I have an idea and a budget
You know what you want to build and how much you can spend. You need to work out what fits that budget.
We agree on the first useful version, then design and build it in sprints you can review.
We turn napkin
ideas into
shipped products. No fluff. Just results.
Your first product. Your next chapter. The thing everyone said was too complicated. We design and build the software that gets you there.
A free 30-minute conversation. Directly with the builders.
Independent minds. Software That Ships.
Based in Australia Building since 2015
Find your starting pointDifferent starting points.
Same forward motion.
Start with the problem, not an agency package. Find the bit that sounds like you.
I have a product that needs rebuilding or improving
Your product needs new features or has become slow or hard to change. You want to improve it without starting over.
We review the existing system and scope the changes that address the problem. You see the results after each sprint.
I have a platform that needs engineering depth
Your platform handles money, identity or time-sensitive data. Failures need to be detected and handled, including when an external service goes down.
We design the checks, recovery paths and records needed to operate the system and investigate failures.
Less pitch.
More proof.
Real software. Real complexity. A product history we’re happy to put under the microscope.
View all case studiesStratz.in
Live product
Trading infrastructure,
not a signal bot.
A live crypto trading platform that executes published strategies across linked exchange accounts. It checks each account before sending orders, manages stop-loss and take-profit orders, and reconciles trade records with the exchange.
Read the Stratz case study- Strategy-owned order requests sent
- 23,843
- Median entry broker acknowledgement
- 391ms
- Observed broker-side 5xx or timeout order-create rejects
- 0
- Accounts in the largest observed entry burst
- 45
Selected aggregate production telemetry from 8 March to 25 June 2026. Manually maintained. These figures describe execution infrastructure and reliability, not trading returns or investment performance.
Production snapshot: 2026-03-08–2026-06-25. Last manually verified: 2026-06-25.
Big ambition.
Small, useful steps.
You set the budget. We tell you what is realistic. Pay per sprint. Continue, pause or stop.
Read more about how we workTypical engagements: $2,000–$80,000 per sprint.
Focused projects start around $15,000.
Understand the outcome
We agree on what the software needs to do, who will use it and how you will judge whether it works. We discuss the budget and deadline before defining the scope.
Define the smallest useful scope
We write down what the first version will do, what it will leave out and which assumptions need testing. That gives the first sprint a clear scope.
Ship in visible sprints
You review working software at the end of each sprint. Your feedback and any changes in priority shape the next one.
Continue, pause or stop
After each sprint, you can continue, pause for feedback, change direction or stop. There is no minimum commitment.
Continue PauseStop
Some products failed.
The judgement stayed.
Features users didn’t value. Early versions that should have been simpler. Products that worked technically, but failed commercially.
We’ve lived those lessons. They shape what we build for you—and what we leave out.
The story behind OotabooOpen notebooks.
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Face Recognition Payments at the Point of Sale: Architecture, Security, and UX
The Facenex payment design: face matching, liveness checks and PIN verification at merchant terminals, built around an authentication target of under 3 seconds.
How We Built an Institutional-Grade Crypto Trading Engine for Retail Traders
How Stratz.in checks linked accounts before sending orders, manages protective orders and reconciles exchange records. Includes a production snapshot of 23,843 order requests with no observed broker-side 5xx or timeout order-create rejects.
Building a Labour Law Compliance Engine: Modelling 10,000+ Rule Combinations for Automated Wage Calculation
How Xrosters represented pay conditions as data, combined applicable rules and showed potential breaches during roster editing, and the design behind its rule engine and wage calculations.
Bring the
messy version.
The half-formed idea. The overgrown spreadsheet. The product that needs a fresh pair of eyes. Let’s work out what comes next.