Foundation
$5,500
one-off
A working Python or Go framework you can build on.
- Full source code transferred
- Standard routing logic
- Written setup guide
The architecture of proof. Systems you own outright.
Axiom is a small engineering practice in New Zealand. We build three things: low-latency trading infrastructure, forensic investigations that hold up in court, and secure web platforms for firms handling sensitive material. You get the source code, the documentation, and the engineer who wrote it.
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Fixed scope, fixed priceQuoted in writing before any work starts. No hourly drift.
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You own the IPFull source code and copyright transfer on delivery. No licence, no lock-in.
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You talk to the engineerNo account managers. The person writing the code answers your email.
What we build
Three practices, one standard.
Most clients arrive with one problem in mind. Start with the practice that matches yours — each section explains what you get and what it costs.
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Trading infrastructure
For proprietary desks and family offices
Custom execution engines in Rust, Go and Python, plus gas-optimised smart contracts. Built when off-the-shelf bots are too slow, too opaque, or too risky to trust with your capital.
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Forensic investigation
For litigators, liquidators and recovery teams
We trace assets through New Zealand company, land and insolvency registries, map the relationships, and hand you a written statement of fact your lawyers can file.
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Secure web & data rooms
For law firms and corporate clients
Hand-built sites and access-controlled document portals. For firms whose material can’t sit in a template builder or a shared consumer cloud drive.
How it works — secure web and data rooms
Practice 01 · Trading systems
Execution you can read, audit and change.
Rented bots are a black box. You can’t see the routing logic, you can’t audit the risk checks, and if the vendor disappears or raises prices your strategy goes with them. On a fast market, a few hundred milliseconds of someone else’s API queue is the whole edge.
We write the client for you. Memory-safe Rust searchers and hand-written Yul contracts, submitted through private builder endpoints rather than the public mempool — so your intent isn’t broadcast before it lands.
- Full repository access from day one — not just a compiled binary
- Deployment runbook and a recorded walkthrough at handover
- 30 days of support after delivery, included in the quoted price
<5ms
Typical tick-to-trade, measured in-house
100%
Source code and IP transferred to you
Router telemetry
Sample data
Demo P&L
$14,850.75
Round trip
1.4 ms
Network
Mainnet
| Result | Pair | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Filled | WETH-USDC | +$12.45 |
| Filled | WBTC-USDT | +$45.10 |
| Reverted | LINK-WETH | -$2.30 |
| Filled | SOL-USDC | +$8.90 |
| Filled | ARB-USDT | +$5.20 |
This is a mock-up of the client’s monitoring view.
The rows are randomly generated to show the interface, not a record of
trading performance. Axiom does not publish returns and does not
guarantee any.
core_router.rs
Excerpt
// Submit through a private builder rather than the public mempool,
// so the bundle isn't visible to anyone else before it lands.
pub async fn execute_atomic_path(
state: &MempoolState,
target: TxHash,
) -> Result<Bundle> {
let flashloan = self.pool.flashloan(target)?;
let bribe = self.gas.calculate_optimal();
self.rpc.private_send(Bundle::new(flashloan, bribe))
}A representative excerpt. Your build is written against your strategy, your venues and your risk limits.
Practice 02 · Forensic investigation
IronHunter: following the money through NZ registries.
When a director winds up one company and quietly starts another, the trail is public — it’s just spread across the Companies Office, LINZ title records and the Gazette, in volumes no one can read by hand. We ingest all three, match the entities, and show you the shape of it.
What we search
- NZ Companies Office
- Directors, shareholders, nominees
- LINZ land records
- Title history and ownership changes
- NZ Gazette archives
- Liquidation and insolvency notices
Statement of fact
A written, sourced report your lawyers can put in front of a court.
Relationship map
An interactive diagram of entities, people and transfers.
We work from public registries and material you are lawfully entitled to hold. We don’t do surveillance, pretexting, or anything that would make the evidence inadmissible.
Make a confidential enquiry
Ingestion pipeline
Sample data
- 09:41:02NETConnected to LINZ data service
- 09:41:01SYSScanning NZ Gazette liquidation notices
- 09:41:00DBQuerying Companies Office director records
- 09:40:59MATCHShared registered office across 4 entities
- 09:40:58GRAPHOwnership path resolved, depth 5
- 09:40:57FLAGTitle transferred 11 days pre-liquidation
Illustrative output only. Real casework is confidential and never displayed here.
Practice 03 · Web & data rooms
Sites and portals for material that matters.
If your business handles client files, deal documents or evidence, a drag-and-drop site builder is the wrong tool. You inherit their trackers, their plugins and their breach history.
We hand-build the front end, deploy it to an edge network, and lock it down with a strict content security policy and real access control. Fast pages, clean audits, and no third-party scripts watching your visitors.
- Per-user document access with a full download audit trail
- WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility built in, not bolted on afterwards
- No analytics or advertising scripts unless you ask for them
Typical build
A marketing site, a client login, and a document area with expiring links and per-file permissions. Deployed to your own domain and hosting account, so you keep control of it.
- Edge deployment, sub-second first paint
- Strict CSP, hardened headers, no inline third parties
- Source code handed over on completion
How we work
Four steps. No surprises.
You will know the price, the scope and the delivery date before you commit to anything. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so on the first call.
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Scoping call
Twenty minutes, free, no obligation. You describe the problem; we tell you whether it’s something we should build, and roughly what it costs.
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Written proposal
Fixed scope, fixed price, a delivery date and what’s explicitly out of scope. Usually within two working days of the call.
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Build
Repository access from the first commit and a written update every week. You can see progress whenever you want, not just at the end.
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Handover
Source code, documentation, a deployment runbook and a live walkthrough. Then 30 days of support, included.
Selected work
What previous engagements looked like.
Client names, entity names and identifying details are withheld under NDA. The figures below are the outcomes reported to us by the instructing party.
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Custom arbitrage engine
99.2% capture efficiency
The desk was routing through a third-party API and losing roughly 12% of monthly alpha to queue latency. We replaced it with a bespoke Rust execution engine running against their own nodes, closing the gap between signal and submission.
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Phoenix company investigation
$84.5M frozen
A director wound up several liability-heavy companies and restarted under new names, moving capital into residential property through trustee structures and using a law firm’s address as the registered office. By matching insolvency notices against historical ownership records — including a deliberate split of assets between spouses — we reconstructed the chain across five layers and produced a filed evidence pack.
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Continuous registry monitoring
$240M+ network mapped
We built a monitoring service that reads government registries on a schedule and correlates liquidation notices against newly incorporated companies. Cross-referencing shared service addresses and director changes surfaced a connected network and flagged the assets for freezing orders.
Who you’re hiring
A small practice, on purpose.
Axiom is an independent engineering and investigation practice based in New Zealand. The work comes out of real forensic casework and real trading infrastructure, and it’s done by the people who write the code — there is no delivery team to hand you off to.
That sets a natural limit on how much we take on. We run a small number of engagements at a time and turn down work that isn’t a good fit, which is why the first call is a genuine conversation rather than a sales pitch.
Whether you’re tracing capital through layered company records or executing against a moving market, the advantage comes from owning the tooling rather than renting it.
Tom G
Founder & lead engineer
Pricing
Indicative prices, published up front.
These are starting points, not final quotes — your written proposal is fixed to your actual scope. Prices are in USD, excluding GST where applicable. Not sure which tier fits? Book the scoping call and we’ll tell you.
Advanced Engine
$12,500
one-off
A tuned execution client aimed at spread capture.
- Targeted at the venues you trade
- Dockerised, deploys anywhere
- Complete IP ownership
Pro Searcher
$28,500
one-off
Sub-millisecond Rust infrastructure, built to your strategy.
- Memory-safe Rust, no GC pauses
- Private RPC integration
- You own every line of it
Enterprise Node
$45,000
one-off
Hand-written Yul and assembly contract suite.
- Gas optimised at the opcode level
- Bypasses the Solidity compiler
- Independent verification pass
Sovereign
$115,000+
one-off, scoped individually
A complete institutional stack, transferred to you.
- Dark pool routing logic
- FPGA hardware integration
- Ongoing engineering partnership
Node Route
$450
per month
Entry-level access on shared execution nodes.
- Shared RPC access
- Monthly performance report
- Standard routing heuristics
Flash Arb
$950
per month
Flashloan-enabled routing with priority access.
- Priority RPC access
- Flashloan integration
- Aave and Compound support
MEV Search
$2,800
per month
A managed searcher node we monitor for you.
- Builder API access
- Front-running protection
- 24/7 monitoring with an SLA
Cross-Chain
$4,500
per month
Layer 2 arbitrage with bridge monitoring.
- Arbitrum and Base coverage
- Bridge delay handling
- Redundant RPC endpoints
Apex Omni
$8,500
per month
Dedicated hardware plus direct engineering time.
- Bare-metal dedicated node
- Scheduled consultation time
- Predictive modelling support
Asset Map
$1,250
per matter
A first pass to find out whether there’s anything to chase.
- NZ registry search across all three sources
- Written statement of fact
- Initial relationship diagram
Architecture Trace
$4,800
per matter
Full multi-layer trace through nominees and trusts.
- Interactive relationship map
- Evidence pack with sourced exhibits
- Domestic trust tracing
Litigation Support
$14,500+
per matter, scoped individually
Court-ready reconstruction with ongoing monitoring.
- Offshore entity mapping
- Expert witness support
- Continuous registry monitoring
Bespoke Site
$3,500
one-off
A fast, hand-built marketing site on your own domain.
- Edge network deployment
- Custom design system
- WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility
Corporate Platform
$9,500
one-off
Site plus a secure client portal and document area.
- Virtual data room with audit trail
- Encrypted storage and transit
- Per-user document permissions
Secure Vault
$18,500+
one-off, scoped individually
Isolated distribution for highly sensitive material.
- Zero-knowledge architecture
- Biometric or hardware-key access
- Independent security review
Clicking any of these opens an email with the tier already in the subject line. You’re not committing to anything — the next step is always the scoping call. We reply to enquiries within one working day, New Zealand time.
Questions
The things people ask before they email.
Do I actually own the code?
Yes, on the one-off builds. On delivery you get the full repository and a written assignment of copyright. There is no licence key, no phone-home, and nothing that stops you hiring another engineer to change it later.
The monthly lease tiers are different — there you’re paying for access to infrastructure we run and maintain, and the code stays with us. The pricing tabs above make it clear which is which.
Can you guarantee trading returns?
No, and anyone who does is lying to you. We build and hand over execution infrastructure. What it earns depends on your strategy, your capital, your venues and market conditions, none of which we control.
Axiom is not a licensed financial adviser, does not manage third-party capital, and does not give investment advice. The telemetry panel on this page is a user-interface mock-up running on random numbers, not a performance record.
Is the forensic work legal?
Yes. We work from public registries — the Companies Office, LINZ title records, the NZ Gazette — and from documents you are lawfully entitled to hold. We don’t do surveillance, we don’t use pretexting to obtain information, and we don’t access anything that would render the resulting evidence inadmissible.
Findings are delivered as a sourced statement of fact so your lawyers can put them in front of a court.
How long does a project take?
A forensic asset map is usually 5 to 10 working days. A website is 2 to 4 weeks. Trading infrastructure ranges from 3 weeks for a foundation build to several months for a full stack. Your written proposal names a specific date, not a range.
Will you sign an NDA?
Yes, before the scoping call if you’d prefer. Send yours over, or ask and we’ll send a mutual one. Client names and case details never appear on this site or anywhere else.
I’m not sure what I need. Is that a problem?
No — that’s most first calls. Describe the problem in plain terms and we’ll tell you what would solve it, roughly what it costs, and whether it’s worth doing at all. If it isn’t something we should build, we’ll say so and point you somewhere better.
How do payments work?
One-off builds are split 50% to start and 50% on delivery. Monthly tiers are invoiced in advance and can be cancelled with 30 days’ notice. Everything is quoted in writing before any work begins.
Get started
Start with a 20-minute call.
Tell us what you’re trying to solve. We’ll tell you whether we can help, what it would cost, and how long it would take. No pitch, no obligation.
Replies within one working day, New Zealand time. Happy to sign an NDA before you share anything sensitive — just say so in the first email.