Questions first. Code second.
Most software projects fail because they start with the wrong question. "What should we build?" is a design question. The right question is "what number are we trying to move?"
From an industrial-engineering chair, that's natural: you don't redesign a line unless you know what constraint you're trying to relieve. From there the software falls out — and it tends to be smaller, simpler, and more durable than what a requirements document would produce.
Speed matters too. AI has turned what used to be a quarter of work into a week of work. We lean into that hard — not to cut corners, but to run more loops with the people who actually use the thing.
Three phases. Days, not quarters.
No Gantt charts, no five-phase SOWs, no eighteen-page master services agreements. Just a clear sequence we repeat every time.
Walk the floor
We start where the problem lives. Operators, supervisors, the one person who knows why the line actually stops. The deliverable from this phase is not a deck — it's a shared understanding of the one or two numbers that matter.
Ship fast, prove it
A working prototype in days. Running against your real data, on your real network. No demoware, no lorem ipsum. We'd rather show you something wrong than show you a slide that's right.
Harden & operate
Serverless so it doesn't page you. Observable so you can trust it. Documented so your team can own it. We're not trying to be your permanent dependency — we're trying to hand you something that runs on its own.
Faster and cheaper.
The numbers below are ours, measured honestly. They're the reason SMB can afford to work with us at all.
Boring, proven, yours.
We use a narrow, opinionated stack because consistency is how small teams punch above their weight.
Cloud
- AWS Lambda
- API Gateway
- DynamoDB
- S3 · CloudFront
- SES · SQS
- CloudFormation / SAM
Web
- Vanilla HTML · CSS · JS
- No bundler, no framework
- Progressive enhancement
- Hand-tuned CSS
- Edge caching via CloudFront
Mobile & IoT
- React Native (cross-platform)
- Swift (iOS) · Kotlin (Android)
- PWAs when they fit
- ESP32 & microcontrollers
- MQTT
AI
- Claude (Anthropic)
- GPT (OpenAI)
- AWS Bedrock
- Prompt caching
The things we're serious about.
Time on the floor
Every engagement starts with us physically (or remotely) watching the operation. Not interviewing executives.
Simple beats clever
Response time is a design constraint. Fewest moving parts that solve the problem. Complicated is expensive to run and painful to support.
Code that outlives us
Documented, tested, observable. You can fire us and keep running. That's the bar.
Respect for your time
We answer within a day. We show up when we say. We don't waste your margin on our process.
Straight talk
If something won't work, we'll tell you before we build it. If something's out of scope, we'll say so.
Sound familiar?
If this matches how you'd want to work, we'd like to hear what you're trying to do.
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One conversation.
No deck required.
Thirty minutes. Tell us what's on fire. We'll tell you whether we can help — straight.