We started in general-purpose software. We kept hitting the same hard problems: privacy, integration, regulation, and people whose lives depend on the thing running. So we narrowed.
KDL started in general-purpose software, most of it for regulated industries. The hard part was rarely the code. It was building something that could survive an audit, an incident, or a regulation that landed mid-project.
A bug isn't a bug. It's a clinical event.
Healthcare made that the whole job, so we narrowed. Today, we build only for it, a sector where engineering rigor isn't optional.
Four practices that show up in every engagement.
Architecture review and regulatory mapping before code starts. We surface the unknowns now (integration gaps, compliance exposure, clinical context) instead of at audit time.
Healthcare software fails in expensive ways. Critical flows (patient identification, dosage calculation, eligibility checks) get coverage before they ship, not after the incident.
Decision logs, architecture records, and design files that survive personnel changes, yours and ours. The next engineer can pick it up without an oral tradition.
Handover happens over weeks, not in a single day. We bridge to your team with documentation, paired sessions, and a defined on-call window after launch.
Everyone on a call is on the project. No bait-and-switch after the contract is signed. The team you meet, in whatever mix of disciplines the work needs, is the team that builds it.
GDPR Article 25 by design. HIPAA architecture for US deployments. EU data residency available. Real artefacts you can hand to an auditor, not slides about how seriously we take it.
Not every project is healthcare-shaped, and not every problem suits our way of working. If we'd be the wrong team, we'll tell you up front and point you at someone better.
Tell us what you're working on. A patient-facing app, an integration project, or a regulatory shape we should know about.