About
Banks should not break. The systems that run them should not be a black box.
We exist to fix both.
CV Systems was founded in 1977 by engineers who built and ran transaction-processing software for the largest U.S. banks. We saw what happens when senior maintainers retire and no one is left who can read the COBOL — let alone change it safely. We saw modernization budgets evaporate while the systems they were supposed to replace kept running. We saw M&A integrations slip from six months to eighteen.
We built the firm we wished existed when we were on the inside: a small, senior, U.S.-based bench, billing by the project, with the muscle memory to walk into a room and stabilize a system inside three weeks.
We are not a body shop. We are not a slide consultancy. We are not a vendor relationship. We are a fractional engineering team you can call by name.
Three principles. None negotiable.
- 01
Senior only
Average tenure on our bench is 22 years. Minimum is 12. We don't ramp junior engineers on your dollar.
- 02
U.S. payroll. U.S. citizens.
100% U.S. employees. No offshore handoff at 5 p.m., no time-zone-shifted day shift. Cleared for FedRAMP-adjacent work.
- 03
Fixed-fee. Milestone-billed.
Fixed scope, fixed fee, milestone-based progress. We don't sell hours we don't need to use, and we don't pad bench time.
A history measured in decades.
1977
CV Systems is founded.
Formed by engineers who built and ran transaction-processing software for U.S. banks. From the start, the focus is on the systems that cannot afford to break.
1980s — 1990s
Inside the systems no one else will touch.
We become a leader in ATM and transaction processing software — installed and customized for the largest U.S. financial institutions, 24/7/365.
2000s
Trusted with the core.
Our products and engineers power transaction processing inside banks ranging from $25 billion to $250 billion in AUM. The work is mission-critical, batch-window-sensitive, and unforgiving.
Today
The fractional bench you can call by name.
We bring four decades of muscle memory to banks under SME-attrition pressure, modernization slip, and M&A integration risk — by the project, never by the seat.
Want a senior bench inside your team this quarter?
Fifteen minutes with the team. We'll call you.