Decisions in writing
Every architectural choice ships with a short record of what was considered and why it lost. Your next engineer reads it instead of guessing.
Codelinker
Software teams that leave the codebase better than they found it
We design, build, and hand over web platforms that a small team can still maintain three years later. No rewrite clause, no lock-in, no hero architecture.
Trusted by teams shipping every day
Northwind
Lumen
Arcadia
Vantage
Kestrel
How we work
Three habits, applied to every engagement
None of them are novel. All of them are the reason handovers go quietly.
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Budgets that fail builds
Performance and accessibility limits live in the pipeline, not in a dashboard. Exceeding one stops the merge.
Handover from day one
Your team commits to the repository in the first month. If they cannot, the architecture is wrong and we would rather find out early.
- 9
- Years shipping together
- 140+
- Releases last year
- 98%
- Client retention
- 4
- Time zones covered
“They rebuilt our checkout in eleven weeks and then spent the twelfth teaching our team to own it. We have shipped every week since without them.”
Marta Silva
CTO, Northwind Retail
Writing
From the blog
What we learned recently, including the parts that did not work.
Product
Pricing a product nobody asked for yet
We priced it three times before launch and were wrong twice. The third one held, and the reason it held had nothing to do with the number.
Priya Raman ·
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Engineering
Choosing boring technology on purpose
We keep a written list of the interesting technologies we are allowed to use. It has three entries and it has never had four.
Nadia Osman ·
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Company
Open source is a distribution strategy
We open-sourced four libraries in eighteen months. Two found users, one found a maintainer, and one taught us what an issue tracker costs.
Priya Raman, Nadia Osman ·
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Straight from the notebook
Have a system that needs an honest second opinion?
Four weeks of discovery, a written decision, and a costed plan. If the answer is that you do not need us, that is what the document will say.