Frontend & Backend Engineering

What this is

A two-to-four-person senior team that takes a product idea — or a working prototype, or an AI-built draft, or an aging system in trouble — and ships it as a production-grade application. The same engineers carry the work from whiteboard to a running service answering real requests.

Most engagements look like one of three shapes:

1. Prototype → production. You have something working: a vibecoded MVP, an AI-generated scaffold, a contractor's half-finished build. We do the unglamorous 90% — security, observability, performance, real authentication, a proper database schema, deploy pipelines — that takes it from "demo" to "thing real users rely on".
2. Pre-seed MVP from scratch. You have an idea, a deck, maybe a Figma. We give you a live URL real users can sign up to in 4-6 weeks — with the foundations you won't need to rebuild later.
3. B2B SaaS expansion. Working product, growing roadmap, in-house team running flat out. We pick the highest-leverage chunk and ship it in a quarter, alongside your engineers.

The "what stack" question

We won't list a stack on this page. It changes per engagement and we'd rather have the conversation than pretend one answer fits everyone.

What you should expect: typed, type-safe across the network boundary. Predictable migrations. Observability built in. Deploys that are boring. Test coverage where it earns its keep.

What we tend to reach for — without committing in advance — is the smallest set of mature, well-maintained tools that fits your team's ability to inherit and operate. We don't pick technology because it's trending. We don't pick it because we have it in the office. We pick it because of your timeline, your team's existing skills, your hosting constraints, and what failure looks like at 3am.

We'll name the choices clearly in the kickoff document and defend each one in writing. If you have a stack preference, we'll usually accommodate it as long as it isn't actively dangerous for the goal.

How we work

Week 0 — kickoff. We trade the brief for a single-page architecture sketch, a list of risks ranked by impact, the stack decisions and trade-offs in writing, and a sprint plan.

At the end of every sprint — a real demo on a real URL. Sprints are two weeks. The demo is something you can click, share with your co-founder, break with bad input on production data — never a screenshot or a localhost video. We do not perform mid-sprint progress; we ship the artefact at the end and let it speak.

The same sprint boundary — a short steering check after the demo. What we built, what we cut, what we re-prioritised, what's left. One meeting, not two.

Hand-over — code, infra, runbooks, an architecture decision log, a 30-minute video walkthrough per subsystem. Your team can pick this up cold.

After launch — we don't disappear. We offer a monthly retainer for ongoing maintenance and improvement, or we hand off cleanly to your in-house team. Either is fine; we want you to make the call.

What "production-grade" actually means here

It is not a synonym for "polished". It is a checklist with sharp edges:

• Authentication that survives an OWASP audit.
• A database schema with real constraints, not JSON soup.
• Migrations that run cleanly forwards and backwards.
• Observability: structured logs, metrics, distributed traces, correlated by request ID. You can answer "why was the system slow at 14:07 last Tuesday?" in three clicks.
• Deploys that are routine and reversible. A botched release is rolled back in two minutes.
• Secrets in a real store, not in someone's .env.
• On-call runbooks that a half-asleep engineer can follow.
• Performance budgets that the team measures and defends.

This is the 90% AI doesn't write for you. It is also the 90% that decides whether your app survives growth, an audit, or its first real outage.

What we don't do

• We don't take on projects whose entire premise is a no-code platform we'd have to fight against.
• We don't do pure design without engineering follow-through. We design because we're going to build it.
• We don't compete on price against offshore agencies. We compete on time-to-production and senior-only execution. If price is your only axis, we're a bad fit.