Four ways
we help.
We work with founders, product teams, and engineering leaders who want software that earns its keep — not another vendor that disappears after launch.
Software Engineering
We build the systems your business runs on. Web APIs, data pipelines, real-time services, cloud infrastructure — the engineering that has to work every day, not just on a demo.
We’ve shipped production code for startups and grown-up companies. We know which problems are worth solving carefully and which ones don’t need to be solved at all.
What we help with
- APIs and services — REST, GraphQL, gRPC. Designed so the next person on your team can extend them without rereading everything.
- Infrastructure and scaling — Cloud-native architectures on AWS, GCP, or wherever you already are. Pragmatic Kubernetes when it earns its keep, simpler when it doesn’t.
- Data and integrations — Pipelines, queues, third-party APIs. The stuff that breaks at 3am if you skip the basics.
- Modernization — Untangling legacy systems without rewriting them from scratch. Strangle-fig migrations, written down.
Product Development
You have an idea. We help you turn it into something real that people can use, buy, and rely on.
We work the way founders need: small team, direct access, weekly demos, written updates. No account managers, no slide decks, no handoffs between strategy and execution.
How we work on new products
- Validation first — Quick spikes to learn what’s actually hard before committing to a stack.
- MVP that’s not a throwaway — Built so the version that gets traction isn’t the one you have to rewrite.
- Web, mobile, or both — React, Next.js, React Native, Swift. Whichever fits the audience, not the trend.
- Live with your users — We don’t disappear at launch. Iteration is part of the engagement.
AI Integration
Most companies don’t need to train a model. They need to integrate the right ones into the right places — and have the result work reliably, cost something predictable, and not embarrass anyone in production.
That’s the work we do. We’ve shipped LLM features, agentic workflows, and AI-assisted internal tools for teams who care about whether it actually helps the user.
Where we focus
- LLM features in existing products — Search, summarization, writing assistants, support copilots. Built to scale and degrade gracefully.
- Agentic workflows — Multi-step automations that do real work — research, drafting, classification, decisioning. Observable and steerable, not magic boxes.
- Retrieval and grounding — RAG, vector search, hybrid retrieval. So the model answers from your data, not its training set.
- Evaluation and guardrails — Test suites for non-deterministic systems. Knowing whether a change made things better or worse.
Technical Consultancy
Sometimes you don’t need a team — you need an honest, experienced opinion on a decision you can’t afford to get wrong.
We work as fractional CTOs, technical advisors, and architecture reviewers for founders and leadership teams. Short engagements, focused scope, written deliverables you can act on.
When this helps
- Architecture review — A read on whether your stack will hold up at 10x the load, and what to do about it if not.
- Technical due diligence — Pre-acquisition or pre-funding audits. We read the code, talk to the team, and write a report you can defend.
- Fractional CTO — Hours-per-week technical leadership during hiring, scaling, or rebuilds.
- Picking a stack, or unpicking one — Honest tradeoff conversations when you’re choosing tools, vendors, or rewrites.
Got an idea?
Let's talk.
Whether you have a rough sketch on a napkin or a fully-spec'd platform to build, we'd love to hear about it. Honest conversations, no sales pitch.