A small engineering studio in Hyderabad · Building since 2022

New build or rebuild — websites, online stores, mobile apps, SaaS products, and the internal systems your team still runs by hand.

We scope to your budget.Itemised quote 48 hours after one call.
The code is yours, in your account.Your repo, your cloud, your keys — from week one.
You talk to the engineer who builds it.No account manager in between. That's the trade-off.
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Selected case study
Sales Force Automation Platform
Delivered
3×
Field productivity in 90 days
−78%
Order errors
120
Field agents on day one
What changed

Order errors down 78%. Field team productivity increased 3× within 90 days of go-live.

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Client names are anonymised; the delivery approach and results are documented.

2022building since
3products of our own
100%IP ownership
What we build

Four ways people arrive here. One of them is probably you.

If yours is something else, say so on the call — if it's outside what we're good at, we'll tell you rather than learn on your budget.

  1. Websites and online stores

    It's slow, it looks dated, and I can't change a line of text without a developer.

    Rebuilt on a modern stack — fast on an average phone, readable by Google, with a CMS your marketing person can actually use.

  2. An idea turned into a working product

    I know what I want to build. Nobody will tell me what it costs or what to build first.

    We cut it down to the one workflow that proves it, then build that properly — accounts, payments, admin panel, real users.

  3. The system your operations run on

    Orders arrive on WhatsApp and get retyped into Tally at night. Payroll takes three days.

    Field-sales apps that work offline on an entry-level Android. HR and payroll with PF, ESI, PT and TDS. We run two products of our own in this space.

  4. Fixing, extending and adding AI to what you have

    It mostly works, it breaks in the same place every month, and the person who built it has left.

    We take over existing codebases, usually starting with a paid audit: what's wrong, fix versus rebuild, and which one we'd choose.

No logo wall.Most of what we build is someone's payroll or order book, and those clients won't sign a public reference. So we describe the job instead — and if you want to speak to one before you sign, ask on the call.

Client testimonials

What our clients say about us

Founders, CTOs, and operations leaders on the projects we have shipped together — and the outcomes that followed.

HR Director
HR Management System
We onboarded to the HRMS Portal in a single day. Attendance, leave approvals, payroll — all automated. What used to take our HR team three days every month now takes three hours. The mobile app for employees has been a game-changer for our remote workforce spread across four states.

HR Director

Manufacturing · Pune

93%Time saved on payroll
500+Employees onboarded
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Plans

Three shapes of project, and what decides the number

No price list — the same brief costs very different amounts depending on what you already have. One 30-minute call, then an itemised written quote in 48 hours, yours to price other quotes against.

Starter

Marketing sites, landing pages, brochure sites

Quoted in 48 hoursitemised, in writing, after one 30-minute call
4 – 6 weeks 2 engineers + designer
Get a fixed quote
  • Corporate website (8 – 12 pages)
  • Product launch / landing page
  • Headless-CMS blog or careers site
  • Custom design (no templates)
  • Responsive · Lighthouse 90+
  • Headless CMS or WordPress
  • On-page SEO + sitemap
  • Contact / lead-gen forms
  • +2 more in this tier
Most chosen

Growth

Web apps, mobile apps, SaaS MVPs

Quoted in 48 hoursitemised per milestone, after one 30-minute call
8 – 14 weeks 3 engineers + designer
Build your product
  • Internal tools / admin portals
  • iOS + Android apps (RN / Flutter)
  • B2B SaaS MVP with auth & billing
  • Full-stack web or mobile build
  • REST / GraphQL API + docs
  • Auth (SSO + RBAC)
  • Cloud deploy (AWS / GCP / Vercel)
  • CI/CD + observability
  • +4 more in this tier

Scale

SaaS platforms, AI products, enterprise systems

Quoted per phaseyou approve and pay one phase at a time
12+ weeks · ongoing The whole team, one project at a time
Talk to our team
  • Multi-tenant SaaS with billing
  • AI features (RAG · agents · evals)
  • Enterprise platforms with SLA
  • The founding engineers on your project
  • Multi-tenant architecture
  • AI / LLM integrations (Claude · GPT)
  • Audit logs + SOC 2-aligned controls
  • Roadmap & architecture consulting
  • +3 more in this tier

Every quote is itemised — design, frontend, backend, infra, QA, PM — so you see exactly where the money goes. What moves the price Get a free written estimate

Who we are

A smaller team. Closer to the work.

You work directly with the engineers who scope and build your product. Here are the trade-offs, stated plainly.

  • We're not a 200-person firm, and sometimes we can't start until next quarter.
    The engineers who scope your project are the ones who build it. There is no delivery team to hand it to.
  • No account manager, no 24/7 desk, no follow-the-sun rotation.
    The direct number of the engineer who built your system, and a two-hour response target in business hours — in the contract.
  • We won't be the cheapest quote you get. If you need a brochure site up this month, buy the cheap one.
    You're paying for a system someone else can maintain — and an engineer who still answers the phone in year two.
  • Blockchain, games, embedded firmware — we say no rather than learn on your budget.
    Four things, done often enough that we know where they go wrong: sites and stores, products from an idea, internal systems, and rescuing someone else's code.
  • We don't hold your code, cloud account or keys as leverage.
    Everything is in your accounts from week one. If you stop working with us tomorrow, nothing stops running.

A small engineering studio in Hyderabad, working since 2022. For manufacturers, distributors, clinics, retailers and training companies — plus three products of our own.

Engineering Workflow

How we build software

Six steps, first call to handover — the same whether the build is four weeks or four months.

Step 01
Discovery & Scoping
Discovery
We map your goals, users and constraints, then write a scope document you can hold us to.
Discovering
Step 02
Architecture & System Design
Architecture
Database schema, API contracts and cloud infrastructure, all defined before production code is written.
Architecting
Step 03
UI / UX Design
Design
Wireframes through to clickable prototypes, running in parallel with architecture so the build starts unblocked.
Designing
Step 04
Agile Development
Build phase
Working software demoed every sprint, on a Linear / Jira board you can see, with mandatory code review.
Building
Step 05
QA, Security Audit & Testing
Pre-launch
Manual QA, automated coverage and performance testing against real data volumes. Third-party pen tests are scoped separately — we don't audit our own work and call it independent.
Hardening
Step 06
Deployment & Post-Launch Support
Launch + ongoing
Zero-downtime deploy to your cloud, then incident response, monitoring and roadmap support.
Launching

Deliverables for every step

Comparison

When to hire us, and when to hire someone else

Scored the way we would score them on a call. We lose the first four rows — if those matter most to you, hire the other column.

FeatureRecommendedUsa small studioA freelanceror a two-person shopA large IT firm50+ people, tiered
Lowest price
Can start immediately
Scales to 50+ people if you need it
24/7 support desk
Same people scope it and build it
Keeps running if one person leaves
Code in your repo from week one
Written quote within 48 hours
Will take over code someone else wrote
Working demo every two weeks
  • UsUSa small studio
    A freelanceror a two-person shop
    A large IT firm50+ people, tiered
Full support Partial Not available
    Start a project

    Tell us what you're building

    An engineer reads it and replies within 24 hours. After a 30-minute call you get an itemised written quote within 48 hours — the scope, what is excluded, the timeline and the price. Yours to keep and to price other quotes against.

    1. Submit your brief
    A paragraph is enough. What you want built, or what you already have that isn't working.
    2. 30-min discovery call
    The engineer who would build it. We will say on this call if we are the wrong fit.
    3. Written proposal
    Fixed price, milestone plan, what is out of scope. Yours whether you hire us or not.
    You'll hear back from a real engineer, not a sales bot
    Project briefTakes 2 minutes

    Send a project brief

    Four fields. An engineer reads it, not a CRM.

    Encrypted · Never shared · A real engineer replies within 24 hours

    From the blog

    Insights from our engineering team

    Practical lessons from real projects — architecture, performance, and delivery patterns we use to ship enterprise software.

    Sales team in a modern boardroom reviewing distribution performance on a large screen
    Field Sales Automation11 min

    FMCG SFA Rollout: 300 Field Reps from Day One — No Hiccup

    Sales-Force-Automation deployments fail because the field reps refuse to use the app. Here's how we shipped an FMCG distributor's SFA mobile app to 300+ reps with 94% daily-active adoption in the first month.

    Diverse team of HR professionals reviewing payroll data on a laptop in a modern office
    HR Tech9 min

    Manufacturing HRMS Rebuild: Payroll from 3 Days to 4 Hours

    A manufacturing client was burning a full HR week every month on payroll. We rebuilt their HRMS in 14 weeks — payroll now closes in an afternoon, and attrition is down 23%.