Bring us the idea
You come with a rough idea. We ask the awkward questions, work out what it should be, and price it before anyone starts.
Open for projectsTell us what you're building
SOFTWARE THAT STAYS RUNNING
Independent software engineering studio in Zürich. We build software for other companies, and we build products of our own and keep them running.
What we get hired for
Four things, and all four are ours to do. Every picture here is working; have a play with it.
01
Starting from scratch
You tell us what the business needs to do. We work out what it should be, build it, and put it in front of your customers.
- We work out what it should be, not just build what you asked for
- A date and a price before anything starts
- In front of your customers in weeks, not quarters
02
Websites and web apps
The part your customers touch. Fast on the first visit, and still fast when a thousand of them arrive at once.
- Quick on the first visit and quick at a thousand
- Found on Google, and readable by the assistants people ask
- Built for the phone somebody is actually holding
- Largest paint0.9 s
- Interaction210 ms
- Layout shift0.14
Under a second
03
The part nobody sees
Payments, bookings, accounts, hosting. This is what decides whether your product holds up on a bad day.
- Money in from customers and out to whoever is owed it
- Bookings, accounts, and who is allowed to see what
- Holds up on the day everybody arrives at once
04
After launch
We host it, we watch it, and we keep it working as the business asks more of it than it was built for.
- We host it, watch it and keep it updated
- Somebody is woken before your customers notice
- It keeps changing, because the business does
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- Operational
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
Six weeks agoThe last six weeks, a day at a timeToday
All systems normal
08:12And six more things we build
Mobile apps, desktop software, infrastructure, AI inside the product, old software moved onto new technology, and somebody to ask before you decide anything.
How it actually goes
Four steps. You see the real thing working in the second one.
Build it in the open
You get a working version in the first weeks and watch it take shape, instead of waiting for a reveal.
Launch
It goes live, we keep an eye on it, and anything that goes wrong can be undone.
Keep it running
Handed to your team with everything written down, or kept running by us. Both are normal here.
Fixed price, One team, start to finish, Live in weeks, Found on Google, We host it, We keep it running, We pick up the phone, Built in Zürich
What it costs
You get the number before anyone starts, and it is the number, not an estimate that moves later. These are the floors: where a project lands depends on what it turns out to be.
Website
FromCHF 5,000
Pages that tell people who you are and what you sell. Somebody reads it and gets in touch.
- Designed and built around your business, not dropped into a template
- Found on Google: technical SEO and the structured data behind it
- Readable by AI assistants, so you turn up when somebody asks one
- Content you can change yourself, without calling us
- Built for the markets you actually sell in
- Hosting, domain and the certificate, all handled by us
- Live in three to six weeks
Web app
Most asked forFromCHF 10,000
Where people sign in and do something. Accounts, payments, bookings, anything that has to remember what happened.
- Everything the website has
- Customer accounts, sign-in and permissions
- Take payments and pay people out
- The admin side your team actually runs it from
- Built to hold up at a thousand customers, not ten
- Hosted, watched and backed up by us
- Scoped and priced before a line is written
Something else
Let us talk
Consulting, infrastructure, a rescue, or a pair of hands in your team for a few months. If it fits neither box, it gets its own number.
- Consulting: a second opinion on a build, an architecture or a hire
- Infrastructure: hosting, deployments and the monitoring that wakes somebody
- Rescue work on a project that stalled
- Fixed price or by the day, whichever suits the work
- No number until we both understand it
Not sure which one yours is? That is the normal state of affairs, and working it out is the first thing we do. Tell us roughly what you have in mind and you get back which box it falls in and what it costs, before anything is agreed.
Answers to your questions
A website is usually three to six weeks from the go-ahead. Anything people sign into depends on what it has to do, and we give you a date with the price, before anything starts. If a date matters more than a feature, say so early and we will build around it.
We talk first, and nothing is signed until we both know what the thing is. Then you get a contract with a fixed price in it. Half is paid before we start, we build, and the rest is due once the work is finished and in your hands. No hourly bills arriving every month, and nothing to pay while you are still deciding.
It depends on the project, and it is a monthly amount you know before we start. It covers keeping the thing online and working: the servers it runs on, the updates, the backups, and somebody watching it. For as long as it is paid, your project keeps running. The day you want to take it somewhere else, you can.
We can, or you can. If you already have a domain we move it across without the site going dark. If you do not, we buy the one you want, point it at the site, set up the certificate so it loads securely, and get mail on your own name working. The domain is registered to you, never to us.
Usually, yes. We take over projects somebody else built, work alongside an in-house team, and pick up where another agency stopped. We will tell you honestly if starting again is cheaper than repairing, including when that answer costs us the bigger job.
Someone who can make decisions and about an hour a week. Not a brief, not a specification, not a committee. If you have a document already, good; if you have an idea and a problem, that is enough to start.
It does not. We agree a fixed price for an agreed scope, and if we get our own estimate wrong, that is ours to absorb. If you change what you want halfway through, we price that change and you decide before we build it.
Let's hear the idea.
No form. A few lines about what you have in mind is enough, and you get an answer from a person.