Fast, and still there in a year
Speed that comes from removing waste rather than lowering the bar. These are the commitments, the machinery and the practices behind every engagement.
Shipping for teams across four continents
Six things that do not change
Whatever the engagement, these hold. They are the parts clients tell us made the difference, and none of them are about technology.
One team, one bar
The engineers who scope your build are the ones who write it. There is no separate delivery team, no handover to a cheaper bench once the contract is signed, and no junior billed at a senior rate.
A named technical lead
One senior engineer owns the architecture and every merge for the length of the engagement. You always know whose decision something was, which is the difference between a partner and a vendor.
Decisions in writing
Architecture choices are recorded with the alternatives and the trade-off, in your repository. In eighteen months the question will not be what we built but why, and by then nobody remembers the call.
Your infrastructure, your access
We work in your repository, your cloud and your issue tracker, with credentials you grant and can revoke. Nothing important lives in an account only we can reach.
Small scopes, fixed
Phase one has a written scope and a price. A change is then a visible decision you make, rather than a slip you discover in a status report six weeks later.
We will say no
If the work does not need us, or the plan will not survive contact with your constraints, we say so — in week one, when it is still cheap to hear.
The AI part, specifically
Every studio says it uses AI. This is the actual machinery, and the limits we hold it to.
- No model trains on your code
- Secrets never enter a prompt
- A senior engineer owns every merge
- No auto-merge path, on any engagement
MCP
Model Context Protocol
Agents read your real repo, logs and schema over a standard protocol — inside your perimeter, read-only by default.
Agent skills
Versioned procedures
Our playbooks and review checklists live in your repo, so every engagement runs the same way whoever is staffed on it.
Evaluation harnesses
Scored, not vibed
Model output is scored against your own traffic and gated in CI, rather than judged by how the demo went.
Sub-agent fan-out
Parallel, then reconciled
Audits and migrations run many agents at once, then reconcile into a single reviewed change.
Context engineering
Retrieval over guessing
The limit is rarely the model — it is what was put in front of it. That selection is the engineering.
Deterministic guardrails
The bar a model cannot talk past
Types, tests and CI sit outside the model. Generated code clears exactly the same bar as hand-written.
Fast is a process, not a promise
Six practices every engagement runs on. They are why the numbers repeat instead of being one lucky project.
Small teams. Short branches. A human on every merge.
One week to a plan. Then we build.
We measure your delivery metrics before changing anything, so the improvement is a number rather than a claim.
Scope and baseline
We read the codebase properly, measure your current DORA numbers and write the specification everything is built from. You keep the baseline whether or not we continue.
Scaffold
The specification becomes typed, tested skeletons grounded in your existing conventions. What is normally a sprint of boilerplate takes an afternoon.
Verify
Every pull request clears the same typed build, the same test suite and the same senior review. A human engineer owns every merge — no exceptions.
Harden
Load modelling against realistic traffic, failure-mode analysis, and SLOs with alerting provisioned before the first real user arrives.
Hand over
Your team takes the repository, the pipeline and the runbooks. We pair rather than present, and we plan the exit from week one.
Across time zones, in your systems
The mechanics, stated plainly. “Great communication” is what a studio writes when it has no process to describe.
Where the work happens
Your repository, your cloud account, your issue tracker. We bring the pipeline and the practices, not a parallel system you cannot see into.
Cadence
Async by default, with a working demo every week against your own environment. Not a slide deck — the thing itself, running.
Overlap
Four or more hours of live overlap with US East, UK and Australia, so a blocking question is answered the same day rather than the next one.
When something breaks
A named engineer, a runbook that already exists, and a written post-incident note. Whoever is on call is someone you have spoken to.
What you hold at the end
The repository, the pipeline, the infrastructure code, the decision records and the runbooks. Handover is a state the project is kept in, not an event at the end of it.
Start with the baseline week
One week, and you keep the plan whether or not we go further.