Built for complexity and change.

AnnanTech was founded in 1998 in the City of London, in the front offices of global investment banks.

We learned early that the real problem isn't technology. It's managing complexity and change - because that's what kills projects.

The Beginning

Every organisation we worked with had the same challenge: critical knowledge scattered across dozens of systems, with no single view of reality. Decisions made on partial information. Knowledge that existed only in experts' heads.

In investment banking, this problem was acute. Data was complex. Change was constant. Getting it wrong cost millions.

So we built something different. Not by buying the latest technology - by understanding information and making it work. We built the CME (Central Management Encyclopaedia) - not designed in a lab, but emerging from necessity.

What We Learned

Banking M&A taught us the most. When you have days to connect two organisations' data - not months - you learn what actually works.

We learned that:

• Complexity is the enemy - we face it, we don't pretend it away
• Information landscapes change constantly - static solutions fail
• Data crosses every boundary - risk silos create blind spots
• Systems integration fails when you don't understand the information first
• Speed and quality aren't trade-offs when you know what you're doing

We learned to make ourselves redundant, not indispensable.

Where We Are Now

We've applied these lessons across financial services, government, and organisations handling sensitive information. The problems are the same - information chaos, knowledge at risk, decisions on partial data.

Our approach works because it was built for environments where it had to.

We're now applying the same principles to the AI coordination challenge. The foundation AI needs - a single, governed source of organisational truth - is exactly what we've been building for 27 years.