How We Work

Small, senior, direct. No handoffs, no layers.

Most agencies dilute senior talent across too many clients. We keep teams tight and senior involvement high throughout.

Senior engineers on every engagement

The person who scopes the project is the person who ships it. We don't use the pitch team and the delivery team as separate groups. The senior engineer who meets you in the first conversation is the one accountable for the outcome.

Direct communication, no account management layer

We communicate directly with your technical and product leadership. There is no account manager translating between you and the people actually building. You get direct Slack access to the engineers working on your system.

AI-augmented delivery

We use AI tooling throughout our engineering process: code generation, review, documentation, testing. This makes our teams faster and more consistent than conventional delivery. We are transparent about where AI is in our workflow and how we ensure correctness.

Full ownership, clean handover

Everything we build is documented and handed over with the assumption that someone else will maintain it. We don't create dependencies. Runbooks, architecture decision records, inline documentation: we treat handover as part of delivery, not an afterthought.

We tell you what we see, not what you want to hear

If your architecture has a fundamental problem, we'll say so and explain why. If a scope is unrealistic, we'll tell you before you've committed. We'd rather lose a project than deliver something that fails three months later.

Smaller scope, more rigour

We push back on scope creep and avoid building things that won't be needed. A focused, well-built system beats a large, fragile one. We are opinionated about what matters.

Engagement Structure

What working with us looks like

Discovery call

1–2 hours

We talk about the situation: the system, the team, the goal. We give you a frank initial read. No NDAs required at this stage.

Technical assessment

3–5 days

For complex engagements, we do a structured technical review. We look at code, infrastructure, team dynamics, and business constraints. You get a written summary with our findings and recommendations.

Engagement scoping

1 week

We define the engagement clearly: scope, team, timeline, cost. For ongoing partnerships, we start with a bounded first phase before moving to a rolling arrangement.

Build + deliver

Project-dependent

We work in short cycles with regular async updates and weekly syncs. You see progress continuously, not at the end.

Handover and stabilisation

2–4 weeks

We document everything, walk through the system with your team, and remain available for questions during a stabilisation period. We don't disappear.

AI-Augmented Engineering

We use AI. Deliberately.

We integrate AI tooling across our engineering workflow, not as a shortcut, but as a genuine force multiplier when used with judgment.

A senior engineer using AI code generation can cover more ground, catch more edge cases, and produce better-documented code than a junior engineer working without it. We use this to give our small teams the output of much larger ones.

We are transparent about where AI sits in our process: code generation is reviewed by senior engineers before merge. Documentation is AI-assisted but human-verified. Architecture decisions are ours.

Code Generation

With senior review on every merge

Test Coverage

Unit + integration test generation

Documentation

AI-assisted, human-verified

Code Review

AI-augmented pattern detection

API Design

Schema + contract generation

Data Modelling

Normalisation and migration planning

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