Bedrock North is an AI & FinTech consultancy. We bring production-grade judgment to teams building serious payment and AI systems — the kind of experience you only earn by running these systems at scale and owning the outcome.
Most technical advice is written by people who have never had to run the system afterward. We start from the opposite place.
Bedrock North exists to give companies access to senior operators who have designed, shipped, and owned payment infrastructure and applied-AI systems in production — and can do it again inside your team. We take on the hard, high-stakes problems where the technology is the business, and we stay accountable for the result.
We build what we recommend. The people who scope the work are the people who ship it — in your stack, against your metric.
Resilience and audit-readiness over demos. We optimize for the system that's still standing — and compliant — a year after we're gone.
We transfer ownership, not dependency. Success means your engineers are more capable and autonomous than before we arrived.
Our sharpest work happens where the path isn't drawn yet — the messy, high-stakes problems others would rather avoid.
Networks & partners our work has spanned
Bedrock North is founded and led by Baraa Al-Bourghli — an engineering leader and FinTech payments expert. He was most recently a Senior Engineering Manager at Block (Cash App and Square), where his teams ran card-payment infrastructure clearing $20B+ a month, and previously co-founded a startup through to a successful acquisition and led engineering and architecture at SEEK across Asia-Pacific.
He brings that operator's experience — and a working network of senior engineers and specialists — to every Bedrock North engagement, and takes on select fractional-CTO and advisory roles directly.
Selected for mentorship through First Round Capital, a leading seed-stage venture firm.
Selected among the top 100 innovative ideas to present an autonomous drone-swarm system designed to detect victims of large-scale disasters.
Judged the hackathon organized by the U.S. Secretary's Office of Global Partnerships.
Co-designed a patented passwordless authentication flow that drove a 300%+ increase in rewards redemptions.
If you're wrestling with a payments or AI system that actually matters, we should talk. Tell us what you're building.
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