Build
Ship what needs to ship.
MVPs, sprints, cloud platforms, data pipelines, agentic systems, modernisation. When you know what to build and want it in production, not in a slide deck, this is where the work happens. Fixed price where the scope allows, custom where it needs to.
Every build shape we run
Fixed-price where it fits, bespoke where it needs to.
Seven shapes, from a productised three-week sprint at $40K to cross-capability engagements scoped from an assessment. Regardless of shape, the standard is the same: production-ready, documented, and yours to own.
PAID · $40K PER SPRINT
3-Week Build Sprint
Fixed scope per sprint, fixed price, deployable at the end. Most MVPs ship in two or three of these. Auth, payments, admin, CI/CD, the lot. You own the code and the infrastructure at handover.
3 weeks per sprint
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MVP Development
A full v1 build, typically eight to twelve weeks. Architecture and stack are decided in the MVP Diagnostic, so the price is fixed before a line of code is written. Production-ready at ship, not a prototype.
8 to 12 weeks
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Legacy Modernisation
Strangler-fig migrations that run in production the whole time. Phased delivery with milestone reviews, zero-downtime cutover, and a written knowledge transfer to your team at the end of every phase.
Phased, milestone-based
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Cloud Infrastructure Build
Production cloud platforms on AWS, GCP, or Azure. IaC, CI/CD, observability, cost engineering, on-call runbooks. Built to a standard where your team can operate it after we leave, not a bespoke handoff nightmare.
Scoped per engagement
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Data Platform Build
Pipelines, warehouses, real-time analytics, medallion architectures. Whether the goal is trustworthy reporting or feeding an ML model, the platform underneath needs the same discipline we brought to Princeton and Pixlise.
Scoped per engagement
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AI and Agentic Systems Build
Agentic workflows, RAG systems, ML pipelines, evaluation harnesses. Systems that work in production, not just a notebook. The unglamorous data and infra work is where most projects fail, and where most of ours lives.
Scoped per engagement
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Custom Engagement
Cross-capability work that pulls from more than one of the shapes above. Scoped from an Assessment so the price and delivery plan are on paper before we start.
Scoped from an assessment
Talk to TomHow a build runs
Written scope, weekly check-ins, yours to own.
Step 01
Book a call
A twenty-minute call so we can hear the shape of what you want built. If a diagnostic or assessment is the right first move, we say so. If a build sprint is ready to run, we scope it.
Step 02
Scope on paper
Fixed price, fixed timeline, named deliverables. Every build the studio runs starts with a written scope so the ship date is not a moving target.
Step 03
Sprint delivery
Weekly written check-ins, working code at every milestone, a deployable increment every sprint. No black-box weeks, no surprise re-plans.
Step 04
Handover
Documentation, runbooks, and a live walkthrough. Your team owns the code and the infrastructure at the end. We are on the phone for the first two weeks free.
Related work
Things we built that shipped.

NASA / JPL
Pixlise
Cloud backend for the Perseverance rover's PIXL instrument. NASA Software of the Year runner-up, 2023.
Read case studyCompliance / Global advisory (NDA)
Sanctions-Compliance Platform
A regulator-grade platform replacing Excel-based AML and KYC across 20+ financial institutions. Thirty engineers, one codebase.
Read case studyEnergy / Blackbrook
Blackbrook Hydro
Sensor networks and AI-assisted PLC programming that brought intelligent automation to legacy hydroelectric plants.
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