Custom applications, integrations, AI features, and modernization — built by a practice whose founder spent a career finding the flaws in other people's systems. That background shows up in what gets shipped.
Most development shops treat security as a review at the end, which is when it's most expensive to act on. We run it as a constraint from the first architecture conversation — which is less a service differentiator than a description of how the founder thinks.
Internal tools, customer-facing applications, and the systems that fall between the SaaS products you already pay for.
Connecting the platforms that were never designed to talk to each other. Data contracts, error handling, and the unglamorous reliability work.
Retrieval, agents, classification, and automation built into systems you already run — with output validation and human-in-the-loop where the stakes require it.
The application nobody wants to touch. Assessed honestly, then either strangled incrementally or replaced — whichever the risk math actually supports.
Threat modeling at design, dependency scanning in the pipeline, secrets management, and audit logging built in rather than retrofitted.
Architecture diagrams, API contracts, deployment guides, and runbooks — accurate at handoff because keeping them accurate stopped being expensive.
Fixed-fee against a scoped specification, with weekly working demos rather than status decks. You see the system every Friday, in whatever state it's actually in.
| Phase | Typical | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Discovery | 1–2 wks | Process mapping, stack audit, data assessment, technical spec and SOW |
| Build | 4–10 wks | Iterative development, weekly demos, integration work, security controls |
| Validation | 1–2 wks | User acceptance testing, bug resolution, performance and cost tuning |
| Handoff | 1 wk | Training, documentation package, support transition, 30 days included support |
Build-heavy engagements are delivered with a contract development lead — a former VP of Engineering — alongside the engagement lead. We're candid about capacity: if the timeline you need exceeds what two people can responsibly commit to, we'll say so rather than take the work and slip.
Scaffolding, boilerplate, test coverage, and migration groundwork are AI-accelerated. Architecture, security decisions, and anything with a blast radius are human calls, reviewed by someone accountable for them.
The honest version: this compresses the mechanical half of a build substantially and the judgment half not at all. That's still enough to change what a small team can quote.
Thirty days of support is included with every build. Beyond that, ongoing maintenance lives in Managed Services — or your team takes it, which is a perfectly good outcome and the one the handoff is designed for.
Or the thing you're not sure should be built. Both are useful conversations, and the second one saves more money.
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