A typical engagement
What a delivery actually looks like: three phases, each with a concrete output you can hold. The shape flexes to the problem - this is the most common path from first conversation to production.
Product mapping with Value Stream
Before anything gets built, the product gets mapped - using the Value Stream method: the one-line pitch, the full board of experiences, activities, and components, personas with their key interaction moments, and the explicit list of what this product is NOT. Product and engineering work from the same map for the rest of the engagement.
Engineering PoC
The smallest slice that touches reality end to end: real input goes in, the processing is observable, real output comes out. Built on the actual stack, not a throwaway - the PoC is the first vertical cut of the system, and it exists to answer the questions the board raised with running code.
MVP
The PoC hardened into a product: the narrow feature set defined on the board, built to production patterns, with environments, CI/CD, and the operational pieces that make a deploy boring. Delivery by your team with us embedded, or by ours - either way the patterns are yours to extend.
An example stack
The typical shape for greenfield engagements - or net-new capability built alongside an existing stack: two repositories, the product and the infrastructure that runs it. Concrete, boring on purpose, and reproducible from a clean machine.
- Mono repo, with a readme that gets you running
- Controlled base images first, then local Docker builds for every service
- Java Spring Boot backend services - or Python FastAPI with SQLAlchemy
- Python ML services where the product needs them - embeddings, vectors, topic models
- React front end
- PostgreSQL - with pgvector when the product retrieves
- The whole stack runs on one machine with docker-compose, auth mocked for local dev
- Air-gapped Docker builds - base images built from source, no surprise pulls
- Terraform end to end - VPC, EKS, RDS, DNS, certs - with remote state
- Kubernetes manifests templated and rendered per environment
- Infra-ops separated from infra - post-provision steps (databases, roles, users) scripted
- CI/CD as code, wired to your preferred provider - or as plain scripts with no CI server at all
- Multi-environment from day one - adding one is a runbook, not a project
The Terraform module library
Provisioning is composed from modules we maintain and reuse across engagements:
Auth and identity
Identity is usually the first hard integration. The pieces we wire regularly:
Available templates
Engagements never start from an empty folder. Working scaffolds, each with its containerized build:
Walk us through what you want to ship.
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