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Engineer the hard things

Custom software and systems, built on the right architecture for the job — and the right stack, not a house dogma.

Who it's for

Companies and teams with a real technical need — a system to build, scale, integrate, or rescue. You want principal-level engineers who pick the right tools for the problem instead of forcing a favourite, and who can explain every call in plain terms. From a first focused build to an org-wide platform.

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02Capabilities

  • Right architecture for the need

    We choose the architecture that fits your constraints — serverless, microservices, or a monolith — and we can defend the call. No house style, no résumé-driven design.

  • The right runtime, any stack

    Serverless when the workload is bursty and idle cost should fall toward zero; a server, container, or managed service when steady throughput or a held-open connection wins. On AWS, or wherever your stack already lives — we choose what fits and explain why.

  • Data modelling first

    Access patterns and the data model are agreed before any code — single-table DynamoDB or a relational schema with real transactions, whichever the consistency needs demand.

  • Typed contracts at the seams

    Where services split, the boundaries carry typed contracts — events and APIs that don't drift, so independent teams can ship without breaking each other.

  • Resilience & observability

    Failure modes, SLOs, tracing, and alerting designed with the system — not bolted on after the first 2 a.m. incident.

  • Yours to keep

    Every environment is a typed CDK app in your AWS account — nothing clicked into existence, nothing that drifts. The whole system is yours to run, hand off, or take in-house: no proprietary runtime, no lock-in. We leave the IaC, the runbooks, and the patterns.

  • Architecture & planning

    Data model, system boundaries, and event flow agreed on paper before a line of code is written.

  • Product & UX

    Flows, hierarchy, and interaction patterns designed for the people who will actually use it.

  • Build

    Production-grade implementation — typed end to end, deployed from day one.

  • SEO

    Structure, speed, and copy aligned so search engines understand exactly what you offer.

  • Performance & optimisation

    Load budgets set up front; Core Web Vitals and runtime cost tracked continuously.

  • Accessibility

    Keyboard navigation, screen-reader semantics, and reduced-motion support — baseline, not a checklist.

  • Foundation

    from $7,500one-time build
    from $100/moto run · runs on your AWS — right-sized to the architecture

    One focused service, designed and built right — the first piece of a larger system, on the architecture the workload actually calls for.

    • One core service or system, scoped tight
    • Domain and access-pattern modelling
    • The fitting runtime — serverless, container, or service
    • CDK infrastructure as code
    • Runs in your AWS account — the IaC is yours
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  • Build

    from $15,000one-time build
    from $100/moto run · runs on your AWS — right-sized to the architecture

    A focused engagement: one core system (settlement, ingestion, ledger) designed and built end to end — on whichever architecture the workload calls for.

    • Domain and access-pattern modelling
    • Data design — single-table or relational, per the consistency needs
    • Implementation on the right runtime — serverless, container, or service
    • CDK infrastructure as code
    • Runs in your AWS account — the IaC and the system are yours
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  • Standard

    Popular
    from $30,000one-time build
    from $100/moto run · runs on your AWS — right-sized to the architecture

    A full system: multiple components, typed contracts between them, and the observability to run it confidently in production.

    • Multi-component architecture — event-driven, request/response, or batch where each fits
    • Typed contracts across service boundaries
    • Stateful workflows — Step Functions or a transactional core, as the domain needs
    • SLOs, alerting, and on-call runbooks
    • Staging + production with promotion pipeline
    • Runs in your AWS account — yours to run or take in-house
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  • Enterprise

    from $60,000one-time build
    from $100/moto run · runs on your AWS — right-sized to the architecture

    An org-wide engagement: multiple teams, embedded advisory, and a handover that leaves the patterns — not just the code.

    • Multi-team architecture and decision records
    • Embedded pairing and code review
    • Migrations between architectures — legacy batch, managed clusters, or serverless
    • Property-based and chaos testing of critical paths
    • Full handover: IaC, runbooks, team onboarding — yours, no lock-in
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03selected work
managed & optimised

Managed & optimised

Keep your site or platform cheap to run and keep improving it — monitoring, performance tuning, dependency management, and priority support on a monthly retainer.

Keep your cost envelope small — from $500/mo

  • Monitoring & alerts
  • Performance & cost tuning
  • Content & dependency updates
  • Priority support
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05Start a project

Let’s write the next system into being

Tell us what you’re building. We’ll reply within two business days with a frank read on scope, shape, and whether we’re the right studio for it.

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