custom platforms & apps

Software Development

Custom software, built by senior engineers, on stacks your team can hire for. Web apps, internal tools, mobile, backend, integrations. We refactor the legacy. We ship the new thing. We document the handoff so well your team forgets we were there.

Glyph
Cadence 4–24 wks
Starting $48k · 4-week sprint · fixed
Ownership You, day one
01 · What you get

Six things in every engagement.

Not a checklist of deliverables. Things that show up because we work the way we work.

01

Senior bench only

No juniors learning on your dollar. Every engineer in our pods has shipped to production for 8+ years. They write code your team can read.

02

Boring stacks on purpose

TypeScript, Postgres, React, Astro, Rust, Go, Python. The kind of tech you can hire against on LinkedIn — not the kind that needs a recruiter who attends conferences.

03

CI/CD on day one

A green pipeline, preview deploys, and a one-command local setup land in week one. The rest of the build sits on top of that foundation.

04

Test what matters

Integration tests around money, identity, and irreversibility. Unit tests where they pay rent. We don't chase coverage numbers.

05

We refactor as we go

If your legacy code is in the way, we fix it. The PR explains why. Your team learns the cleanup pattern by reading the diff.

06

Handoff is a deliverable

Architecture doc, runbook, oncall guide, video walkthroughs. By the time we leave, your team owns it like they wrote it.

02 · How it runs

A typical engagement, laid out.

Every engagement varies. The shape stays the same.

  1. week 0–1

    Discovery & spike

    Stakeholder interviews, architecture doc, riskiest unknown built first. End of week: a working spike of the scariest part.

  2. week 2

    Foundation

    Repo, CI, deploy, observability, auth, the data model. The boring scaffolding done well, so the next 8 weeks are pure feature work.

  3. week 3–N

    Build, demo, repeat

    Weekly demos. PRs into your main branch. Every sprint ships something you can click in staging.

  4. last 2 wk

    Harden & hand off

    Load test, security pass, runbook, training sessions with your team. We leave with the docs in your wiki, not in our Drive.

03 · Sample SOW

What we'd write down before we started.

A real-shaped excerpt. Names changed. Numbers honest.

SOW · sample-software-dev.txt ● fixed price
engagement compliance-portal = {
  outcome:   'internal portal for SOC 2 evidence collection',
  success:   '6 evidence types · self-serve · 2k MAU · <500ms p95',
  team:      ['@theo (lead)', '@asha', '@oksana'],
  stack:     ['TypeScript', 'Astro', 'Postgres', 'your VPC'],
  duration:  '10 weeks · fixed',
  price:     '$240,000',
  ownership: 'you · MIT-licensed code, day 1',
}
04 · What we won't take on

The honest list.

Saving us both a bad-fit call.

05 · Common questions

The ones we hear on most discovery calls.

Can you work in our monorepo?

Yes — that's the default. We learn your conventions, your test patterns, and your review style in week one.

Do you do mobile?

React Native and Swift/Kotlin native, on a per-engagement basis. We'll tell you honestly when native is overkill.

What about ongoing maintenance?

Two options: a small monthly retainer (1–2 days / month, on call for fires), or a clean exit with a runbook. Most clients pick exit, some come back for a sprint when things change.

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Start with Software Development.

A 30-minute call. A written discovery doc in a week. Fixed-price SOW by day 10.