How we work

A predictable rhythm — every engagement, every time.

Five stages, weekly demos, written status every Friday. You always know where the work is.

The five stages
  1. 1

    Discover

    Stakeholder interviews, architecture review, and a written risk register. Most engagements start with a 1–2 week discovery, with a clear go/no-go at the end.

  2. 2

    Design

    Component diagrams, ADRs, design tokens, and API contracts. Engineering and design pair from day one — no throw-it-over-the-wall handoff.

  3. 3

    Build

    Pair-reviewed delivery, weekly demos, CI/CD from day one. Every PR has a test, every test runs against real infrastructure.

  4. 4

    Launch

    Migration plan, observability dashboards, runbooks, and on-call training. We launch behind shadow traffic or canary by default.

  5. 5

    Support

    Optional managed-services or transition-to-your-team mode. Either way we leave the codebase healthier than we found it.

Methodology

What sits behind the rhythm

Five non-negotiables that keep delivery honest, regardless of stack or industry.

Outcome-led

Every engagement starts with what should be true at the end. Story points come second.

Pair-reviewed

Every PR is reviewed by a peer before merge. Risk taxonomy is shared, not solo-carried.

Tests-first at the database

We run integration tests against a real database in CI. Mocks only above the database boundary.

Observable on day one

Logs, traces, and metrics are wired before features. We deploy with the same observability we'd want at 3am.

Honest forecasts

Weekly written status. We surface what's hard before it becomes a problem.

Team shape

A team you can name

Every engagement gets a named PM, designer, engineers, and QA — not a faceless pool.

PM
PM
Per engagement
DE
Designer
Per engagement
EN
Engineer
Per engagement
QA
QA
Per engagement

Want to see what a discovery looks like?

We're happy to share an anonymized discovery deliverable from a recent engagement.