Independent software consultancy · since 2017
We build the parts of your product you can't afford to get wrong
Payments and subscription billing built from scratch, designed to reconcile across charges, payouts, refunds, and disputes. Background jobs that run untended at high volume, designed to be idempotent so retries and duplicate runs are safe. Integrations built so failures surface instead of passing silently. This is the backend and full-stack work where mistakes are expensive, and we build it that way. Increasingly that includes building AI into those systems, where it has to be reliable, not just impressive.
- SaaS, marketplaces, and e-commerce
- Architecture through deployment
- From MVP to production, built to last
The work that's expensive to get wrong
Most of what we do is the work where the numbers have to add up, the jobs have to keep running, and failures need to surface loudly. Four things we go deepest on:
Payments and billing
Stripe Connect marketplace payments, subscription billing, automated payouts, and remittance, on platforms up to tens of millions of dollars a year. Built for the awkward case: a refund or chargeback means reversing the original transfer and then debiting the merchant for whatever that reversal doesn't cover, and all of it still has to reconcile.
Background-job infrastructure
Scheduling and queued background work in Python and Celery, at tens of thousands of runs a day across thousands of sites, designed to be idempotent so a missed run or a double run is safe rather than costly, and aware of which schedules are still entitled to run.
Integrations and reliability
Third-party APIs and webhooks, plus the reliability layer built so failures surface instead of passing silently: retries, idempotency keys, dead-letter handling, alerting, and the real-time monitoring and analytics that show where to refine next.
AI and LLM integration
LLM features in production, retrieval over your own data, and tool-calling agents, kept inside a scaffold that stays deterministic where it can and returns output your system will accept. Plus the layer most AI work skips: evals, regression tests, guardrails, fallbacks, and cost and latency control. Built to be reliable, not just impressive.
And the rest of the full-stack picture
High-volume data
Import, export, and sync pipelines carrying full detail for 100,000+ items a night, plus a near real-time path for what can't wait.
Reporting and dashboards
The numbers and views that sit on top of all of it, accurate and fast.
General backend and web
At the core we're senior full-stack engineers. A focused fix or a build from scratch both fit.
The stack we reach for
Deep in the PHP and Laravel world, with Python and Celery for scheduled and background work, comfortable across the front end, and at home on the infrastructure side. The tools matter less than knowing where things break.
Backend
Payments & billing
Front end
Data
Infra & delivery
WordPress and WooCommerce when a project calls for it, including wiring everything above into an existing WP or Woo site.
Three ways to put us to work
Prove an idea with an MVP
Take a new idea from zero to a working MVP to test marketability, built production-grade underneath so the version that proves out is the one you scale, not one you throw away.
Own it end to end
Hand us a hard system and we'll take it from architecture through deployment and maintenance, and stay accountable for it running in production.
Step into an existing codebase
Drop us into what you've already got to push a specific piece forward: a focused fix, a thorny integration, or the part nobody wants to touch.
Coding Chicken, since 2017
We've been building backend and full-stack systems for SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and e-commerce for close to a decade. The serious part is the work: money that has to move correctly, jobs that have to run, integrations that have to hold. The chicken is just proof there are real people back here who enjoy it.
One thing we've shipped publicly: a free JetEngine importer add-on for WP All Import on WordPress.org. It's a small example of the integration work, not the main event. See more of what we've built →
Have something expensive to get wrong?
Tell us what you're building and where it's getting hard. We'll tell you straight whether it's a fit.