Expertise

What we take on — and what we turn down.

Three services, not a catalogue. They follow on from one another naturally: we build, we operate, we equip your teams. Each can be bought on its own.

01

Design
& build

The most common arrangement: a scoping increment, then delivery increments of two to four weeks.

Bespoke business application

When the spreadsheet has hit its limit and no off-the-shelf software fits the business. Public front end, customer area, back office: a single coherent product.

Taking over an existing system

Legacy application, supplier gone, debt piled up. We always start with a written assessment: what holds, what breaks, what it costs to keep.

Integrations & automation

Payment, invoicing, signature, transactional email, connections between existing tools. Webhooks are the source of truth, never what the browser displays.

Mock-up and scoping only

Clickable screens, architecture, costing. Delivered in two to three weeks, and yours. You take them with you, even if you have the build done elsewhere.

What each increment delivers

  • The feature in production, or on a usable acceptance environment.
  • Its automated tests, run by continuous integration on every change.
  • Documentation updated in the same commit as the code — not “later”.
  • The architectural decisions taken during the increment, written down and dated.
  • Full access to the repository and the infrastructure, in your name.
02

Administer
& operate

Monthly fee, written scope, cancellable quarterly. No minimum term: if we are useful, you stay.

A delivered application is not a finished application. Certificates expire, dependencies age, volumes grow, laws change. Operations is the work you only notice when it isn't being done.

Operations services in detail
ServiceWhat it coversFrequency
Managed hosting Servers, certificates, domain names, firewall, containers, system updates. continuous
Backups Database and files, encrypted, off the production server — and actually restored once a quarter. daily
Monitoring Availability, application errors, disk saturation, stuck queues. Alerted before the client calls. continuous
Fixes Blocking defects handled first, security patches applied without waiting for the next increment. as they arise
Operations report What happened, what was fixed, what is ageing and will need attention. Two pages, readable. monthly
03

Deploy your AI capability

With our expertise, on your code, with your teams. By the day or as monthly support, on site or remotely.

Every team has tried. Few have gained anything lasting — because the difficulty isn't the tool, it is what you entrust to it, what you deny it, and the discipline that has to exist before it. That is exactly what we put in place.

Define the permitted uses — and the prohibited ones

What is entrusted to the tools, what never is, which data leaves under no circumstances, where human review sits. A written policy that is workable and enforceable — the document almost every team starting out is missing.

Set up the whole chain

Tools installed and configured on your repository, conventions written down, systematic review, continuous integration that blocks, decisions recorded. Without that foundation, what AI mainly accelerates is the production of debt.

Bring the team up to speed

On your code, on your real tickets, not on an exercise. We work alongside the developers until they no longer need us — the only measure of success that counts.

Keep it going

Half a day a week or a fortnight: decisions, review, unblocking, and the architecture review that keeps things on course. The most effective arrangement when the team already exists and what it lacks is technical direction.

What we do not promise

  • No productivity percentage announced in advance: the gain depends on your codebase, not on our sales pitch.
  • No job cuts in the plan: a well-equipped team delivers more, it does not get smaller. If that is the objective, we are not the right firm.
  • No tool imposed: we install what holds up in your context, including sovereign hosting or a model running on your own premises if that is what it takes.

Straight talk

What we don't do

Saying no early costs a conversation. Saying no late costs a project.

  • The four-page brochure site. Excellent freelancers do that better and cheaper; we'll give you two names.
  • Time-and-materials work with no written scope. That is the arrangement that produces projects nobody is answerable for.
  • Taking over code without the right to fix it. We don't commit to the reliability of a system we aren't allowed to touch.
  • A fixed-price quote for a need that hasn't been scoped. Scoping is an increment, short and invoiced; it may well conclude with “don't do it”.
  • Availability promises we could not keep. A firm this size provides agreed on-call cover, not heroic 24/7.

Invoicing

Three arrangements, no catches

Scoping

Short fixed price

Two to three weeks. Deliverables: clickable screens, written architecture, breakdown into increments, a cost for each increment. They are yours to keep, whatever happens next.

Fixed amount, stated before we start.

Development

Per increment

Each increment is costed and approved separately, on the basis of the scoping. You can stop between two increments: what has been delivered already works.

Invoiced on delivery of the increment.

Operations

Monthly fee

Written scope, hosting costs passed on to the last franc, with no hidden margin. Cancellable quarterly.

No minimum term.

Rates in CHF, excluding VAT. A written quote every time; no work starts without a signed order.

The simplest thing is to talk it through.

Describe the need in three lines; we reply within two working days, candidly.

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