, SecNumCloud, international standards)
  • SLI/SLO monitoring for high-availability systems
Direct quote
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Sovereign cloud & sensitive systems

Strategic adoption of sovereign and government-certified cloud platforms.

  • Sovereign cloud migration (SecNumCloud, EUCS)
  • Kubernetes in restricted network environments
  • Multi-level security (MLS) architecture
Direct quote
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Defence SDLC & supply-chain security

A secure software development lifecycle for defence contractors, automated where it should be.

  • SBOM generation and supply-chain integrity
  • SAST/DAST in disconnected environments
  • Recurring checks run as scheduled Programs
Program
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Mission-critical programme support

Strategic technical advisory for complex defence transformations.

  • Technical due diligence for defence acquisitions
  • Architecture review for government contracts
  • Advisory, direct contract or subcontract
Direct quote

04Ways to work with me

Three ways to work with me. One standard.

Curated AI · on the platform

On the platform

Describe the project in a short guided intake. I scope it, set the guardrails and direct the agents that build it - with everything they do visible to you on one page: the thread, the live build, the demo, the pull requests.

youcan we ship the CSV export first?agentplan ready - awaiting review
  • Reviewed and estimated by me before a single line is written.
  • The agent works inside my knowledge base and senior project structures (OCPA), CVE- and threat-model-aware from the first commit.
  • Watch the build, open the demo, merge the pull request - all from the project page.
  • Faster and more affordable because of how it is made - not because less care goes in.

Best for putting a serious MVP in front of users in days, with senior oversight built in.

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Curated AI · MCP

From your own coding agent

Point Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or any MCP client at my server and work with me without leaving your terminal: my knowledge base, my read of your codebase and my build pipeline become tools your agent can call.

mcphttps://mcp.berwick.ai/mcp✓connectedproject token▸delegate_development "add CSV export" → PR #4
  • search_knowledge - a cited answer from my knowledge base, built over years of sovereign-AI and infrastructure consulting, on your project's own model.
  • consult_codebase - my agent reads your repositories and answers to my standards; nothing edited, nothing pushed.
  • delegate_development - hand over a piece of work; it comes back as a pull request through the same pipeline, guardrails included.
  • Knowledge queries are counted, not recorded: how many and what they cost, never the question or the answer.

Best for teams who already live in a coding agent and want my knowledge and my pipeline one tool call away.

Connect your coding agent
Flavien Berwick Manual quote (the traditional way)

Direct quote

Some work should be done by hand. Describe it, I review it personally and return a bespoke quote - classic senior consulting, tracked on the same platform with the same visibility: live status, one secure thread, full history.

Best for heavier or more sensitive work that calls for my hands rather than an agent's.

  • Air-gapped systems and other constrained environments.
  • Infrastructure refactoring, migration, and deep architecture work.
  • Defence, government, and regulated programmes.
  • Production review and deployment of what the agents built.
Request a direct quote

Not sure which fits - submit it as a direct quote, it costs nothing and I will tell you honestly if the AI-curated path would serve you better.

05Projects

No black box. No "any update?" emails.

A project is your idea becoming software - one secure workspace where you always know where it stands.

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Live status, end to end

✓ Review✓ Estimate● Build

Every move lands on your dashboard and in your inbox.

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One secure thread

youcan we add CSV export?agenton it - building now

You, Flavien, and the agent - one immutable history.

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Watch the build itself

▸writing api/export.py✓demo live - password-protected

Live logs, then a demo on its own subdomain.

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The code, in front of you

#4Contact CSV export+412−18

Pull requests on your GitHub. You merge, you approve.

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Costs you can see moving

1,284 / ~1,500 credits

Estimate first, metered live, prepaid credits.

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Secrets handled like secrets

STRIPE_KEY••••••••encrypted

Sandbox-only - never demos, never logs.

06Programs

Automations you add, not projects you brief.

Programs are small automations Flavien builds and operates: pick one from the catalog, fill in its inputs, and run it on demand or on a schedule.

Curated cybersecurity news

Runs on a schedule

News filtered through Flavien's own conditions and knowledge, ingested straight into your database.

every morning · webhook to your API

Weekly CVE digest

Runs on a schedule

The week's CVEs relevant to your stack, summarized and delivered where you want them.

mondays 07:00 · webhook

Repo health report

Runs on demand

Connects to your repository with its own SSH key and produces a maintainability report.

on demand · ssh deploy key

Curated cybersecurity news run #218 · schedule succeeded

▸ schedule fired - daily 07:00

▸ sandbox built - nothing on your side

▸ reading 6 sources

▸ applying Flavien's filters

✓ 9 stories kept, 131 dropped

⇣ output/news.json · 12.4 KB

⇡ POST yourco.api/hooks/news → 200 OK

◇ billed 8 credits

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07How the Curated AI MVP works

From an idea to a live demo, in full view.

This is the Curated AI path. A human decides what gets built; the agent does the building; you see everything in between. (Prefer a bespoke quote? See the direct-quote option.)

  1. 01

    Describe your project You

    Plain language, short guided intake - no spec document.

  2. 02

    Curated review Flavien

    Feasibility, scope, honest estimate - before any code.

  3. 03

    The agent builds, you watch The agent

    Sandboxed build, senior structures (OCPA), progress streamed live.

  4. 04

    Live demo on a subdomain You

    Read the code, request changes, chat - one project page.

  5. 05

    Production, when you are ready Flavien

    Manual production review and deployment - quoted separately.

08Pricing

Transparent on both paths.

No subscriptions, no surprise invoices, no meter you cannot see. The Curated AI MVP runs on prepaid credits metered in real time; a Direct quote is priced by Flavien after he reviews your request - with no upfront charge to submit it.

1 credit = €1 · prepaid

Curated AI MVP

Credits are spent as the agent works - model usage, builds, and demo hosting. You see the estimate before anything starts and the consumption live as it runs. You pay for the work actually done, not a padded day rate.

Custom quote · no upfront charge

Direct quote

Bespoke engagements - air-gapped systems, infrastructure work, regulated programmes, or a production deployment - are scoped and quoted by Flavien after review, with the same rigour as a berwick.io engagement. Submitting a request is free.

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09Sovereignty & trust

Built with defence-grade discipline.

berwick.ai comes out of berwick.io - my consultancy focused on sovereign AI and cloud infrastructure for defence and government. The same standards shape how the agent builds and how your data is handled.

  • EU sovereign hosting. Deployable on EU sovereign clouds, keeping your project and its data within European jurisdiction.
  • SecNumCloud-aware. Practices aligned with SecNumCloud expectations for sensitive workloads and regulated sectors.
  • Sandboxed by design. Generated code runs in an isolated, hardened sandbox. Secrets are never exposed to the demo environment.
  • Senior structures & CVE awareness. OCPA project structure, threat-model defaults, and dependency vetting are applied from the first commit - not bolted on later.

10About

Spreading reliability across Europe and North America.

As a Site Reliability and Software Engineering leader, I combine deep software engineering expertise with a proven track record in building and operating reliable, large-scale and mission-critical infrastructures.

My experience spans Europe and North America, where I have guided organizations through digital transformation by fostering a culture of continuous improvement and secure collaboration. I translate complex technical concepts into strategic insights for C-level executives and military leadership, so technology initiatives stay aligned with organizational goals.

Beyond operational roles, I contribute through published books on technology and leadership, Medium articles and open-source projects on GitHub. Drawing from a decade of entrepreneurial experience in product development and team leadership, I now help organizations optimize their technical operations through Berwick IT - and through this platform.

Start a project you can actually follow.

Describe what you want to build. Flavien reviews it himself, and from that moment you will always know what happens next - whether agents he curates build it, or he does. One account covers both paths.

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