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Your Technology, Fully Managed.
From enterprise AI and open-source deployments to custom software and our own products, all deployed, secured, and managed in your environment. No DevOps team required.
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400+ open-source tools · Any cloud or on-premise · 24/7 monitoring & support
One company.
Four ways to move faster.
Most firms consult or host or build. Tech Citadels does all three, so strategy, execution, and operations stay under one roof.
Managed DevOps
Platform
Deploy 400+ open-source databases, applications, AI models, and DevOps tools on any cloud in minutes. We handle setup, security, backups, updates, and monitoring.
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Enterprise AI
A governed AI platform your whole organization can use: a chat interface at the front, model routing at the core, and MCP integrations to the systems you already run, all in your environment.
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Services
A full professional services practice: advisory, enterprise AI, custom software, PoC & MVP builds, cybersecurity, and managed operations. We advise, we build, we run.
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Products
We are a product company too. Discover the software we design, build, and operate ourselves, and what is launching next from Tech Citadels Labs.
View productsThe AI Delivery Gap
A $400B company proved the model.
We're delivering it to everyone else.
One of the most valuable companies in the world has a single job: putting AI inside businesses, but it only does that for the largest enterprises, in a handful of markets. That leaves the 400 million small and medium businesses that make up most of the world economy on their own: the dentists, the law firms, the contractors, from Lagos to London to Singapore. Nearly all of them plan to spend on AI. Almost none have anyone to actually deliver it.
Somebody has to deliver it. That's our job.
400M+
small & medium businesses worldwide
around 90% of all businesses globally (World Bank)
<1 in 5
run AI anywhere in their operations
U.S. Census Bureau, BTOS 2026
96%
plan to adopt emerging tech like AI
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 2025
73%
say they need help implementing AI
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses
Sources: World Bank / IFC MSME data for global business counts. The three adoption figures are U.S. data (Census Bureau BTOS; U.S. Chamber of Commerce Empowering Small Business Report; Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses) and are indicative of the same delivery gap in other markets.
Professional Services
A professional services company that builds what it recommends
Tech Citadels is, at its core, a professional services firm: assessments, strategy, implementation, and managed operations. The difference: our consultants are engineers, so advice turns into working software, not slide decks.
Advise
Assessments, strategy, and roadmaps, grounded in what is actually buildable.
Build
Forward deployed engineers implement, integrate, and ship in your environment.
Run
Managed operations, support, and continuous improvement after go-live.
Enterprise AI Deployment
A private AI assistant as capable as the consumer tools your staff already use. We deploy a private assistant into your environment with MCP integrations to your databases, CRMs, and internal tools, with your SSO and your branding.
- Private assistant deployment
- MCP server design & integration
- SSO, RAG & custom agents
Managed Cloud & DevOps
We run your infrastructure end-to-end: provisioning, CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, and cost optimization across any cloud or on-premise.
- Cloud architecture & migration
- CI/CD pipelines & automation
- 24/7 operations & incident response
Custom Software Development
From MVP to scale: web platforms, mobile apps, APIs, and integrations built by the same engineers who will run them in production.
- Web & mobile applications
- API design & integrations
- Monolith to microservices
PoC, MVP & Production Builds
Validate before you invest. We take your product idea from concept to a working proof-of-concept or MVP in weeks. Real software in real users' hands, ready to scale or raise on.
- Proof-of-concept in weeks
- MVP scoping & rapid builds
- Same team through to production
Application Modernisation
Break the system your business runs on into pieces that can be changed safely. Monolith to microservices along real domain seams, micro-frontends so teams stop blocking each other, and an API-first layer that lets new work start before the old core is gone.
- Monolith decomposition
- Micro-frontends
- Strangler-fig migration
AI Retrofit & RAG Engineering
Add retrieval and generation to software you already run. Embeddings over your own records, retrieval placed inside the product where the work happens, and evaluation so you can tell whether the answers are right.
- Embeddings and vector stores
- Retrieval inside your product
- Evaluation and guardrails
Digital Transformation & IT Consulting
Consulting-grade strategy without the consulting-grade overhead. Technology roadmaps, cloud strategy, and process modernization.
- Technology strategy & roadmaps
- Cloud adoption & FinOps
- Systems audit & rationalization
Cybersecurity & Compliance
Security baked in, not bolted on. Hardening, audits, and compliance programs aligned to the regimes your markets require: ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA and local data-protection law.
- Security audits & hardening
- Compliance programs (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR)
- Managed detection & response
Data & AI Solutions
Production-ready AI, not demos. We deploy and manage AI models, data platforms, and automation pipelines on infrastructure you control.
- AI model deployment & hosting
- Data platforms & pipelines
- Workflow automation
Forward Deployed Engineering
The delivery model proven on the largest enterprise deployments, sized for your business. Our engineers embed with your team and ship inside your environment, learning your data, your workflows, and your constraints, then building what actually gets used.
- Embedded engineers, not handoffs
- Rapid prototyping to production
- Enterprise-grade, SMB-friendly
Adoption & Enablement
Getting the thing used once it is live: training on your own data and workflows, redesigning the steps around it, support while people decide whether to trust it, and champions inside the business who keep it going.
- Training on real workflows
- Process and ownership redesign
- Post go-live support & champions
Talent Placement
Engineers and designers placed into your team, embedded, on contract, permanently, or as a managed squad. Candidates are assessed by practitioners in their own discipline rather than by keyword matching.
- Embedded & contract placement
- Permanent placement
- Managed squads
Digital Presence & Search
How you appear when someone searches your name, whether you are a business, a nonprofit, or an individual. We set up and manage your Google Business Profile, put structured data on your site, and keep the public record about you consistent, which is what Google's Knowledge Graph reads when it decides what to show. Google decides what appears; we make sure everything it reads is right.
- Google Business Profile setup & management
- Structured data & entity signals on your site
- Personal presence for founders, professionals & public figures
Nonprofit & Church Technology
Donated and discounted software for nonprofits and churches, claimed, set up properly and cared for after launch: verification, licensing, migration, training and a monthly care plan.
- Eligibility & verification
- Licensing & setup
- Ongoing care
Not sure what you need?
Tell us the problem. We'll tell you honestly whether it needs our platform, our services, or neither.
Adoption
Deployed is not the same as used
Most AI projects fail after go-live rather than during it: the platform runs, and people carry on working the way they did before. Tech Citadels Solutions treats adoption as part of delivery, not as a training day bolted on at the end.
Training and enablement
Sessions run for the people who will actually use the thing, on their own data and their own workflows rather than a generic demo. Written material they keep, aimed at fluency rather than a certificate.
Changing how the work runs
A tool dropped into an unchanged process usually gets used as a faster version of the old thing. Working out which steps disappear, which judgements stay human, and who owns the result is most of the value.
Support after go-live
Somewhere to take a question in the weeks when people are still deciding whether to trust it. The same engineers who built it answer, so the fix reaches the platform rather than only the person who asked.
Champions who stay
Early adopters inside the business who understand the system well enough to help colleagues and to tell us what is not working. The point of an engagement is that it keeps running once we are not in the room.
Application Modernisation
Modernise what you
already run
Most businesses do not need a rewrite. They need the system they depend on broken into pieces that can be changed safely, and the AI capability their competitors are shipping added to it. Tech Citadels Solutions decomposes monoliths along domain seams, migrates front ends to independently deployable slices, and retrofits retrieval-augmented generation into software already in production.
Monolith to services
We map the domains inside your application first, then carve along those seams. Services come out one at a time, each with its own data and its own deploy, while the monolith keeps serving traffic.
- Domain and dependency mapping
- Strangler-fig migration
- Per-service data ownership
Micro-frontends
One front end that three teams fight over becomes independently deployable slices, each owned end to end. Shared design system, shared shell, separate release trains.
- Module federation or import maps
- Shared shell and design system
- Independent release per team
API-first refactor
Contracts before code. We put a versioned API in front of the legacy core so new work can be built against a stable interface while the old internals are replaced underneath.
- Contract-first design
- Anti-corruption layer
- Versioning and deprecation policy
AI retrofit
Retrieval and generation inside the software you already run, not a chatbot bolted beside it. Embeddings over your own records, retrieval in the product where the work happens, and evaluation so you know it is right.
- Embeddings over your data
- Retrieval inside your product
- Evaluation and guardrails
Nothing stops
The system stays live throughout. Traffic moves across a piece at a time, and every step is reversible.
Your team ships it with us
Forward deployed engineers work in your repository, on your pull requests, so the knowledge stays when we leave.
Nonprofits & Churches
Nonprofit & Church Technology
Donated and discounted software, set up properly and cared for after launch.
Microsoft, Google, Canva, Zoom, Adobe and others give nonprofits and churches free or heavily discounted software worth thousands of dollars a year. Most of it goes unclaimed, or gets claimed and never used, because getting verified, licensed, migrated and trained takes time that ministries and small nonprofits don't have.
Tech Citadels does that work. We confirm what your organization qualifies for, get you verified with TechSoup and Goodstack, secure the software, build your email, website, streaming, giving and AI tools on top of it, and then stay on as your technology team.
Built with ministry in mind. We understand church budgets, volunteer teams and board accountability. We also work with organizations in the United States, Nigeria and the wider diaspora, and we know how the programs differ by country.
1. Eligibility & verification
We confirm which programs your organization qualifies for in your country and get you verified with TechSoup and Goodstack, the two organizations most vendors use to check nonprofit status.
2. Licensing & setup
We secure the donated and discounted licenses in your organization's name (you own them, always), then set up Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, your website, streaming, giving platform and AI tools, and train the people who will use them.
3. Ongoing care
A fixed monthly plan sized for church and small-nonprofit budgets: support, updates, security, and a quarterly review of what your programs are saving you.
Products
We don't just advise. We build.
Tech Citadels is a product company. Alongside client work we design, build and operate our own platforms, most of them for public institutions, where multi-tenancy means one deployment serves many jurisdictions rather than one build for each.
OneState
A multi-tenant platform for digital government. One deployment serves many states, each with its own data, services and citizens, so a government gets its own system without paying for a separate build.
Learn moreVerity
Civil registry and certificate verification. It replaces paper registers and cash payments, issues certificates that are cryptographically signed and verify by QR, and gives embassies, banks and immigration a public check that reveals nothing it does not have to.
Learn morePAWS
Parliamentary Automated Workflow Systems. Bills, orders and committee business for every tier of a legislature, from national chambers to state assemblies and local councils, with a portal so citizens can follow the same record.
Learn moreeCaseX
Judicial e-filing and case management. A filer submits to any state from one front end, while each judiciary sees only its own matters: separate databases, separate storage and separate credentials, enforced at the infrastructure boundary rather than in application code.
Learn moreCitadel Cloud Console
Our own managed-services console: deploy, monitor, back up, and scale open-source stacks across clouds from one dashboard.
Learn moreTech Citadels Labs
Where we experiment with what's next: new products, open-source contributions, and internal tools that sometimes graduate into offerings for our clients.
400+
Open-source tools managed
SLO-led
Targets agreed per environment
24/7
Monitoring & support
<3 min
Average deployment time
Why Tech Citadels
A citadel for your technology
A citadel is a fortress, the stronghold that protects what matters most. That's how we think about your technology: something to be built well, defended properly, and run reliably for the long term. Tech Citadels Solutions designs, builds and operates that technology as one team, on infrastructure the client owns rather than a vendor tenancy.
We combine the managed-platform convenience of a modern DevOps company, the breadth of a consultancy, and the conviction of a product company, so you get one accountable partner instead of three vendors.
And we work as forward deployed engineers, embedding with your team and shipping inside your environment, rather than advising from a distance and handing over a report.
Build-and-run under one roof
The team that designs your system is the team that operates it. No handoffs, no finger-pointing, no gaps.
Humans who answer
Real engineers on support, not ticket deflection. Our clients stay for the support as much as the platform.
Product-company discipline
We ship and operate our own products, so we bring an operator's mindset to every client engagement.
Open-source friendly
We believe in a healthy open-source ecosystem and build on tools you can inspect, audit, and own.
Questions
Straight answers
What people ask before the first call, answered without the sales pitch.
- What does Tech Citadels Solutions do?
- Tech Citadels Solutions is a professional services firm that advises, builds and runs. It deploys private enterprise AI platforms, manages open-source infrastructure, modernises existing applications, and builds custom software. The distinguishing choice is that everything runs in infrastructure the client owns rather than a vendor tenancy.
- Where does the software run?
- In the client environment. Tech Citadels deploys into the cloud account or datacentre the client already owns, never into a Tech Citadels tenancy, so the client keeps custody of their data, their infrastructure and their model traffic.
- Which clouds are supported?
- AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, OpenShift, and the client's own datacentre. Workloads can be placed in any region, which matters where data residency is a requirement rather than a preference.
- What is in the enterprise AI platform?
- A chat interface for staff to use, model routing at the core, and MCP servers connecting the platform to the databases, CRMs, file stores and internal tools the business already runs. It uses the client's existing SSO and carries their branding.
- Which AI models can be used?
- Any commercial provider, plus local models running on the client's own hardware. Routing is per task, so a cheaper model handles routine work and a stronger one handles the rest, with automatic fallback when a provider fails.
- How many open-source tools can be deployed?
- More than 400, spanning databases, applications, AI models and DevOps tooling. Each is deployed hardened, backed up, monitored and kept updated, with 24/7 on-call behind it.
- Does Tech Citadels work outside the United States and Nigeria?
- Yes. Tech Citadels Solutions serves clients worldwide and deploys in any region. The United States and Nigeria are where most engagements start, and everything is remote-first, with forward deployed engineers embedded alongside the client team.
- How do you decide whether a piece of work is worth building?
- By measuring the current process before anything is built: time spent, volume, error and rework rates, and what it costs to run today. What would count as success is agreed and written down in advance, including what would show the idea was wrong. After go-live the same measurements are taken again and compared with what was expected, alongside what the platform costs to run per workload, and work that did not pay for itself is reported as such and stopped.
- What happens after the platform goes live?
- Adoption is treated as part of delivery rather than a training day at the end. That means sessions run on the client's own data and workflows, working out which process steps change and who owns the result, support from the engineers who built it while people decide whether to trust it, and champions inside the business who keep it running after the engagement ends.
- How does an engagement start?
- With a conversation rather than a quote. An engineer, not a sales representative, responds to the first enquiry, and the opening step is a scoping consultation that establishes what the client already runs and what needs to change.
- Does Tech Citadels place engineers and designers into client teams?
- Yes. People are placed four ways: embedded on a client project, on contract as staff augmentation, permanently onto the client payroll, or as a managed squad run by Tech Citadels against agreed outcomes. The disciplines are backend and DevOps, full-stack, data and AI, security, and UX and product design, and candidates are assessed by practitioners in their own discipline rather than by keyword matching.
- Does Tech Citadels work with nonprofits and churches?
- Yes. Tech Citadels confirms which donated and discounted technology programs an organisation qualifies for, gets it verified with TechSoup and Goodstack, sets up the software in the organisation's own name, and stays on as its technology team. See /nonprofits.
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