Six phases, each with defined outputs you can inspect and criteria that must be met before the next begins. The point is not ceremony — it is that you always know what is being built, what it costs, and exactly where the project stands.
We establish what is actually being built, for whom, and what success will be measured against.
We interview stakeholders and the people who will use the system daily, review existing systems and data, and separate the requirements that matter from the ones that were inherited. The output is a written definition of scope, constraints, risks and success metrics that both sides sign off on before estimation.
These apply whether the project runs for six weeks or six years.
A short, paid discovery phase produces a written scope, an architecture direction and a considered estimate — and it belongs to you whether or not we build it.
The technical shape and the product experience are designed together, before implementation begins.
We model the domain, choose the architecture against your real constraints, and document the decisions and their trade-offs. In parallel, information architecture, key flows and the visual system are designed and prototyped, so you can review the actual experience rather than a description of it.
Working software in two-week increments, deployed to an environment you can use.
Each sprint begins with an agreed scope and ends with a demonstrable, deployed increment. You get a preview environment updated on every merge, a written summary each week, and direct access to the engineers doing the work. Automated tests, code review and continuous integration gate every change.
Testing, security review and performance work run throughout — never compressed into a final phase.
Unit, integration and end-to-end suites run on every commit. We add accessibility checks, dependency and secret scanning, load testing against expected peaks, and a manual review pass on critical flows. Defects are triaged against severity, and release is gated on the criteria agreed at discovery.
A rehearsed release with monitoring in place, a rollback path proven, and your team fully briefed.
We rehearse the cutover, migrate data with verified parity, and release progressively behind flags with monitoring and alerting already live. Documentation, runbooks and architecture notes are handed over alongside the source code, and we train the people who will operate the system.
Named engineers keep the system secure, fast and moving forward against a shared roadmap.
Post-launch, the same engineers monitor the system, respond to incidents against agreed severities, apply security and dependency updates on a schedule, and deliver new capability against a roadmap we review with you each quarter — with a written report on uptime, performance, security posture and technical debt.
Not status reports — a deployed increment in an environment you can open and use, updated on every merge.
There is no account layer between you and the people building your system. Questions get technical answers from the person who wrote the code.
When scope moves, we tell you in the week it happens, with the cost and the options — never in a month-end surprise.
Release is gated on the acceptance criteria agreed during discovery, with test, accessibility and performance results attached.