Dan Paes has spent more than twenty years inside other people's enterprises, running digital transformation and full-scale modernisation programmes for global organisations. The long kind: what is being replaced is what the business is running on that morning, and the work is judged on whether anything broke.

He founded Runink and runs it as chief executive. Technical founder is the more useful half of that title — he sets the architecture and works in the code, so the person answering an architecture question in a first meeting is the person who decided the answer, and the distance between a question and a change is short.

It is also why the platform is shaped the way it is. It runs on hardware the customer controls, and the reasoning about their data stays there. That is the more expensive way to build it and it closes off the convenient route, which is the kind of decision that has to be settled by whoever owns the architecture rather than left where it can quietly be traded away.

He is a FINOS Ambassador. FINOS is the Fintech Open Source Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, and the work there is interoperability between institutions that share a market but not their infrastructure and never their data. It is the same problem this platform is pointed at, argued in the open, in front of people who say so when it is wrong.