Ballistae is the dedicated technical offering of an experienced UK team. We combine product engineering, applied AI, research depth and commercial judgement to build software that survives contact with the real business.
Ballistae exists to give growing companies access to a complete product capability without assembling a strategy firm, design agency, development supplier and support provider around one table.
Across the team, we bring decades of experience in software engineering, technology leadership and digital-product delivery, alongside intensive hands-on work with modern AI.
That experience spans coding, leading technical teams and taking products to market, supported by commercial strategy, AI and energy research, product leadership and board-level judgement. The result is a team able to understand why a product should exist, build it properly and help the business make it work.
A selection of the people shaping and delivering the work. Senior expertise stays close to every engagement from strategy through operation.
Piers is a serial entrepreneur, technology executive, and corporate strategist with twelve years in the energy industry. He has founded more than six investment-backed companies — across wireless communications, electronic document management, mobile communications, and industrial digitalisation — served as commercial CTO in three organisations, and delivered three successful exits.
View profile ↗Lu is an Associate Professor at Northumbria University and a Chartered Engineer, with a career dedicated to the role of AI in energy. She leads cross-disciplinary research on AI in energy systems and materials — spanning smart grids, energy storage, hydrogen, and batteries — with grid infrastructure and flexibility a particular area of expertise.
View profile ↗Anthony is a senior technology leader and platform-builder whose rare span runs from creative and product design through to applied AI and engineering — owning the full arc from product vision to scaled, in-production platforms. He has headed up technology functions and led the teams behind them, with an exacting command of user experience: turning complex, fast-moving data into interfaces users trust and act on with confidence.
View profile ↗We work as a product and technology partner: close enough to understand the business decisions, candid enough to challenge weak assumptions, and accountable enough to own the result.
Some clients will need a complete managed platform. Others will need us beside an existing team. The relationship can adapt, but the standard of thinking and delivery stays the same.
Tell us where work is slow, fragmented or harder than it should be. We will help you identify whether there is a worthwhile product to build.
