A software studio for startups

Helping startups build and maintain high-quality software.

Fractional infrastructure engineering, technical leadership, and code audits — without the up-front cost or commitment of a full-time hire. Bring senior engineering judgment to whatever stage your team is at.

What we do

We provide multiple paths to put experienced engineering judgement behind whatever you're building, or scaling, right now.

Prototype to Production

Take the application that proved the idea and make it carry the business — hardened, tested, observable, and ready for the scale that funding brings.

Fractional CTO

Senior technical leadership on a part-time basis — roadmap, architecture, hiring, and vendor decisions — for teams that need technical leadership as they scale to a full-time capacity.

Fractional Infrastructure Engineering

Integrate DevOps practices, infrastructure optimization, and SRE expertise for scalability and reliability — without the up-front cost and commitment of a full-time engineer.

Application & Infrastructure Guidance

Accelerate your engineering team with ongoing oversight, guidance, and regular reviews of application and infrastructure architecture.

AI Workflow Integrations

Benefit from the power of generative AI by integrating AI tools into your existing workflows.

Code & Systems Audits

Ensure your software investments are sound with our thorough application review and due-diligence process.

Emergency Technical Leadership

A short-term emergency replacement for your technical leadership in order to maintain engineering velocity during an unexpected vacancy.

Application Performance Review

Optimize your application's performance and identify bottlenecks with our in-depth performance review.

Application Modernization & Migration

Work with your team to modernize your legacy applications and reduce ongoing costs.

Infrastructure Review & Auditing

Get a third-party review of your infrastructure design and cost.

AI Product Integrations & Operationalization

Integrate cutting-edge generative AI functionality into your existing applications without sacrificing your existing product roadmap.

How we work

Every engagement is shaped to the problem in front of us. The shape below is what most of them look like.

  1. Step 1

    Diagnose

    We start with a focused conversation about where you are, what's hurting, and what 'good' looks like for your team. No templated discovery, no fishing for billable hours.

  2. Step 2

    Scope

    We propose a clear engagement — fractional, project-based, or short-burst — with the deliverables, timeline, and decision points written down before anyone signs.

  3. Step 3

    Build / Fix

    We embed with your team or operate independently, depending on what the problem needs.

    1. Step 4.a

      Hand off

      Documentation and knowledge transfer your team actually uses. You stop needing us in the room.

    2. Step 4.b

      Stay on

      Or the work continues as a standing fractional or advisory engagement, at your cadence.

Engagements

We're a small studio and most of our work is under NDA. Here are representative engagement shapes.

Fractional engagement

Series A SaaS — DevOps embed

Fractional infrastructure lead during a six-month scale-up. Hardened CI/CD, set up observability and on-call, and migrated a legacy deployment pipeline to Terraform-driven infrastructure.

Project engagement

Prototype to production

Turned a working early-stage prototype into a deployable, testable, and observable application. Documentation handed off so the founding team could ship features without us in the room.

Audit engagement

Investor-driven code & systems audit

Independent technical due-diligence for an institutional investor. Delivered a written report covering code quality, infrastructure posture, security exposure, and team operating maturity.

Get in touch

Have a project to discuss?

Schedule a consultation or drop a line. We'll respond within one business day with a read on whether we're the right fit — and who is, if not.