An engineering studio that stays.
We build software for organisations that cannot afford for it to be wrong. Over fifty projects since 2019, from Lagos and Oakville.
- Founded
- 2019
- Studios
- Lagos, Nigeria · Oakville, Canada
- Model
- Independent, founder-led
- Scope
- Strategy through managed operation
A team that kept being asked to fix other people's software.
We started in 2019 building for companies that had an idea and no engineering function. What we kept inheriting were systems shipped by people who never had to operate them.
We stopped selling deliverables and started selling outcomes.
Handing over a repository and disappearing is the industry default, and it is why most custom software is a liability by year two. We restructured around the whole lifecycle.
Two studios, one standard, work you can go and look at.
Over fifty projects since 2019. Most are under NDA or internal, but the ones we publish are live and publicly checkable, which is a deliberately uncomfortable way to run a portfolio.
Two studios, eight time-zone hours apart.
Enough overlap to run one team rather than two that hand off at night. Work moves west in the morning and east in the evening.
How we actually work.
Not values in the poster sense. These decide what we take on and what we will not ship.
We say the difficult thing early
If the plan is wrong we say so in the meeting, not in a retrospective six weeks later.
Decisions get written down
Architecture, scope and trade-offs go somewhere your team can read them too.
We pick dull technology on purpose
The novelty budget goes on the product, not the plumbing.
One team, one accountability
Design blaming engineering blaming infrastructure is a structural problem. We do not build the structure that allows it.
We test on the phones our users have
Mid-range Android over congested networks. Performance is a requirement from the first commit.
Handover is written for whoever comes next
Including the strong possibility that it is not us.
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- Projects delivered
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- Disciplines in house
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- Studios
- 2019
- Independent since
We hire slowly and keep people.
If you write software you would be willing to maintain for five years, we want to hear from you.
Four phases, scaled to the problem.
Discovery
We learn the domain and write the problem down in language you can hold us to.
Architecture and design
Domain model, boundaries and failure modes settled before the first feature.
Build
Two-week increments, each one openable on a real environment. Tests from the first commit.
Launch and operate
Monitoring and runbooks at launch, then the engineering that decides year three.