Stillness · research app
Breathe with the light.
An open research app exploring slow breathing through light and sound. Try the experience and read the evidence behind it.
Hyperdrift · independent engineering
The studio behind Orchestra.
Orchestra helps founders reach customers and build what their business needs next. We bring customer insight, distribution and AI engineering to one agreed opportunity.
The people behind Hyperdrift
A team in your corner.
Hyperdrift brings together founders, partners and AI agents. Yann leads the engineering; our partners bring their knowledge of the people they serve.
Yann’s client engagements include Everything and VodafoneThree. The VodafoneThree engagement was delivered through Tecknuovo.
Meet our venture partnersFree tools from Hyperdrift
A little room to breathe.
GreenLife · daily practice
Start with what you have.
One small action toward a simpler life. A free, independent project built around everyday participation.
The studio, opened up
Look closer.
Client work & engineeringThe experience behind the offer
Selected client engagements and our own integrations. Each example names the work it represents.
Deputy Workforce Operations MCP
A read-only MCP prototype for Deputy workforce workflows, exercised with fixture data through local and authenticated remote transports.
Deputy Workforce Operations MCP
Public source and fixture runs make the workflow behaviour inspectable. They do not establish completion of a live workforce task or independent customer adoption.
MCP · TypeScript · OAuth 2.0 · Streamable HTTP · Deputy API
Everything
Maintained and evolved an advanced microservice AWS stack and back-office surface as a contributing founding engineer.
Everything
Kept a multi-service production platform shipping reliably while extending the back-office workflows the team depended on day to day.
AWS · Microservices · Node.js / TypeScript · Back-office tooling
Institutional trading platform
WebSocket server (Python/Tornado) and AWS infrastructure for sub-second transaction and position updates across institutional channels.
Institutional trading platform
Sub-second updates serving institutions with multi-billion-dollar aggregate AUM.
Python/Tornado · WebSockets · AWS ECS · Lambda · Terraform · React/TypeScript
Intelligence platform
3.5-year consultancy: migrated platform from Angular 2 to React/Redux/Redux Saga; scaled AWS ECS with Terraform and Wercker CI/CD at weekly release cadence.
Intelligence platform
Sustained weekly releases during peak delivery on a multi-service AWS ECS estate.
React · Redux Saga · Node.js · AWS ECS · Terraform · Wercker
An integration you can inspect
CV feedback, inside your assistant.
We made NextRole available to compatible AI assistants, so CV feedback can stay in the conversation.
See the feedback
The task
Compare a backend engineer’s CV with a role requiring Python and SQL query optimisation.
From the recorded response
“The query optimisation bullet is quantified (12s to 3s) and covers the required SQL query optimisation skill.”
Live MCP call, 4 October 2026, using fictional inputs. This demonstrates the integration; customer adoption and hiring outcomes were not measured.
View the full test recordPartner venturesBuilding with other founders
Different founders, different ambitions. We build the technology together.
Products we runBuilt for ourselves first
Our own products, each an answer to a problem we had. Open one to see it running.
GreenLife
A daily nudge towards a simple life, lighter on the Earth. Start with what you already have.
GreenLife
Read today's idea, keep a favourite and pass it on. GreenLife is free, independent and open to your contributions. Add it to your Home Screen; choose a daily notification if you'd like one.
Next Role
Know your score before you send. Next Role shapes your story for the role, then shows what to strengthen.
Next Role
Next Role tailors, critiques, and refines your CV against the role in front of you so your capability is finally communicated clearly.
Intel
Tech, AI, and crypto briefings for builders who need to see the shift before it is obvious.
Intel
Intel reads today's sources, scores each for objectivity, and shows how the story has been building — so you never read the same thing twice.
Capital Engine
DeFi yield ranked by capital efficiency, not raw APY. Connect a wallet with a passkey — no seed phrase, no extension.
Capital Engine
Capital Engine ranks every opportunity by a real signal: yield × safety × liquidity depth. One score cuts through protocol noise and shows where your capital belongs.
Experiments & open sourceSmall proofs, with the code to inspect
Working experiments we learn from before bringing an idea into a product.
Stillness
An open research app exploring slow breathing through light and sound.
Stillness
Try the breathing experience, read the source studies and inspect the code. Stillness itself has not been clinically validated.
own-stack
Server-rendered React without Next.js — five dependencies, types across the wire with no tRPC, and pure semantic CSS. A stack you assemble, not one you move into.
own-stack
Waku RSC + typed server functions + a Better Auth frontier, colour-coded by execution boundary: cyan runs on the server, amber is the only JavaScript that ships.
CLI meets UI
A log investigation UI with a command palette, vim navigation, and a chart that filters the table — zero clicks for the full workflow.
CLI meets UI
Built to show that browser-based developer tools can match terminal speed. ⌘K for everything, URL-synced state, installable as a PWA.
Field notesWhat we’re learning, in public
Orchestra
Count the effort it takes to finish.
Is UI holding us back?Hyperdrift
A simpler life can start with something you already have.
GreenLife is back. Start with what you have.Orchestra
Dashboards wait to be read. A first officer reports.
The dashboard that speaks firstOrchestra
Choose around relationships and write boundaries; JSON alone does not choose your database.
Lakebase vs MongoDB and Cosmos DB: which approach fits?Orchestra
Useful delegation gives an agent a job, a boundary and a way to prove completion.
AI agent permissions: how much authority should you delegate?Hyperdrift
The bottleneck moves; it doesn't disappear.
Hyperdrift Turns One: From Hands on the Keyboard to a Crew at the WheelHyperdrift
When the primitives are stable, agents assemble.
We Need Better Tools for Orchestrated DevelopmentHyperdrift
There is no better place. There is no better time. This is it.
A Manifesto
Work with Orchestra
Put this experience to work.
Send us your product and who you want to reach. We’ll reply with a useful first step to discuss, then agree the work and how to judge its value.