Technology Partner · Product Development

The technology team behind Fintech, Blockchain & AI platforms that scale.

Smart Alpha builds and operates the trading infrastructure, back-office automation and AI-powered analytics that broker-dealers, funds, prop trading houses and iGaming operators run on — as a product, or as your embedded technology team.

01Low-latency trading infrastructure
02Brokerage back-office automation
03AI-native enterprise analytics
04CTO & engineering team
What We Build

Products engineered for regulated, high-volume businesses

Three products, one engineering team. Each is built to plug into the trading, brokerage and reporting stack you already run — not replace it wholesale.

01 Fintech

Smart Bridge

A low-latency, bespoke trading bridge for multi-asset execution, integrated with top-tier liquidity providers and built to plug into the platform you already run.

Assets Covered

  • US cash equities
  • European equities
  • Exchange-listed futures
  • Cryptocurrencies

Capabilities

  • Real-time market data
  • Order execution
  • Risk management
  • Corporate actions management
  • Regulatory reporting

Protocol & Platform

  • FIX protocol and REST API
  • Plugs into any platform with FIX or API support
  • Plug-and-play for MetaTrader
  • Trading Technologies compatible
How we differ: Standard bridge providers ship a generic connector and move on. We build bridges around how your business actually operates, then stay on as your technology partner — supporting the platform so your team can focus on trading and client relationships while we handle execution and reporting.
02 Fintech

Smart Bro

A web-based, bespoke back-office brokerage billing system for houses dealing with multiple brokers across OTC and exchange-traded markets.

Assets Covered

  • OTC futures and options
  • OTC and US/European equities
  • Exchange-listed futures
  • Cryptocurrencies

Capabilities

  • Trade file upload
  • Custom broker rates & rules, per client and instrument
  • Multi-broker desk setup
  • Jurisdiction segregation (US, UK, EU, MENA and others)
  • Full automation of brokerage calculation
  • One-click PDF invoicing at month-end
  • Client & banking setup for automated billing
  • Finance module for credit/debit invoice reporting

Protocol & Platform

  • Web application and API
  • Accessible from any browser
Built for multi-broker complexity: If your business runs billing across several brokers, jurisdictions and asset classes, Smart Bro replaces the spreadsheet-and-email workflow with one system — from trade file to signed-off invoice, in a few clicks.
03 Artificial Intelligence

N2SQL — Natural Language to Enterprise Analytics

Query your corporate databases in plain English, generate real-time bespoke reporting, and unlock self-learning operational intelligence — at a fraction of the cost of traditional BI infrastructure.

Platform Capabilities

Conversational SQL generation

Translates complex human language into precise SQL queries across your entire corporate database, instantly.

Flexible visualisation

Renders results as clean, interactive tables or dynamically generates presentation-ready reports on the fly.

Golden query injection

Seeds the engine with your organisation's validated, high-priority SQL queries for 100% precision on business-critical metrics.

Self-learning engine

Continuously learns from user interactions and query patterns, evolving into a smarter reporting and alerting system over time.

Proactive alerting

Constantly monitors data streams to flag anomalies, trends and operational bottlenecks before they hit your bottom line.

Business Benefits

Eliminate BI bottlenecks

Frees analysts and engineers from ad-hoc reporting requests so they can focus on high-value architecture work.

True real-time agility

Removes data latency by querying production or replica databases directly — leadership gets immediate visibility.

Zero learning curve

Non-technical executives, PMs and operations teams can securely explore data without writing a line of code.

Insight discovery

Surpasses rigid legacy dashboards by surfacing the specific, unexpected questions they were never built to answer.

Predictable, Scale-Based Pricing

No per-seat licensing. Unlimited users on every tier — pricing scales with your database footprint, not your headcount.

TierDatabase SizeIdeal ForIncluded
Startup Up to 50 GB
$199/month
Growing companies establishing data-driven cultures Full N2SQL querying, standard tables, 50 golden queries
Growth 50–500 GB
$399/month
Mid-market enterprises optimising multi-department operations Bespoke reporting, autonomous alerting, 250 golden queries
Enterprise 500 GB+ / multi-DB
from $799/month
Large-scale organisations requiring massive data liquidity Advanced self-learning engine, dedicated model instance, unlimited golden queries
Enterprise-grade security. N2SQL points to your database without copying, indexing or storing your underlying data. The model processes schema metadata to build queries — your proprietary operational data never leaves your secure cloud perimeter.
Technology Partner

Your own technology team, without the overhead of building one

We work alongside your stakeholders to give you the operational and scaling edge you need — as an embedded partner to your existing tech team, or as your independent technology function.

We've spent the last 10 years working closely with businesses to review current workflows and operational overheads, identify what needs a technology upgrade, and integrate the third-party solutions that give them the edge they're after. Book a discovery call to discuss your needs — we can work alongside your existing tech team, or as an independent unit reporting directly to business stakeholders.

Our rates are highly competitive. Our CTO brings 20+ years of experience across top-tier investment banks, hedge funds, regulated broker-dealers and family offices, and every developer on the team carries a minimum of five years' experience in their field. We take care of the technology so you can focus your energy on core business growth.

Capabilities

Low-latency C++ development
Blockchain — DeFi, token creation & management
.NET Core / C# API & server-side engineering
Platform architecture
Database engineering & management
Front-end development (JavaScript)
iOS & Android app development (Flutter)
DevOps automation on AWS & Azure

Specialisation: full-stack product development, workflow automation, and bespoke software development across multiple domains.

Finance

  • Market data & trade execution
  • Broker-dealers
  • Funds & family offices
  • Prop trading houses

iGaming

  • Fantasy sports
  • Prediction markets

Emerging Technology

  • Blockchain
  • Agentic AI
About Smart Alpha

Delivering high value to users and customers

Smart Alpha is a UK technology company. We're a technology partner and product development company, delivering products, automation and — where you need it — an embedded technology team. We specialise in finance, blockchain and iGaming platform development.

We attract businesses looking to automate and advance their trading platform, develop new products, streamline their workflow, launch a token and manage liquidity for the order book, add AI-powered real-time reporting on their corporate database, or ship any bespoke build — a new app, an API, or an integration with a third-party solution. We're here to find you an edge, keep your business technology-focused, and keep your OPEX low so you can innovate and scale.

Our rates and pricing are highly competitive, and we work hard to stay within your budget and needs.

Head Office
London, United Kingdom
Team
Working across 3 continents
Our Team

The engineers behind the platform

A small, senior team with deep domain expertise across trading technology, blockchain, and modern application development.

D

Dev

Chief Technology Officer

High-performance Principal Consultant and Systems Architect with over 20 years of hands-on engineering leadership across tier-one investment banks and capital markets. Proven track record designing and delivering ultra-low-latency, production-grade .NET Core and microservices solutions across FX, commodities and equities desks. Postgraduate qualifications in Software Engineering from Oxford University and Quantitative Finance from London Business School. Bridges high-level quantitative models with enterprise-grade distributed architecture, combining deep technical mastery — C#, high-volume SQL, cloud infrastructure — with the leadership to drive engineering excellence and scale complex systems under tight regulatory deadlines.

D

Dmitriy

Blockchain & Low-Latency Developer

Education: MSc with Honours in Computer Science (Computer Security).

12 years of experience in information security, crypto and forex trading. Expertise in designing and building a crypto exchange end-to-end, including the matching core, market-making algorithms, and blockchain / Web3 integration.

H

Henry

JavaScript Front-End Developer
  • 5+ years' experience in React.js, Next.js and related technologies
  • Highly proficient in real-time front-end technologies
  • Domain expertise in trading & iGaming applications
K

Kumail

Flutter App Developer — iOS & Android
  • 7+ years' experience in React.js, Next.js and related technologies
  • Highly proficient in Flutter, Dart and related technologies
  • Domain expertise in trading & iGaming applications
S

Shetty

DevOps Engineer
  • 10+ years' experience in DevOps
  • AWS
  • Azure
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