Company Profile
It has been said there are two ways to build a business. You can either focus on building the tallest building or spend your time and energy tearing other buildings around you down. Let's work together to build, create, invent, not destroy.
Founded in Boulder, Colorado in 2016 we've had successful engagements in Chicago, Boulder, Manhattan, Portland, Oregon, and Las Vegas. We are remote-first and can help you establish the same culture. If you are interested in learning more about working together, our process, and how we can help, please reach out. A quiet warning though, we are very selective of who we work with and are always happy to refer out if we are not the right fit.
Engineering Principles
Five pillars that define our approach to building software
Obsession
We are craftsmen who architect systems worth defending. Every function, every test, every deployment receives obsessive attention to detail—because mediocrity ships bugs and technical debt compounds. With fifteen years building production systems for startups and enterprises alike, we've learned that excellence isn't an accident. It's a discipline we practice daily, tailoring our approach to each unique challenge.
Discipline
Whether augmenting your team or delivering standalone projects, we run on structured agile workflows—Kanban or Scrum, never waterfall, never chaos. When embedded with your engineers, we mentor and elevate—running pair programming sessions, conducting code reviews, and transferring knowledge that outlasts the engagement. All work is tracked hourly, invoiced weekly, on NET-7 terms. Product and engineering move as one unit toward shared milestones.
Innovation
We leverage cutting-edge tools and modern frameworks to build solutions that scale and last. From AI integration to cloud-native architecture, we deploy tomorrow's tooling today—because yesterday's stack becomes tomorrow's technical debt. Our automated testing and CI/CD pipelines ensure rapid, reliable deployments while maintaining the production stability your business depends on.
Results
We build partnerships around measurable outcomes, not feature bloat or vanity metrics. Every engagement we take on must move the needle and deliver clear value to your business. We focus on cost-effective solutions that drive real results, not gold-plated features nobody asked for. Your long-term success is the only KPI that matters.
Evidence
At our foundation, we believe automated tests are critical to shipping quality software. We advocate for community-driven coding standards, enforce style guides with linters, and grade our work with coverage metrics. We prove quality with data, not promises. If you're looking to cut corners on testing and quality, we're happy to refer you elsewhere.
Project Archive
With engagements helping small startups to large enterprises, we bring both technical knowledge and industry-leading processes to help you achieve your vision. We are not a cookie-cutter service provider. Through effective collaboration and tailoring the project to the needs of the business, we achieve project success.
Serenity
Commanding an agentic build system for a client-management SaaS platform serving a timeshare-relief and financial-recovery consulting firm: 20 instruction files, 2,926 lines, govern how AI writes the code. Built on Rails 8.1 and Ruby 4.0 with Solid Queue, Cache, and Cable running on PostgreSQL 17 instead of Redis, and a 63-table domain carved into 118 service objects. Claude Code runs recurring multi-agent security audits of the live app, five agents in parallel with runtime verification; MCP-driven Playwright suites test the app in a real browser; and AI-generated summaries ship in the product itself. More test code than application code, zero RuboCop violations, clean Brakeman, 600+ PRs in 7.5 months, still building.
SOFware
Engineered the qualification-tracking and scheduling capabilities U.S. Air Force Special Warfare units (JTAC, Combat Control, Special Tactics, TACP) rely on to manage operator training readiness under AFMAN 10-3500, serving as senior full-stack engineer across two Ruby on Rails applications and a shared gem, centered on an event-driven GraphQL domain. Built operator disenrollment end to end, from GraphQL API to dossier projections; designed a designation-scoped competency-construction API that applies JTAC requirements to individual operators; and led a CMMC security-hardening pass that protects CSV exports against spreadsheet formula injection.
Arthur Maxwell
Took an offline iPad-driven eLearning management and classroom application to the web for global enterprise clients, rebuilding it on Ruby on Rails with Hotwire (Turbo + Stimulus).
SafeAccess
Built the technical hiring pipeline and personally recruited the senior Ruby on Rails engineer who succeeded the co-founder and senior technical architect, securing continuity of innovation and application development.
Sidebench
Technical Architect for the Momints NFT Marketplace: drove the research and selection of scalable components, built the MVP, and produced the marketing materials. Authored the architecture package spanning system diagrams, server infrastructure, tech stack, third-party dependencies, data models, database schemas, and API specifications, giving the build team a straight line through development.
Advanced Building Technology
Led the rearchitecture of a website to a mobile-first responsive design in Ruby, cutting hosting costs, adding precise traffic measurement and monitoring, and sharpening the experience across mobile and tablet.
Eggplant
Integrated Microsoft Active Directory (LDAP) into the authorization layer of a test-management application on the Digital Automation Intelligence platform. Ran daily pair programming sessions that mentored junior engineers and sharpened team performance, and introduced RSpec to expand test coverage across the platform.
Crowd Ox
Raised a legacy code base to over 60% test coverage with 100% model coverage, migrating the Partner application's test suite from Minitest to RSpec while expanding platform features across three Ruby on Rails engines.
USA Today
Engineered a backend CMS with frontend content-creation interfaces and a responsive design that tightened user flows and elevated the customer experience.
W. W. Norton
Architected and shipped an interactive delivery platform serving over 300 interactives globally, and set the engineering bar for the team: GitFlow, code reviews, quality guidelines, and workflow management. Mentored junior engineers, raising their productivity and contributions.
Gathrly
Partnered with the founders to set the technical product roadmap and bring agile to the team. Led the design, engineering, and ongoing evolution of a lead management system for elite brewers, building a high-performance environment and mentoring junior engineers to raise their skills and output.
Products in the Fire
We're forging tools to solve real problems.
SAAS TOOLS
Subscription software that scales.
E-COMMERCE
Products you can buy and use.
OPEN SOURCE
We are all in this together.
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