Software engineered to last.
We design and build web, API and cloud-native software with the architecture written down, tests in the pipeline, and a handover so your team can own it.
Outcomes you can expect.
Product engineering & architecture
We turn an idea into a buildable design: scope, architecture decisions written down, API contracts first, and a thin first release that proves the riskiest assumption.
Who it is for
- Teams with a product idea and no agreed design, or a design nobody has tested.
- Organisations about to commit a large budget to a build and wanting the risk reduced first.
- Technical leaders who need architecture decisions they can defend and hand on.
What you get
- Architecture decision records and diagrams your team can read
- API contracts written before the code
- A threat model and a list of the non-functional requirements
- A walking skeleton running through the pipeline
- A delivery plan with the first release scoped
What we do
Shape the problem
User journeys, constraints and risks are mapped with story mapping and event storming, so the build starts from what people need and not from the first idea.
Decide the architecture
Modular monolith or services, data model, and API contracts first in OpenAPI, with each decision recorded in an architecture decision record and drawn in context and container diagrams.
Plan the non-functionals
Threat modelling, scalability, observability, accessibility to WCAG and running cost are decided up front, because they are expensive to bolt on later.
Prove the riskiest part
A walking skeleton goes end to end through the pipeline to production early, so the hardest assumption is tested while changing course is still cheap.
Plan the delivery
Milestones, team shape and handover are agreed, with a thin first release scoped so real users can respond to it.
Software architecture review
A bounded look at a design or an existing system: its architecture, code, tests and delivery, ending in a written review and a ranked list of what to fix first.
What is examined
- How the system is structured, where the boundaries are, and where they leak
- The state of the code, its tests and its documentation
- How a change gets from a developer to production, and what protects it on the way
- Security, performance and operability: what has been designed in and what has not
How it works
- 01 Scope. We agree what is in the review and which questions matter, and who we need to talk to.
- 02 Discover. We read the design, the code and the pipeline, and talk to the people who build and run it.
- 03 Assess. We trace the riskiest paths, run analysis tools, and test our findings so each can be reproduced.
- 04 Report. We write up what we found and what to change first, in plain language an engineer and an executive can both use.
- 05 Review. We walk through the report with your team, answer questions and agree what happens next.
What you receive
- A written review with findings ranked by risk
- Architecture diagrams of the system as it is
- A ranked list of what to fix first, with reasons
- A readout session with your team
- If you want help, we can make the changes, or hand the list to your own team.
- If the system is sound, you keep a clear record of why, and of what to watch.
Scope and timing are agreed on a call, before anything is committed.
Web, API & cloud-native applications
We build API-first services and web front ends, event-driven where it fits, cloud-native from the first commit, in the language and framework that suit your team.
Who it is for
- Teams that need a new product, portal or internal system built properly.
- Organisations whose current system cannot be changed without breaking something.
- Businesses that need new software joined to the systems they already run.
What you get
- Working software in your repository, built in small releases
- API documentation generated from the contracts
- Infrastructure as code for every environment
- Integrations with your existing systems, with the boundaries explained
- Code your own team has reviewed and can run
What we do
Design the API first
REST, GraphQL or gRPC contracts with versioning, pagination and error conventions, and authentication through OIDC, so front ends and partners can build in parallel.
Build the application
TypeScript, Python, Go, Java or .NET services and React or Next.js front ends on Postgres and Redis, chosen to fit the team that will keep them.
Use events where they help
Queues and Kafka for work that should not block a request, with idempotent consumers and the outbox pattern, and plain calls where that is simpler.
Build it cloud-native
Twelve-factor configuration, containers, serverless where it fits, and infrastructure as code, running on EKS, AKS, GKE, Cloud Run or Lambda.
Join it to what exists
ERP, payments, identity and legacy systems are connected through adapters and an anti-corruption layer, so old models do not leak into new code.
Quality engineering & delivery
We build the tests, pipeline checks and release practice that let your team change the software safely, then hand it over properly.
Who it is for
- Teams afraid to release because nothing tells them whether a change broke something.
- Organisations whose software has no tests and one person who understands it.
- Leaders who want delivery to be steady and visible, not heroic.
What you get
- A test suite that runs on every change
- Contract and load tests with agreed targets
- Security checks that block an unsafe release
- Progressive delivery with rollback
- Documentation and a recorded handover
What we do
Build the test suite
A balanced test pyramid: fast unit tests, contract tests with Pact between services, and a few full-journey tests in Playwright for the paths that matter.
Test performance and resilience
Load testing with k6 against agreed targets, plus timeouts, retries and fault injection, so behaviour under pressure is known before users find it.
Put security in the pipeline
SAST, dependency and secret scanning, SBOMs and checks against OWASP ASVS run on every change and block the release when they fail.
Release progressively
Trunk-based development, feature flags, canary releases and automatic rollback, with the DORA metrics tracked so improvement is measured.
Hand over properly
Documentation, runbooks, recorded walkthroughs and paired delivery with your engineers, so the team owns the code and not just the repository.
Ready to get started?
Book thirty minutes with our team for a clear view of scope and cost.