What makes Kynoku different from a typical web development agency?

Kynoku is a technical collective combining three disciplines — Interface Engineering, Cybersecurity (UCD Distinction), and Deterministic AI Automation — into a single, auditable engagement. This eliminates the three-vendor overhead while ensuring security is hardened into the architecture from line one, not retrofitted after the first incident.

What security standards does Kynoku follow?

Every Kynoku deployment is audited against the OWASP Top 10 before going live. Standard hardening includes Content Security Policy headers, HSTS enforcement, rate limiting on all public endpoints, input validation at every system boundary, dependency audits, and least-privilege service accounts. Zero exploitable vulnerabilities is the delivery condition, not a target.

Does Kynoku work with clients outside France?

Yes. Kynoku operates from Nice, France, credentialed at UCD Professional Academy (Dublin, Ireland), and works with clients worldwide via remote collaboration. We serve English and French-speaking markets across the EU, USA, and internationally. If our stack doesn’t align with your requirements, we will refer you to the right partner — zero friction, no detour.

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Proof

Documented outcomes. Not promises.

Every engagement follows the same protocol: architect, harden, orchestrate. Here's what that looks like in production.

Case Study 01 — #Cybersecurity · #InterfaceEngineering

High-Fidelity Asset Pipeline

#Problem

A high-value print business was operating on an unsecured stack — no TLS enforcement, no cryptographic payment validation, no automated fulfillment pipeline. Every sale required manual routing to the production lab. Every image served was one unsigned URL away from unauthorized reproduction at scale. The intellectual property had no architectural protection; its only defense was obscurity.

#System

1Orchestrated a headless commerce architecture on PhotoDeck with a synchronised WhiteWall API integration — establishing a lab-to-door fulfillment chain where Stripe payment events trigger museum-grade print production deterministically, with zero manual touchpoints between checkout and dispatch.
2Engineered the fintech perimeter with PCI-DSS compliant Stripe, cryptographic HMAC-SHA256 webhook signature validation on every inbound transaction event, and automated tax-jurisdiction compliance — the payment chain is verified end-to-end before a single job enters the production queue.
3Deployed a full IP protection layer: HTTPS enforced across every origin endpoint, time-limited cryptographically signed delivery URLs returning HTTP 403 on expiry, edge-level rate throttling at 100 requests/minute per IP, and user-agent fingerprinting to intercept and block known scraping toolchains before they reach the origin. Full-resolution masters never leave the secured origin — browsers receive optimised WebP/AVIF derivatives only.

#Result

manual touches per fulfillment

100%

cryptographically verified payment chain

€8.4K

print revenue — first quarter post-launch

unauthorized reproductions detected

#Cybersecurity · Signed-URL Delivery#InterfaceEngineering · PhotoDeck OrchestrationHMAC-SHA256 Webhook ValidationPCI-DSS Stripe IntegrationEdge IP Protection

Next.jsPhotoDeck APIWhiteWall APIStripeCryptographic WebhooksEphemeral Signed URLs

An automated, museum-grade fulfillment pipeline securing intellectual property at the architecture layer — the operator focuses on the lens; the system secures the legacy.

Case Study 02 — #Cybersecurity · #GlobalCompliance

Operational Logic & AI Scaling

#Problem

A Côte d'Azur tourism operator was losing revenue through fourteen unpatched WordPress vulnerabilities, two peak-season platform crashes in a single month, and a manual booking workflow consuming 20+ hours per week across confirmations, follow-ups, and inventory reconciliation. Payment data had confirmed exposure. Repeat bookings were silently lost in abandoned-cart dead zones. The operational posture was not a technical debt problem — it was a board-level risk event in progress.

#System

1Executed a zero-downtime migration from the compromised WordPress stack to a hardened Next.js platform with server-side rendering for SEO continuity and edge caching to absorb peak-season traffic spikes without degradation. Full OWASP Top 10 perimeter audit completed before any booking processed — fourteen vulnerabilities closed before go-live.
2Deployed deterministic AI pipelines across the full booking lifecycle: logic-gate automated confirmations with personalised upsell routing, behaviour-triggered follow-up sequences for abandoned carts and post-stay re-engagement, and real-time inventory reconciliation across three booking channels — eliminating double-booking exposure that had cost €4K+ per season.
3Engineered a natural-language operations dashboard: the team queries occupancy, revenue, and booking pipeline data in plain French; the system returns structured, actionable reports in sub-second latency — replacing a manual reporting process consuming four hours per week with zero-overhead autonomous triage.

#Result

post-audit vulnerabilities — OWASP Top 10

3.2s → 0.8s

page load — edge-cached SSR architecture

+20%

booking-to-confirmation revenue recovered

12h/week

operational overhead eliminated by AI pipelines

#Cybersecurity · OWASP Top 10 Audit#GlobalCompliance · GDPR-Native ArchitectureZero-Downtime MigrationLogic-Gate AI WorkflowsEdge SSR Architecture

Next.jsAI Prompt EngineeringLogic-Gate WorkflowsNode.jsOWASP Top 10 HardeningSecure Data Pipelines

Twelve operational hours reclaimed per week by replacing high-latency manual processes with deterministic AI pipelines — and a booking infrastructure that no longer requires a security incident to trigger a rebuild.

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