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Web apps, SaaS platforms and mobile apps, built new or modernized from what you already run. Led by a senior engineer, decided in writing before code, and built in accounts in your name from day one.

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Running .NET or PHP that’s hard to change? Modernization, and when its support ends. Fixing a WordPress, WooCommerce or Wix site? Websites and stores.

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  • 100×4Lighthouse, mobileMeasured
  • 1.6KBJavaScript at load, this pageMeasured
  • AA2.2Tested against WCAG, every templateTarget
  • 5gatesChecks on every mergeTarget

Measured: Lighthouse 13, median of 3 runs, on a local production build of the home page, . Target: a limit the build fails on.

How it’s measured

What the work looks like.

Five kinds of software we design and build, drawn as working interface. Concepts and examples, not client work.

SaaS dashboards.

Dense data, calm interface.

Example

API contracts.

Versioned so they change without breaking.

Example

Modernization.

The same system, moved forward. Drag to compare.

Concept
  • PlatformSwiftUI, or React Native when one codebase fits
  • TypeDynamic Type to the largest size
  • AccessVoiceOver labels on every control

Native iOS.

Built to the platform, not around it.

Concept

Commerce.

Stores engineered like everything else.

Example

What we build.

Custom software comes first. When a website or store is the right answer, it gets the same engineering.

    • Web
    • API
    • Cloud

    Custom software

    Web applications, SaaS platforms and APIs, in the stack you already run or the one the problem needs.Smallest start · Discovery sprint

    • iOS
    • Android
    • API

    Mobile

    iOS and Android apps, fully native or cross-platform, with a release process that keeps up.Smallest start · Discovery sprint

    • API
    • Cloud

    Cloud & APIs

    APIs, cloud infrastructure, hosting and deployment, set up in your own AWS, Azure or Google Cloud account.Smallest start · Discovery sprint

    • Web
    • API
    • Modernization

    Modernization

    Aging .NET and PHP systems moved forward in steps, one release at a time.Smallest start · Modernization audit

    • Web
    • CMS
    • Commerce

    Websites & commerce

    Sites and stores on the platform that fits, engineered like everything else we build.Smallest start · A 30-minute call

All services

Design systems

One token. Four targets.

Change the brand color once and the web app, the WordPress site and both mobile apps follow, with contrast checked on each. That’s what one shared set of design tokens buys a product that ships on several platforms.

Figure 2 shows one booking component on four targets: web, a WordPress block, iOS and Android. The playground lets you choose the accent token, the radius token and a time slot; all four targets follow, and the contrast of the button label is stated for each accent.

Accent token
Radius token
Glacier: button text 5.79:1 · AAAlpenglow: button text 5.74:1 · AAGranite: button text 18.46:1 · AAA
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ConceptFig. 02 · One booking component, four targets. Pick an accent, a radius or a time: all four follow.

How we build

Every merge. Five gates.

Every change passes automated tests and performance, accessibility and security checks before it merges.

  • Types: tsc · strict
  • Tests: unit + e2e
  • axe AA: both themes
  • Perf budget: LCP ≤ 2.5 s
  • Security: deps + secrets
✓ types · 0 errors✓ tests · all passing✓ axe · WCAG 2.2 AA · light + dark✓ perf budget · LCP ≤ 2.5 s Target✓ security · 0 high · secrets clean Shipped
ExampleFig. 03 · The quality lap. An example gate spec; thresholds are targets.
≤ 2.5 sLCP budget
Core Web Vitals budgets
MetricBudgetStatus
Largest Contentful Paint≤ 2.5 sTarget
Interaction to Next Paint≤ 200 msTarget
Cumulative Layout Shift≤ 0.1Target
Google’s “good” thresholds. A reading for a specific site appears only with a measured value and a date.

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How a project starts.

It starts with a 30-minute call with the engineer who would lead the work, then a written proposal: scope, timeline and price. Before any code, we spend the first weeks testing assumptions, and we write the answers down.

  1. 01 · Weeks 1–2

    Research

    We study your users, systems and constraints, and verify every claim the plan depends on.

  2. 02 · Weeks 2–3

    Decide

    Architecture, stack and hosting decisions are written down, challenged and signed off before we build.

  3. 03 · Week 3 onward

    Build with gates

    Automated gates on every change, the same on any stack.

  4. 04 · Ongoing

    Evolve

    We measure in production and improve what the data supports, not what we assume.

Every project is led by a senior engineer. The engineer who scopes the work is the one accountable for building it.

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