Software Engineering
Deep technical development, not feature factories.
We build the systems that are hard: multi-tenant platforms, document pipelines, distributed edge agents, integrations with hostile third-party systems. Typed contracts before code, tests before features, and one accountable team from schema to screen.
What's included
Capabilities
Web & SaaS platforms
React/Next.js front-ends, FastAPI and Node back-ends, PostgreSQL, multi-tenancy, RBAC, metering and billing.
APIs & integrations
Versioned, documented APIs and integration layers for systems that were never designed to talk to each other — banks, courts, ERPs, case-management tools.
Document & data pipelines
OCR, extraction, classification, reconciliation and reporting at volume, with provenance on every value.
Edge & desktop agents
Windows and macOS agents that process data on-site and talk to the cloud through signed, outbound-only channels.
Automation
Browser and workflow automation for portals with no API — built to survive the portal changing.
Modernisation
Incremental rewrites behind a facade, with characterisation tests that pin existing behaviour before it changes.
How we work
From first call to steady state.
- Step 1
Contract the work
Scope becomes typed interfaces and acceptance criteria before code. Ambiguity is resolved in writing, not in a sprint review.
- Step 2
Harness first
The test harness and CI land before the feature. A feature without a test does not exist; a safety check without a mutation test is decorative.
- Step 3
Ship continuously
Small, reviewed, reversible changes to production several times a week. Feature flags over long-lived branches.
- Step 4
Operate what we build
We stay on the pager for what we ship. Nothing focuses design like knowing you'll be woken up by it.
- ✓A codebase your own engineers can take over, with the tests to prove it
- ✓Release cadence measured in days, not quarters
- ✓Architecture decisions recorded, with the test that enforces each one
- ✓No lock-in: your repos, your cloud accounts, your keys
Case studies
Related work
Anonymised where the client asked for it. Every outcome listed is one we can substantiate.
Questions
Frequently asked
Fixed price or time and materials?+
Fixed price for well-defined phases after a paid discovery; T&M or dedicated team for evolving products. We'll recommend based on how much is genuinely unknown.
Do you work with our existing team?+
Routinely. We slot into your repos, your review process and your on-call rotation, or we run a separate stream with a clear interface — your call.
Talk to us about custom software engineering.
One scoping call with a delivery lead and an architect. We'll say plainly whether — and how — we'd take it on.