The systems underneath.
AI has to sit on something. We've spent eight years building the something — payments rails, exchange infrastructure, marketplaces that survive a launch spike — in domains where a bug is a financial event rather than a bad review.
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Web and mobile products
Design through deployment, with the same people on both. Small senior teams, short feedback loops, no hand-off layer between the person who understood the problem and the person writing the code.
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Payments and exchange infrastructure
Order paths, settlement, reconciliation and the failure modes around them. Work where correctness is contractual and "mostly right" is a liability.
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High-traffic consumer platforms
Marketplaces and TCG systems with spiky, event-driven traffic. The engineering is mostly in deciding what is allowed to degrade so the thing that matters stays correct.
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Rescue work
Builds that stalled, teams that left, codebases nobody wants to touch. We'll tell you honestly whether it's worth saving before you pay us to save it.
- Choose the failure modes
- Under load, a good system gets less rich rather than less correct. That is a design decision made early, not a property you can add during an incident.
- Small senior teams
- Two to four people who have shipped this kind of thing before. No bench to keep busy, no juniors learning on your budget.
- Ship in weeks, not quarters
- Something real in four weeks that your team can use, then iterate. A six-month first release is a six-month bet that you understood the problem on day one.
- Crypto and Web3, when it's the right tool
- We've built exchange and settlement systems and we'll happily do it again. We won't recommend a chain for something a database does better.
How long until we see something real?
Four weeks. Not a prototype or a clickable demo, but one workflow built against real data that your team can use. A six-month first release is a six-month bet that the problem was understood correctly on day one.
Do you work fixed price or time and materials?
Fixed price against a defined outcome. If the work takes longer than estimated, that is absorbed rather than billed as a change request. It keeps the incentive on shipping rather than on hours.
Can you take over a build that has stalled?
Yes, and that is a meaningful share of the work. The first step is an honest assessment of whether the existing codebase is worth saving, delivered before you commit to a rebuild. Sometimes the answer is that it isn't, and it is cheaper to hear that early.
Do you still build crypto and Web3 systems?
Yes. Exchange and settlement infrastructure is where the studio started, and that discipline — adversarial systems, financial consequences for mistakes — is why the AI work is scoped the way it is. But a chain will not be recommended for something a database does better.
Can you work alongside our existing engineering team?
Yes. Small senior teams of two to four people, integrated into your workflow rather than running in parallel. There is no account manager relaying requirements — the people on the call are the people writing the code.
How do you handle traffic spikes and uptime?
By deciding in advance what is allowed to break. The critical path gets its own resources and strict consistency; browsing, history and recommendations read from caches that may be seconds stale. Under load a well-built system gets less rich rather than less correct, and that is a design decision made early, not a property added during an incident.
Got something to build?
Tell us what it is. If we're not the right studio for it, we'll say so.