Services

The work we actually do.

Six things, explained without the marketing gloss. Each is a track record, not a pitch deck. If yours fits in one of them, the first call will tell you quickly whether we are right for it.

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What we do

Six tracks. One team.

Most engagements pick one or two of these. A few pick three. The rare large-scale engagement touches all six — and when that happens, one senior partner owns it end-to-end.

We build the software you can't buy off the shelf. Custom software

The system your people are emailing spreadsheets around. The portal your customers keep complaining about. The internal tool that's been in "someday" for two years. We build it, properly, and ship it in a quarter or two.

  • Greenfield platforms — built in the stacks we already know deeply (TypeScript/Node, Python, .NET, Go), with boring choices over trendy ones.
  • Internal tools that replace spreadsheet chaos — one source of truth, role-based access, audit trails your compliance team will approve.
  • Customer-facing portals — the kind your sales team shows on a call, not the kind your users complain about.
  • API-first backends — so the next team or the next product can build on top without asking permission.
Replaced Excel-based claims routing across 2,400 desks with a purpose-built platform — cut case time from 6 days to 14 minutes.

We replace the 15-year-old system without breaking it. Legacy modernization

You have a COBOL mainframe. A PHP monolith. A vendor platform the vendor stopped supporting. Replacing it feels like open-heart surgery. We've done it more than a dozen times without downtime — and we'll tell you honestly whether yours is worth it.

  • Incremental rewrites on live traffic — strangler-pattern migrations that never require a "big bang" cutover.
  • COBOL, mainframe, PHP, ColdFusion, Perl, old .NET Framework — all seen, all handled.
  • Vendor-platform replacements when the vendor stops answering emails — you keep the data, we build the successor.
  • When we think a rewrite is the wrong call, we say so. Sometimes the right answer is "leave it alone for another year."
Re-platformed a $14B/yr claims engine with zero production downtime over 18 months. The team who maintained the original joined ours.

We move you to the cloud, or out of it, or fix what's there. Cloud & infrastructure

AWS, Azure, GCP, or a datacenter in New Jersey — the right answer is usually boring and very specific. We'll save you money on the parts that don't matter and spend it on the parts that do. No religion about it.

  • Lift-and-shift when it fits; re-architecture when the math says it pays back.
  • FinOps work on AWS, Azure, and GCP — savings plans, rightsizing, egress audits, and the unglamorous stuff.
  • Repatriation from cloud back to colo when your workload is the wrong shape for hourly billing.
  • Kubernetes if you already run it. Boring managed services if you do not.
Cut a Fortune 100 retailer's annual cloud spend by 38% ($6.2M) while improving P99 latency by 4×. Re-architected in 11 weeks.

We turn your data into something that actually decides. Data & AI

Most "AI" projects are just data-cleanup projects with a ChatGPT wrapper on top. Ours aren't. We build models and pipelines that move real KPIs — and we'll tell you honestly when an AI is not what you need.

  • Data warehouses and pipelines that your analysts actually use (dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks).
  • Real-time event systems when the business needs them, batch when it does not.
  • Applied ML and LLM features that move a KPI — forecasting, classification, extraction, search.
  • Honest advice when the "AI feature" on your roadmap should actually be three deterministic rules.
Built a demand-forecasting model for a national retailer that reduced stockouts by 23% and cut emergency reorders by $11M/yr.

We pass your auditor's audit. Security & compliance

SOC 2. HIPAA. PCI. ISO 27001. The certifications your enterprise customers ask for before they'll sign. We've led 15+ compliance programs, we know which auditors are reasonable, and we stay in the room with you until the letter is in your inbox.

  • SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI DSS — end-to-end, not just the checklist.
  • Threat modeling, penetration testing, secure code review, and the remediation work after.
  • Identity and access systems — SSO, SCIM, RBAC, the stuff that breaks silently if done wrong.
  • Incident response retainers — a named engineer on a phone, not a ticket in a queue.
Took a 400-person healthtech from zero to HIPAA + SOC 2 Type II in 9 months. Unlocked their first $50M enterprise contract.

We send senior engineers to sit with yours. Embedded teams

Sometimes you don't need a project — you need two principal engineers who've shipped at scale, embedded with your team for a quarter. We'll send them. They'll leave having raised the bar of everyone they worked with.

  • Two to five principal engineers embedded in your team for a quarter or two.
  • Pair-programming and code review with your staff — their people come out better than they went in.
  • Interim staff-plus / principal coverage while you hire a permanent lead.
  • No subcontractors, no rotation — you meet the team before you sign and they do not change.
Placed three senior engineers inside a Fortune 50 insurer's platform team for 16 weeks. Their legacy modernization went from 18 months behind to 2 months ahead.
What we won't do

The short list of no.

A firm that will not say no to anything is a firm that will eventually say yes to the thing that should not have shipped. Here is where we stop.

01

We don't do offshore.

Every engineer on your project is a full-time, US-based employee. No subcontractors, no offshore partners, no global-delivery-center arbitrage. If that is a dealbreaker for your budget, we are not the right firm.

02

We don't do month-to-month staff aug retainers.

We take projects with defined scope, defined milestones, and a written memo. If you just need bodies, a staffing agency will serve you better than we will.

03

We don't take work below roughly $800K.

The overhead of doing it our way — senior staff, written memos, fixed-price with late-delivery penalties — does not pencil out under that. Plenty of excellent firms do great work at smaller scope. We will recommend two.

04

We don't pitch a technology before we understand the problem.

If the first call is us saying 'you need a React rewrite,' you should hang up. The first call is always us listening.

How engagements work

Fixed price. Fixed scope.

No hourly mystery. No scope creep hidden in a change order. Before you sign, you see the number, the milestones, and the out-clause.

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$800K – $8M

Typical engagement size. Below that, we'll recommend someone better. Above that, let's talk.

12–30

Weeks to ship

Milestone-gated. Demos every two weeks. You approve each release before production.

30d

Wind-down clause

Stop any time. You pay for work done plus 30 days committed. Code and docs hand over in a clean state.

The next step

Tell us what you're trying to ship.
We'll tell you honestly if we're the ones.

45 minutes, no pitch. If we're not the right fit, we have two or three firms we'd recommend in your stead.

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