Most software for financial and legal services is specified by people who have never had to operate a compliance procedure, defend one to a regulator, or build a case file that must stand up to scrutiny. We have — and that experience is the foundation of our development work.
Bushido Support Services CIC designs and develops business software for the financial services market, sold and delivered B2B. Because we audit compliance procedures for a living, we build tools where compliant process is embedded in the design rather than bolted on afterwards.
We also build bespoke, boutique software for legal services — small-batch systems crafted for individual practices rather than off-the-shelf products stretched to fit.
Development and consultancy
Custom development
Bespoke business software for financial services firms — built around your actual workflows, with the record-keeping, audit trails and checks that compliance requires designed in from the first line of code.
Specification & requirements
We turn compliance obligations into precise, testable software requirements — itemised specifications that developers can build against and firms can verify delivery against, line by line.
System review
An independent review of software you already use or are being sold: does it actually support the compliance procedures your firm relies on, or does it just claim to? We report in plain terms.
Compliance by design
Advisory input to your own development teams — helping them understand what a procedure must evidence, so systems produce the audit trail a regulator or ombudsman will one day ask for.
Bespoke, boutique — built for one practice at a time
Off-the-shelf legal software forces a practice to work the way the product does. We do the opposite: we sit with how your practice actually runs — matters, evidence, deadlines, correspondence, client care obligations — and build a system shaped precisely to it.
Our background is directly relevant. Much of our compliance work involves assembling case files, evidence bundles and timelines that must withstand examination by institutions, regulators and ombudsmen. Software we build for legal services carries that same discipline: complete audit trails, dated records, and nothing important living only in someone’s inbox.
Boutique means exactly that — a small number of engagements taken at a time, each delivered against an itemised written specification and verified line by line before acceptance.
Itemised scope, verifiable delivery
Every development engagement starts with a written, itemised specification — a checklist of what will be built and how each item will be verified. Deliveries are reviewed against that checklist line by line before acceptance. It is the same discipline we apply when auditing compliance procedures, applied to software.
To discuss a financial services project, a legal services build, or a system review, contact us. If you’re looking for our compliance assurance audits, they’re here.