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Built like an enterprise team.
This page is our engineering operations manual, published. It exists so a CTO can audit how we work before the first call - branch strategy to incident response, in plain language.
Engineering standards
- Code review, twice. Every merge gets a human review and an AI review pass. Nothing lands on a main branch unreviewed - including our own founders’ code.
- Branch strategy. Trunk-based with short-lived feature branches. Main is always deployable; long-running branches are treated as a smell, not a workflow.
- Testing as definition-of-done. Unit tests where logic lives, integration tests where systems meet, end-to-end coverage of customer-visible flows. Details on the QA page.
- Documentation that ships. A README a new engineer can deploy from in under an hour, an architecture doc per system, and a written decision log - so knowledge lives in the repo, not in heads.
Deployment & rollback
Releases go through GitHub Actions: tests, static checks, AI review, then a staged rollout behind health checks. Every release is reversible with one command; database migrations are written to be reversible by default. Full pipeline on the DevOps page and architecture diagrams.
Monitoring & incident response
- Monitoring before users. Uptime, latency and error dashboards exist before launch; the systems we operate report 99.98% uptime.
- Alerts that page a human who can act - not a channel nobody reads.
- Incidents. Stabilise first, communicate early, write a blameless post-incident note with the fix and the prevention. Clients see the note, not a silence.
Knowledge transfer & support
From week one, work happens in your repositories and your cloud accounts - handoff is a permission change, not a project. After launch: monitoring, dependency updates, bug fixes with severity-based response, performance and cost reviews, and a feature roadmap - through the Dedicated Team model, or a clean transfer to your in-house engineers with pairing sessions until they are confident.
How you see progress
No black box, no client portal theatre - working software and written records: a demo of running software every week, a staging environment you can open any day, the decision log, and a shared channel with the engineers actually building your product. Invoices and scope live in writing. If a week produced nothing demonstrable, you will hear that from us first.
The client journey
- IdeaOne paragraph from you - whatever shape it is in.
- Discovery call30 minutes with an engineer; honest feasibility and a first step. How it works.
- ProposalWritten scope, timeline, engagement model and price - no surprises designed in.
- ArchitectureThe data model, service boundaries and cloud plan, documented before code.
- DesignWorkflows before screens; prototypes where the risk lives.
- DevelopmentWeekly demos of working software; tests and dual review on every merge.
- TestingRelease-gating QA across the flows your customers would notice breaking.
- LaunchStaged rollout, health checks, rollback ready - a non-event by design.
- SupportMonitoring, maintenance and a team that still answers. See above.
What we will never do
- Never disappear. 24-hour reply standard, before and after you pay us.
- Never lock your source code. Your repos, your cloud, your data - from week one.
- Never hide documentation. If it isn’t written down where you can read it, it isn’t done.
- Never use fake metrics. Every number we publish is verifiable - on this site or in a live product.
- Never outsource without disclosure. You know who is building your product, always.
- Never compromise security for a deadline. The security page is the floor, not the aspiration.
Audit us properly.
Bring your hardest due-diligence questions to a call - the engineers answer, not a sales script.
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