London digital engineering studio

Scope. Ship. Run. We build what has to hold.

We design, build and operate the systems ambitious companies depend on with senior engineers accountable from the first estimate to the on-call rota.

How we work

Five stages, one team,
no handovers.

01 / 05

    The studio

    Senior only. Answerable to the business.

    The people who scope your project are the ones who write it. No account layer. No reassignment after kick-off.
    1. 01

      No handovers

      The engineers who scope the work are the ones who write it. There is no phase where a team that sold the project hands it to a team that has never seen it.

    2. 02

      Decisions on the record

      Every trade-off gets written down — what we chose, what we rejected, and the reason. The team you have in two years can still read why.

    3. 03

      Production, or it didn't happen

      Every engagement ends in a real environment, measured against the numbers we agreed at the start. A staging demo is not a delivery.

    4. 04

      We carry the pager

      If a system we built goes down, we get paged. Retained support is offered, never assumed, and never a condition of the build.

    Project

    From 8 weeks

    Fixed scope, fixed fee, dated milestones. You get the written estimate before anyone commits.

    • Two-week paid discovery
    • Named senior team
    • Weekly releases
    • Handover documentation

    Retained

    Monthly

    A standing senior team on your roadmap, sized to the work rather than to a headcount target.

    • Continuous delivery
    • Agreed SLOs
    • On-call rota included
    • Quarterly architecture review

    Advisory

    From 2 weeks

    Architecture review, cost audits and second opinions on decisions that are expensive to reverse.

    • Written findings
    • Migration roadmap
    • Board-ready summary
    • No delivery lock-in

    Four senior engineers, no bench. Roles rather than names, because who you get depends on what you are building — and we will tell you before you sign.

    • Principal EngineerDistributed systems · Payments14 yrs
    • Staff EngineerData platforms · Streaming11 yrs
    • Staff EngineerCloud architecture · Cost12 yrs
    • Automation LeadPipelines · Document AI9 yrs
    • Founded2019
    • EngagementsProject & retained
    • StudioLondon, United Kingdom

    What we do

    Four disciplines, one standard.

    01

    Digital Product Development

    Architecture through to release, and accountability after launch. Greenfield builds, platform rescue and the design systems that keep them coherent.

    02

    Process Automation

    Event-driven pipelines that remove the manual work draining your margin — document handling, model-assisted decisioning, and integrations between tools nobody will give up.

    03

    Technical Consulting

    Independent judgement on the decisions that are expensive to reverse. Audits, migration roadmaps and cost engineering, written for the board as clearly as for the engineers.

    04

    Sales Engineering

    Technical firepower in the room where the deal closes. Proof of concept, security questionnaires, and the integration work that turns a signature into a live customer.

    Systems shipped
    50+Systems shipped
    Enterprise clients
    12Enterprise clients
    Platform uptime
    99.97%Platform uptime
    Years shipping
    7Years shipping

    The stack we build on

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