We are a senior engineering studio. We design, build and operate the systems your business runs on — then hand them over with the tests, docs and runbooks that make them yours.
Fixed-scope discovery in 2 weeks · No junior bench · You own the code from day one
Trusted by teams in fintech, health, logistics and public sector
Services
We would rather be excellent at a narrow set of problems than available for all of them. If your problem isn’t on this list, we’ll tell you and point you somewhere better.
Greenfield builds and second-version rewrites. A small senior team takes a problem from whiteboard to paying users, and stays until it’s stable.
The unglamorous layer that decides whether your team ships weekly or quarterly. Infrastructure as code, real CI/CD, and observability people actually use.
Pipelines that don’t silently drop rows, and AI features scoped to what models are genuinely good at. We start with evaluation, not with a demo.
For systems nobody wants to touch. We map what’s really there, stop the bleeding, then refactor incrementally behind tests — no big-bang rewrite.
How we work
Every engagement follows the same shape. You see working software in week two and every week after that.
Two weeks, fixed price. We interview your team, read the code, and leave you with a written architecture and a costed plan — yours to keep, whoever builds it.
We build the riskiest path end to end and put it in front of real users. Assumptions fail here, cheaply, instead of in month five.
Weekly demos against a public backlog. Trunk-based development, tests in the pipeline, deploys behind flags. You can ship any day you want to.
Runbooks, architecture decision records, and paired sessions with your engineers. We plan our own exit from the first week.
Average engineer experience across the team
Of clients return with a second project
Median time from kickoff to first production deploy
Projects handed to a junior bench after sales
Stack
We pick tools with long support horizons and large hiring pools, so you aren’t left maintaining something exotic after we leave. When we do reach for something newer, the decision record explains why.
“They spent the first fortnight telling us which half of our roadmap to delete. That conversation was worth more than the code — and the code was very good.”
“Our deploy went from a Thursday-night ritual to something a new starter does on day three. Same team, same product, completely different pace.”
Engagements
Indicative rates for a UK/EU-based senior team. Every engagement starts with discovery so the number you get is a real one, not a range.
Two weeks to find out whether the project is worth doing, and what it costs.
A cross-functional squad owning an outcome end to end, embedded in your rituals.
For teams who don’t need hands on keyboards, just someone who has done it before.
FAQ
Yes. The engineers on your kickoff call are the engineers on your project. We don’t run a bench of juniors behind a senior front, which is also why we can only take on a few projects at a time.
Entirely, from the first commit. We work in your repositories, your cloud accounts and your issue tracker wherever possible. If we start in ours, everything transfers at handover with no licence attached.
That’s our preferred setup. Mixed teams pair on real tickets, which is the only knowledge transfer that survives our departure. We can also run the interview loop if you’re hiring alongside the project.
You’ll know early, because progress is demoed weekly against a backlog you can read at any time. Contracts run month to month after discovery with 30 days’ notice — if we’re not earning the fee, you should be able to stop without a fight.
Routinely. We’re ISO 27001 certified, carry professional indemnity cover, and have delivered under GDPR, PCI-DSS and NHS DSPT constraints. Send us your DPA and questionnaire with the brief.
The team is distributed across the UK and Central Europe, with a guaranteed four-hour overlap with your working day anywhere from UTC-5 to UTC+5.
A 30-minute call with an engineer, not an account manager. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so on the call and suggest who is.
Contact
Give us a couple of paragraphs about the problem. We reply within one working day, and the first reply comes from whoever would lead the work.