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Backend & API engineering

Connect the moving parts.

Reliable APIs, thoughtful data models and integrations that help your digital product work as one system.

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Connected systems

Bring the moving parts together.

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A considered approach

Built on understanding.
Delivered with care.

Good integration design accounts for missing data, duplicated events and unavailable services. We plan contracts, permissions and failure handling alongside the happy path.

What we can help with

  • API contracts and database design
  • Authentication and authorisation
  • Webhooks and third-party integrations
  • Background processing and retries
  • Logging and performance reviews
A considered engagement

Know what you are
agreeing to build.

01 / SCOPE

A defined first phase.

Discovery identifies the users, priorities, dependencies and acceptance criteria. We distinguish an initial release from later improvements before proposing delivery milestones.

02 / RESPONSIBILITIES

A shared delivery plan.

Agree who provides content, access and decisions. Clarify third-party costs, review dates, change requests and any procurement or data requirements in the proposal.

03 / OWNERSHIP

A clear route after launch.

Settle source access, licences, environment documentation and maintenance responsibilities in writing. Support hours and response targets depend on the agreed service arrangement.

Make the work tangible

Clear outputs.
At every milestone.

We agree the exact deliverables during discovery. A considered engagement makes both progress and responsibilities visible.

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Before the build

A shared problem statement, prioritised requirements, integration assumptions and acceptance criteria.

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During delivery

Working increments, review notes, test evidence and decisions recorded against the agreed scope.

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At handover

Agreed source access, environment documentation, release notes and a clear maintenance arrangement.

A practical path forward.

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Discover

Understand the people, the problem and what success should look like.

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Design

Make the important decisions tangible through journeys and prototypes.

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Build

Develop in clear milestones, with regular reviews and testing.

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Evolve

Launch with a handover plan and keep improving with evidence.

Can you integrate our existing tools?

We review vendor APIs, access permissions, data ownership, usage limits and failure modes before committing to a scope.

How much will my project cost?

Pricing depends on scope, integrations, design, data and delivery constraints. Use the project planner to organise your requirements, then request a proposal. We do not publish unapproved indicative prices.

What happens after launch?

We agree a handover and maintenance plan, including ownership of hosting, monitoring, updates and support. Service levels are defined in the contract.

Connected expertise.

Mobile app development

From a first tap to a daily habit. We design and build iOS, Android and cross-platform apps around the people who use them.

iOS & Android · Flutter · React Native

Web development

Customer-facing websites, ambitious SaaS platforms and internal tools. Built to work beautifully on every screen.

Web applications · SaaS · Customer portals

AI & automation

Put AI to work on a real business problem. Useful assistants, connected workflows and knowledge tools, with people in control.

AI assistants · Knowledge search · Workflows

Your next chapter.
Let’s build it together.

Bring the idea. We’ll help you find the right way forward.

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Explore the service

Make every connection count.

Select a perspective to explore the approach, decisions and deliverables for your project.

Illustrative contracts and data photography01 / Contracts and data

Agree what each system owns.

Define schemas, validation, permissions and versioned API contracts before integrating independently changing systems.

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01API contracts
02Data ownership
03Validation rules
WHY THIS MATTERS

Clear contracts give each integration a shared definition of inputs, outputs and failure behaviour.

WHAT WE DEFINE TOGETHERAPI specification and data model
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