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Software that ships, and keeps working after we leave.

Web platforms, internal tooling and data services, built by a small senior team in Prague and handed over with the documentation to run them.

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Capabilities

What we build.

We are generalists in the useful sense: comfortable across the stack, opinionated about the parts that matter, and uninterested in technology choices that exist to flatter the CV of whoever made them.

Web platforms and portals

Customer facing applications, partner portals and marketplaces. Responsive, accessible and fast on the connections your users actually have.

Internal tooling

The systems that replace the spreadsheet estate. Workflow, approvals, reporting and the unglamorous operational software a business genuinely runs on.

Data services and APIs

Pipelines, integrations and well documented interfaces between systems that were never designed to speak to each other.

Cloud and deployment

Infrastructure as code, continuous deployment, monitoring and alerting. Boring, repeatable releases rather than heroic Friday nights.

Hardening and rescue

Inherited a codebase nobody wants to touch? We stabilise it, document it, get tests around it and give you back the ability to change it safely.

Systems close to hardware

Device fleets, provisioning, telemetry and asset systems. The hardware line means we have actually held the equipment the software describes.

A Data HS engineer working on a client platform
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How we build

Fewer people, more seniority, shorter loops.

A build team is two to four senior engineers with direct client access. There is no account layer between you and the people writing the code, which removes the two week lag that kills most software projects.

  • Weekly working software, demonstrated live rather than reported
  • Architecture decisions recorded in writing with the trade-offs stated
  • Automated tests and deployment pipelines from the first week, not retrofitted
  • Your repository, your cloud account, your credentials throughout
  • A named engineer accountable for the engagement end to end

Delivery at a glance

Team shape
2 to 4 senior engineers
Typical first release
8 to 16 weeks
Working languages
English, Czech
Code ownership
Client, from day one
Data residency
EU by default
Post handover support
Optional retainer

Engagement models

Three ways to start a build.

Pick the shape that fits the problem. We will tell you if you have picked the wrong one.

01

Discovery sprint

Two to three weeks to turn an idea into a costed, technically validated plan with wireframes, an architecture and a delivery schedule you could take to any supplier.

Best for: A serious idea with no specification yet

02

Fixed scope build

An agreed deliverable, an agreed price and an agreed date. Scope changes are priced openly as they arise rather than absorbed silently and billed later.

Best for: A defined problem with a budget attached

03

Embedded team

A monthly retainer for a dedicated senior team working to your priorities. Reviewed quarterly, cancellable with thirty days notice.

Best for: A continuing product roadmap

Questions

The things people ask before signing.

You do, from the first commit. Work is done in your repository under your account wherever possible. There is no licence back to us and no dependency on a proprietary framework of ours.
That is a normal and good outcome. Handover includes documentation, runbooks, architecture notes and a walkthrough with your engineers. We will also review their first few changes at no cost if that helps the transition.
Both. Fixed price suits well defined scopes and we prefer it because it forces clarity up front. Continuing product work is usually a monthly retainer. We will recommend which fits your situation before you ask.
Mainstream, well supported choices with large hiring pools, selected per project rather than by habit. We will justify every significant choice in writing, and the test is always whether your team could hire for it in Prague or London.
Yes, and often that is the better arrangement. We can supplement an in house team, lead a workstream, or sit alongside another supplier. We will be explicit about where responsibility divides so nothing falls between the two.

Have a build in mind?

Send us the rough shape of it. We will come back with an honest view on feasibility, cost and whether it is worth doing at all.

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