We are deliberately narrow: product engineering for companies where the software is the business. Everything below is delivered by people who have run these systems in production, not by a bench assembled after you sign.
Zero to scale
Multi-tenant platforms engineered for scale, performance and a user experience your customers renew for. We own the path from blank repo to production SLA.
Explore SaaS Product EngineeringWhat you get
On-chain systems
Smart contracts, custody rails, exchange infrastructure and token systems built the way institutions expect: audited, observable and upgrade-safe.
Explore Crypto & Web3 DevelopmentWhat you get
Intelligence layer
Retrieval pipelines, agents and evaluation harnesses that survive contact with real users — grounded in your data, measured against real outcomes.
Explore AI & Data PlatformsWhat you get
Runs at 3am
Infrastructure as code, progressive delivery and the observability to sleep through a launch. We build platforms your engineers actually want to deploy to.
Explore Cloud, DevOps & SREWhat you get
Adversarial review
Threat modelling, application penetration testing and line-by-line smart contract review before your users — or an attacker — find the gap.
Explore Security & Contract AuditsWhat you get
Compounding demand
The original SPDJ discipline, rebuilt for product companies: attribution you can trust, programmatic infrastructure and lifecycle automation.
Explore Growth & AdTech EngineeringWhat you get
We do our best work where correctness, latency or compliance genuinely matter — and where a shortcut shows up on someone's balance sheet.
Five phases, each with named outputs you receive whether or not you continue to the next one. You are never buying a promise you cannot inspect.
We pressure-test the problem before we touch a keyboard: users, constraints, threat model, and the architecture that survives your next order of magnitude.
Interface design and a working prototype in the same sprint, so stakeholders react to something real instead of a slide about something real.
Two-week sprints against a shared board. Every increment is deployed, tested and demoed — you always know exactly what you have bought.
Load testing, penetration testing and — for on-chain systems — an independent contract audit with every finding tracked to resolution.
Progressive rollout with SLOs, on-call and observability in place — then we either operate it with you or hand it to your team with the keys and the docs.
We quote once we understand the scope, because a number invented before that is a number someone will have to renegotiate later.
Fixed fee · 2 weeks
A senior team drops into your problem and leaves you with an architecture, a threat model and a costed delivery plan you can execute with anyone.
Best for teams deciding what to build
Monthly retainer · 3 month minimum
A cross-functional pod — product engineer, platform engineer, designer and a fractional architect — shipping to production every two weeks.
Best for zero-to-one and major rebuilds
Scoped fee · 2–4 weeks
Independent review of a codebase, protocol or cloud estate, delivered as a prioritised report with reproductions and remediation guidance.
Best for pre-launch and pre-raise
We pick technology you can hire for and operate five years from now — then reach for the specialist tool only where the problem genuinely demands it.
The six things prospective clients raise most often. Anything else, ask us directly — you will get a straight answer.
Most engagements begin within two to three weeks of a signed statement of work. Architecture Sprints can usually start sooner because they need a smaller team.
Yes. We work in your repositories and your cloud accounts by default, using scoped access that you grant and can revoke. You own every artifact we produce from day one.
Yes, and we frequently do. Independent audits are scoped separately from build work, and we will tell you plainly when a codebase needs remediation before an audit is worth paying for.
We design to the standard your auditors apply — SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA or sector-specific rules — with data classification, access policy and audit logging agreed during discovery rather than retrofitted.
Architecture Sprints and audits are fixed or scoped fees. Product Pods are a monthly retainer with a three-month minimum. We quote after discovery so the number reflects the actual scope.
You do. All code, designs and documentation are assigned to you on payment, and we hand over repositories, infrastructure and credentials at the end of every engagement.
Tell us what you are building. You will hear back from an engineer, not a sales development rep — usually within one business day.
San Francisco, CA · Serving clients in 30+ countries