Send us the work
No CV-first applications. Send a system you have shipped and a paragraph on what broke. We read every one.
Two hundred of us, across three studios, hold one bar. If you’ve shipped systems that earned the right to keep running — read on.
Engagements begin with a week of sitting next to the people who will use the thing. The first artefact is not a deck — it is a list of workarounds.
We measure ourselves on adoption six quarters past handover. If the in-house team has reverted to the old way, we did not ship — we delivered.
Tactics change every quarter; clarity does not. We optimise for the engineer who inherits the system, not the one who wrote it.
Strong opinions, weakly held, in writing. The architects’ line is a meritocracy of arguments — not seniority, not volume.
No CV-first applications. Send a system you have shipped and a paragraph on what broke. We read every one.
A two-hour conversation with two operators on the line. We bring an open problem from a live programme. You bring how you would think about it.
Paid. Inside a real engagement. You meet the team, the cadence, and the bar. If it is mutual, you are on the bench.
We hire only when there is a programme to hold. Don’t see your shape on the bench? Send us the work anyway — we keep an unsolicited list and call back when the brief lands.
Backend & platform. You have shipped multi-tenant systems at scale and care more about the on-call rotation than the framework war.
React, TypeScript, design systems. You can hold the line on accessibility and performance when product is pushing for one more surface.
You have been the named throat to choke on a live programme. Comfortable in the executive room and the deploy log on the same Tuesday.
You have shipped one model into production that was still being used six months later. You can talk drift, evals, and adoption — not benchmarks.
Systems-minded. You have led the surface design on enterprise products where the operator is the user — not the buyer.
Programme operator. You enable in-house teams until they ship without us, then write the playbook so the next team does the same.
A system you’ve shipped. A paragraph on what broke. A sentence on what you would do differently. That is the shape of every application we read carefully.