Services
Design and engineering under one roof.
What we do, what we build it with, and the three shapes an engagement can take.
AI-accelerated delivery
Senior engineers building with Claude Code and the rest of the current AI tooling. The tools draft the code, the tests, the migrations, and the first pass of a design. A named engineer reviews all of it before it ships. Client production data is never loaded into a model. Claude CodeCodexGPTGeminiGitHub CopilotAzure AI FoundryRovoMCP
Product & UX design
Interfaces for the people who will use them every day, on the web and on the phone. We do the business analysis first, so the design decisions have reasons behind them, and we build to WCAG 2.1 AA. AI interactive designFigmaStorybookDesign systemsHiggsfieldWCAG 2.1 AA
Software engineering
Applications that connect to the systems you already run. Older systems moved to current platforms with their data and their users intact. C# / .NET 8AngularReactTypeScriptNode.jsREST / OpenAPISQL ServerPostgreSQLMongoDBDocker
Cloud & deployments
Hosting on Azure or AWS, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure written as code. Each push deploys, and the record of what deployed is in the repository. AzureAWSBicep / TerraformDockerGitHub ActionsAzure DevOps
Quality assurance
Automated test coverage, written with the AI tools and reviewed by Victor, who runs QA across all of our programs. PlaywrightxUnitAzure Test PlansJiraClaudeCodex
iPhone & mobile
Native iOS applications, designed here, shipped to the App Store, and maintained afterward. Our own Deescalate app is one of them. SwiftSwiftUIXcodeApp Store delivery
AI coaching
Ellen works one to one with people who run small businesses and want to use these tools themselves. A free weekly newsletter, a monthly group session, or a 90-minute session on your own work. The details → ELI5 with EllenOffice hoursSetup Intensive
What an engagement looks like
Build, embed, or sprint
A partner leads every engagement. The scope is what changes.
01 / THE BUILD
Full software, from the first sketch to launch
Complete systems, not just a website or an app: the platform, the integrations, the data, and the web and mobile front ends. We learn how your business works before we design, then we build it and stay available as it grows.
02 / THE EMBED
A pilot inside your team
You already have engineers who have not shipped with AI tooling yet. One of ours joins for a quarter, works in your codebase to your standards, and leaves the habits behind. Not ready for that? Start with coaching for teams: Patrick, live, in your repository.
03 / THE SPRINT
Two to four weeks on one thing
A prototype to show customers, a report your team can read, or the integration that has been waiting for years. Fixed scope and a fixed price.
On money: sprints are quoted as a fixed price after a first conversation. Builds are estimated in phases, and you can stop after any phase. Embeds are a monthly rate. We will tell you the number before you have to ask.
How a project runs
Four steps, in this order, every time
Understand the work
We sit with the people who do the job now and watch how it actually goes, before anyone opens an editor.
Design it
Screens and flows shaped around that work, reviewed with you before they are built.
Build it
Code your own team could read and take over, written with AI tooling and reviewed by a senior engineer.
Ship it and stay
A deployment pipeline, automated tests, and someone to call when something changes.