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Cloud Drift has joined the Databricks Brickbuilder Partner Network as a Bronze partner. Databricks has been part of how we deliver data engineering for our clients for some time. Joining the partner network is the natural next step. For leaders in banking, fintech, healthcare and other regulated sectors, it means one senior team that can take you from data platform design to AI in production on the Databricks Data + AI Platform: - Lakehouse architecture and migration - Data pipelines with quality and governance built in - AI solutions built on Databricks that move beyond the pilot stage Our focus stays the same: complex projects, delivered on time and within budget. Planning a data platform or AI initiative on Databricks? Let's talk. @Databricks #Databricks #DataEngineering #CloudDrift

More than 20% of Cloud Drift is now Claude Certified Architects, and that number keeps climbing. A growing share of our engineers have earned the Claude Certified Architect certification, validating real, hands-on expertise across the Claude ecosystem: Claude Code, the Agent SDK, the Claude API, and Model Context Protocol. This isn't a badge for the wall. Our certified people are already applying this knowledge as Forward Deployed Engineers on client projects, designing agentic systems, integrating Claude into production workflows, and building tools that ship. Why it matters for you? Getting real value out of the Claude ecosystem takes more than access to the models. It takes architects who understand the tradeoffs. That's what we bring to the table, and it's how we help our clients move faster and build smarter with Claude. A huge congratulations to every Cloud Drift engineer who passed the exam. You've set the standard, and the rest of the team is right behind you. If your organization is figuring out how to put Claude to work, let's talk. #Anthropic #ForwardDeployedEngineering #AIEngineering #CloudDrift

From documents to dialogue: building a client collaboration portal with Grant Thornton UK Earlier this year we shared that Cloud Drift was collaborating with Grant Thornton UK to reimagine the digital client experience in professional services. Today we're glad to share where that journey has reached. Together we've designed and built a secure, client-facing portal that gives clients and their Grant Thornton advisers one clear place to work together – sharing documents, exchanging messages, tracking deadlines and staying on top of engagement progress. Professional services work is often document-heavy and spread across multiple channels. As engagements grow, so do the documents, questions, versions and decisions to keep track of. The portal brings all of it into one structured, transparent space: intuitive enough for clients to adopt with confidence, and giving practitioners better visibility and control over document intake, access, deadlines and audit history. For Cloud Drift, this is what we do best: designing and engineering high-impact digital products that sit at the heart of complex organisations. What started as a clear client-service opportunity is now a working product – and a foundation Grant Thornton can build on, toward richer workflows and AI-assisted document handling. A huge thank you to the Grant Thornton UK team for the trust, openness and partnership throughout this journey - especially Lynsey Tait, Steven Ainley, Ben Morris. It has been a real privilege to work with a team that combines ambition, pace and genuine care for the client and practitioner experience. We’re grateful for the collaboration and excited about what this foundation can enable next. More to come! Link to full case study in the comments. #ProfessionalServices #DigitalTransformation #ClientExperience #CloudDrift

We are proud to announce our partnership with Grant Thornton UK Helping reimagine the digital client experience in professional services Cloud Drift is excited to be collaborating with Grant Thornton UK on an initiative focused on enhancing how professional services teams and their clients work together. At the heart of the project is a modern digital client portal, designed to support the relationship between clients and their Grant Thornton teams, providing a simple, secure space for collaboration, information sharing and visibility of engagement progress. Professional services interactions can often involve multiple channels, documents and workflows. By bringing these together in one place, the aim is to make it even easier for clients to work with their Grant Thornton advisers – strengthening those relationships, improving transparency and creating a more intuitive experience. For Cloud Drift, this collaboration reflects what we do best: designing and engineering high-impact digital products that sit at the heart of complex organisations. We’re looking forward to working closely with the Grant Thornton team to shape a solution that reduces friction and enables more effective, connected ways of working between clients and their advisers. More to come as the journey progresses.

Execution rarely fails in dramatic ways. It slowly, but consistently drifts. A location uses last month’s instruction. A clause gets interpreted slightly differently. A team explains a policy in their own words. An update is read, but not fully absorbed. None of it looks serious in isolation. But multiply that across teams, locations, or partners, and you get inconsistency. And inconsistency compounds. Small deviations repeated often layer on top of each other. If documentation isn’t usable at the moment of execution, people fill the gaps themselves. That’s perfectly human, but not scalable. Operational consistency needs a mechanism that makes rules usable where work actually happens. Has this issue ever affected your team? I’d love to have a conversation and validate our approach.

Not every chatbot effectively addresses organizational challenges. In many organizations, knowledge is already present but often scattered, outdated, or difficult to access when needed. Instead of creating "just another interface to knowledge," we concentrated on a more specific and challenging goal: - The ability to genuinely understand real enterprise content, including PDFs with images, Excel files, Visio diagrams, and PowerPoints that combine text and visuals. - Providing answers that are grounded solely in approved content. - Delivering context and role-aware responses. This is the approach we are now scaling to develop systems that support real business decisions in everyday workflows. In the article, we discuss how this strategy has been implemented in practice.