Approach
The expensive mistakes happen before the first commit
Almost every system we are asked to rescue failed at design time, not coding time.
Delivery
Deployable at the end of every slice
Process
Five stages, no black boxes
- 01
Discovery
We read the existing system and talk to the people using it.
- 02
System design
Domain model, boundaries and failure modes, agreed before any code.
- 03
Build in slices
Two-week increments, each one deployable.
- 04
Harden
Load testing, security review, observability, runbooks.
- 05
Hand over
We train your engineers, or stay on as the delivery team.
Standards
What “done properly” means to us
Written architecture
Every significant decision becomes a record.
Security from sprint one
Threat modelling at design time, scanning in CI.
Performance budgets
Latency and cost targets enforced by the pipeline.
Reproducible environments
Infrastructure as code from day one.
Tested where it matters
Heavy on domain logic, thin at the edges.
Accessible by default
WCAG 2.2 AA as the baseline for every interface.
Rhythm
- DailyA written stand-up: what moved, what is blocked.
- FortnightlyA demo on a real environment, then re-planning.
- MonthlyScope, budget, risks and cloud costs.
- QuarterlyAn architecture review.
Principles
Design before code
The expensive bugs are decisions made in a hurry.
Boring where it counts
Novelty only where your product is novel.
You own everything
Your repositories, your cloud, no lock-in.
Small senior teams
Three or four engineers who know the whole system.