COST 01
Hours lost every week to manual admin, copy-pasting between tools that should talk to each other.
Security-first digital systems
We build, automate and secure the systems your business runs on.
Umbra Penance is the technical partner of growing businesses: custom software, AI integrated into your workflows, automation that removes manual work, and security tested by the people who build it.
- Secure SaaS built end-to-end for Amadoo
- 500+ automations delivered
- ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
- AI integrations · pentesting · monitoring
EST. 2026 REMOTE-FIRST UK
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BUILD TEST HARDEN PROVE
01 / The problem
The systems behind most businesses cost more than they should.
COST 02
AI stays a buzzword. Everyone talks about it; nothing in your actual workflows uses it.
COST 03
Off-the-shelf software that almost fits, your team bends its process around the tool instead of the opposite.
COST 04
Nobody knows where clients come from, no tracking, no attribution, follow-up when someone remembers.
COST 05
Problems are found by your clients, not by monitoring, and every incident costs trust.
COST 06
Security is an afterthought, until it becomes an expensive emergency.
02 / Services
See what we build.
03 / Proof
Built before. Broken on purpose. Shipped secure.
500+
automations delivered
ISO 27001
Lead Auditor
20+ tables
row-level security
Also shipped
Gamified e-learning · custom booking tools · RAG chatbots · Zabbix monitoring
04 / Why Umbra
One technical partner who designs the architecture, builds the system, integrates the AI, and secures the result.
Builder + breaker.
The person who builds your system is the same person who tries to break it.
One connected system.
Website, automation, monitoring, and security designed together, not four vendors pointing at each other.
Founder-led.
Direct accountability. You talk to the people doing the work.
Business-first advice.
Practical recommendations tied to leads, time, and risk, not technology for its own sake.
AI-accelerated, not careless.
Fast delivery with the shortcuts that matter removed, the security ones.
05 / Team
The people behind the systems.
Small team, direct accountability, you talk to the people doing the work.
Adel Acheli
Founder · Builder + Breaker
Builds production systems by day, tests their defences by trade.
ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Mehdi
Co-founder · Business Development
Supports companies in growing their business, strategy, revenue, and development.
Umbra Penance was founded by Adel Acheli, a software and cybersecurity engineer who has shipped multi-tenant SaaS, internal tools, AI features, hundreds of production automations, and delivered penetration test reports for live systems, each one designed with tenant isolation, least-privilege access, and pre-release security review built into the architecture, not bolted on after.
Every engagement has a single point of accountability from architecture to deployment. Code is reviewed the way an attacker would read it, and every project closes with documentation you can act on.
06 / How we work
Clear from call to handover.
A transparent process with fixed scope and no surprises, so you always know what's happening and what comes next.
- 01
Scope
A free discovery call to understand the problem, followed by a fixed-scope proposal with clear deliverables and timeline.
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Build / Test
Agile, AI-accelerated delivery with transparent progress. For audits, structured testing against OWASP and ISO frameworks.
- 03
Harden & Prove
Security review, hardening, and validation. Every engagement closes with documentation you can actually act on.
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Handover
Knowledge transfer, clean documentation, and an optional retainer to keep things secure as you grow.
07 / Start here
Bring us the bottleneck. Leave with a clear next move.
Send the context first or book a working session now. Either way, you'll get practical advice from the people who build and secure the systems.
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