What we believe
We are accountable for what runs, not for the hours it took.
Twenty-plus projects over two years, each one carried from the first conversation through to production and the work of keeping it there.
- 01
We will tell you not to build it
Scope gets argued before it gets estimated. If the thing in front of us is the wrong thing to build, you hear that first.
- 02
Outcomes, not hours
We are solution oriented, and we hold ourselves to the result rather than to the time it consumed.
- 03
Somebody has to extend it later
Clean, scalable and maintainable is not decoration. It is what keeps a codebase an asset instead of a rewrite waiting to happen.
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It has to hold under real load
Capacity is an architecture decision, made early, not something discovered after launch.
We will tell you not to build it
Every build starts with the problem and the constraints around it. The cases where we push back are the cases where the brief describes a feature and the business needs a different one. That is a conversation worth having before a line of it exists.
Chosen so the system can be extended by whoever comes next.
- React
- TypeScript
- Express.js
- PHP
- ASP.NET
- MySQL
- Flutter
- Android
- WordPress
- Docker
- AWS
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Laravel
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- React Native
- iOS
- Shopify
- Kubernetes
- Azure
Selected work
Shipped, running, and still ours to maintain.
13 projects in the register
How we work
Six stages, from first conversation to handover.
The same sequence on every build, whatever the size of it.
- 01
Scoping
We start with the problem and the constraints around it, and agree what is worth building before anyone opens an editor.
- 02
Discovery
We go through the systems, data and workflows you already run on, so the build is designed around what exists rather than around assumptions.
- 03
Design and architecture
Screens, data model and system boundaries are drawn together, so nothing gets designed that the architecture cannot support.
- 04
Build in cycles
Work ships in short cycles against a running environment. You see the real thing early and often, not a status report about it.
- 05
Hardening and launch
Performance, permissions and the states around failure are dealt with before release, then the system goes into production.
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Handover or ongoing
You get the repository, the walkthrough and the documentation. We either step back or stay on for maintenance and the next phase.
The verdict is not ours to write.
Every review here was submitted by a client through our public form, then published unedited once we had confirmed we worked together.
Its a power house when it come to talent and innovations. Recently got a quotation from them.
Such a nice and professional team. They turned my rough idea into something creative and constantly kept me in loop regarding updates.
The next build starts here
Start with the problem, not the spec.
Describe what needs to exist and what is in the way of it. We will come back with how we would build it.
Or write to us directly: devants.online@gmail.com