Architecture before code
Every engagement starts with a written design doc and an explicit failure model. If we cannot describe how a system degrades, we are not ready to build it.
Who we are
An engineering practice, not an agency
A small group of infrastructure engineers who rebuild data platforms that have outgrown their original design. No account managers, no bench, no handoff to a delivery team you have never met.
Practice at a glance
- AUDIT, FIXED FEE, WRITTEN FINDINGS
- 2 weeks
- THE FINDINGS DOCUMENT, CONTINUE OR NOT
- Yours
- ENGINEER DESIGNS, BUILDS AND HANDS OVER
- One
- REPLY TO A NEW ENQUIRY
- 1 day
How we think
Four commitments that shape every engagement, in the order they tend to matter.
Correctness is not negotiable
Data products are trusted or they are worthless. We treat schema contracts, lineage, and reconciliation as first-class deliverables, not afterthoughts.
Measure, then optimise
No performance work without a baseline. We instrument first, find the actual bottleneck, and leave you the dashboards that prove the change landed.
Leave no black boxes
We hand over runbooks, architecture decision records, and a team that understands the system. Our success metric is that you no longer need us.
How an engagement runs
Four phases. Each ends in a deliverable you keep whether or not we continue.
- 01
Audit
Two weeks, fixed fee. We map your current stack, quantify the cost of the status quo, and deliver a written findings document. You own it whether or not we continue.
- 02
Design
A target architecture with explicit trade-offs, a migration path that keeps production running, and a cost model you can take to finance.
- 03
Build
Embedded engineers working in your repos, your CI, your on-call rotation. Shipped incrementally behind flags, never a big-bang cutover.
- 04
Handover
Documentation, runbooks, and paired on-call until your team is comfortable. We taper out deliberately rather than disappearing.
Tell us what's breaking.
You get a lead architect on the call, not a salesperson. If we are not the right fit we will say so and point you somewhere better.