Software & AI · Practice

Practical AI and software, built to ship and adopted by your people.

Product thinking, design and engineering in one team. We take ideas from first prototype to production and connect the systems your business already relies on.

Outcomes

Shipped in weeks

Two-week sprints with a working release at the end of each one.

Built to be used

Research and usability testing before we write production code.

Systems that talk

Clean APIs and integrations that remove double entry between tools.

Yours to keep

You own the code, the repositories and the documentation.

Capabilities

What Software & AI Engineering delivers

Applied AI

01AI agents & workflow automation

Agents that read, route and act on documents, tickets and orders — with human approval where it matters and full audit trails.

02Microsoft 365 Copilot enablement

Readiness, data-permission clean-up, rollout and adoption so Copilot works on your data without exposing it.

03AI readiness & governance

Use-case selection, risk assessment and policies that let your team use AI productively and safely.

Mobile

01Mobile application development

End-to-end app delivery — strategy, design, build, store submission and ongoing releases.

02iOS app development

Native Swift and SwiftUI apps that feel at home on iPhone and iPad.

03Android app development

Native Kotlin and Jetpack Compose apps tested across the device range your users carry.

04Cross-platform applications

React Native and Flutter apps that share one codebase across iOS and Android without feeling generic.

Web

01Custom web applications

Portals, dashboards and internal tools built on modern, well-supported frameworks.

02Progressive web applications (PWA)

Installable, offline-capable web apps that reach every device from one codebase.

Product

01MVP development

The smallest product that proves demand — scoped tightly, launched quickly, instrumented to learn.

02Startup product development

A fractional product and engineering team from pre-seed to scale, including technical due diligence support.

Integration

01API development

Secure, versioned, documented REST and GraphQL APIs your partners and apps can build on.

02API integration

Connecting payments, CRM, ERP, logistics and SaaS tools with robust error handling and monitoring.

03Systems integration

Middleware and event-driven pipelines that make separate systems behave as one.

Platforms we work with

SwiftKotlinReact NativeFlutterReactNext.jsNode.js.NETPythonPostgreSQL

How an engagement runs

Five stages, no surprises.

01 · Discover

A working session with your leadership and the people closest to the problem. We map goals, systems, constraints and what success is worth.

02 · Design

Architecture, scope, timeline and cost in one written proposal — with the trade-offs explained, so decisions are yours and informed.

03 · Build

Short delivery cycles with working software or infrastructure at each checkpoint, demos with your team and a shared board you can watch.

04 · Launch

Cut-over plans, rollback paths, performance testing and a hypercare period where the team that built it stays on call.

05 · Grow

Managed operations, monitoring and a growth backlog prioritised by impact — reviewed with you every month in plain language.

Engagement blueprint

Taking a startup from idea to market-ready product

A founding team with a validated problem, a funding runway and no in-house engineering team.

Our approach
  • Two-week discovery: user interviews, clickable prototype, scoped backlog
  • Cross-platform mobile app and web admin on a scalable cloud foundation
  • Analytics instrumented from the first release to learn from real use
  • Clean handover: code, documentation and hiring support for the first engineers
What we measure
Release cadenceevery two weeks
Crash-free sessionsmonitored from launch
Activation funnelinstrumented day one
Code ownershipyours from the first commit

Typical duration: 8–14 weeks. A blueprint of how we run this type of programme, not a client result.

Portfolio

Recent work

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FAQ

Software & AI Engineering: common questions

Straight answers to what comes up in almost every first conversation.

How long does an MVP take?

Most MVPs we scope land between eight and fourteen weeks from kickoff to launch. We agree the scope and timeline in writing before development begins.

Native or cross-platform?

Cross-platform suits most business apps and saves budget. Native is worth it when you need deep device features, the highest performance or platform-specific design. We recommend per project.

Who owns the code?

You do. Repositories live in your organisation’s account, and intellectual property transfers to you under our standard agreement.

Can you work with our existing developers?

Yes. We regularly join in-house teams to add capacity, lead architecture or take ownership of a specific workstream.

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Let's talk about software & ai engineering.

A 30-minute consultation with a senior consultant. You leave with a clear next step — whether or not it involves us.

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