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Web applications built end to end, from data model to interface, by people who will still be able to explain the architecture a year after handover.

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Astro
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Docker

What this covers

API and service design

REST and GraphQL interfaces with versioning, pagination and error semantics settled before implementation, so client teams are not blocked waiting on contract changes.

Data modelling

Schemas designed for the queries you will actually run, with indexing and migration paths that hold up when the table grows past the size where a sequential scan stopped being acceptable.

Frontend engineering

Accessible, responsive interfaces built on React, Next.js, Astro or Vue, with real loading, empty and error states rather than only the successful path.

Infrastructure and deployment

Containerised services, reproducible environments, CI/CD pipelines and monitoring wired up before launch instead of after the first outage.

Legacy modernisation

Incremental extraction from systems that cannot be switched off, using strangler-fig patterns so value ships continuously rather than after an eighteen-month rewrite.

What you receive

  • Production application with source and infrastructure as code
  • API documentation and typed client contracts
  • Database schema with reversible migrations
  • CI/CD pipeline with automated checks
  • Architecture decision records explaining the why

Software you can still change in year three

Most systems do not fail because the initial build was wrong. They fail because every subsequent change costs a little more than the last, until the team stops proposing changes at all.

We optimise for that second-order cost. Clear module boundaries, a data model that matches the domain rather than the first screen someone designed, and decisions written down at the time they are made instead of reconstructed from git archaeology later.

Boundaries before code

The interface between two parts of a system is the most expensive thing to change later, because changing it means changing everything on both sides. We settle those contracts first: what the API returns, what the errors mean, what happens when a field is absent versus null.

This is unglamorous and it is where most of the schedule risk actually lives.

The database outlives the application

Application code gets rewritten. Frameworks are replaced. The data usually survives all of it, which is why schema design deserves more care than it typically gets.

We design for the read patterns you will actually have, add indexes based on measured query plans rather than intuition, and write migrations that can be reversed. A migration that cannot be rolled back turns every deploy into a one-way door.

Handover is part of the build

An engagement that ends with a repository and no explanation has transferred code without transferring understanding. Every project ships with architecture decision records covering what we chose, what we rejected, and what would make us revisit the decision.

If your team cannot operate and extend the system without us, we have not finished the job.

Tell us what you are building.

Send the problem, the constraints and the deadline. You get a considered reply from an engineer, not a sales sequence.