Our process - How a project actually runs
Three phases. Work out what we are building, build it in short cycles, then ship it with the tests, the pipeline, and the documentation already in place.
Discover
Every project opens with requirements analysis and conversations with the people who will live with the result. The constraints usually matter more than the goals at this stage, and they are the part most briefs leave out.
We look at the systems already in place, find where the new work has to connect, and check technical feasibility before anyone starts arguing about the stack.
What comes out is a project roadmap: milestones, a technical direction, and an order of work you can push back on.
Included in this phase
- Requirements analysis
- Technical feasibility studies
- User experience research
- Architecture planning
- Technology stack evaluation
- Project roadmap creation
Build
Development runs in short cycles with continuous integration and frequent feedback. Clean code and real tests start with the first commit rather than the week before launch.
Regular reviews keep the priorities visible. That short loop leaves room for the product to improve while the goals, budget, and timeline agreed in discovery stay intact.
Unit, integration, and acceptance tests get written along the way. The point is software the next developer can read and change.
Short cycles are less about speed than about changing our minds cheaply. A wrong assumption caught in week two costs a conversation. The same one caught in month four costs a rewrite.
Deliver
Delivery starts with quality assurance, performance checks, and a security review on the platforms and devices the product actually has to run on.
Releases move through staging and production on automated CI/CD pipelines, with monitoring in place and a rollback path we have run at least once.
After launch you get documentation, a real handover, and ongoing support for as long as it is useful. The goal is a team that does not need us.
Included in this phase
- Quality assurance. Unit, integration, and acceptance tests, plus the accessibility and performance checks that usually get skipped.
- Production deployment. Automated releases with a staging environment, monitoring, and a rollback we have actually tested.
- Documentation and support. Technical docs written for whoever inherits the code, a handover session, and support after it.
Our values - What we hold to
We like new tools. We like working software more, so anything new has to still look like a good idea a year from now.
- Meticulous. Architecture, code, accessibility, and the last five per cent of the interface all get the same attention.
- Efficient. Proven patterns and a small set of tools. Most of the complexity in a codebase was optional at some point.
- Adaptable. Requirements change. We build the foundation so that changing them later is a task instead of a rewrite.
- Transparent. You see the progress and the tradeoffs as they happen, including the ones that are inconvenient for us.
- Collaborative. We work as part of your team, in your tools, with your context.
- Innovative. We try new tools on our own products first. Whatever survives that reaches yours.