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Custom Software & Product Engineering

From a blank page to a product in production.Discovery, architecture, build and launch for teams turning an idea into a business — with the engineering decisions made by people who have done it for themselves.

Overview

We run two of our own products. KisanGyan is live on Google Play; Nivista is in beta. That experience changes how we advise clients, because we have personally paid for every shortcut we recommend against.

Product engineering is largely the practice of deciding what not to build. A first version should be embarrassingly narrow and unreasonably solid in that narrow slice. We help you find that slice, build it properly, put it in front of real users, and then grow it based on what they actually do.

Capabilities

What we build

Everything below is Product Engineering work we have shipped to production.

Product discovery

A structured two-to-three week sprint: user interviews, competitive teardown, feature prioritisation, architecture outline, risk register and a costed delivery plan. You leave with a specification, whoever ends up building it.

MVP development

A genuinely shippable first version — auth, payments, the core workflow, analytics and an admin console — in weeks rather than quarters.

Architecture & technical due diligence

Reviewing an existing codebase before an acquisition, a funding round or a rebuild. You get a written assessment of scalability, security, cost and technical debt, with a remediation plan.

Rescue & modernisation

Inheriting a stalled or abandoned project, stabilising it, and getting it back to a releasable state. We start with a diagnostic, not a rewrite proposal.

Dedicated product teams

A senior squad — engineering, design and delivery — working as your product team on a monthly engagement, in your tools and your standups.

Fractional CTO

For founders without a technical co-founder: hiring, architecture decisions, vendor selection, security posture and board-level technical reporting.

Technology

What we build it with

Backend

Python 3.12FastAPISQLAlchemy 2.0AlembicCelery / ARQ

Frontend

ReactTypeScriptNext.jsFlutter (mobile)

Data

PostgreSQL 16RedispgvectorPostGISS3-compatible object storage

Practices

Trunk-based developmentTyped contractsAutomated migrationsFeature flags

Deliverables

What you get

  • Product specification and prioritised backlog
  • System architecture with the trade-offs written down
  • Working software in production, deployed and monitored
  • Analytics instrumentation tied to your actual success metrics
  • Admin console so your operations team is not dependent on engineers
  • A 12-month technical roadmap with cost projections

Delivery

How the engagement runs

Same five stages every time, so you always know what week you are in and what comes next.

01

Discover

We start by understanding the business, not the feature list. Who is the user, what decision are they trying to make, what does success look like in numbers, and what is genuinely fixed versus assumed. Usually this reshapes the brief.

02

Design

Flows before pixels, then high-fidelity screens covering every state that matters — including the empty, offline and error states most projects discover late. Architecture is decided here too, and written down with its trade-offs.

03

Build

Two-week iterations, something in a real environment every single week, and a demo you can use rather than a status report you have to read. Typed contracts and CI keep the frontend and backend honest with each other.

04

Ship

Launch is a process, not a date: staged rollout, monitoring and alerting live before the first user, store submissions prepared against current policy, and a rollback path that has been tested rather than assumed.

05

Scale

After launch the questions change: what do users actually do, where does it cost too much, what breaks first at ten times the load. We instrument, review monthly, and plan the next quarter from evidence.

FAQ

Product Engineering questions

For a mobile or web product with authentication, one core workflow, payments and an admin panel, most engagements land in a predictable band that we quote precisely after discovery. What moves the number is integration count and compliance scope, not screen count — and we would rather show you that reasoning than hand you a single figure with nothing behind it.

Let us talk about your Product Engineering project.

Tell us the problem and the constraints. You will get an honest read on scope, timeline and whether we are the right people for it.